HANSON DIAN

(H/B) DIAN HANSON'S PUSSY BOOK
The Big Book of Pussy, not to be confused with a book of big pussies, closed out the popular "body part" series with an offering just as controversial as it was popular back in 2011. As in previous volumes, editor Dian Hanson explored the historical significance of her subject, explaining how the female genitalia have been coveted, feared, reviled, and worshipped by civilizations worldwide, from New Guinea to old Ireland. Her text was supported by playfully positive photographs of women exposing their vulvas, from 1910 to today. And with m...
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(H/B) THE LITTLE BIG BOOK OF BREASTS
Some call it the American obsession, but men everywhere recognize the hypnotic allure of a large and shapely breast. In The Little Big Book of Breasts, Dian Hanson explores the origins of mammary madness through three decades of natural big-breasted nudes. Starting with the World War II bosom-mania that spawned Russ Meyer, Howard Hughes's The Outlaw, and Frederick's of Hollywood, Dian guides you over, around, and in between the dangerous curves of infamous models including Michelle Angelo, Candy Barr, Virginia Bell, Joan Brinkman, Lorraine...
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(P/B) THE LITTLE BOOK OF PIN-UP ELVGREN
He's called the King of Pin-up for good reason. Gillette Elvgren (1914-1980,) known as Gil, created some 700 pin-up oils during his long career, more than any other calendar artist. His subjects were flirty, sassy, playful and spirited, quintessential American girls who found themselves unintentionally exposed in myriad ways. They first rose to popularity among troops in World War II, and continued inspiring male fantasies well into the 1970s. Today Elvgren's recognition factor is greater than ever, as his images are collected by men and w...
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THE LITTLE BOOK OF PUSSY
From the time The Big Penis Book was published, readers anticipated The Big Book of Pussy. Granted, perhaps not the same readers, but the seed had been planted and the calls and letters began flowing in. Once they had that long-awaited book, some found themselves overwhelmed by the variety and abundance, as well as the sheer size of the book. As one reviewer wrote, "let's give credit to Amazon for... the strength of its packaging. Who wants a 2-ton pussy book being 'exposed' for the mailman...?" For those who worry that there can be too m...
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(H/B) THE NEW EROTIC PHOTOGRAPHY
Imagine walking into a room filled with the world's finest contemporary erotic photographers, each with a portfolio of his or her best work. As you browse the photographs they discuss inspiration, censorship, how to find models, and how to make a living capturing beautiful women on film and in pixels. The New Erotic Photography is the room, and dozens of photographers from various countries are the hosts of this intimate gathering. In this 320 page volume you will meet Ralph Gibson, Jan Saudek, Terry Richardson, Natacha Merritt, Petter He...
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(P/B) THE LITTLE BOOK OF BIG BREASTS
In The Breast a man is transformed into a giant disembodied boob with a hypersensitive nipple in place of his penis; most would say a uniquely American fantasy. By 1972 America's breast fanaticism was so well known and well entrenched that for Roth's contemporaries, men who came of age in the 1940s and '50s, a 155-pound breast would indeed have been a dream come true. We accept America's singular fascination, but how did a country come to fixate so completely on one secondary sexual characteristic - on this soft, simple mass of fat and gl...
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THE LITTLE BOOK OF BUTTS
How can we pack so much big booty into such a tiny and inexpensive package? Sorry, but it's a trade secret we can't divulge, except to say that shoehorns and spandex were involved. The original Big Butt Book featured a great cross-section of delectable rears from the 1950s to the present day. Here, in the Little Book of Butts, since life is such an ironic deal, we decided to pare the original content down to just the biggest and the best, in-your-face phatties to which the great Sir Mix-A-Lot alluded when penning, "My anaconda don't want n...
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(H/B) THE LITTLE BIG PENIS BOOK
After the bust out success of The Big Book of Breasts TASCHEN presented the perfect companion, The Big Penis Book. Now comes The Little Big Penis Book, with all the photos and interviews of its big brother, in a more portable, and affordable, edition. When it comes to pleasure, size doesn't matter; as we all know it's quality, not quantity, that counts. But let's admit it: a big penis is undeniably compelling. Big shoulders, big lapels, and big hair may come and go, but the big penis never goes out of fashion. With those possessing more th...
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(P/B) THE LITTLE BOOK OF PIN-UP VARGAS
Alberto Vargas took over Esquire magazine's monthly pin-up post in late 1940. By 1942, when the U.S. joined the war, he had more than a million ardent enlisted fans who carried his pin-ups in backpacks and duffel bags as reminders of the American girls they'd left behind. When Esquire was charged with obscenity over a particularly spicy pin-up in 1943 the military stepped in to fight for The Varga Girl, declaring her necessary to maintain the morale of young fighting men. Today these wartime pin-ups are the most collectible of Vargas's wor...
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(P/B) THE LITTLE BOOK OF PIN-UP DRIBEN
His name is less familiar than Vargas's and Elvgren's, but his brilliantly colored and voluptuous pin-ups are well known. Peter Driben's career began in 1934, with covers for La Paree Stories, Pep Stories, Snappy, New York Nights, and Bedtime Stories. He progressed to High Heel, Silk Stocking Stories, Gay Book, and Joker, but true fame arrived in 1944 with his first cover for Beauty Parade. For the next 11 years Driben painted the most popular magazine covers in America for Beauty Parade, Wink, Titter, Eyeful, Flirt and Whisper magazines. ...
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THE LITTLE BOOK OF LEGS
Many loved The Big Book of Legs but some found it just too darn big, weighing in at nearly seven pounds. True, it was packed with shapely legs spanning six decades, from the first shy emergence of the ankle in the 1910s, through the rolled stockings and rouged knees of the 1920s, to the Betty Grable '40s, the stockinged and stilettoed '50s, on into the sexually liberated '60s and '70s, but it could still put a dent in your own thighs if you sat reading for too long. Fortunately here at TASCHEN we listen to your groans of agony as well as ...
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THE NEW EROTIC PHOTOGRAPHY (ΤΡΙΓΛΩΣΣΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ) (H/B)

