Men in Love

An extraordinary, explicitly masculine journey, Men In Love develops a startlingly honest portrayal of what it means to be a man in contemporary America. Here are the unexpurgated dreams, fantasies, and fetishes that excite and obsess men today. In creating this historic study, Nancy Friday listened—without disapproval, apology, or censorship—to the candid responses of thousands of men aged fourteen through sixty. She gave them a legitimate arena where they could share their “secret gardens”—the hidden and forbidden but nonetheless real and true. Much more than a litany of erotica, this unique volume doesn’t tell us how men should love. It tells us how men do love—a stunning insight into the desires that dwell within men’s psyches… and their hearts.

About the author(s)

Nancy Friday established herself as a magazine journalist in New York, England, Italy, and France before turning to writing full time and publishing her first book, My Secret Garden, in 1973, which became a bestseller. Friday has regularly returned to the interview format in her subsequent books on themes ranging from mothers and daughters to sexual fantasies, relationships, jealousy, envy, feminism, and beauty.