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词条 Joani Blank
释义

  1. Career

  2. Personal life

  3. Books

  4. Films

  5. Notes

  6. External links

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  • Inventor of the Butterfly vibrator

}}Joani Blank (July 4, 1937 – August 6, 2016) was an American entrepreneur, writer, videographer, cohousing enthusiast, philanthropist, sex educator, and inventor in the field of sexuality. Brimming with ideas, she broke ground using her publishing, sex store, and other endeavors to promote a sex-positive feminism. Her papers are part of the Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell University Library.[1]

Career

She founded Down There Press, a publisher of sex-related books, in 1975.[2] In 1977, she opened Good Vibrations, the second feminist sex toy business in the United States (the first having been Eve's Garden in New York City, which was founded by Dell Williams in 1974).[3][4][5] Prior to her opening Good Vibrations, she was hired at the University of California, San Francisco to screen candidates who had difficulties achieving orgasm. This study influenced her business model for Good Vibrations.[6] Lynn Comella wrote that Blank turned "her small vibrator shop into a sexual resource center for anyone who might wander in. She felt that talking about sex should be as casual as talking about the weather; she also believed that sexual information was a birthright and that no one should be made to feel ashamed or embarrassed for wanting more pleasure in their life."[7]

She collaborated with photographer Honey Lee Cottrell on I Am My Lover, and Down There Press published it in 1978. In this book, she paired Cottrell’s photographs of individual women with the subject’s written reflections on masturbation and on learning to give themselves pleasure. It joined Our Bodies, Ourselves (1971) and Betty Dodson's Liberating Masturbation: A Meditation on Self Love[8] (1974) as second wave feminist books aiming to educate women about their bodies and empower them to have a positive sexual life.

She was one of the first volunteers at San Francisco Sex Information and has served on the Board of Directors of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Blank is also known for her inventions of the Butterfly vibrator[9] and Titattoos (now Intimate Art Tattoos).[10]

She lived in cohousing since 1992 and served for eight years on the board of the Cohousing Association of the United States.[11]

Personal life

Blank had one daughter, Amika, and three grandchildren. She lived in Doyle Street Cohousing in Emeryville, California and co-founded her final home community, Swan's Market Cohousing in Oakland, California, where she volunteered her time to social justice issues such as prison reform, economic equality, and the Cohousing Association of the United States.{{citation needed|date=July 2012}} She remained active in the field of sexuality, and many of her old books and videos are available through her Web site.

Blank held a masters degree in public health education.[2]

Blank died of pancreatic cancer on August 6, 2016, less than two months after its diagnosis.[12]

Books

  • Editor, Still Doing It: Men and Women Over Sixty Write About Their Sexuality, Down There Press, 2000
  • Co-author (with Ann Whidden), Good Vibrations: The New Complete Guide to Vibrators, Down There Press, 2000 (see also 1976, below)
  • Editor, I Am My Lover: Women Pleasure Themselves, Down There Press, 1997
  • Editor, First Person Sexual: Women and Men Write About Self-Pleasuring, Down There Press, 1996
  • Editor, Femalia, Down There Press, 1993
  • A Kid's First Book About Sex, Down There Press, 1993
  • I Am My Lover, Down There Press, 1978.[13]
  • The Playbook for Kids About Sex, Down There Press, 1978
  • The Playbook for Men About Sex, Down There Press, 1976
  • Good Vibrations: Being a Treatise on the Use of Machines in the Indolent Indulgence of Erotic Pleasure-Seeking Together with Important Hints on the Acquisition, Care, and Utilization of Said Machines and Much More about the Art and Science of Buzzing Off, Down There Press, 1976
  • The Playbook for Women About Sex, Down There Press, 1975

Films

  • Orgasm: Faces of Ecstasy, Blank Tapes and Libido Films, 2004 (with Jack Hafferkamp and Marianna Beck).
  • Carol Queen's Great Vibrations: An Explicit Guide to Vibrators, Blank Tapes, ~1997.

Notes

1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM07827.html|title=Guide to the Joani Blank Papers,circa 1970-2016.|website=rmc.library.cornell.edu|access-date=2017-03-13}}
2. ^{{cite book|last1=Sides|first1=Josh|title=Erotic city : sexual revolutions and the making of modern San Francisco|date=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=9780199703395|page=122|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WLZCBMtH5SgC&pg=PA122&dq=Joani+Blank&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjZq6vD7bvJAhVIJh4KHeHpCeQ4HhDoAQhFMAY#v=onepage&q=Joani%20Blank&f=false|accessdate=2 December 2015}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Garden-Dell-Williams/dp/1596370386 |title=Revolution in the Garden: Dell Williams, Lynn Vannucci: 9781596370388: Amazon.com: Books |publisher=Amazon.com |date= |accessdate=2014-01-18}}
4. ^{{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=tOVlvvrMJhUC&pg=PA117&lpg=PA117&dq=%22dell+williams%22+first+woman-oriented#v=onepage&q=%22dell%20williams%22%20first%20woman-oriented&f=false | title = Historical Dictionary of Feminism | isbn = 9780810849464 | last1 = Boles | first1 = Janet K | last2 = Hoeveler | first2 = Diane Long | year = 2004|page = 117}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.core77.com/posts/55553/Remembering-Joani-Blank-Designer-Of-The-First-Modern-Sex-Toy-Store|title=Remembering Joani Blank: Designer Of The First Modern Sex Toy Store - Core77|website=Core77|language=en|access-date=2017-03-11}}
6. ^{{cite book|last1=Comella|first1=Lynn|title=New sociologies of sex work|date=2010|publisher=Ashgate|location=Farnham ; Burlington, VT :|isbn=9780754699682|page=215|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=toGlsIgAW8oC&pg=PA215&dq=Joani+Blank&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOsdeu8bvJAhXGKiYKHfdLCEs4KBDoAQg5MAQ#v=onepage&q=Joani%20Blank&f=false|accessdate=2 December 2015}}
7. ^{{Cite news|url=https://bitchmedia.org/article/remembering-good-vibrations-founder-joani-blank-1937-2016|title=Remembering Good Vibrations Founder Joani Blank, 1937 - 2016 {{!}} Bitch Media|work=Bitch Media|access-date=2017-03-11|language=en}}
8. ^{{Cite book|url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19938744|title=Liberating masturbation: a meditation on self love|last=Dodson|first=Betty|date=1975-01-01|publisher=Dodson|location=New York|language=English}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/good-vibrations-founder-joani-blank-feminist-pioneer-and-vibrator-designer-has-d |title= Good Vibrations Founder Joani Blank, Feminist Pioneer and Vibrator Designer, Has Died |publisher=San Francisco Magazine |date=2016-08-08 |accessdate=2016-08-08}}
10. ^Intimate Art Tattoo web site
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.joaniblank.com/cohousing.htm |title=Joani Blank's Cohousing Stuff |publisher=Joaniblank.com |date= |accessdate=2014-01-18}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=http://avn.com/business/articles/novelty/good-vibrations-founder-joani-blank-dies-693724.html |title= Good Vibrations Founder Joani Blank Dies |publisher=Adult Video News |date= |accessdate=2016-08-08}}
13. ^{{Cite book|url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33394222|title=I am my lover|last=Blank|first=Joani|last2=Cottrell|first2=Honey Lee|last3=Corinne|first3=Tee|last4=Down There Press|date=1978-01-01|publisher=Down There Press|location=Burlingame, Calif.|language=English}}

External links

  • {{official website|http://www.joaniblank.com}}
  • 2003 San Francisco Chronicle profile
  • Cohousing Association of the United States
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