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Friday explained how "in the late 1960s I chose to write about women's sexual fantasies because the subject was unbroken ground, a missing piece of the puzzle ... at a time in history when the world was suddenly curious about sex and women's sexuality."<ref>{{citation | last = | first = Nancy | contribution = Report from the erotic interior | editor-last = Friday | editor-first = Nancy | title = Women on top: how real life has changed women's sexual fantasies | pages = 6–7 | publisher = Pocket Star Books | ___location = New York Toronto | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780795335259 | postscript = .}}</ref> The backdrop was a widespread belief that "women do not have sexual fantasies ... are by and large destitute of sexual fantasy."<ref>[[Allan Fromme]], quoted in Friday, ''Top'' p. 7</ref>

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Friday considered that "more than any other emotion, guilt determined the story lines of the fantasies in ''My Secret Garden'' . . . women inventing ploys to get past their fear that wanting to reach orgasm made them Bad Girls."<ref>Friday, ''Top'' p. 4-5</ref> Her later book, ''My Mother/My Self,'' 'grew immediately out of ''My Secret Garden''{{'}}s questioning of the source of women's terrible guilt about sex."<ref name="Friday, Top p. 8">Friday, ''Top'' p. 8</ref>

When she returned 20 years later to her original topic of women's fantasies in ''Women on Top,'' it was in the belief that "the sexual revolution" had stalled: "it was the greed of the 1980s that dealt the death blow . . . the demise of healthy sexual curiosity."<ref>Friday, ''Top'' p. 11-13</ref>

Friday, like other feminists, was especially concerned with the controlling role of the images of "Nice Woman . . . Nice Girl"<ref>Friday, ''Top'' p. 20-22</ref>—of being "bombarded from birth with messages about what a 'good woman' is . . . focused so hard and so long on never giving in to 'selfishness.'"<ref>{{citation | last = Johnson | first = Sonia | author-link = Sonia Johnson | contribution = Introduction to Sonia Johnson | editor-last1 = Foss | editor-first1 = Karen A. | editor-last2 = Foss | editor-first2 = Sonja K. | editor-last3 = Griffin | editor-first3 = Cindy L. | title = Readings in feminist rhetorical theory | page = 297 | publisher = Waveland Press | ___location = Long Grove, Illinois | year = 2006 | isbn = 9781577664970 | postscript = .}}</ref> However, as feminism itself developed "a stunning array of customs, opinions, moral values, and beliefs about how the world of women . . . should conduct itself,"<ref>[[Paula Gunn Allen]], Introduction to Paula Gunn Allen in ''Readings'' p. 210</ref> so too it ran into the difficulty of moralism versus human nature—the fact that "feminism—any political philosophy—does not adequately address sexual [[psychology]]" eventually sparking the '[[Feminist Sex Wars|feminist "sex wars"]] . . . from the early 1980s"<ref>Bright, p. 382 and p. 379</ref> onwards. Against that backdrop, Friday's evidential and empirical concerns continue to address the "open question of how many of their sexual freedoms the young women . . . will retain, how deeply they have incorporated them."<ref>Friday, ''Top'' p. 21</ref>

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