Name Dian Hanson Role Magazine editor | Spouse Geoff Nicholson | |
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Books The Big Book of Breasts, Terryworld Edited works The Big Penis Book, The Big Butt Book, The Big Book of Breasts, Robert Crumb's Sex Obse, The Little Book of Big Penis Similar People Tom of Finland, Reed Massengill, Geoff Nicholson, Terry Richardson, Mike Kelley | ||
Dian Hanson (born November 2, 1951) 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.
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."
She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, novelist Geoff Nicholson.
