Impervious: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant

Others have turned to Janet W. Hardy for advice on the thorniest and most challenging questions they face - questions of sex, polyamory, kink, and self-identity. She’s answered those questions while providing a constructive and compassionate road map in 'The Ethical Slut' as well as 'The New Topping Book' and 'The New Bottoming Book'.

But where others have turned to her, Janet had to make it up as she went. And as you might expect from an author of 'Sex Disasters... and How to Survive Them', it hasn’t all been roses and thorns.

Here, in IMPERVIOUS: Confessions of a (Semi)Retired Deviant, Janet takes the reader from the spark of her own awakening and all the way up until today - the five twisty stages of her own kinky life mirroring those of any good scene: negotiation, warmup, engagement, climax, and aftercare.

As you’d expect, there are plenty of delicious (and surprising) details inside.
Bon Appétit!

Our life is story. We learn through story. We explore through story. We achieve our goals and fantasies through story. If your objective is to learn about BDSM and kink through the eyes of one of the world's great practitioners and intellectual minds, then this book is a perfect choice for your reading pleasure. Insightful. Smart. Transparent. Informative. Ms. Hardy is a legend and she exposes her kink life bare so that your kink life may be better, and the entire kinky world is better off for it. Enjoy. - Race Bannon, Author, Activist and Organizer

Before you start reading this book, put away your pearls and white gloves and make sure the children are out of the room. You are about to submerge yourself in the hottest, most educational journey about kink [or BDSM or sadomasochism - your choice - JH]. Janet beautifully and intelligently shares how she came to spend her life immersed in sexual play that will make even the most experienced reader blush. - Kerry Cohen, author of Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity and Lush: A Memoir

Impervious is a clean, transparent reflection of a life of deviant sexuality that will inspire anyone to grasp their fantasies and give them respect-- and maybe act them out. - Susie Bright

Impervious is one of the finest erotic memoirs ever written. Janet Hardy not only takes off her clothes, but also her skin in this exquisitely written, searingly honest book. Observing her life as one long, extended BDSM scene, she takes us on both a personal and social evolution of kink. For Janet, kink is not only a sexual passion but also an odyssey beyond sex into the realms of the ecstatic where sex, enlightenment and death dance frighteningly close. Impervious is a must read. - Barbara Carrellas, author of Urban Tantra and Ecstasy is Necessary

Move over Shades of Grey! This is the best sex memoir ever! Soon to be an erotic art classic, and hopefully a major motion picture! With wisdom, truth telling, and sexual skill, Janet Hardy deftly whips words into ecstatic, divine submission. - Annie Sprinkle, PhD., author of Explorer's Guide to Planet Orgasm