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A Slut's Life in Three Acts
Paperback
Publisher Price: $30.00
ISBN13: 9781968274139
Publisher: Unbound Edition Press
Published: Sep 14 2026
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Slut's Life in Three Acts gathers the best of Janet W. Hardy's autobiographical writing, plus some moving unpublished gems, into a single volume for the first time. The dramatic arc of this essential collection captures a crushingly earnest girlfag teenager in 1960s California; moves through three decades of discovering, practicing, and teaching the erotic arts; and culminates in a clear-eyed reckoning with age, loss, and what ecstasy both costs and gives back.
Her writing here reflects perhaps the deepest contemplations on desire by any living author. She is funny about the body's indignities, tender about its loyalties, and ruthlessly precise about the difference between what we want and what we think we want. Spanning nearly seventy years, A Slut's Life in Three Acts traces what Hardy believes it means to live in a body that refuses to perform on cue. In that refusal, she presents not just an erotic philosophy but a vulnerably documented life: original, hard-won, and worth every word, whether gentle or painful.
For readers of the global sensation, The Ethical Slut, and anyone who has ever felt the transformative pull of a life lived fully on their own terms, A Slut's Life in Three Acts is a vital work from a singular writer.
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