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Virgin: The Untouched History
Why has an indefinable state of being commanded the attention and fascination of the human race since the dawn of time? In Virgin, Hanne Blank brings us a revolutionary, rich and entertaining survey of an astonishing untouched history. From the simple task of determining what constitutes its loss to why it matters to us in the first place, Blank gets to the heart of why we even care about it in the first place. She tackles the reality of what we do and don’t know about virginity and provides a sweeping tour of virgins in history—from virgin martyrs to Queen Elizabeth to billboards in downtown Baltimore telling young women it’s not a “dirty word.” Virgin proves, as well, how utterly contemporary the topic is—the butt of innumerable jokes, center of spiritual mysteries, locus of teenage angst, popular genre for pornography and nucleus around which the world’s most powerful government has created an unprecedented abstinence policy. In this fascinating work, Hanne Blank shows for the first time why this is, and why everything we think we know about virginity is wrong.
(Bloomsbury USA, 2007)
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Unruly Appetites
Unruly indeed. … This deftly written collection of 20 erotic tales is sure to titillate, intrigue, and inspire. Editor of several successful erotica anthologies, Hanne Blank knows good sex, and this, her first book-length solo offering, demonstrates her considerable talents as a creator of erotic fiction. Blank’s arousing descriptions, smart writing, and fantastic imagination are sure to hit their mark. Unruly Appetites draws readers in immediately with the most scintillating, intimate details of its characters’ unrestrained encounters. One story describes a chance meeting on the road where “maybe turns to yes without ceremony, without fuss.” Readers may find themselves both shocked and enthralled by the human-feline encounter described in “The Princess and the Tiger,” or lost in possibilities from the graphic memories of a foursome aroused by steamy Polaroids. The myriad fantasies, perspectives, dreams, realities, groupings, shapes, and ages presented here offer almost limitless variety. Blank encourages her readers to “Love hard, live with grace and appetite, forget that you’re a grownup once in a while.” Her latest testament to pleasure shows the way.
(Seal Press, 2003)
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Shameless: Women’s Intimate Erotica
The memoir-like style of these stories allows the reader to devour private letters, peek into diaries, and listen to the most intimate confessions of women acting out sexual abandon. Seasoned editor Blank has collected only the hottest, most scintillating erotic moments by expert eroticists including Dawn O’Hara, Adhara Law, Lisa Bland, and R. Gay.
(Seal Press, 2002)
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Best Transgender Erotica
Best Transgender Erotica brings together twenty stories by writers of every gender. The first book to celebrate exclusively gender-bending, -crossing, and -breaking sexuality through erotic fiction, Best Transgender Erotica includes representations of many forms of ‘trans’ identity. Whether blurring the line between masculine and feminine, or making the transition from female to male, or vice versa, these characters (and authors) had to put on their sexiest, most alluring, heart-racing show in order to make the cut.
Including selections from Thomas Roche, Saachi Green, Todd Belton, Simon Sheppard, M. Christian, and many more of today’s best-known erotica writers, Best Transgender Erotica follows on the smashing success of Best Bisexual Erotica, which was released in 2000. Like ‘Best Bi’, ‘Best Trans’ drew its contributors from within the gender activist community, providing a unique and stimulating look at gender issues from an erotic perspective.
(with Raven Kaldera, Circlet Press, 2002)
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Zaftig: Well Rounded Erotica
Editor Hanne Blank writes, “Many of the pieces are frank in celebrating the transformative force of sex, lust, desire, and the recognition that one is desired”. Zaftig women, described variously as “full-figured” and “pleasingly plump”, have long been a source of fetish and humor in erotic literature. Now the publisher of Best Women’s Erotica turns the tables with surprising, steamy stories showcasing the sex lives of women of size and their admirers.
(Cleis Press, 2001)
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Big Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of Size and Those Who Love Them
At last, a book that covers the how-tos and why-tos of sexuality from the point of view of big folks and those who love them! Big Big Love is a no-holds-barred, yet lighthearted, overview of sex for everybody from the chubby to the supersized. Detailed and realistic information on improving self-image, partner-finding, sexual positions and activities, resources for toys and clothing and much more. Big Big Love is essential reading for women, men and transfolk… gays, bisexuals and heterosexuals… and anyone else who’s ever been told that sex is only for the slender!
(Greenery Press, 2000)
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