Joan Theresa Garrity (born c. 1940), is an American author, best known as the author of The Sensuous Woman.She was raised in Lee's Summit, Missouri and she studied at Palm Beach Junior College in Florida. She worked on the staff of publisher Lyle Stuart and published a book about shopping in New York.In 1969 she published, under the pseudonym of "J.", The Sensuous Woman, subtitled "the first how-to book for the female who yearns to be all woman".