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Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
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My Selling Pitch:
Are you down to be bummed the fuck out when you realize 90% of the submitted fantasies are just please be nice to me and also I hate my body? This won’t get you hot and bothered, and it’s not a feminist analysis of desire, but if you wanna waste a few hours of your life, you can read some amateurs� vanilla ass sex scenes, Shrek fanfiction, and bestiality. You know, because they consciously chose not to include anything unethical.
On my do not read list.
Pre-reading:
If there's one thing I love, it’s a pink cover.
Thick of it:
It makes me so sad that so many of these women’s deepest fantasies that they want to share with the world involve so much insecurity and self-hatred of their bodies.
Oh my god, girl, break up with him.
All these women’s fantasies are like my deepest darkest desires are that he treats me nicely and that I have a better body. Also, he’s like actively mean to me in our day-to-day life, but that’s marriage!
And I’m just like this can’t be it.
We can’t have been sold this much of a lie.
the publishing house: look sexy book about women's desires, so spicy, so risqué
the content: my deepest, darkest desire is for a man to be nice to me and not hurt me and also skinny
This book is depressing me.
Some of these writers need to chill with the euphemisms for parts. Just say cunt.
Girlypop, that’s just wanting to fuck god.
See, that one- feminist. Well written. Hot and self-aware. (Only one in the damn book.)
Anytime there’s not an Oxford comma my brain shudders.
I would have a painting like that.
That single sentence is a waste of a letter in this book. (Imagine your letter got bumped for the page count and they put that in its place.)
Honey, that’s not straight.
I find it so odd how we can guess writers� ages and countries and races and genders just through their narrative voice, but if you asked me to articulate what it is exactly about the writing that’s tipping me off, I don’t think I could do it.
Get a divorce.
Oneiric
A married man giving a stranger his hoodie because she thinks he’s hot-that’s cheating.
Some of these cringe me out so bad by using either anatomical terms or cutesy euphemisms.
limerence
Fuck your religion very much.
Get a divorce.
Typo in the finished copy is sloppy work.
God, I love the show Hannibal.
Oh girl, therapy for that one. Please want more for yourself.
Where’d you get door handles, Gillian? Unhinged?
Stop pretending period sex is kinky and not just a fact.
Girl. That’s gonna be a hard no from me. Straight to therapy. Too much pedo involved in it.
It’s a Saltburn thing.
Fucking Princess Bride.
That’s not even being dominated. What are you on?
It’s a weird one, but I get it.
Something about a hot doctor�
Why dirty though? Enjoy the BV, babe.
G spot sin
cacoethes
This girlypop can write, but like not surprised because power kinks usually go hand in hand with education.
Somebody is a classics girly.
Ha, I knew Greek. It’s such a preoccupation, but like they really do have such compelling gods.
There’s gotta be some correlation between being poor and these women actively fantasizing about being abused. Do they just not feel like they deserve more?
That’s not straight, bestie.
Girl, therapy. Thinking about your dad during sex is fucking weird.
Dunno if that switchy one is Gil, but I’m sus.
Your husband deserves better.
Are there private heated pools in the 1930s?
It’s so depressing when even other women are fantasizing about other women being subservient and sexually repressed and having to be goaded into fucking.
I am amazed at how many of these fantasies involve a single finger and I’m just like am I greedy or are they boring?
Honey, that’s the porn version of the seven dwarfs.
There’s consequences even on your bachelor and bachelorette. I hate that mindset. That is cheating.
She must mean glans given this book’s subject matter. That’s really upsetting for that to be a typo. How do you miss that?
I don’t think a moan can be dominating, babe.
lingam
Girl, leave that man. Are you joking?
I find it interesting how many of these letters are coming from women with high sex drives who somehow married men with low ones. I’m like didn’t you test this out before you got married?
I think it’s interesting how many of these letters specifically mention stretch marks.
What do you mean you don’t know what women taste like? Haven’t you tasted yourself? I feel like you’re lying.
Girlypops are really out here fantasizing about the bare minimum, and I am so depressed.
Oh my god, and another one getting the BV.
I feel like it shouldn’t need to be said, but don’t fuck trees.
Me: bopping along like I’m not having a good time but like I guess it’s a book you could read. Like I don’t think it’s entirely without value
Me: getting to the part where they included a letter about fucking Bigfoot.
Me: remembering there’s a single sentence in here that’s like I wanna do anal.
Gillian, what the shit
Oh sorry, not just Bigfoot- Bigfoot and his three dicks.
What are we doing?
And Harry Potter fanfiction. In this day and age.
Isn’t Sleepy Time Tea copywrit?
Girl, you literally just want a healthy relationship. That’s so sad.
This book: we’re not gonna do anything too taboo.
Also this book: here’s a letter about how I wanna fuck a horse.
This is Shrek fanfiction.
I-
Why is there bestiality in here? What the fuck is wrong with you?
We didn’t include any rape fantasies in here because it would be unethical.
But like you did. Also, how did that ethics conversation not also draw the line at bestiality?
No, because why is literally every fantasy please be nice to me? What the fuck.
Men reading the books you tell them to will never not be hot.
Post-reading:
Look I’m a veteran of the fanfiction trenches. I’ve read some weird shit. I’m very live and let live as long as we’re doing no harm.
What the fuck was this? Why are we selling this as a collection of feminist lens essays? This is not that book.
