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I was very impressed with all the women she was able to connect with and give a platform to their fantasies. What stood out was Friday’s drive to bring awareness to women’s fantasies. ” Obviously the book will be a rich mine of psychiatrics, professional and amateur. It is a mine for anyone interested in a woman and their feelings , those feelings so long forced inwards through fear and prudery, through the masculine assumption that women- well, ladies, at any rate – experience only the very faintest strings of sex and mostly lie back and think of England ”
Friday, emphases that the richness of these women’s fantasies is based on the result of generations of psychic repression. The many themes chronicled in her book represnt the vast extent of women’s fantasy’s and puts to bed the former notion that women are sexually fickle, frigid and sexually immature.