I am my Lover by Joani Blank and Honey Lee Cottrell. First edition.
I am my Lover by Joani Blank and Honey Lee Cottrell. Photographs of Women's genitals and cover design by Tee Corinne. Down There Press. (1978). No listing of later printings. 8 1/2" x 11" unnumbered (about 46) page paperback. Four full pages with colored photographs of female genitalia. Otherwise, many black and white photos of women. Front cover and first few pages are heavily dog-eared on the bottom corner. The covers have edge wear and some dents and gouges. No other previous owner markings. No tears to pages. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages. Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. IG18a
"Joani Blank (July 4, 1937 – August 6, 2016) was an American sex educator, entrepreneur, author, videographer, cohousing enthusiast, philanthropist, and inventor in the field of sexuality. She used publishing, her sex store, and other endeavors to promote sex-positive feminism....Blank 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[9] (1974) as second wave feminist books aiming to educate women about their bodies and empower them to have a positive sexual life." - Wikipedia
"After 19 years Joani Blank has issued a new edition of I Am My Lover. This new edition contains new photography rather than the original edition's photographs (the plates for those were lost) and is in this respect an entirely new book. However, it still revisits the terrain originally addressed in the original I Am My Lover." - proquest.com
"Joani Blank (July 4, 1937 – August 6, 2016) was an American sex educator, entrepreneur, author, videographer, cohousing enthusiast, philanthropist, and inventor in the field of sexuality. She used publishing, her sex store, and other endeavors to promote sex-positive feminism....Blank 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[9] (1974) as second wave feminist books aiming to educate women about their bodies and empower them to have a positive sexual life." - Wikipedia
"After 19 years Joani Blank has issued a new edition of I Am My Lover. This new edition contains new photography rather than the original edition's photographs (the plates for those were lost) and is in this respect an entirely new book. However, it still revisits the terrain originally addressed in the original I Am My Lover." - proquest.com
