Forbidden Flowers (Mass Market Paperback)

by Nancy Friday (Author) "In My Secret Garden, there was a chapter called, "Where Did a Nice Girl Like You Get an Idea Like That?..." (more)
Key Phrases: erotic reveries, reading your book, secret garden, Aunt Bessie, Earth Man (more...)

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San Francisco Chronicle Nancy Friday must be the most understanding sexologist in the country. -- Review

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San Francisco ChronicleNancy Friday must be the most understanding sexologist in the country.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Pocket (February 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671741020
• ISBN-13: 978-0671741020
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #99,425 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	carl womack (north carolina) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

41 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

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.

31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Forbidden Flowers, May 15, 2000

By	Lee Reynolds (Tempe, Arizona) - See all my reviews

If you're a man who would like to understand how women think and feel about sex, this book, along with the others in its series, is a must have. Contrary to popular belief, women feel just as much lust as a man. Most are highly selective about who they have sex with, but not because sex interests them any less. Unlike a man, the availability of sex is not usually sufficient reason to have sex, but don't think they aren't daydreaming about it.

Some of the fantasies are strange and even disturbing, but I think that is to be expected. The things a person fantasizes about aren't necessarily the things they would want to do in real life.

In any case this is a very good book and one I'd highly recommend for anyone seeking to understand human sexuality.