Men in Love
Nancy Friday | 1998-08-10 00:00:00 | | 0 | Fiction
Being a man, these fantasies should appeal to me more than those in Friday's other erotic fantasy collections. And they do. But still, as a whole this book scores lower.
The reason lies in Nancy's own comments. Where 'My Secret Garden' and 'Forbidden Flowers' look at the fantasies from the viewpoint of women's sexual emancipation, and look at the women's personal (sexual) histories to find the 'reasons' for the fantasies, 'Men in Love' goes into Freudianism to explain the fantasies. Not only do these explanations bore me to death, I also do not believe in them. Some of the comments are okay (for example her confession that she has problems with the SM-fantasies, and her reasons for nevertheless including them), but many I prefer to skip not only in reading, but also in re-reading and re-rereading the book.
Still, even with this flaw this book gets 4 stars. Because, like the three books with women's fantasies, the book is highly titillating, erotic, even pornographic, but without becoming gross. If one wants literature to get one 'in the mood' sexually, Friday's books are the ones to go on. Unlike pornography, it does not tell stories - it's more descriptions of stories. And your own fantasy can then do the rest. Thus reading this book (or one of the others, 'My Seret Garden', 'Forbidden Flowers' or 'Women on Top') will enrich your sexual fantasy world rather than supplanting it.
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