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Dian Hanson is an American pornographic magazine editor, historian, and occasional model, famous as the editor of Juggs and Leg Show sexual fetish magazines.

A former girlfriend of cartoonist Robert Crumb, Hanson appeared in the 1994 documentary film Crumb.

Dian Hanson served her country in the sexual revolution, where she developed an interest in erotic publishing. She was one of the founding editors of Puritan Magazine in 1976 and went on to edit Partner, Oui, Hooker, Outlaw Biker, and Juggs magazines, among others. In 1987 she took over Leg Show magazine and transformed it into the world’s largest selling fetish publication. She considers herself an erotic anthropologist: the magazines and their readers her laboratory and test subjects. --via Amazon.com

[m]uch of what Dian Hanson writes is actually an earthy translation of her theories about sex -- theories that, as it happens, are rooted in academia. She has read every text about the libido that has come within her reach -- starting at the age of 14, when she found Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis in her local library. From there, she wended her way through Freud, Wilhelm Stekel, the sex-change expert John Money, and even the English satirist Geoff Nicholson, who is now Hanson's boyfriend. --http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/nightlife/sex/features/1862/ [Jun 2005]

Bibliography

• The Big Book of Breasts