Forbidden Flowers

A follow-up to her groundbreaking My Secret Garden, Nancy Friday's Forbidden Flowers continues her pioneering project of collecting and sharing women's real sexual fantasies. First published in an era when such candor was genuinely radical, it helped a generation of women understand that their inner lives were neither shameful nor unusual. As social history and as frank erotica, it still resonates. Best for readers curious about the roots of the women's sexual liberation movement, and anyone who finds interest and reassurance in the wild, varied truth of what people actually fantasize about.