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My Secret Garden

Women's Sexual Fantasies

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My Secret Garden

Written by: Nancy Friday
Narrated by: Cindy Harden, Annie Hinkle, Raquel Harris, Elle Finoh, Phil McCraken, Yvonne Sin, Douglas Berger
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Nancy Friday's taboo-shattering best seller My Secret Garden is the most popular and controversial book of women's sexual fantasies ever published. Women who feared their erotic fantasies called it scandalous. Women who recognized their own fantasies in its pages, rejoiced. Outspoken, graphic, vulnerable and shameless, My Secret Garden is a classic study of female sexuality.

Friday interviewed hundreds of women from every part of the country to learn their sexual private thoughts, and she listened like no one else. Now in audio for the first time, a multi-cast group of top actors dramatize the real voices of women speaking freely like they never had before.

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I know this book isn't exactly for me to read as an erotic novel (it has greater purpose), but that's just what I have done. My first time reading it (and the others) was when I was pre-teen. My friend took it from his mom's dresser and we snuck into the cornfields to read it. I loved it. I borrowed it to read alone. I have since bought and lost the book a few times in my life. I even bought it for my wife when I was married. I prefer to hear it inside my head by reading silently. I would highly recommend you buy the paperback!

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I actually just re-purchaed this! Definitely worth a re-read.
Such great insight into a womans mind, if you want to help your sex life or deepen your intimacy in your relationship read this. :)

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The late 60's were really something. A great many changes in play. Here we are in 2024, the processes that were underway have run their course, and what was taboo fifty-plus years ago is now pretty pedestrian. This book appears to place interracial sex at the same "naughtiness" level as bestiality, for example. That's a connection the modern mind doesn't automatically make. In 2024, lesbianism isn't that much of a deal. Fifty years ago, it really was "the love that dare not speak its name". This book's characterization of lesbianism as something somewhat perverse hasn't aged well.

There are things to be learned here, and the book retains some value. That being said, this student of female fantasizing looks forward to Gillian Anderson's upcoming take on the topic.

A word on the narration: It's not becoming to actually hear the leer on the face of the narrator. When listening to this, I'm reminded occasionally of Jon Lovitz's now ancient character of Vivian Quince and his Tales of Ribaldry...

A document of its time but still relevant.

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