Suffice it too say this book has certainly opened my eyes and made my own fantasies seem quite tame in comparison. Nor is she just a lesbian fantasy -- though she is that, too -- but rather she embodies sexual woman/working woman, and I think you could put mother in there too. Whether age, marriage, motherhood, career -- the usual doors that shut on sex -- will inhibit your sexuality, only time will tell. I think I got it at the Friends of the Public Library library booksale, so I didn't invest a lot of money to get it. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

After publication there was a final salvo from the media accusing me of inventing the entire book, having made up all the fantasies. A classic work on how women think about sex, from the New York Times –bestselling author of My Secret Garden and My Mother/Myself . Fromme, could have persuaded these women to drop the veil from the preconscious -- that level of consciousness between the unconscious and full awareness -- and reveal the fantasy they had repeatedly enjoyed and then denied. Nancy Friday's international bestsellers My Secret Garden and Forbidden Flowers revealed that women possess erotic imaginations at least as inventive and powerful as those of men.

I remember sitting next to a TV anchorman at dinner one night here in Key West, where I'm writing now. This book, along with My Secret Garden and Forbidden Flowers, its sequel, represent a unique chronicle of women's sexual fantasies.

Anger is still a difficult emotion for women to voice in reality, primarily because we get no practice expressing it in that first, most important relationship, opposite mother. You've spent your lives in a culture that invented sex as a selling tool in the heyday of the sexual revolution. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. And both camps alienated traditional women, who had stayed within the family unit and whose values, needs, and very existence were ignored.Nancy Friday, best-selling author of feminist and erotic literature, psychoanalyst and socio-sexual historian, has been the leading witer on women's and men's sexual fantasies since the publication of her first best-selling erotic book, My Secret Garden. So immediate were these two social phenomena that it seemed as if women had been waiting in the wings for centuries, pent up, frustrated, with all of our enormous energies just barely under control. There is something very workmanlike and reliable about the traditional bullies and bad people whose intractable presence allows the woman to reach her goal, orgasm. However, despite the strange fantasies, there were some pretty hot ones too, and it's great to know that your doing something right, in owning, and enjoying your own body, and there is absolutely nothing wrong in doing so.

This was not innocence on their part, merely their wish not to be told something they had silently always known: We women fantasize just like men, and the images are not always pretty.The daughter could be grown and with children of her own, but if she had never emotionally separated from that first person who controlled her totally, how was she to know what was mother's opinion, what was her own? Ten years ago when Men in Love, my book on men's sexual fantasies, was published, one of their favorite fantasies was the image of a woman bringing herself to orgasm. If memory serves, 'Women On Top' begins safely enough - lesbian kisses, infidelities, hate fucks - then quickly delves into corners of the female psyche that would place most men behind bars had they shared the same thoughts. Men may fantasize sexually voracious women (it is their favorite), but when the dream comes true -- as it did briefly in the 1970s -- and she stands there, hands on hips, thrusting her cunt in his face, his worst fears are aroused: Can he satisfy her, or will he end up as small and powerless as he once was opposite his first great love, mother, the Giantess of the Nursery? Men pleasured themselves a lot more than women, who sadly, are shun by society as dirty girls for entertaining the idea.

NANCY FRIDAY is the author of eight books: MY SECRET GARDEN, FORBIDDEN FLOWERS, JEALOUSY, MEN IN LOVE, MY MOTHER/MY SELF, WOMEN ON TOP, THE POWER OF BEAUTY and OUR LOOKS, OUR LIVES. It's been almost twenty years since I first came across this collection of women's sexual fantasies. First we use social network analysis to map out fighter jet transfers during and after the Cold War and examine the extent to which historical structures of international hierarchy shape contemporary supplier-receiver relationships. About the Author: Nancy Friday, best-selling author of feminist and erotic literature, psychoanalyst and socio-sexual historian, has been the leading witer on women's and men's sexual fantasies since the publication of her first best-selling erotic book, My Secret Garden. Some even look to the stars for extra-terrestrials to abduct them, take them back to their planet, and use them for sexual experimentation - little green-men sandwich, anyone?Wissenschaft als diskursive Praxis ist stark durch die Auseinandersetzung über sprachliche Texte dominiert. Men were the problem solvers, the good providers, the sexual ones, and women -- well, we know what women were supposed to be and do. If something must be abandoned, it will be sexual freedom, with which we never felt comfortable (or we would have used the contraceptives that made our revolution possible). The angry feminists, having little sympathy for men or the women who loved men, turned up their noses at the sexual revolution. More than ever before, women everywhere are devouring the hottest stories from behind closed doors, tales of sexual encounters designed to create new frissons of excitement with each turn of the page.