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Welcome to Nancy Friday's secret garden, a hidden place where ordinary women are free to express the sexual dreams they have never dared to confide before. Safe behind the walls of anonymity, hundreds of real women responded to Nancy Friday's call for details of their own most private fantasies. My Secret Garden is the daring compilation of those fantasies. When it first appeared, it created a storm of outrage in the media...and an equal sense of exhilaration for those women who finally were able to share their sisters' most intimate thoughts. Even now, in a new millennium, over then thousand women each year buy a new copy of this astounding classic of feminist literature. Join them in their exploration of the meaning of desire. Dare to read, dare to dream, and dare to discover the beautiful blossoms, the winding paths, and the hidden nooks of female sexuality.
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Nancy Friday My Secret Garden Women’s Sexual Fantasies FOR BILLY who believed in this book when it was just fantasy N.F. TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD by "J," ......................................................... 1 CHAPTER ONE “TELL ME WHAT YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT,” HE SAID.............................................5 CHAPTER TWO "WHY FANTASIZE WHEN YOU HAVE ME?" FRUSTRATION.................................................................... 17 Madge, Dot INSUFFICIENCY.................................................................. 21 Louella, Irene, Annette, Maria SEX ENHANCEMENT......................................................... 27 Patricia, Suzanne, FOREPLAY .......................................................................... 34 Bertha, Bellinda APPROVAL .......................................................................... 38 Sally, Vicki, Francesca, Sondra EXPLORATION.................................................................... 46 Karen, Abbie, Hilda, Heather, Kitty SEXUAL INITIATIVE........................................................... 53 Carol, Faye INSATIABILITY ................................................................... 60 Clarissa, Annabel, Iris, Nora .............................................. 65 DAYDREAMS...................................................................... 66 Corinne, Molly, Alicia, Lily, Eliza, Esther, Shirley, Lillian, Viola MASTURBATION ................................................................ 74 Patsy, Norma, Adair, Mary Beth, Elizabeth, Mary Jane, Amelia, Alix i THE LESBIANS.................................................................... 86 Marion, Jeanne, Lisa, Zizi, Kate CHAPTER THREE THE HOUSE OF FANTASY ROOM NUMBER ONE: ANONYMITY.............................. 100 Linda, Pamela, Marie ROOM NUMBER TWO: THE AUDIENCE......................... 108 Caroline, Elspeth, Mary Jo, Melanie, Celeste ROOM NUMBER THREE: RAPE....................................... 116 Julietta, Gail, Dinah, Sadie ROOM NUMBER FOUR: PAIN AND MASOCHISM ........ 123 Barbara, Edith, Rose Ann, Amanda ROOM NUMBER FIVE: DOMINATION ............................ 133 Nathalie, Poppy, Heather, Ingrid ROOM NUMBER SIX: THE SEXUALITY OF TERROR.... 146 Johanna, Anna ROOM NUMBER SEVEN: THRILL OF THE FORBIDDEN151 Emma, Donna ROOM NUMBER EIGHT: TRANSFORMATION ROOM... 155 Monica, Betty, Phyllis ROOM NUMBER NINE: THE EARTH MOTHER ROOM.. 165 Vivian, Marina ROOM NUMBER TEN: INCEST........................................ 168 Bella, Dominique, Lola ROOM NUMBER ELEVEN: THE ZOO.............................. 175 Jo, Rosie, Dawn, Wanda ROOM NUMBER TWELVE: BIG BLACK MEN................ 181 Margie, Raquel, Lydia ROOM NUMBER THIRTEEN: YOUNG BOYS.................. 185 Evelyn, Victoria ROOM NUMBER FOURTEEN: THE FETISHISTS ........... 188 Faith ROOM NUMBER FIFTEEN: OTHER WOMEN ................ 190 Christine, Dolly, Bee, Venice, Lilly, Rita, Mary Beth, ii Viv, Lee, Willa, Dana, Cara, Celia, The