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Beyond My Control: Forbidden Fantasies in an Uncensored Age
Beyond My Control Forbidden Fantasies in an Uncensored Age
Author: Nancy Friday
35 years later, the follow-up to the groundbreaking mega-bestseller My Secret Garden, explores the nature of our sexual fantasies. Nancy Friday was one the sexual revolution's most controversial figures, captivating the world with her 1973 mega-bestseller, My Secret Garden. In Beyond My Control, Friday illustrates how and why the f...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781402218545
ISBN-10: 1402218540
Publication Date: 4/1/2009
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Book Type: Paperback
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Nancy Friday's Beyond My Control: Forbidden Fantasies in an Uncensored Age is a bit of a disappointment. Known for her prior compilations of (mainly female) sexual fantasies, here Friday offers sexual fantasies submitted by both men and women in addition to Craigslist and other online ads. As the title implies, one of the themes is that as women achieved more equality though the feminist movement, more fantasies became centered on giving up control as the source of sexual pleasure. The internet has made fantasies more risqué. However, these new ideas seem at odds with her usual psychoanalytical bent, i.e., much of our sexual desires develop under the influence of Mother, before we are consciously aware of them, which is still very present here. There also seems to be much more of her editorializing relative to actual material submitted by others than in previous works. Thus Beyond My Control didn't meet my expectations.


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