Hanne Blank

“Sylvester Graham, he of the eponymous health-food cracker, claimed that a man who could make it to the age of thirty without…

— Hanne Blank

Real women are fat. And thin. And neither. And both. And otherwise.

— Hanne Blank

We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to…

— Hanne Blank

“(In actuality there are no such things as "male" or "female" hormones. Hormones have no sex of their own, and all types…

— Hanne Blank

There is no wrong way to have a body.

— Hanne Blank

“For Hitschmann and Bergler, 'frigidity' had a single criterion: 'absence of the vaginal orgasm.' The standard was unqualified and absolute. A woman…

— Hanne Blank

“Some readers were aware that the novels they loved amounted to a propaganda campaign, that the love stories had a particular agenda…

— Hanne Blank

“My favorite Viagra ad, a Spanish-language print ad I saw some years ago, simply shows an image of the distinctive blue pill…

— Hanne Blank

“[Masters and Johnson found] the so-called vaginal orgasm was actually not vaginal. When it happened at all, it was the result of…

— Hanne Blank

The models we have, and the standards we are expected to maintain, come to us via heterosexuality as a normative state. Heterosexuality--whatever…

— Hanne Blank

You have the right to not have to constantly manage how you look for other people's sake. You aren't here to decorate…

— Hanne Blank

The more you behave like you have the right to exist in the world without interference, the less others will question it.…

— Hanne Blank

And last, we must bear in mind that the relationships between perception, thought, emotion, and behavior are neither automatic nor consistent. In…

— Hanne Blank

“Personally, I have learned to welcome the sensation of boredom when I’m working out because boredom can actually provide opportunities that are…

— Hanne Blank

“Excuse me while I throw this down, I’m old and cranky and tired of hearing the idiocy repeated by people who ought…

— Hanne Blank

Sex acts don't drive erotica, the people who engage in them do.

— Hanne Blank

“Not for nothing did phrases like 'he who marries for love has good nights and bad days' and insults like 'cunt-struck,' the…

— Hanne Blank

“The opposite of “slut” is someone who has not been labeled a slut, someone who has never been charged with violating doxa.”

— Hanne Blank

“Heterosexuals and homosexuals are considered different because they can be divided into two groups on the basis of the belief that they…

— Hanne Blank