My Secret Garden By Nancy Friday [best] -

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This personal rejection crystallized a broader social reality. Friday realized that while the research of Alfred Kinsey and Masters and Johnson had scientifically shown women to be as sexual as men, this knowledge had failed to penetrate the public consciousness or, more importantly, the private shame of individual women. She initially attempted to incorporate a female sexual fantasy into a novel, but her editor objected, causing her to shelve the project. My Secret Garden By Nancy Friday

However, a closer reading reveals the opposite. Friday consistently delineates the line between fantasy and reality. She argues that rape fantasies are rarely about actual violence, but rather about the desire to be so desirable that a man loses control, or the relief of surrendering responsibility in a society that demands women be in control of everything. It is a fantasy of passion , not of pain . I can easily tailor the depth and tone