The Big Book of Breasts by Dian Hanson. Drag queens perfect them, young girls wonder if they will ever get them, boys and men—are obsessed with them. "I am gay," admitted Robert, a 32 year old Manhattan man, "but once, after chatting with a woman at a bar for awhile, I had to simply ask her, 'May I touch your breasts, they're just so beautiful.' To my suprise, she grinned, and let me cop a feel. It wasn't so much a sexual thing—but it was an intensely pleasurable one."
In Taschen's The Big Book of Breasts, BastardLife favorite Dian Hanson explores the origins of the world's breast obsession through three decades of non-augmented 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 many more. On sale now, and worth it.—N.B.
Photographs: Dian Hanson
