{"product_id":"the-big-butt-book-by-dian-hanson-9783836596565","title":"The Big Butt Book","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003cstrong\u003eThe female butt, tush, culo, or derrière has always inspired awe, fantasy, and slavish devotion.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCuriously, its primary purpose is functional rather than aesthetic: 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 answer: female hindquarters exist to please the eye, the hands, and parts south. A pert posterior causes instant arousal, as Zora Neale Hurston observed in \u003cem\u003eTheir Eyes Were Watching God\u003c\/em\u003e: \"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHaving 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 \u003cstrong\u003eJennifer Lopez\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Big Butt Book\u003c\/em\u003e 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, including works by \u003cstrong\u003eElmer Batters, Ellen von Unwerth, Jean-Paul Goude, Ralph Gibson, Richard Kern, Jan Saudek, Ed Fox, Terry Richardson\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eSante D'Orazio\u003c\/strong\u003e, of butts ranging from petite \u003cstrong\u003ePam Anderson\u003c\/strong\u003e's to sumptuous \u003cstrong\u003eSerena Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e', are contextualized by interviews with porn icon \u003cstrong\u003eJohn (Buttman) Stagliano\u003c\/strong\u003e, filmmaker \u003cstrong\u003eTinto Brass\u003c\/strong\u003e, artist \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Crumb\u003c\/strong\u003e, bootylicious butt queens \u003cstrong\u003eBuffie The Body, Coco\u003c\/strong\u003e and Brazil's \u003cstrong\u003eWatermelon Woman\u003c\/strong\u003e, plus \u003cstrong\u003eEve Howard\u003c\/strong\u003e and her life-long spanking obsession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432817377516,"sku":"9783836596565","price":160.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783836596565.jpg?v=1774558247","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-big-butt-book-by-dian-hanson-9783836596565","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}