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WOMEN ON TOP by Nancy Friday (Simon & Schuster; $22). In her latest attempt to capture America's sexual zeitgeist, Friday maintains that women's erotic fantasies spurn comfortable settings, clean sheets and non-felons in favor of German shepherds, enemas and shackles. The author may have intended to provide an...
Laura Dern's innocent horniness as the servant girl who gets a middle-class Southern family all hot and bothered was one of the year's comic and erotic delights. Calder Willingham's script and Martha Coolidge's direction flavored a warm, steamy brew with just the right amounts of...
Women's fantasies have changed, Friday maintains, since her 1973 book, My Secret Garden, in which the leitmotiv was submission. The 150 responses culled from the thousands Friday says she received this time demonstrate that there has been another sexual revolution. Women are now in charge, "on top," as the...
Forget finding anything erotic here. Much of what Friday recounts is so unfathomable -- the body has neither the openings nor the agility for it -- that it is hardly titillating. The book ends up being ridiculous when it isn't repetitive and boring, having the effect of an affidavit rather than...
Like the old Joy, the revised volume is illustrated with alarmingly explicit drawings, though these are newly done. In place of the hirsute hippie male (de rigueur in the '70s) and his female counterpart are an ordinary-looking beardless youth who might pass for a stockbroker and a female partner...