The #1 New York Times–bestselling author's "groundbreaking" work on women's sexual fantasies ( Publishers Weekly).First published in 1973, My Secret Garden ignited a firestorm of reactions across the nation—from outrage to enthusiastic support. Collected from detailed personal interviews with hundreds of women from diverse backgrounds, this book presents a bracingly honest account of women's inner sexual fantasy lives. In its time, this b...

The bestselling author of My Secret Garden exposes the wild and sexy fantasies that many of us have but are afraid to share.For over thirty years, Nancy Friday has written about eros, love, beauty, and seduction. Now she returns to the territory she pioneered during the sexual revolution—exploring our most taboo sexual desires. Fans of Fifty Shades of Grey will love this provocative collection of real fantasies from dozens of women—and for the first time, men. Fri...

A collection of women's intimate erotic thoughts by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Secret Garden and "liberator of the female libido" ( Newsday).The publication of the groundbreaking expose on women's sexual fantasies, My Secret Garden, ushered in a revolution in women's sexual freedom of expression. In Forbidden Flowers, Nancy Friday reveals even more erotic, wild, and explicit fantasies expressed by wo...

Since the 1968 publication of Nancy Friday's outspoken erotic masterpiece, My Secret Garden, women's sexual lives have undergone a revolution - and so have their fantasy lives. No longer ashamed to express the wild, exciting and sometimes outrageous thoughts that bring them so much sexual pleasure, the women who reveal their sexual fantasies in Forbidden Flowers are even more explicit than those in Nancy Friday's first international bestseller and iconic erotic book....

A classic work on how women think about sex, from the New York Times–bestselling author of My Secret Garden and My Mother/Myself.Nancy Friday's groundbreaking books such as Forbidden Flowers offered an unprecedented honest look at the inner fantasy lives of ordinary women. In Women on Top, Friday returns to this topic, collecting detailed sexual fantasies from over 150 contemporary women from diverse backgrounds. Based o...

An extraordinary, explicitly masculine journey, Men In Love develops a startlingly honest portrayal of what it means to be a man in contemporary America. Here are the unexpurgated dreams, fantasies and fetishes that excite and obsess men today. In creating this historic study, Nancy Friday listened--without disapproval, apology or censorship--to the candid responses of thousands of men aged fourteen through sixty. She gave them a legitimate arena where they could share their "secr...

When Nancy Friday began her research for My Mother/My Self in the early 1970’s no work existed that explored the unique interaction between mother and daughter. Today psychotherapists throughout the world acknowledge that if women are to be able to love without possessing, to find work that fulfills them, and to discover their full sexuality, they must first acknowledge their identity as separate from their mother’s. Nancy Friday’s book played a major role in that acceptance. The greatest ...

A "fascinating [and] evocative" analysis of these powerful emotions by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of My Mother/My Self ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).What is jealousy, and how does it undermine our closest relationships? Renowned journalist and author Nancy Friday tackles this difficult topic with compelling honesty and depth of insight. Here, Friday explores the feeling of fear and its connection to jealousy—specifically...

« Mais quelle que soit l'époque où vous lirez ces lignes, n'oubliez pas que les fantasmes érotiques ne sont jamais datés : toute la littérature érotique, d'"Histoire d'O" jusqu'à Anaïs Nin et Henry Miller, continue à produire son effet parce que la sexualité humaine ne change pas ; c'est seulement le rideau de la répression qui peut se lever ou retomber. »Presque vingt ans après son premier livre et bestseller international, "Mon jardin secret" (1973), Nancy Friday revenait avec "L...

Poor Beth is having a rough Friday morning.She's got to make breakfast for her family, get the school to kids on time, and hide what she's about to do from her husband.She has a date.Nancy keeps sending Beth dirty texts, that say how wet she is, and how badly she wants Nancy to spank her.Beth wants to do it, so very badly.

Reflections on how physical appearance, and beliefs about it, affect women's lives from a #1 bestselling author who's "enormously fun to read" ( The New York Times).Beauty and appearance play a pervasive role in our culture. Here, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the groundbreaking, controversial bestseller My Secret Garden delves into beauty's influence on popular media and the psyche of modern women.Combining in-depth...

LULU is a fascinating heroine based on the equally fascinating life of her creator. Come take the journey with LULU as she grows from a precocious child in Charleston, S.C. into a co-ed at a college in the North. A journey that comes with all of the heartbreak of first love, motherly rivalry , brotherly caring and parental betrayal. With a literary voice in the grand tradition of the great southern writers, one of America’s best-selling non-fiction authors Nancy Friday, has in LULU