This book, along with My Secret Garden and Forbidden Flowers, its sequel, represent a unique chronicle of women's sexual fantasies. Nancy Friday’s groundbreaking books such as Forbidden Flowers offered an unprecedented honest look at the inner fantasy lives of ordinary women.

You know, despite the title, I went in here, not really knowing what to expect, and what I was expecting, ended up being so much more than that. If we were to change the repetitious pattern of women's lives, we had to honestly accept what we had with her/mother.It was as if mother continued to sit in judgment throughout the daughter's life, wagging her finger at the daughter's every sexual move and thought. Some of the fantasies included in this book are really far out and some are kind of disturbing, but some of them were really hot to me too. Like Shere Hite, Nancy Friday is one of those interviewers of women who are expert at getting them to spill.

When there is an absolute need to know something, when an intellectual void must be filled, we will accept what only moments earlier we'd rejected for centuries. And this is what makes this unique book so fascinating to any man who truly loves what is arguably God's last and greatest creation, women. Nancy Friday draws on the words of thousands of women to reveal the intimate fantasies of a new generation: women in charge of their erotic needs and pleasures, strong, unafraid, dominant; women who are determined to explore the furthest reaches of their sexuality.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?

Femininity is a powerful force and indeed, there probably is much truth in the author's claim that women are "the more powerful sex". Little did we know how brief that time would be, how very long it takes to change sexual taboos as deeply embedded as those our parents had learned from theirs, or how soon so many of our revolutionary band would retreat, recant, forget. I bought this again for the nostalgia and man it still hits point, so refreshing to hear stories from old and young of women opening up and detailing their sexual feelings.Behind the obvious erotic media blitz you've consciously taken in is another message, which says that sex for the sake of pleasure is wrong, immoral, bad. But when I spoke to friends and people in the publishing world, they said they'd never heard of a woman's sexual fantasy.