JANET HARDY
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Speaker, 2005

Topic: Polyamorists, Paraphiliacs And Other Outlaws: A Tour of Today's Sexual Subcultures

What are your next-door neighbors doing on Saturday night? Maybe dinner and a movie -- or maybe a dungeon party, leather conference, swing club, crossdressing convention or any other of the myriad ways that today's Americans are finding community and self- expression through their sexuality.

Kink isn't just for leatherclad urbanites or sex-crazed sybarites; most experts feel that more than 10% of Americans enjoy one or more forms of alternative sexual expression (sadomasochism, consensual nonmonogamy, crossdressing, fetishism et al). Your parents, kids, siblings, best friends and coworkers may be exploring these forms of sexuality; maybe you've even thought about exploring them yourself. Come learn to separate the facts from the myths about alternative sexualities.

Janet Hardy is a bisexual, polyamorous, gender-bent sadomasochist, who looks like (and is) someone's nice mommy. She is the founder and president of Greenery Press, Inc., the nation's premier publisher of books about alternative and marginalized sexualities. Janet is the author or co-author, under various pen names, of ten books about sex, including "The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities," "The Sexually Dominant Woman: A Workbook for Nervous Beginners," "Sex Disasters and How To Survive Them," and "When Someone You Love Is Kinky." Read more about her and her work at http://www.greenerypress.com.