![]() ![]() ![]() My step-dad was into this stuff.īecause yeah, it's also basically light porn. As others have stated, it purports to be about "research" but I also know it was the kind of book I used to find stuffed down under the basket of magazines in my parents' washroom. Otherwise, this one is past its best before date. An update of Friday's project might be interesting. The text is available free online.Rating: I'm sure it was great in its day. Thought it might have some insights.Recommended for: students of gender studies and sexuality, students of the 1970s, people who are 40 years late learning that woman enjoy sexual fantasies. I remember this book being mentioned in women's magazines extensively through the late 70s and 80s but I never paid it any attention. To each her own, I guess.Why I Read This Now: I was doing some research for a project I'm working on and had been following internet rabbit holes when I came across it. I was surprised to see it tagged as erotica here on LT, and even more surprised to see reviews on GoodReads that talked about how sexy and titillating they found it. I think this is a relic whose time has passed.So, in conclusion, I didn't find the analysis that I was looking for, and the fantasies bored me. And I was surprised to hear about so many women who got married at 18 or 19. A lot of the fantasies were unintentionally sad, as they revealed young women who had poor sex education and are now in horrible marriages. Overall, the book felt very dated, and not just the places where the woman fantasizes about getting it on with a guy wearing a flowered shirt and purple velvet bellbottoms. There is a vast range of fantasies, so something for everyone I suppose, but they all have the same voice. She must have edited them heavily, because the word patterns, word choice, and tone are the same throughout the book. Many women who did have them thought they were freaks, and many men thought himself so sexual proficient that no woman he touched would "need" to fantasize.The book is structured with Fridays's pseudo-psychological commentary interspersed with the fantasies that she collected through letters, phone calls, and interviews. Apparently at the time, people didn't believe women even had fantasies, or it made them uncomfortable to admit it. Playwright John Sable chose Women on Top (another book by Nancy Friday) as the play's title largely due to its more provocative connotation.In 1973, Nancy Friday published a large collection of answers to an ad she placed looking for women to tell their deepest darkest sexual fantasies. In 2009, the book was adapted into a full length stage play Multiple O: Women on Top. Ī sequel, Forbidden Flowers: More Women’s Sexual Fantasies, followed in 1975.Ĭhapter Three: What do women fantasize about?Ĭhapter Four: The source of women's fantasies My Secret Garden was banned in the Irish Republic. The book, the first published compilation of women's sexual fantasies, challenged many previously accepted notions of female sexuality. The book revealed that women fantasize, just as men do, and that the content of the fantasies can be as transgressive, or not, as men's. ![]() She organized these narratives into "rooms", and each is identified by the woman's first name, except for the last chapter, "odd notes", which is presented as the "fleeting thoughts" of many anonymous women. After other women began writing and talking about sex publicly, Friday began thinking about writing a book about female sexual fantasies, first collecting fantasies from her friends, and then advertising in newspapers and magazines for more. After including a female sexual fantasy in a novel she submitted for publishing, her editor objected, and Friday shelved the novel. My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies is a 1973 book compiled by Nancy Friday, who collected women's fantasies through letters and tapes and personal interviews. ![]()
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