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Janet Hardy

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]

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

Janet W. Hardy

Catherine A. Liszt, Lady Green, Verdant, Verdie

Writer

American

BDSM and sex education

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

Views on BDSM[edit]

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]

Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy, The New Topping Book. , 2003. ISBN 1-890159-36-0.

Greenery Press

Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy, The New Bottoming Book. , 2001. ISBN 1-890159-35-2.

Greenery Press

Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt, When Someone You Love Is Kinky. , 2000. ISBN 1-890159-23-9.

Greenery Press

Easton, Dossie and Catherine A. Liszt. . 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]

The Ethical Slut

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)

(1996)

The Dr. Susan Block Show

Awards[edit]

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]