Synopses & Reviews
The bestselling author of My Secret Garden exposes the wild and sexy fantasies that many of us have but are afraid to share.
For over thirty years, Nancy Friday has written about eros, love, beauty, and seduction. Now she returns to the territory she pioneered during the sexual revolutionexploring our most taboo sexual desires. In a contemporary world where women are formidable partners in the erotic dance and no topic seems out of bounds, Friday breaks into a still-forbidden world of lust, power, and pleasure.
Collecting fantasies from dozens of women and, for the fi rst time, men, Friday explores the wildest corners of our imagination. Beyond My Control: Forbidden Fantasies in an Uncensored Age shows that our fantasies are not compensation for a missing sex life but are a critical component of our fullest selves, the secret desires that yearn to soar.
Praise for Nancy Friday
YOU'LL BLUSH, YOUR PULSE WILL RACE.
New York Times
Delicious... women can share in their sisters' secrets and not feel that they are alone.
Los Angeles Times
Nancy Friday's work... demonstrate s] beyond doubt that the emancipation of women's bodies begins with the emancipation of our minds.
Faye Wattleton, former president, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Synopsis
35 years later, the follow-up to the groundbreaking mega-bestseller My Secret Garden, explores the nature of our sexual fantasies.
Nancy Friday was one the sexual revolution's most controversial figures, captivating the world with her 1973 mega-bestseller, My Secret Garden. In Beyond My Control, Friday illustrates how and why the face of sexual fantasy has become more imaginitive than ever before. She collects the sexual fantasies of dozens of women, and for the first time men, and teaches us to proudly own the creativity of our sexual imagination and indulge in the power of our sexual visions.
Beyond My Control captures the sexual pulse of a people living in an uninhibited age of equality. Friday explores the wildest and most erotic corners of our collective imagination, and reveals our most hidden desires.
PRAISE FOR MY SECRET GARDEN:
You'll blush, your pulse will race.
New York Times
Delicious... women can share in their sisters' secrets and not feel that they are alone.
Los Angeles Times
Nancy Friday's work... demonstrate s] beyond doubt that the emancipation of women's bodies begins with the emancipation of our minds.
Faye Wattleton, former president, Planned Parenthood Federation of America