Beyond My Control: Forbidden Fantasies in an Uncensored Age

Nancy Friday

Sourcebooks, Incorporated, 2009 - Health & Fitness - 288 pages

The bestselling author of My Secret Garden exposes the wild and sexy fantasies that many of us have but are afraid to share.

For over thirty years, Nancy Friday has written about eros, love, beauty, and seduction. Now she returns to the territory she pioneered during the sexual revolution--exploring our most taboo sexual desires. Fans of Fifty Shades of Grey will love this provocative collection of real fantasies from dozens of women--and for the first time, men. Friday knows that forbidden sex "gets us higher faster" and explores love, lust and power through erotic tales of domination, masturbation, S&M, threesomes, and more.

Beyond My Control: Forbidden Fantasies in an Uncensored Age shows that our forbidden fantasies are not compensation for a lackluster sex life, but are a critical component of our fullest selves--and how our secret desires can lead to exhilarating and satisfying sexual freedom.

Praise for Nancy Friday

"YOU'LL BLUSH, YOUR PULSE WILL RACE."--The New York Times

"Delicious... women can share in their sisters' secrets and not feel that they are alone."--Los Angeles Times

"Nancy Friday's work... demonstrate[s] beyond doubt that the emancipation of women's bodies begins with the emancipation of our minds." --Faye Wattleton, former president, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

About the author

Nancy Friday was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 27, 1937. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1955 and moved to Puerto Rico, where she worked as a travel reporter and editor. She moved to New York in the 1960s and worked in public relations. She made a career of writing about women's issues. Her first book, My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies, was published in 1973. Her other books included Forbidden Flowers: More Women's Sexual Fantasies, My Mother/My Self: The Daughter's Search for Identity, Jealousy, The Power of Beauty, Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Sexual Fantasies, and Men in Love: Men's Sexual Fantasies: The Triumph of Love Over Rage. She also wrote a work of fiction entitled Lulu: A Novella. She died from complications of Alzheimer's disease on November 5, 2017 at the age of 84.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Beyond My Control: Forbidden Fantasies in an Uncensored Age
• Author: Nancy Friday
• Publisher: Sourcebooks, Incorporated, 2009
• ISBN: 1402218540, 9781402218545
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / Sexuality; Psychology / Human Sexuality; Self-Help / Sexual Instruction