About the Authors

Dossie Easton is a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in alternative sexualities and relationships, with more than twenty-five years of experience counseling open relationships. She is the author of four other books. She has been an ethical slut since 1969. Visit www.dossieeaston.com .

Janet W. Hardy is the author or coauthor of twelve books and founder of Greenery Press, a publisher specializing in sexually adventurous books. She has an MFA in creative writing from St. Mary’s College of California. She swore off monogamy in 1987. Visit www.janetwhardy.com .

Dossie and Janet have authored several other books, available from Greenery Press:

When Someone You Love Is Kinky is for the friends, family, coworkers, and partners of anyone who’s involved in an alternative sexuality like S/M, D/S, leather, cross-dressing, or fetish. (Note: Janet wrote this book under her former pen name, Catherine A. Liszt.)

The New Bottoming Book and The New Topping Book show how to bring all your power, sexiness, and smarts to your role as a BDSM bottom or top.

Radical Ecstasy: SM Journeys to Transcendence chronicles Dossie and Janet’s individual and mutual experiences with altered states of consciousness during BDSM play and offers some ideas drawn from tantra and other practices about how to journey there yourself.

Janet is also the author of The Sexually Dominant Woman (written as “Lady Green”), Spanking for Lovers , and (with Dr. Charles Moser) Sex Disasters…And How to Survive Them , as well as a memoir, Girlfag: A Life Told in Sex and Musicals (Beyond Binary Press).