Virgin by Hanne Blank

Virgin by Hanne Blank

Why has an indefinable state of being commanded the attention and fascination of the human race since the dawn of time? In Virgin, Hanne Blank brings us a revolutionary, rich and entertaining survey of an astonishing untouched history.

From the simple task of determining what constitutes its loss to why it matters to us in the first place, Blank gets to the heart of why we even care about it in the first place. She tackles the reality of what we do and don't know about virginity and provides a sweeping tour of virgins in history from virgin martyrs to Queen Elizabeth to billboards in downtown Baltimore telling young women it's not a dirty word. Virgin proves, as well, how utterly contemporary the topic is the butt of innumerable jokes, center of spiritual mysteries, locus of teenage angst, popular genre for pornography, and nucleus around which the world's most powerful government has created an unprecedented abstinence policy. In this fascinating work, Hanne Blank shows for the first time why this is, and why everything we think we know about virginity is wrong.

Hanne Blank is a widely published essayist, reviewer, journalist, and fiction writer whose work has appeared in Penthouse, Best American Erotica, the Boston Phoenix, and The Elvis Presley Reader. She is the author/editor of several books on sexuality, including Shameless: Women's Intimate Erotica, Big Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of Size and Those Who Love Them, and Best Transgender Erotica. Coeditor of scarletletters.com and scarleteen.com, Blank lives in Baltimore, MD.

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ISBN 13	9781596910102
ISBN 10	1596910100
Title	Virgin
Author	Hanne Blank
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2007-03-20
Number of pages	290
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