Women on Top [Paperback]

In a post-50 Shades of Greyworld, a new audience is ready for Nancy Friday’s groundbreaking work on female sexual fantasies.Women on Topexplores the changing face of sex and power dynamics through over 150 collected fantasies from real women.

More than ever before, women everywhere are devouring the hottest stories from behind closed doors, tales of sexual encounters designed to create new frissons of excitement with each turn of the page. But the fantasies in this book aren’t fiction. They are the real erotic imaginings of real women . . . and nothing is more exciting than that.

Nancy Friday, whose collections of women’s sexual fantasies includeMy Secret GardenandForbidden Flowers,offers up “a smorgasbord of sensual scenarios” (New Women) in this explicitNew York Timesbestseller that puts women in control of their sexual destinies. Nearly two hundred women contributed, in their own uncensored words and through interviews with the author, the shocking, daring, amusing, untamed, and pulse-pounding imaginings that turn them on the most. “The fantasies are fascinating,” ravesEsquiremagazine, no doubt because unlike anything any novel could ever truly capture, they allow open access to what womenreallydesire.Part 1: Report from the Erotic InteriorIt's an odd time to be writing about sex. Not at all like the late 1960s and 1970s, when the air was charged with sexual curiosity, women's lives were changing at a rate of geometric progression, and the exploration of women's sexuality -- well, it ranked right up there with the struggle for economic equality.
Today's sexual climate is somber. Gone are the lively debates and writings about sex as part of our humanity. The toll of AIDS, reports from the abortion battlefield, and the alarming rise of unintended pregnancies make sex seem more risky than joyful.
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