Janet Hardy

"Lady Green" redirects here. For the English hamlet, see Lady Green, Merseyside.

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]

Janet W. Hardy
Janet Hardy, November 10, 2009
Pen name	Catherine A. Liszt, Lady Green, Verdant, Verdie
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Subject	BDSM and sex education
Website
www.slutandsons.com

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. 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.^[6]

• 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^[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. 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.^[8]
• 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.^[9]

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

References

1. Sachie Godwin, Clamor Magazine, "Perfect Bound". Archived from the original on 2010-04-05. Retrieved 2010-03-20., issue 17, 2002
2. Marech, Rona (October 19, 2001). "Greenery Press specializes in off-color topics". San Francisco Chronicle.
3. "Janet W. Hardy - Penguin Random House". www.randomhouse.com.
4. "about the author". slutandsons.com. 2020-07-14. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
5. "Janet Hardy: Freedoms in Sex and Love. Exploring Polyamory with the authors of "The ethical slut"". International Online Sexology Supervisors. 26 June 2023.
6. The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities (1997). Open Library.
7. The Ethical Slut. Goodreads.
8. "The Compleat Spanker (review)". SandMUtopia Guardian #24. 1997. p. 38.
9. "List of winners - Living In Leather".
10. "Society of Janus". Erobay. 2019-07-20. Retrieved 2020-04-21.