F or me, it is the dogs and the lesbians. My Secret Garden exploded on to bestseller lists around the globe in The work was shocking, deeply sexy in parts and proved that women had erotic imaginations just as men did, and that they, too, masturbated just as men did.
It heralded the innocent dawning of what later became known as the sex-positive feminist movement. My Secret Garden came at the beginning of a wave of overtly sexual content written by women. Of course, Friday was attacked by many. Like Dodson, her work was dismissed for being not scientific enough or for being too personal, or too much like soft porn.
There is something quite secret about My Secret Garden. And so she found herself in the firing line of the feminist sex wars before that concept had even properly taken shape. Today, we take a lot of sex-positive talk about women for granted. And, with a 21st-century eye, we might have hoped for Friday to have gone a little further in her delvings into female sexuality. But Friday had another path. Friday died on Sunday 5 November, aged Stephanie Theobald is the author of Sex Drive. This article is more than 6 years old.
The author of My Secret Garden β a shocking and deeply sexy work β has died, leaving a legacy to inspire younger generations. View image in fullscreen. Reuse this content. Most viewed.
