Janet W. Hardy is an American writer and sex educator, and founder of Greenery Press.

[2] She is the author or co-author of eleven books, and frequently collaborates with Dossie Easton.

[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] 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.