What stood out for me was its place in history and how ground breaking it was. Also, that the same week this book came out the Cosmo article about women not being capable of fantasy also came out. I appreciated the women’s vulnerability. I also noticed it was SUPER dated and looking back with 2024 eyes on it there were parts that I found problematic. The lesbian fantasies were weird to me. The women couldn’t seem to get beyond one of them needing to be “the guy.” There was some things about particularly black men that was objectifying and seemed frankly racist. Overall I appreciate it as a text of its time and something that paved the way for us to be in the world as we are now, not that things are perfect now, but for example, my honey and I both have vulvas and we never say to each other, “okay, so which one of us is the guy today?” We get to exist in this non-binary place that really wasn’t there in the early 70s. I know the vulnerability of these women sharing their fantasies, no matter how strange they seem to me now, are what paved the way for my life today.