Friday is pretty much unsufferable and I'd cheerfully string her up and apply a cane to her for making such idiotic assumptions about women, and engaging in quite some downtalking to men.

Though the author's explanations give the impression of being presumptuous at certain points, nancy tried to be objective in most cases and the book in overall is very riveting. Voyeurism is a general term for people who get sensual satisfaction from looking, often with the knowledge, consent, and even full participation of the sexual object.Okay, so a lady recommend that I read this book to understand the male psyche when it comes to lust, love and sex. However, there were some interesting psychological insights mixed in among the BS, enough to have made it worth reading. Consequently, in the long pre-sexual years she has no chance to develop the association between a naked man and the erotic. I guess fantasies are not intended to be judged; but when the so strongly reflect half the population's stance to something as vital as sex?

Her view is that homosexuality is the result of a boy denying to himself that he wants to have sex with his mother, either out of shame or because his mother is "pure," and also fearing being harmed (especially castrated) by his father, an impossible rival, for wanting to have sex with his mother. This is nothing less than an anthology of sexual baggage and my hat is off to the men who wrote in with such honesty and courage. At birth infants are so undifferentiated that they have the capacity to receive erotic stimulation at every aperture of the body and any area of skin: from either or both sexes; from animals, food, objects, colors, currents of air, gradations of temperature. She is even sympathetic to men who admit (if such a word can be used when apparently the man feels no shame) to regularly raping farm animals in their adolescence, mostly cattle (including calves), and - here's the kicker - she says that most people feel sympathetic towards such behavior. Without the Freudian commentary the book as a series of fantasies written by men would have been fascinating, it's a shame that it missed the boat.

It is an old Freudian model that relies upon familial conditioning to explain something that is as indelible as the color of one's eyes. Rather than merely an unfiltered compilation of letters detailing male sexual fantasies, Friday synthesizes them around a given theme--say, oral sex or sadomasochism--into an explanation of how they arise and what they signify. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The wonderful part about the section where straight men fantasize about sex with men is that it shows two things at once--men who identify as straight and men who at the same time fantasize at times about sex with other men.