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In 1973, Nancy Friday began her career as a writer with one of the most controversial books, My Secret Garden. She followed this erotic book on women’s sexuality with an even more explicit book, Forbidden Flowers: More Women’s Sexual Fantasies. Summary Of The Book My Secret Garden, was considered to be a revolutionary book. For the very first time, somebody had dared to go into the depths of a women’s sexual fantasies. This book helped women break their silence and express their wild side. It is considered to be the book which brought about a complete change in the sexual lives of women. With Forbidden Flowers: More Women’s Sexual Fantasies, we see Nancy Friday take this erotic revolution a level further. After reading My Secret Garden, women freely shared their sexual fantasies with Friday, and Forbidden Flowers: More Women’s Sexual Fantasies is a detailed description of all these wild, erotic fantasies. With My Secret Garden, women learnt to accept their sexual inclinations, and with Forbidden Flowers, they celebrated their freedom by expressing their sexually erotic thoughts and feelings. The book gives an insight into the female psychology and sexuality. Women, in this book, express those wild thoughts, and fantasies, which give them intense sexual pleasure. With a complete sense of freedom, and the shedding of all inhibitions, Forbidden Flowers: More Women’s Sexual Fantasies is much more sexually explicit than Friday’s iconic bestseller, My Secret Garden. Forbidden Flowers: More Women’s Sexual Fantasies, and its revelations, give a new dimension, a new kind of freedom to the relationship between a man and a woman. About Nancy Friday Nancy Friday is one of the pioneers of erotic feminist writing. Her books have proved controversial, created uproars, and also gained great popularity among her female readers. Friday’s first book was the path breaking The Secret Garden, which created quite an uproar with its discussion on women’s fantasies. Beyond My Control: Forbidden Fantasies in an Uncensored Age, The Power Of Beauty, Jealousy, Men in Love, Men’s Sexual Fantasies: The Triumph of Love Over Rage, and Women On Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Sexual Fantasies are some of her other books. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1933, Friday worked as a freelance writer, a newspaper reporter, and, also an editor. She has written for magazines like Playboy, Cosmopolitan, and Forum. Friday was married twice. She married novelist Bill Manville, in 1967 (divorced in 1986). In 1988, she married the former Editor-in-chief of Time Inc, Norman Pearlstine, whom she divorced in 2005. Friday now stays in New York.