The Big Butt Book

The Big Books

by Dian Hanson

The Kama Sutra gives detailed instructions on how to spank it. Contemporary Italians touch it for luck before placing a bet. Americans are having it cosmetically enhanced at rates approaching breast enlargement surgery. The female butt, tush, culo, or derrière has always inspired awe, fantasy, and slavish devotion. Curiously, its primary purpose is functional rather than butts balance our bodies while running, according to biologists. But ask any pygophiliac—as fundament fans are clinically termed—and you'll get the same female hindquarters exist to please the eye, the hands, and parts south. A pert posterior causes instant arousal, as Zora Neale Hurston observed in Their Eyes Were Watching "The men noticed her firm buttocks like she had grape fruits in her hip pockets." Or, as rapper Sir Mix-a-lot proclaimed, "My anaconda don't want none, unless you’ve got buns, hun." Having all but disappeared from western culture in the breast-obsessed second half of the 20th century, the fully formed fanny is currently enjoying a massive resurgence, attributed by some to American actress Jennifer Lopez, by others to the rise of booty-centric hip hop culture. Yet this rage for shapely butts is nothing new. The ancient Greeks worshipped at the temple of Aphrodite Kallipygos, Goddess of the Beautiful Buttocks, while a womanly rump has always been an object of worship in most of the southern hemisphere. The Big Butt Book explores this perennial fascination with female booty—from small and taut to large and sumptuous—in the fourth installment of Dian Hanson's critically acclaimed body parts series. Over 400 photos from 1900 to the present day are contextualized by interviews with porn icon John (Buttman) Stagliano, filmmaker Tinto Brass, artist Robert Crumb, bootylicious butt queens Buffie The Body, Coco and Brazil's Watermelon Woman, plus Eve Howard and her life-long spanking obsession.

Genres: Photography, Art, Erotica, Nonfiction, Art and Photography

372 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Shannon M (Canada) · Rating 5 out of 5]

I gave a 5-star rating to this book because I appeared in it — three pictures of me, or at least of my butt — pages 18, 110, and 128-129. Admittedly they were taken in 1963. I didn’t even get a commission for having my picture included and I had to buy the book at full price in order to see which photos were included.

[Bryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

The, uh, essays -- yeah, the ESSAYS -- were excellent.

[Jennie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Can you really go wrong with this as a coffee table book? The pictures are great, the essays are interesting, absurd and kind of hilarious and it has a great mix of vintage and contemporary photos. It's not award winning literature but it's is a fun book to own.

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

Take it for what it is... I think the low reviews are from people who assume too much or haven't even picked it up. It's a coffee table book and definitely funny/fun to talk about. Probably not something you'd want around if you have kids, though.

[Paul Heneghan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must for bum lovers

[Mansoor · Rating 3 out of 5]

My Viagra is the bottom, the asses of my actresses. That is the best Viagra. I still have an erection when I shoot, but not orgasm.
--Tinto Brass

[Tommie Haag · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Vander Alves · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't expect anything other than pretty pictures of butts, but there's plenty of compelling cultural insight too, alongside interesting interviews.

[Phan · Rating 1 out of 5]

God bless my future decisions

[Turtleback · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book ever!!

[Cloak88 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Like Playboy you'd read this for the articles..... and such nice articles there are.

So... I'm a single guy in my thirties.... And this is quite a fun read. The photography is high quality, the articles interesting and the progression from the fifties till now is a good contrast in both attitude and photography technique.

[Kevin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I mean, there is a female butt on every single page. That said, I was kind of disappointed as I was expecting something more artsy from a Taschen book. Most of the photographs in the book feel like they can easily be found online. I would have enjoyed seeing some older pictures mixed in, as well as butts that don't necessarily fit society's standards of beauty. That's right, I'm using Goodreads to say that a hairy butt crack on a woman is nice to see every now and then.

[Narges Shegeft · Rating 4 out of 5]

““Did God make buttocks for spanking?” asks anti-spank blogger Chris Dugan. He thinks not, because God made man in his image, and surely God’s divine buttocks could not have been made for hitting.” =)))

Interesting history

[Gerri W Leid · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fabulous book

[Uzair · Rating 3 out of 5]

Love