Down There Press

{{Short description|Feminist book, DVD, and audiobook publisher}}

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| status = Active

| founded = {{start date and age|1975}}

| founder = Joani Blank

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| country = United States

| headquarters = San Francisco, California

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| keypeople = Joani Blank

| publications = Books, DVDs, Audiobooks

| topics = sexuality, health, erotica, self help

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| owner = Worker owned

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Down There Press is an independently run feminist book, DVD, and audiobook publisher that focuses on sexuality. It publishes both visual and literary erotica, and is known for its publications on youth and adolescent sexuality.{{cite book|last1=Anderson|first1=Byron|title=Alternative publishers of books in North America|date=2006|publisher=Library Juice Press|location=Duluth, Minn.|isbn=9781936117222|page=48|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TwRMRhicNK4C&dq=Joani+Blank&pg=PA48|accessdate=2 December 2015|via=Google Books}}

Down There Press was founded by sex educator Joani Blank in 1975 in San Francisco, California.{{cite book|last=Sides|first=Josh|title=Erotic city : sexual revolutions and the making of modern San Francisco|date=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=9780199703395|page=[https://archive.org/details/eroticcitysexual00side_0/page/122 122]|url=https://archive.org/details/eroticcitysexual00side_0|url-access=registration|quote=Joani Blank.|accessdate=2 December 2015}} Blank's 1975 book The Playbook for Women About Sex was the first publication. Blank has published all of her work through the press.

Herotica, a collection of women's erotica, was the first fiction series that the press published.{{cite book|last=Juffer|first=Jane|title=At home with pornography : women, sex, and everyday life|date=1998|publisher=New York University Press|isbn=9780585314723|page=124|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kmOkgVqYLBkC&dq=Down+there+press&pg=PA125|accessdate=2 December 2015|via=Google Books}}

Down There Press carries titles from authors such as Carol Queen, Jack Morin, Isadora Alman, Kate Dominic, Susie Bright, Cathy Winks, and Martha Cornog.{{source needed|date=November 2021}}