Want
Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
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A collection of women's sexual fantasies from women around the world, Want is a revelatory, sensational and game-changing exploration of women's sexuality that asks, and answers: How do women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous?
What do you want when no one is watching?
Who do you fantasize about when the lights are off?
When you think about sex, what do you really want?
When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. And yet so many of us don't talk about it at all.
In this groundbreaking book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous sexual fantasies of hundreds of women from around the world (along with her own anonymous fantasy). The fantasies are extraordinary: they are full of desire, fear, intimacy, shame, satisfaction and, ultimately, liberation. From fantasising about someone off-limits to conjuring a scene with multiple partners, from sex that is gentle and tender to passionate and playful, from women who have never had sex to women who have had more sex than they can remember, these letters provide a window into the most secret part of our minds.
Want reveals how women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally themselves.
About this Author
GILLIAN ANDERSON is an award-winning film, television and theatre actor. Among other honours, she has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and an Evening Standard Theatre Award. In 2016 Anderson was appointed an honorary OBE (Order of the British Empire) for her services to drama. She lives in London.
Reviews
"Want is illuminating not just about women's inner desires, but also about how they might fold these fantasies into their wider lives. For that reason, the book isn't just about sex; it's a brilliant, full-bodied account of womanhood."
--Irish Independent
"Want makes for addictive reading."
--The Guardian
"An apt title, as so many of the fantasies are rooted in being desired, hungered for, catered to and pleasured in ways that are presumably lacking in the letter writers' lives. . . . There is plenty of humor, light and spark in this book."
--The Washington Post
"[Anderson's] prose is clear, sensitive and funny. . . . Filthy or forlorn, these fantasies are intensely personal, but this book demonstrates that they are inevitably shaped by society too. As such, the demographic details accompanying each anonymous contribution offer fascinating context. . . . In a world that still expends so much energy limiting women's experience, the unanalysed and largely unedited fantasies in Want are undeniably galvanising. Emboldened by their peculiar universality, hopefully readers will feel less reluctant to share their own."
--iNews
"An addictive and compelling read."
--Woman and Home
"Want is an intriguing cabinet of curiosities showcasing the sheer glorious variety of female desire."
--The Guardian
"Extraordinary. . . . Far from being irrelevant to a sexually liberated age, [Want] feels deeply pertinent."
--Lisa Hilton via Daily Mail
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