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

Janet W. Hardy is an American writer and sex educator, and founder ofGreenery Press.^[1] She has also been published asCatherine A. Liszt andLady Green.^[2] She is the author or co-author of eleven books, and frequently collaborates withDossie Easton.^[3]

She isgenderqueer (and uses she/her pronouns),bisexual, andpolyamorous.^[4]

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.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.

• 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)

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

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

• BDSM writers
• American bisexual writers
• Living people
• American relationships and sexuality writers
• 20th-century American women writers
• 20th-century American non-fiction writers
• Businesspeople from the San Francisco Bay Area
• American non-binary writers
• Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area
• 21st-century American non-fiction writers
• 21st-century American women writers
• 20th-century pseudonymous writers
• 21st-century pseudonymous writers
• Pseudonymous women writers
• Polyamorous people
• Non-binary bisexual people

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