Dian Hanson (born November 2, 1951) is an American magazine and book editor.
Hanson began her publishing career as an American pornographic magazine editor, historian, and occasional model, helping found the 1970s hardcore journal Puritan, then moving on to Partner, OUI, Adult Cinema Review, Outlaw Biker and Big Butt, among others.
Since 2001 Hanson has held the position of Sexy Book editor for art book publisher, Taschen, based in Cologne, Germany, in which capacity she writes or edits all the sexually oriented titles for the company.
In an interview with magazine The Believer, Hanson speaks of her introduction to Benedikt Taschen in the early 1990s, and how she came to work for the publisher: "I was editing Leg Show and Juggs, and Benedikt Taschen was my biggest German fan.
"[2]Hanson published her edited erotic photography work The Big Butt Book in 2010, tracing the cultural history of the buttocks.