Education
Oberlin College.
Oberlin College.
She founded Down There Press, a publisher of sex-related books, in 1975. In 1977, she opened Good Vibrations, the second feminist sex toy business in the United States (the first having been Eve"s Garden in New York City, which was founded by Dell Williams in 1974). This study influenced her business model for Good Vibrations.
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.
Orgasm: Faces of Ecstasy, Blank Tapes and Libido, 2004 (with Jack Hafferkamp and Marianna Beck).