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Interview with the editor of "The Big Penis Book&q... - 8/21/2008 8:48:31 PM

Vendaval

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Hunk boy pointed out this site in one thread (Alternet) so I started looking for something fun to start a discussion here. This story is particularly entertaining. I bolded some sections for emphasis.

"Art and Porn: An Interview with Editor Dian Hanson"

By Liz Langley, AlterNet. Posted August 5, 2008

"All my career in magazines was working with female imagery, and I always enjoyed it ... but I am heterosexual and so when I started working on (The Big Penis Book) I really discovered what male photographers and editors had known all along and that is there are just going to be some images that grab you, that get you, in a way that is not simply aesthetic," Hanson laughs. "It helped to keep me going when I had to, say ... look at 300,000 images that were all in negative form from one man's archive."

300,000. Negatives. From one source.

No. She never got dicked out.

"It's my nature to be maddeningly thorough," she says. "It would have been easy at the beginning of the third day ... to say "Oh, I've probably got enough." However "there may be that wonderful one, that perfect one, that best one that I'm going to miss."

Her tenacity seems to have paid off. When she brought "the book" (as it's now known in my circle) to the Taschen American sales conference, "the women just fell on it like beasts and actually tore it up from grabbing it back and forth from each other." The straight men, she says, were in the corner saying 'I didn't think you girls liked that sort of thing! Every woman I ever met said she didn't care!' she laughs, "and I'd think 'Relax guys, it's not like they demand it. They're just interested." "

http://www.alternet.org/sex/93991/art_and_porn%3A_an_interview_with_editor_dian_hanson/?page=1

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RE: Interview with the editor of "The Big Penis Bo... - 8/21/2008 9:12:38 PM

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I forget which sexologist said it first: "Freud was wrong... women don't have penis envy. They have penis curiosity... Men are the ones who compare and contrast."

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RE: Interview with the editor of "The Big Penis Bo... - 8/21/2008 9:22:56 PM

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That about sums it up for me. We were having just this conversation at a party this past weekend. The way the testes rotate due to temperature fluctuations is quite amazing to watch. lol

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