Women On Top

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Nancy Friday is the bestselling author of My Secret Garden, Jealousy, Men in Love, My Mother/My Self, Women on Top, The Power of Beauty and, most recently, Our Looks, Our Lives. Well, I'm in my 70's now, but this book has opened my eyes still further into the mind of MANY women and it's quite a profound journey. How have they responded to the changes brought about by feminism, and the sexual freedom it provided? Even when they have more than they need, more than they can consume in a lifetime, the greedy cannot relax their iron determination to own, possess even more. Its deepest roots lie in his female-dominated childhood, just as they did for his father and his father before him, a time when a woman had all the power in the world over his life and which he never forgets.

I feel kinda bad writing such a mean review when Friday died a couple weeks ago but honestly the book is horrible enough to warrant it.The characters and story lines we conjure up take what was most forbidden, and with the omnipotent power of the mind, make the forbidden work for us so that now, just for a moment, we may rise to orgasm and release. What then was so threatening to our understanding of human psychology that we had denied the possibility that women have a powerful sexual identity, a private erotic memory? Society adapted more readily to women's entry into the workplace than to their growing into full sexuality. In contrast to these dire predictions comes a new and even younger generation whose fantasies till this book.

Their voices sound like a new race of women compared to those in My Secret Garden, my first book on women's sexual fantasies, which was published in 1973 and is now in its twenty-ninth printing. Nor was there a single reference to women's sexual fantasies in the card catalogues at the New York Public Library, the Yale University library, or the British Museum library, which carry millions upon millions of books -- not a word on the sexual imagery in the minds of half the world. Sitting here after a night out with the opinion makers, the moguls of industry (who would blush if I reminded some of them that they once danced half naked on the stage at Hair), I feel like one of those soldiers lost in the jungle, still fighting a war that has been over for years. Even though this book is rather dated, it is still relevant to today's women and their fantasies, and, to be honest, after reading this, it doesn't make your own seem so odd! Not enough time has gone by in our recent struggles for us to want to abandon the myth of male supremacy.Not at all like the late 1960s and 1970s, when the air was charged with sexual curiosity, women's lives were changing at the rate of a geometric progression, and the exploration of women's sexuality -well, it ranked right up there with economic equality. As more and more working women try to integrate family and home into an already crowded life, there is understandably little sympathy from their sisters who never abandoned the old values. NANCY FRIDAY is the author of eight books: MY SECRET GARDEN, FORBIDDEN FLOWERS, JEALOUSY, MEN IN LOVE, MY MOTHER/MY SELF, WOMEN ON TOP, THE POWER OF BEAUTY and OUR LOOKS, OUR LIVES. If man did not fear women's sexuality so much, why would he have smothered it, damning himself to a life with a sexually inert, boring wife, forcing him to go to prostitutes for sex? About the Author: Nancy Friday, best-selling author of feminist and erotic literature, psychoanalyst and socio-sexual historian, has been the leading witer on women's and men's sexual fantasies since the publication of her first best-selling erotic book, My Secret Garden.

Those of you that know me personally, know I have no filter when it comes to discussing anything and everything about sex. Back in 1993 when i was 20 I started dating this amazing 28yr old, mother of 2 and recently seperated, she libeated me in everyway. This book was written in the early 90's, however, Nancy Friday began her work in the late 1960's studying female sexual fantasies.

If we were to change the repetitious pattern of women's lives, we had to honestly accept what we had with her/mother. If you believe in nothing else, believe that sexual repression never sleeps, especially the sexual repression of women. Femininity is a powerful force and indeed, there probably is much truth in the author's claim that women are "the more powerful sex". There is something very workmanlike and reliable about the traditional bullies and bad people whose intractable presence allows the woman to reach her goal, orgasm. But when I spoke to friends and people in the publishing world, they said they'd never heard of a woman's sexual fantasy.