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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.

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