THE BIG BOOK OF LEGS (H/B)
The female leg is a sexual oddity. Nonerogenous, and nearly identical in structure to its corresponding male part, there is no obvious reason for its allure. Yet, through much of history, across many cultures, women’s legs were subject to the same taboos surrounding genitalia, hidden away beneath skirts and petticoats until they became objects of intense sexual obsession. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)...
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(H/B) THE BIG BUTT BOOK

(H/B) THE BIG BOOK OF PUSSY
Pity poor pussy, so loved, hated, and feared. How can the penis be a source of unequivocal fascination, while its counterpart causes such consternation? The poem above, picked up in Alabama, sums up the conflict surprisingly well. I grew up thinking my pussy was both a golden treasure all men wanted and a nasty dirty thing; the boys, it seems, got a similar message. While they proudly declared themselves breast, leg, or butt men, no guy wanted to be a pussy man. Porn actor/director David Christopher, aka Pussyman, confirms, "Say that, and ...
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THE BIG BOOK OF BREASTS

PRIVATE 1980-1989
"The people of the future, will take "Private" as an example of the sexual habits in the 20th Century" "Berth Milton, Private "Moral" (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)...
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(H/B) BOB'S WORLD
Bob Mizer famously spent 48 years making photos and films for his Athletic Model Guild, and 41 years publishing "Physique Pictorial", America's first, and most explicitly gay, physique magazine. In the 1970s and '80s Bob Mizer's huge compound in Los Angeles became home to dozens of his young models, who lived nude around his pool. His magazine and lifestyle influenced figures in art and society from David Hockney to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who modeled for Mizer in 1975. "Bob's World: The Life and Boys of AMG's Bob Mizer"...
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URBAN GIRLS
The word urban, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, comes from the Latin urbs, for city, and means "pertaining to or characteristic of a city or town." In modern American parlance, urban means "pertaining to city-identified ethnicities, primarily African American." Though the euphemism was adopted as a delicate way to racially profile product, it is now used by black and white alike to describe music, fashion, literature, attitude, and yes, a new generation of pin-up girls. Black Men, launched in 1998, was the first of the urban me...
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