<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dian_Hanson">Dian Hanson</a> is a unique figure from the world of men’s magazines in New York in the 1970s and 1980s, a world that overlapped strongly with the adult film business.
Last time, in the first episode of this podcast series, we heard about her surprising, and often shocking, upbringing: a hippie and high school dropout from Seattle, her father was supreme grand master in a sex-magic cult, and a childhood that included being bullied, sexually assaulted, running away from home, even being considered by her parents as a possible partner for a much older friend-of-the family who just happened to be a pedophile.
By 20, Dian had developed a passionate and life-long interest in pornography – thanks to three unlikely sources: the work of psychologist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Krafft-Ebing">Richard von Krafft-Ebbing</a>, the publication of the bizarre Illustrated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Commission_on_Obscenity_and_Pornography">Presidential Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography</a>, and the appearance of the first sex films that had started to be shown in theaters. But paradoxically, by her late teens, Dian found herself a world away from all these stimuli – as an unhappily married wife, pregnant, and living in rural Mississippi.
In this episode, we hear how Dian recovered from that difficult, not to mention tragic, marriage and found her way into the burgeoning men’s magazine business in New York – albeit through an abusive boyfriend. Quick note: Dian asked that we don’t refer to this ex by his given name, but rather call him “he who shall not be named”. Obviously, I respected that choice.
Dian talks about the first magazine she worked on &#8211; the mob-financed Puritan &#8211; a trailblazing, still legendary publication, that was the first hardcore magazine aimed at the newsstands in America. After that came Dian’s partnership with Peter Wolff – a similarly important character in magazine history. For years, the pair of them tore through a host of New York adult titles leaving a trail of both success and bewildered confusion behind them, as they pioneered the trend for reader-contributed magazines. Along the way, she crossed paths with people like adult film actors <a href="http://www.vanessadelrio.com/">Vanessa del Rio</a>, <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000465/">Ron Jeremy</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Stevens_(actor)">Marc Stevens</a>, highbrow art-world darlings like Robert Mapplethorpe and Gay Talese, and low level mob bosses like Robert DiBernardo, not to mention one particularly memorable though inept mob enforcer… who went on to win a Pulitzer Prize.
You can listen to the previous episode <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2024/07/28/dian-hanson/">here</a>.
This podcast is 75 minutes long.
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<h2>Dian Hanson &#8211; In Pictures</h2>
<a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-Dian-with-model-1979.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-45834" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-Dian-with-model-1979.jpg" alt="Dian Hanson" width="506" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-Dian-with-model-1979.jpg 506w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-Dian-with-model-1979-234x300.jpg 234w" sizes="(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px" /></a>Dian with a model, 1979
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<a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-Dian_wedding_day_1980.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-45837" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-Dian_wedding_day_1980.jpg" alt="Dian Hanson" width="648" height="517" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-Dian_wedding_day_1980.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-Dian_wedding_day_1980-300x239.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /></a>Dian, on her wedding day, 1980
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<a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-Dian-with-Vanessa-del-Rio-1980-1.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-45844 aligncenter" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-Dian-with-Vanessa-del-Rio-1980-1.jpg" alt="" width="433" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-Dian-with-Vanessa-del-Rio-1980-1.jpg 433w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-Dian-with-Vanessa-del-Rio-1980-1-200x300.jpg 200w" sizes="(max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px" /></a>Dian with <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002040/">Vanessa del Rio</a>, 1980
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<a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-On_set__Partner_magazine_1980.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-45839" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-On_set__Partner_magazine_1980.jpg" alt="" width="648" height="440" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-On_set__Partner_magazine_1980.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-On_set__Partner_magazine_1980-300x204.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /></a>On a Partner shoot, 1981
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<a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-Dian_1981.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-45836" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-Dian_1981.jpg" alt="Peter Wolff" width="648" height="441" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-Dian_1981.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-Dian_1981-300x204.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /></a>Dian, 1981
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<a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-With_Long_Jean_Silver_Platos__1981.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-45840" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-With_Long_Jean_Silver_Platos__1981.jpg" alt="Dian Hanson" width="590" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-With_Long_Jean_Silver_Platos__1981.jpg 590w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-With_Long_Jean_Silver_Platos__1981-273x300.jpg 273w" sizes="(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px" /></a>With <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2013/04/28/jeanne-silver-3/">Long Jeanne Silver</a>, Toni Rose, and another in 1981
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<a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-Lisa_DeLeeuw_Mobster_Show_World_1982.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-45838" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-Lisa_DeLeeuw_Mobster_Show_World_1982.jpg" alt="Dian Hanson" width="648" height="437" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-Lisa_DeLeeuw_Mobster_Show_World_1982.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RR-Lisa_DeLeeuw_Mobster_Show_World_1982-300x202.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /></a>With <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0209615/">Lisa DeLeeuw</a> and a mobster, backstage at Show World, 1982
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The post <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2024/08/04/peter-wolff/">Dian Hanson – Chronicles, Part 2: The Peter Wolff Years &#8211; Podcast 140</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com">The Rialto Report</a>.

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