Not quite sure what I expected when I began this book however I am left both shocked and quite often repulsed my some of the fantasy had by some women.

Even her hand on her own body nagged at his suspicion as it awakened the fire he feared he could never quench. Not at all like the late 1960s and 1970s, when the air was charged with sexual curiosity, women's lives were changing at a rate of geometric progression, and the exploration of women's sexuality -- well, it ranked right up there with the struggle for economic equality.

Explicit, iconoclastic, often shocking, these erotic daydreams - angry, lustful, tender and dark - blow apart the old taboos. These were men raised in the 1950s and 1960s, men who longed -- at least in the safety of fantasy -- for women less sexually bludgeoned than Doris Day. There is still, of course, an unjust economic disparity between what men and women are paid for the same work. Nancy Friday draws on the words of thousands of women to reveal the intimate fantasies of a new generation: women in charge of their erotic needs and pleasures, strong, unafraid, dominant; women who are determined to explore the furthest reaches of their sexuality. We should value our erotic reveries no less seriously, because they are the complex expressions of what we consciously desire and unconsciously fear.

The fantasies are fascinating,” raves Esquire magazine, no doubt because unlike anything any novel could ever truly capture, they allow open access to what women really desire.When there is an absolute need to know something, when an intellectual void must be filled, we will accept what only moments earlier we'd rejected for centuries. NANCY FRIDAY is the author of eight books: MY SECRET GARDEN, FORBIDDEN FLOWERS, JEALOUSY, MEN IN LOVE, MY MOTHER/MY SELF, WOMEN ON TOP, THE POWER OF BEAUTY and OUR LOOKS, OUR LIVES. The book is divided into three sections: A "Report from the erotic interior", a section on masturbation, and the fantasies themselves. A fairy tale on which we are raised, a myth thought up to assuage the terrible fear that we are not sleeping at all but are wide awake, hot, hungry for sex, our appetites so insatiable we would undermine the economic system, the Protestant work ethic, the social fiber, ultimately rendering men limp, spent, simply put in our power. If you've never wondered just how twisted the minds of women really are 'Women On Top' will have you do so with the turning of each page.