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a book all women should read. Also Men in Love
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My Secret Garden
My Secret Garden
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When it first appeared, My Secret Garden created a storm of outrage and exhilaration. Women who read it were astonished to find in its pages the hidden content of their own sexual fantasies. More outspoken, graphic, and taboo-shattering than any book before its time, My Secret Garden quickly became the classic study of female sexuality. Today, m... more »
Author:
When it first appeared, My Secret Garden created a storm of outrage and exhilaration. Women who read it were astonished to find in its pages the hidden content of their own sexual fantasies. More outspoken, graphic, and taboo-shattering than any book before its time, My Secret Garden quickly became the classic study of female sexuality. Today, m... more »
ISBN-13: 9780671019877
ISBN-10: 0671019872
Publication Date: 6/1/1998
Pages: 384
Rating: 29
ISBN-10: 0671019872
Publication Date: 6/1/1998
Pages: 384
Rating: 29
3.5 stars, based on 29 ratings
Publisher: Pocket
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Reviews: Member | Amazon | Write a Review
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Reread it. Interesting!
This book caused quite a ruckus when it was released 25 years ago because it directly quotes the sexual fantasies of dozens of women, ranging from the "very common" rape fantasy to lesbian affairs to unusually explicit scenarios that are unmentionable here. While author Nancy Friday maintains that My Secret Garden served to free millions of women from sexual oppression, there's still a need today to get rid of the guilt that millions more still feel when it comes to fantasizing, having orgasms, and making one's sexual wishes be known. "How could it be, you might ask," she writes, "that women today, at the turn of the century, would still think they were the only Bad Girls with erotic thoughts? What kind of prison is this that that women impose on themselves?"
Women's sexual fantasies. Interesting read.
My Secret Garden is Nancy Friday's first foray into the world of sexual fantasies. Although it can be read simply for titillation as a voyeuristic peek into the sexual minds of American women, it's not intended as such. Nancy Friday had a feminist vision in mind--although rejected by mainstream feminists--of sexual equality, by normalizing the idea of women having and enjoying sexual fantasies as such. Ironically, the secret garden needed to be made a little public in order to convince women it is all right to cultivate her own. Friday systematically chronicles reasons why women might fantasize, what themes run through fantasies and their origins, and a final section called "Fantasy Accepted," all highlighted from examples she collected in letters and interviews. There's a lot of subject appropriate four-letter words and kinky fantastical acts described, although less explicitly than in a later volume on men's fantasies entitled Men in Love. An interesting read for someone interested in women's sexuality and gender studies.
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