My Secret Garden By Nancy Friday Today

The book is organized by the types of fantasies women reported, framing them as a liberating force for personal identity:

Scenarios involving strangers or unfamiliar settings that allow for a departure from everyday life. My Secret Garden By Nancy Friday

Don’t read it cover to cover like a novel. Skip the lengthy psychoanalytic introductions. Jump straight into the "Letters" sections. Read a few fantasies, put it down, think about them. Let the normalcy sink in. The book is organized by the types of

: At its release, the book was highly controversial; it was dubbed a "dirty book" by some, and even Ms. Magazine initially questioned Friday’s feminist credentials, though the book went on to sell millions of copies . A Cultural Catalyst Jump straight into the "Letters" sections

Whether you are picking it up out of clinical curiosity, sexual frustration, or sheer boredom, be prepared. You will laugh, you will cringe, and you might just look at your own "secret garden" in a different light. It is messy, it is wild, and it is utterly, terrifyingly human.