#nancy friday

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies compiled by Nancy Friday (1973)?

yes

no

I've read parts of it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onJun 14, 2025

[thinglicker9000]

Excerpt from My Secret Garden by Nancy Friday, Chapter 2

[mooseyspooky]

[writernotwaiting]

‘The fantasies are vivid, even lush’: the radical sexuality of Nancy Friday’s My Secret Garden

Released 50 years ago, her tome of sexual fantasies didn’t simply give voice to female desire – it also exposed the lies upon which the patr

“But there is also a threat to the kind of feminism that would police fantasy along political lines: the idea that, if a woman fantasises about being submissive during sex, she has internalised male violence and she owes it to herself and the sisterhood to stop that fantasy. To the sex-positive feminist, this is ludicrous: you could no more decide what to fantasise about than you could force yourself to like aubergines. This is a rift that persists to this day.”

[cinematic-literature]

Candyman (1992) by Bernard Rose

Book title: Women on Top (1991) by Nancy Friday

[harrypotterhousequotes]

SLYTHERIN: “When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.” –Nancy Friday (Jealousy)

[viceverseando]

A mi madre siempre le he mentido. Y ella a mí. ¿Qué edad tenía yo cuando aprendí su lenguaje, cuando aprendí a llamar las cosas por otros nombres?

Nancy Friday. Libro: Nueve lunas

[stsebastiens]

Nancy Friday