{{Short description|American BDSM author, educator, and expert witness}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = Jay Wiseman | image = Jay Wiseman.jpg | imagesize = 250px | caption = Jay Wiseman, 2007 | pseudonym = | awards = Society of Janus' Hall of Fame Inductee | birth_date = {{Birth date and age |1949|6|16}} | birth_place = New Albany, Indiana | occupation = Author, Expert Witness | nationality = American | subject = BDSM and related safety issues | website = {{URL|http://jaywiseman.com}} }} '''Jay Joseph Wiseman''' (born 1949) is an American BDSM author, educator, and expert legal witness.<ref name=Morris2012>Mark Morris [https://kansascity.relaymedia.com/amp/latest-news/article311443/Missouri-sex-slave-case-may-hinge-on-expert-view-of-subculture.html "Missouri sex slave case may hinge on expert view of subculture"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181030035712/https://kansascity.relaymedia.com/amp/latest-news/article311443/Missouri-sex-slave-case-may-hinge-on-expert-view-of-subculture.html |date=2018-10-30 }}, ''Kansas City Star'', November 25, 2012</ref> His book ''SM 101: A Realistic Introduction'' has somewhere in the area of 100,000 copies in print.<ref name=Amazon1>Amazon.com Kindle listing of SM 101, with excerpt from ''Midwest Book Review'' [https://www.amazon.com/101-Realistic-Introductoin-Jay-Wiseman-ebook-dp-B006T2UJQ8/dp/B006T2UJQ8/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1540944529]</ref> It is also one of the Society of Janus' "Suggested Readings" regarding BDSM.<ref name=Janus1>[https://soj.org/resources/suggested-reading/ Society of Janus' Suggested Readings List]</ref>
Greenery Press was founded in 1991 by author Janet Hardy, and in 1995 it merged with Jay Wiseman Books under the Greenery name. Hardy continues to run the company, while Wiseman continues to serve on the Press's board of directors.
After receiving royalties from the distribution of ''SM 101: A Realistic Introduction'', he took the resultant funds and put himself through the New College of California School of Law.<ref name=Morris2012/> Later on, he became an adjunct professor at the same college.<ref name=catalogNewCollege>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071008201318/http://www.newcollege.edu/law/LawCat_2007_new.pdf New College of California Law School Catalog, p. 20]</ref><ref name=AdjunctList>Web Archive copy of listing of Adjunct Faculty, New College of California School of Law [https://web.archive.org/web/20071007182517/http://newcollege.edu/law/adjunct_faculty.cfm]</ref> Although the college is now defunct, he is still listed through documentation as having taught "Advanced Legal Concepts" and "Legal Analysis".<ref name=catalogNewCollege/><ref name=AdjunctList/>
== Awards == Jay Wiseman is an inductee of the Society of Janus Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.erobay.com/calendar/Calcium40.pl?CalendarName=Janus&Op=ShowIt&Amount=Day&NavType=Both&Type=List&DayViewHours=1&Date=2019%2F7%2F20 |title=Society of Janus |publisher=Erobay |date=2019-07-20 |accessdate=2020-04-21}}</ref>
== Works == As of 2018, Wiseman has written 12 books and dozens of articles in magazines from Playboy to Redbook. A selected list includes: * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080908112608/http://www.iron-rose.com/IR/docs/olddays.htm "An Essay about 'The Old Days'"] * [http://www.leathernroses.com/generalbdsm/wisemanemergency.htm "Emergency Training For SM Practitioners"] * ''Personal AD-ventures: How to Meet People Through Personal Ads'' * ''Bay Area Sexuality Resources Guidebook'' * ''SM 101: A Realistic Introduction'', (1st ed, 1992), 2nd ed—Greenery Press, 2000. {{ISBN|0-9639763-8-9}} * ''Tricks—More than 125 Ways to Make Good Sex Better'', 1992 * ''Tricks 2—Another 125 Ways to Make Good Sex Better'', 1993 * ''Sex Toy Tricks: 125 Ways to Accessorize'', 1995 * ''Supermarket Tricks—More than 125 Ways to Improvise Good Sex'', 1996 * ''Jay Wiseman's Erotic Bondage Handbook'', Greenery Press, 2000. {{ISBN|1-890159-13-1}}. * ''Dungeon Emergencies and Supplies'' * ''Tricks to Please a Man''
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== Further reading == * WorldCat's Listing for Jay Wiseman [http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-no00009706] * Rona Marech, [https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Greenery-Press-specializes-in-off-color-topics-2868084.php "Greenery Press specializes in off-color topics"], ''San Francisco Chronicle'', October 19, 2001 * {{cite news|title='Safe, sane and consensual' is rule for sadomasochists|author1=Downs, Stacy |author2=Borman, Dawn |date=June 16, 2000|work=Kansas City Star}} * {{cite news|title=Tough Love|work=Philadelphia Daily News|date=July 10, 2001|author=Egan, Nicole Weisensee}} * {{cite news|title=Personals|author=Garchik, Leah|date=March 15, 1990|work=San Francisco Chronicle}} * {{cite news|title=Love in the aisles|work=The Sunday Mail (Australia)|date=November 24, 2002|author=Taylor, Chris}} * {{cite news|title=Rites of Spring|date=March 15, 1990|work=Miami Herald}} * {{cite book|title=Consensual sadomasochism|author1=Henkin, Bill |author2=Holiday, Sybil |edition=2003 2nd|publisher=Daedalus Publishing|year=1996|location=Los Angeles|isbn=1-881943-12-7}} * Mark Morris, [https://web.archive.org/web/20181030035712/https://kansascity.relaymedia.com/amp/latest-news/article311443/Missouri-sex-slave-case-may-hinge-on-expert-view-of-subculture.html "Missouri sex slave case may hinge on expert view of subculture"], ''Kansas City Star'', November 25, 2012
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