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Summary: My Secret Garden : Women's Sexual Fantasies
Review: I think this is a great book. I like the part where it told all the fantasies
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Summary: Opened my eyes and my mind
Review: I've never been one for fantasies, but this book really helps open your eyes to a world in your mind that can make life so much more pleasurable. It helps you realize that fantasizing is a good thing. An excellent book!
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Summary: Will Steam Glasses
Review: Nancy Friday asked women around the world, to send in their sexual fantasies and experiences. What she got even shocked her. Some of, if not THE most provocative fantasies and experiences ever published. I have owned(notice I said "have owned") a couple of copies of this extraordinary book. But each time I bought one, someone would want to "see it", and I would never get it back. Like Forbidden Flowers (a similar publication by Nancy Friday), anytime someone seen me reading a copy, they'd want to read a page. Only thing is, I never had anyone who could only read one page. They would be so captivated by its contents, they'd read more and more. I've had as many as 5 women at a time, come up to me and inquire as to what I was reading, then ask to let them "read a page". As they read, mouths dropped open, eyes would widen, faces would turn flush, and giggles galore would occur. It's amazing how a book can make women in their 20's 30's 40's and 50's act.
This is in no way like one of those "letters" books you've heard about in porno shops. Those letter books are not even in the same league!!! And its not a book with a bunch of 4 letter words in it to help sales, though there are a very few of them in it. No, it's what, and how it's said that makes this one risque' to say the least. Millions have been printed, and millions have sold. It's been a few years since I owned a copy of this book, and for various reasons. But I love to write reviews for Amazon, and since it is a book I've read several times through (grin), I felt I should write about it.
Getting back to the book, be prepared to be shocked. It is totally uncensored, and includes Nancy's own research into human relations. If you desire to find out if other people have had similar fantasies and experiences that you've had. If you seek to learn about research done on the topic of sexual fantasies, you'll want to read My Secret Garden, and Forbidden Flowers.
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Summary: Has a variety of memorable and exciting stories.
Review: Ten years ago, this was the first book of erotica that I read.
I still remember many of the fantasies and stories vividly.
These range from the "standard" to the extremely daring.
The mixture of real events and fantasies is very stimulating.
The women recount near-incidents that became lifelong fantasies.
Many readers may enjoy having old encounters stirred back as such.
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Summary: Has a variety of memorable and exciting stories.
Review: Ten years ago, this was the first book of erotica that I read.
I still remember many of the fantasies and stories vividly.
These range from the "standard" to the extremely daring.
The mixture of real events and fantasies is very stimulating.
The women recount near-incidents that became lifelong fantasies.
Many readers may enjoy having old encounters stirred back as such.
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Summary: Good Pornography for the Middle Class.
Review: The problem with this book is not that it is pornographic. The problem is that it is hypocrticial. It is one thing to edit and publish a collection of women's sexual fantasies and not care whether someone considers it pornographic or not. It is quite another to collect such fantasies, add a few introductory notes between the chapters, and try to disguise the pornographic content as "research". The idea, apparently, is to make this colletion "respectable", worthy of being sold in Barnes&Noble in the "psychology" section instead of in the local "adult bookstore".Is this book *really* "research", like Nancy Friday claims, or is it "pronography"? The definition of "pornography" is, according to the american heritage dictionary, "obscene literature... having little or no artistic merit", literally from the greek "writing about harlots". "Reseach" is "dilligent and systematic inquiry into a subject". Clearly "My Secret Garden" is the first, not the second. It is almost literally "writing about harlots" (or women fantasizing of being ones). But it is *not* a "dilligent inquiry" into the subject by any stretch of the imagination. For example, Nancy Friday's method was simply to collect the stories from *women who answered her request for fantasies*. Do you really think it is likely that a woman who sends her sexual fantasies to a complete stranger is the *average* woman? How about men who send stories, claiming to be women? Women who answered the advertisement as a joke with all kind of wild stories, and so on? Nancy Friday does not show the least awareness of such potential biases in her data. Nor does she do any quantitive analysis whatsoever of the results. She simply published the "best stories". If this is reseach at all, it is very bad research. *As Pornography*, this book is quite good: much better, in variety of subject, experiences, and authenticity, than the usual "adult books". It can be exciting; it can add spice to one's sex life, and suggest some new things you haven't thought of (and, unlike the usual fictional "adult" book, these suggestions can actually be tried without getting yourself or your spouse arrested, injured, or worse.) It is clearly collected by an intelligent woman who had both men and women in mind when she chose her material. I suspect Nancy Friday knows very well that her books are pronographic, and that her claims of "reseach" are merely a rather transparent excuse for publishing them with a "respectable" publisher. As a writer (or collector) of pronography, she did a good job, and it is perhaps a good thing to have this kind of high-level porn available. Just don't kid yourself about what it is.
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Summary: Horrible pornographic book
Review: This book is not written for women. This is written by a woman to satisfy the lecherous needs of sex-starved pansy type men, who just get excited by reading such material. Majority of the people who bought, read and enjoyed this book were probably men. No woman will enjoy reading this book. Descriptions are third rated and disgrace women as slaves of men. There are much better books which will help women to free themselves and put them in a respectful position equal to men.
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Summary: A book written by women....To please women
Review: This book is still breaking ground 20-something years later and the stories of arousal and passion go far beyond what you think could happen in real life, except alot of them are true,,,, And they are having WAY more fun than you.... I Highly RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO ANYTONE EXPLORING THEIR SEXUALITY. THS IS YOUR CHANCE TO KNOW THAT WAHT EVER IS IN YOUR MIND IS IN OTHERES MINDS AS WELL
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Summary: Should be "required reading" for all women (and men).
Review: This book puts a spotlight on one of the "mental prisons" in which so many women (and men, also) spend their lives. Friday shows us the secret and denied fantasies that a few couragious women were bold enough to share with the world.
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Summary: Facinating, Informative,and Enlightening
Review: This book was a brazen attempt (in it's era )to liberate Women to realize that their sexual fantasies are okay. If more women and men would read this book, perhaps it could help to alleviate some of the sexual tension between our sexes.Then we could get on with the communication issue, that we all need so much.
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