Janet W. Hardy is an American writer and sex educator, and founder of Greenery Press.[Sachie Godwin, Clamor Magazine, , issue 17, 2002] She has also been published as Catherine A. Liszt and Lady Green.
She is genderqueer (and uses she/her pronouns), bisexuality, and polyamory.
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.
Books authored or co-authored by Janet Hardy
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Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy, The New Topping Book. Greenery Press, 2003. .
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Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy, The New Bottoming Book. Greenery Press, 2001. .
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Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt, When Someone You Love Is Kinky. Greenery Press, 2000. .
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Easton, Dossie and Catherine A. Liszt. The Ethical Slut. A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities. San Francisco: Greenery Press, 1997. . . .
[ The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities (1997). Open Library.]
- * Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy. The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures. Second edition. Celestial Arts, 2009. .
[ The Ethical Slut. Goodreads.]
- * 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. .
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Lady Green, The Sexually Dominant Woman: a Workbook for Nervous Beginners, Greenery Press, 1998.
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Lady Green, The Compleat Spanker, Greenery Press, 2000. .
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Lady Green (edit.), Jaymes Easton (edit.), Kinky Crafts: 101 Do-It-Yourself S/M Toys, Greenery Press, 1998,
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Charles Moser, Janet Hardy, Sex Disasters... and How to Survive Them, Greenery Press, 2002. .
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Janet Hardy, The Toybag Guide to Canes and Caning, Greenery Press, 2004. .
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Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy, Radical Ecstasy, Greenery Press, 2004. .
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Janet Hardy, 21st Century Kinkycrafts, Greenery Press, 2005.
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Janet W. Hardy, Girlfag: A Life Told in Sex and Musicals, Beyond Binary Books, 2012. .
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Janet W. Hardy, Impervious: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant. Sincyr Publishing, 2019. .
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Janet W. Hardy, Notes of an Aging Pervert. Unbound Edition, 2023. .
Film and TV
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BDSM: It's Not What You Think (2008)
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Vice & Consent (2005)
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"Sex TV" — Girl Show/The Ethical Slut/Sex and the Beard? (2002)
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Beyond Vanilla (2001)
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Susan Block (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.
She is an inductee of the Society of Janus Hall of Fame.
