Janet Hardy
{{short description|American writer and sex educator}}
{{redirect|Lady Green|the English hamlet|Lady Green, Merseyside}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Janet W. Hardy
| image = Janet Hardy - Best Sex Writing 2010.jpg
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| caption = Janet Hardy, November 10, 2009
| pseudonym = Catherine A. Liszt, Lady Green, Verdant, Verdie
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| occupation = Writer
| nationality = American
| subject = BDSM and sex education
| website = {{URL|http://www.slutandsons.com}}
}}
Janet W. Hardy is an American writer and sex educator, and founder of Greenery Press.Sachie Godwin, Clamor Magazine, {{cite web |url=http://clamormagazine.org/issues/17/feature1.php |title=Perfect Bound |access-date=2010-03-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100405081037/http://clamormagazine.org/issues/17/feature1.php |archive-date=2010-04-05 }}, issue 17, 2002 She has also been published as Catherine A. Liszt and Lady Green.{{cite news|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Greenery-Press-specializes-in-off-color-topics-2868084.php|title=Greenery Press specializes in off-color topics|date=October 19, 2001|first=Rona|last=Marech|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle}} She is the author or co-author of eleven books, and frequently collaborates with Dossie Easton.{{cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=105321|title=Janet W. Hardy - Penguin Random House|website=www.randomhouse.com}}
She is genderqueer (and uses she/her pronouns), bisexual, and polyamorous.{{cite web|url=https://slutandsons.com/about/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020233806/https://slutandsons.com/about/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=October 20, 2020 |title=about the author|publisher=slutandsons.com |date=2020-07-14 |accessdate=2021-03-03}}
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.{{cite web |title=Janet Hardy: Freedoms in Sex and Love. Exploring Polyamory with the authors of "The ethical slut" |url=https://sexologysupervisors.org/product/freedoms-in-sex-and-love-exploring-polyamory-with-the-authors-of-the-ethical-slut/ |website=International Online Sexology Supervisors |date=26 June 2023}}
Books authored or co-authored by Janet Hardy
- Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy, The New Topping Book. Greenery Press, 2003. {{ISBN|1-890159-36-0}}.
- Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy, The New Bottoming Book. Greenery Press, 2001. {{ISBN|1-890159-35-2}}.
- Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt, When Someone You Love Is Kinky. Greenery Press, 2000. {{ISBN|1-890159-23-9}}.
- Easton, Dossie and Catherine A. Liszt. The Ethical Slut. A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities. San Francisco: Greenery Press, 1997. {{ISBN|1-890159-01-8}}. {{ISBN|978-1-890159-01-6}}. {{OCLC|37969365}}.[https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8714041M/The_Ethical_Slut 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. {{ISBN|1-587613-37-9}}. {{ISBN|978-1-587613-37-1}}[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4469773-the-ethical-slut The Ethical Slut]. Goodreads.
:* Janet W. Hardy and Dossie Easton. [https://archive.org/details/ethical-slut/page/n1/mode/2up The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Freedoms in Sex and Love]. Third Edition. Ten Speed Press, 2017. {{ISBN|978-0-399-57966-0}}.
- Lady Green, The Sexually Dominant Woman: a Workbook for Nervous Beginners, Greenery Press, 1998. {{ISBN|978-1-890159-11-5}}
- Lady Green, The Compleat Spanker, Greenery Press, 2000. {{ISBN|1-890159-00-X}}.{{cite news|page=38|title=The Compleat Spanker (review)|year=1997|work=SandMUtopia Guardian #24}}
- Lady Green (edit.), Jaymes Easton (edit.), Kinky Crafts: 101 Do-It-Yourself S/M Toys, Greenery Press, 1998, {{ISBN|0-9639763-7-0}}
- Charles Moser, Janet Hardy, Sex Disasters... and How to Survive Them, Greenery Press, 2002. {{ISBN|1-890159-44-1}}.
- Janet Hardy, The Toybag Guide to Canes and Caning, Greenery Press, 2004. {{ISBN|1-890159-56-5}}.
- Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy, Radical Ecstasy, Greenery Press, 2004. {{ISBN|1-890159-62-X}}.
- Janet Hardy, 21st Century Kinkycrafts, Greenery Press, 2005. {{ISBN|1-890159-58-1}}
- Janet W. Hardy, Girlfag: A Life Told in Sex and Musicals, Beyond Binary Books, 2012. {{ISBN|1-93812-300-X}}.
- Janet W. Hardy, Impervious: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant. Sincyr Publishing, 2019. {{ISBN|978-1948780094}}.
- Janet W. Hardy, Notes of an Aging Pervert. Unbound Edition, 2023. {{ISBN|9798987019962}}.
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.livinginleather.net/list-of-winners-8.html|title=List of winners - Living In Leather}}
She is an inductee of the Society of Janus Hall of Fame.{{cite web|url=https://www.erobay.com/calendar/Calcium40.pl?CalendarName=Janus&Op=ShowIt&Amount=Day&NavType=Both&Type=List&DayViewHours=1&Date=2019%2F7%2F20 |title=Society of Janus |publisher=Erobay |date=2019-07-20 |access-date=2020-04-21}}
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