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The Big Book of Breasts

The Golden Hills before the Silicone Valley: Three decades of the world’s most spectacular natural curves

Some call it the American obsession, but men everywhere recognize the hypnotic allure of a large and shapely breast. In The 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 Burnett, Lisa De Leeuw, Uschi Digard, Candye Kane, Jennie Lee, Sylvia McFarland, Margaret Middleton, Paula Page, June Palmer, Roberta Pedon, Rosina Revelle, Candy Samples, Tempest Storm, Linda West, June Wilkinson, Julie Wills, and dozens more, including Guinness World Record holder Norma Stitz, possessor of the World’s Largest Natural Breasts.

The 396 pages of this book contain the most beautiful and provocative photos ever created of these iconic women, plus nine original interviews, including the first with Tempest Storm and Uschi Digard in over a decade, and the last with Candy Barr before her untimely death in 2005. In a world where silicone is now the norm, these spectacular real women stand as testament that nature knows best.

The editor: Dian Hanson is a twenty-five-year veteran of men’s magazine publishing. She began her career at Puritan magazine in 1976 and went on to edit a variety of titles, including Partner, Oui, Hooker, Outlaw Biker, and Juggs magazines. In 1987 she took over the ‘60s title Leg Show and transformed it into the world’s best-selling fetish publication. Most recently, she authored TASCHEN’s Terryworld, Tom of Finland: The Comic Collection and History of Men’s Magazines six-volume set.

Editions:ISBN 3-8228-3303-7 (German, French, English)

List Prices:USD 49.99 | GBP 29.99 | EUR 39.99 | JPY 6900.00

The bigger the better
Excerpt from the book "The Big Book of Breasts". By Dian Hanson.
"I am a breast, a mammary gland disconnected from any human form, a mammary gland such as could only appear, one would have thought, in a dream."
Philip Roth, The Breast, 1972

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 glandular tissue? Around 1760 Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus coined the term "mammal," meaning breast bearing, to describe all furred, warm-blooded creatures. Against prevailing religious opinion, he included man among these creatures...

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