Joani Blank (born 1937) is an entrepreneur, editor, writer, videographer, educator, cohousing enthusiast and adviser, and inventor in the field of sexuality.
She founded Down There Press, a publisher of sex-related books, in 1975. Later she opened Good Vibrations, the second woman-oriented sex toy business in the United States, in 1977. She was one of the first volunteers at San Francisco Sex Information and has served on the Board of Directors of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Blank is also known for her inventions of the Butterfly vibrator and Titattoos (now Intimate Art Tattoos).
She has lived in cohousing since 1992 and served for eight years on the board of the Cohousing Association of America.
Blank has one daughter, Amika, and three grandchildren. She currently lives in Swan's Way Cohousing in Oakland, California.
Editor, Still Doing It: Men and Women Over Sixty Write About Their Sexuality, Down There Press, 2000
Co-author (with Ann Whidden), Good Vibrations: The New Complete Guide to Vibrators, Down There Press, 2000 (see also 1976, below)
Editor, I Am My Lover: Women Pleasure Themselves, Down There Press, 1997
Editor, First Person Sexual: Women and Men Write About Self-Pleasuring, Down There Press, 1996
Editor, Femalia, Down There Press, 1993
A Kid's First Book About Sex, Down There Press, 1993
The Playbook for Kids About Sex, Down There Press, 1978
The Playbook for Men About Sex, Down There Press, 1976
Good Vibrations: Being a Treatise on the Use of Machines in the Indolent Indulgence of Erotic Pleasure-Seeking Together with Important Hints on the Acquisition, Care, and Utilization of Said Machines and Much More about the Art and Science of Buzzing Off, Down There Press, 1976
The Playbook for Women About Sex, Down There Press, 1975