Dian Hanson

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Dian Hanson (born November 2, 1951) is an American magazine and book editor.

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Career

Hanson began her publishing career as an American pornographic magazine editor, historian, and occasional model, helping found the 1970s hardcore journal Puritan, then moving on to Partner, OUI , Adult Cinema Review, Outlaw Biker and Big Butt, among others. She was most famously the editor of Juggs and Leg Show sexual fetish magazines from 1987–2001. [1]

Since 2001 Hanson has held the position of Sexy Book editor for art book publisher, Taschen, based in Cologne, Germany, in which capacity she writes or edits all the sexually oriented titles for the company. Recent books include Vanessa del Rio: 50 Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior and The Big Penis Book. In an interview with magazine The Believer, Hanson speaks of her introduction to Benedikt Taschen in the early 1990s, and how she came to work for the publisher:

"I was editing Leg Show and Juggs, and Benedikt Taschen was my biggest German fan. He contacted me in 1993 or ‘94 and wanted to meet. He would come to New York and take me out to dinner and say, 'When are you going to work for me?' I would say, 'Never. I want to keep doing what I’m doing. I love pornography.' I didn’t mean to be a tease. I was just being honest. But he took it as a great challenge...The magazine field had been declining since 1997, and my publisher died in 2000. I love magazines, but I knew that change would come at some point. I had always known that Benedikt was going to be my future." [2]

Hanson published her edited erotic photography work The Big Butt Book in 2010, tracing the cultural history of the buttocks. [3] [4] [5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Joseph W. Slade, "Pornography and sexual representation: a reference guide III", Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001, ISBN   0-313-31521-3, p.900
  2. ↑ Shatkin, Elina. "Dian Hanson". The Believer (January/February 2015). Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Colby, Christine (November 2010), "Rump Romp: A Big Butt is a Thing of Booty", Penthouse , pp. 60–63, ISSN   0090-2020
  4. ↑ Barrell, Tony (2 May 2010), "Taschen: it's all about the bottom line", The Sunday Times , archived from the original on 28 October 2020, retrieved 28 October 2020
  5. ↑ Lasane, Andrew (20 August 2014), "Taschen's 'The Big Butt Book' Will Be Released in 3D This September", Complex , archived from the original on 24 August 2014, retrieved 28 October 2020

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