Forbidden Flowers [Paperback]

Nancy Friday (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 7, 2003

Nancy Friday's international bestsellers "My Secret Garden" and "Forbidden Flowers" revealed that women possess erotic imaginations at least as inventive and powerful as those of men. "Women on Top" looks at a new generation of women and asks: what are women's sexual fantasies today? How have they responded to the changes brought about by feminism? In a world wallpapered with erotic images, but which still denies them full sexual freedom, women are more determined than ever that they'll be 'nice girls' no longer. Explicit, iconoclastic, often shocking, these erotic daydreams - angry, lustful, tender and dark - blow apart the old taboos. Nothing is forbidden.

Editorial Reviews

Review

San Francisco Chronicle Nancy Friday must be the most understanding sexologist in the country. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

About the Author

Nancy Friday, psychoanalyst and socio-sexual historian, has been the leading writer on women's and men's sexual fantasies since the publication of her first book My Secret Garden. She lives in Key West, Florida, and in Connecticut.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Random House (August 7, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0099462427
• ISBN-13: 978-0099462422
• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.8 x 7.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,953,958 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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. She lives in Key West, Florida, and in Connecticut.

Customer Reviews

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59 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Would Make A Playboy Blush, November 7, 2003

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carl womack (north carolina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forbidden Flowers (Mass Market Paperback)

Nancy Friday asked women from around the world to send in their sexual experiences and fantasies. The result was some of the most provocative reading ever published. If you embarrass easily, this book is not for you. Just about every sexual taboo is mentioned in this book and in great detail. But beyond the fantasies and experiences of these women, are the comments and observations of Nancy Friday herself. This book can be an awakening for any man or woman. An awakening in that, if you have had a certain type of fantasy or experience and feel that you are the only person in the world who has had such, you may learn of others who have had similar ones. Or you may be awakened to fantasies you have never thought of, but after reading the book, find yourself thinking about them, or desiring to do them. I have owned a number of copies of this revealing book only to have different individuals borrow them and never return them. I recall once when I was in a snack bar reading the book, some women noticed it and inquired about its contents. I told them what the book was about and they said, it's very good on my part to be interested in what women think about. They then wanted to read a page, just to see what it was all about. But they didn't end up reading only one page. They kept on reading and reading and reading. I finally had to ask for the book in order to get it back, and half of them were blushing. This isn't a porn book by any means, then again no porn book is even in this ones league!!! For various reasons, I don't own an edition of this book now, but, one reason I don't is that if I did, I know it would only be a short time before someone would want to borrow it, and I'd never see it again. If you enjoy reading about women's real sexual fantasies and experiences, you will want this book.

48 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully Hot, November 10, 2000

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Daphne Xu (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Forbidden Flowers (Mass Market Paperback)

Let's face it. For most of us, the intellectual aspect of this book and all of Nancy Friday's books on sexual fantasies is not why we read these books. They turn us on. If someone catches us reading them, we can use the excuse that we are interested in social scientific questions about women (and men) and how they think. I think that if not for the social scientific discussions, this book might have been banned in 1973.

The book tries to cover all areas of women's sexual fantasies, so it stands to reason that some parts will squick some readers. I think that it's best not to read it all in one sitting; it will eventually get boring and repetitive. A chapter or two at a time for the first sitting is best. Of course, one will develop a few favorites among all the fantasies, and read them over and over again. I have, but I'm not going to tell which ones. :-)

Men should read this book as well. They're bound to find it as stimulating as women, and it should help them understand women better.

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as "Women on Top", June 13, 1999

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[e-mail] (Goldboro, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Forbidden Flowers (Mass Market Paperback)

While the book was plentiful of wild, sensual fantasies, I was disappointed in some of them. Many were hard to believe even for fantasies and many sounded like they were written by illiterates. If you're looking for this type of book, I strongly recommend "Women on Top".