Forbidden Flowers

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Chapter 3: Looking
Until very recently, it was a cliché even in the medical profession that women were not turned on by reading pornography. When I began researching My Secret Garden, one doctor after another told me that women are unable to become aroused

Chapter 3: Looking, Part 2
A few years ago, I used to write frequently for Cosmopolitan magazine. I remember talking one day to Helen Gurley Brown. She was thinking of doing something very daring: she wanted to run a nude male centerfold.

Forbidden Flowers is Nancy Friday's second collection of sexual fantasies — and it's even more explicit and outspoken than her original erotic masterpiece, My Secret Garden. The constant refrain from the legions of women across America who read My Secret Garden was, "Thank God I'm not the only one..." who had those wild, exciting erotic thoughts. With Forbidden Flowers, these women can yet again experience the exhilarating freedom that comes with the awareness and acceptance of their sexual selves.

Nancy Friday is the bestselling author of My Secret Garden, Jealousy, Men in Love, My Mother/My Self, Women on Top, The Power of Beauty and, most recently, Our Looks, Our Lives. She lives in Key West, Florida, and in Connecticut..

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