Spectacular summertime endowments

The Big Penis Book (Hardcover)

by Dian Hanson

Taschen book editor Dian Hanson spent 25 years editing titles of men's magazines like Oui, Outlaw Biker, Juggs and Leg Show . "I know your readers will be very happy to learn of my new book due out in June," she told Out There. We have an inkling she's right, possums, because it's an oversized coffee-table volume entitled The Big Penis Book.

"The big penis never goes out of fashion," observes some informative jacket copy. "With those possessing more than 8 inches (20 cm) making up less than 2% of the world's population, this rare accessory will always fascinate."

Expect to see some spectacular male endowments in these pages, including rare photos of the legendary big-dicker John Holmes , "the 13-and-only." Vintage photographers represented, many from the 1970s, include Bob Mizer of Athletic Model Guild, David Hurles of Old Reliable, and the over 400 historic photos include specimens from Colt, Falcon, Sierra Domino, Third World and Champion Studios.

Big Penis is already a top seller on Amazon, having held the #1 spot in Erotic Photography book sales for the last two months. Judging the book from its cover an overlay of white briefs barely containing a huge, engorged member, said overlay peeling away to expose the fleshy appendage in all its stupendous length and girth we can see why. TBPB is offered as a natural follow-up to Taschen's earlier The Big Book of Breasts, which is said to have been a "bust-out success," hardy har har.

Hanson offers a few caveats: "No racial or ethnic group is uniformly large, and no group is uniformly small. There are also male fans of the small penis, either as a symbol of youth or for its amazing ability to make one's own penis look larger. All that out of the way, who can deny the allure of a big dick?"

Indeed. In other coffee-table book news, that deluxe volume of photos from those nudie-revue Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS fundraisers, Broadway Bares: Backstage Pass (foreword by Jerry Mitchell, from Universe), which we previewed in this column a few weeks back, is out and available from fine booksellers everywhere. Your gay daddy Out There got himself into a little hot water with the publisher for running a photo from the advance publicity material that was not entirely cleared for publication. But now we can share the goods with no hesitation, and we do so love the double-truck spread of nekkid guys sitting around the counter of a coffee shop. This photo-set's caption reads, "Nothing can beat a plate full of meat." More Spectacular summertime endowments @ Bay Area Reporter.

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posted by Tom Jackson @ Wednesday, June 04, 2008