Janet Hardy Explained

Janet W. Hardy
Pseudonym:	Catherine A. Liszt, Lady Green, Verdant, Verdie
Occupation:	Writer
Nationality:	American
Subject:	BDSM and sex education

Janet W. Hardy is an American writer and sex educator, and founder of Greenery Press.^[1] She has also been published as Catherine A. Liszt and Lady Green.^[2] She is the author or co-author of eleven books, and frequently collaborates with Dossie Easton.^[3]

She is genderqueer (and uses she/her pronouns), bisexual, and polyamorous.^[4]

Views on BDSM

During an talk to the International Online Sexology Supervisors, she stated that BDSM is a deliberate and conscious lowering of the boundaries that people typically keep between themselves and others.^[5]

Books authored or co-authored by Janet Hardy

• Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy, The New Topping Book. Greenery Press, 2003. .
• Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy, The New Bottoming Book. Greenery Press, 2001. .
• Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt, When Someone You Love Is Kinky. Greenery Press, 2000. .
• Easton, Dossie and Catherine A. Liszt. The Ethical Slut. A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities. San Francisco: Greenery Press, 1997. . . .^[6]

• Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy. The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures. Second edition. Celestial Arts, 2009. . ^[7]

• Janet W. Hardy and Dossie Easton. The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Freedoms in Sex and Love. Third Edition. Ten Speed Press, 2017. .
• Lady Green, The Sexually Dominant Woman: a Workbook for Nervous Beginners, Greenery Press, 1998.
• Lady Green, The Compleat Spanker, Greenery Press, 2000. .^[8]
• Lady Green (edit.), Jaymes Easton (edit.), Kinky Crafts: 101 Do-It-Yourself S/M Toys, Greenery Press, 1998,
• Charles Moser, Janet Hardy, Sex Disasters... and How to Survive Them, Greenery Press, 2002. .
• Janet Hardy, The Toybag Guide to Canes and Caning, Greenery Press, 2004. .
• Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy, Radical Ecstasy, Greenery Press, 2004. .
• Janet Hardy, 21st Century Kinkycrafts, Greenery Press, 2005.
• Janet W. Hardy, Girlfag: A Life Told in Sex and Musicals, Beyond Binary Books, 2012. .
• Janet W. Hardy, Impervious: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant. Sincyr Publishing, 2019. .
• Janet W. Hardy, Notes of an Aging Pervert. Unbound Edition, 2023. .

Film and TV

• BDSM: It's Not What You Think (2008)
• Vice & Consent (2005)
• "Sex TV" — Girl Show/The Ethical Slut/Sex and the Beard? (2002)
• Beyond Vanilla (2001)
• The Dr. Susan Block Show (1996)

Awards

She received the Geoff Mains Nonfiction Book Award from the National Leather Association in 2019 for The Sexually Dominant Woman: An Illustrated Guide for Nervous Beginners, and in 2020 for Impervious: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant.^[9]

She is an inductee of the Society of Janus Hall of Fame.^[10]

Notes and References

1. Sachie Godwin, Clamor Magazine, Web site: Perfect Bound . 2010-03-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100405081037/http://clamormagazine.org/issues/17/feature1.php . 2010-04-05 ., issue 17, 2002
2. News: Greenery Press specializes in off-color topics. October 19, 2001. Rona. Marech. San Francisco Chronicle.
3. Web site: Janet W. Hardy - Penguin Random House. www.randomhouse.com.
4. Web site: about the author. slutandsons.com . 2020-07-14 . 2021-03-03.
5. Web site: Janet Hardy: Freedoms in Sex and Love. Exploring Polyamory with the authors of "The ethical slut" . International Online Sexology Supervisors . 26 June 2023.
6. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8714041M/The_Ethical_Slut The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities (1997)
7. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4469773-the-ethical-slut The Ethical Slut
8. News: 38. The Compleat Spanker (review). 1997. SandMUtopia Guardian #24.
9. Web site: List of winners - Living In Leather.
10. Web site: Society of Janus . Erobay . 2019-07-20 . 2020-04-21.