Women On Top

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Before I could comment, he rushed to explain that he'd come across the book in a summer house he and his wife had rented on Martha's Vineyard.

There is still, of course, an unjust economic disparity between what men and women are paid for the same work. They are also upset with women and are easily excitable by thoughts of female torture and domination. As late as June 1973, the same month My Secret Garden was published, permissive Cosmopolitan magazine printed a cover story by the eminent and equally permissive Dr. There is something very workmanlike and reliable about the traditional bullies and bad people whose intractable presence allows the woman to reach her goal, orgasm. Nor can we discount the issue of reward, applause, acceptance: Persevering to become an economic success doesn't make a woman a Bad Girl.As more and more working women try to integrate family and home into an already crowded life, there is understandably little sympathy from their sisters who never abandoned the old values. I have chosen to arrange the fantasies in three chapters which denote the themes that most frequently turned up in the thousands of letters and interviews I collected since my earlier books: women in control, women with women, and sexually insatiable women.

After publication there was a final salvo from the media accusing me of inventing the entire book, having made up all the fantasies. Men were the problem solvers, the good providers, the sexual ones, and women -- well, we know what women were supposed to be and do.And so women have become more serious about their work, mothering is once again in vogue, and the nervous issue of sexuality is not discussed. Explicit, iconoclastic, often shocking, these erotic stories - angry, lustful, tender and dark - blow apart the old social and sexual taboos.