Predominantly it’s a bummer. I’d say 70% of these women’s fantasies are just being treated with basic decency. The rest are people who actively dislike their partners and need to break up. And then there’s a cute little 2% of absolutely fucked shit. You’re gonna get infections. You’re committing crimes. There were completely unethical stories in this collection, and I don’t understand why they were given the dignity of being published. The book literally starts off by giving the disclaimer that they consciously chose not to include any rape fantasies. And then that’s not an accurate statement for the collection. I think there’s a couple stories in here that are beyond dubious consent, and bestiality will always be rape. Seriously, I don’t know how you draw the ethical line at that, but not at fucking animals.
I think the book is being sold as a sexy examination of a diverse group of women. It’s not sexy. Sex scenes are hard- no pun intended. Professionals have a hard time getting them right. A group of amateurs is not doing any better. Using anatomical terms is not sexy. Using cutesy euphemisms is not sexy. Also, I think you need some length and depth-again, no pun intended-to craft a sexy scene. This book published a letter that was a single sentence that was like I want to do anal and thought it was doing something. I think the diversity sampling is very flawed. There were so many letters that came from people making over $120,000 a year. I’m sorry, but they are the exception to the human experience, so to act like they have the voice to speak for the common people is wild.
I think Gillian’s forewords were the most successful part of this book, but there was such an opportunity here to partner with an actual sex therapist, or a psychologist, or anyone involved in that field of study to give these fantasies more context. Without that authoritative voice, it’s just musing.
I think there’s a significant number of typos in the finished copy. How you miss that you wrote gland instead of glans in a book literally about sex is beyond me.
It doesn’t feel feminist. It doesn’t feel empowering. A lot of the stories end up feeling repetitive, which is ridiculous because desire is so wide and varied. And I think most damningly, the book just kind of lets women wallow in their mistreatment with this sort of eh, that’s life! air. Why aren’t these opinions being challenged? Why isn’t the audience given advice on if you feel this way too, here’s how you can love your body. Here’s how you can advocate for yourself. Here’s how to dump your trash, abusive partner.
So if it’s not for smut readers to get hot and bothered, if it’s not for feminists to critically analyze, if it’s not gonna have a self-help spin, what the hell is it for other than to be a lazy cash grab?
Who should read this:
People into sexual psychology but you’re gonna have to do all the analyzing yourself
Do I want to reread this:
No
Similar books:
* Fetish by Anonymous-collection of sexy short stories
* Laid and Confused by Maria Yagoda-sex self help book that reads more like a memoir
* Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again by Katherine Angel-examination of consent culture
* Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke-nonfiction about the history of the sexualization of butts
* Wordslut by Amanda Montell-examination of language and misogyny
* Best Women’s Erotica Volume 8 by Rachel Krammer Bussel-collection of sexy short stories
Are you down to be bummed the fuck out when you realize 90% of the submitted fantasies are just please be nice to me and also I hate my body? This won’t get you hot and bothered, and it’s not a feminist analysis of desire, but if you wanna waste a few hours of your life, you can read some amateurs� vanilla ass sex scenes, Shrek fanfiction, and bestiality. You know, because they consciously chose not to include anything unethical.
On my do not read list.
Pre-reading:
If there's one thing I love, it’s a pink cover.
Thick of it:
It makes me so sad that so many of these women’s deepest fantasies that they want to share with the world involve so much insecurity and self-hatred of their bodies.
Oh my god, girl, break up with him.
All these women’s fantasies are like my deepest darkest desires are that he treats me nicely and that I have a better body. Also, he’s like actively mean to me in our day-to-day life, but that’s marriage!
And I’m just like this can’t be it.
We can’t have been sold this much of a lie.
the publishing house: look sexy book about women's desires, so spicy, so risqué
the content: my deepest, darkest desire is for a man to be nice to me and not hurt me and also skinny
This book is depressing me.
Some of these writers need to chill with the euphemisms for parts. Just say cunt.
Girlypop, that’s just wanting to fuck god.
See, that one- feminist. Well written. Hot and self-aware. (Only one in the damn book.)
Anytime there’s not an Oxford comma my brain shudders.
I would have a painting like that.
That single sentence is a waste of a letter in this book. (Imagine your letter got bumped for the page count and they put that in its place.)
Honey, that’s not straight.
I find it so odd how we can guess writers� ages and countries and races and genders just through their narrative voice, but if you asked me to articulate what it is exactly about the writing that’s tipping me off, I don’t think I could do it.
Get a divorce.
Oneiric
A married man giving a stranger his hoodie because she thinks he’s hot-that’s cheating.
Some of these cringe me out so bad by using either anatomical terms or cutesy euphemisms.
limerence
Fuck your religion very much.
Get a divorce.
Typo in the finished copy is sloppy work.
God, I love the show Hannibal.
Oh girl, therapy for that one. Please want more for yourself.
Where’d you get door handles, Gillian? Unhinged?
Stop pretending period sex is kinky and not just a fact.
Girl. That’s gonna be a hard no from me. Straight to therapy. Too much pedo involved in it.
It’s a Saltburn thing.
Fucking Princess Bride.
That’s not even being dominated. What are you on?
It’s a weird one, but I get it.
Something about a hot doctor�
Why dirty though? Enjoy the BV, babe.
G spot sin
cacoethes
This girlypop can write, but like not surprised because power kinks usually go hand in hand with education.
Somebody is a classics girly.
Ha, I knew Greek. It’s such a preoccupation, but like they really do have such compelling gods.
There’s gotta be some correlation between being poor and these women actively fantasizing about being abused. Do they just not feel like they deserve more?
That’s not straight, bestie.
Girl, therapy. Thinking about your dad during sex is fucking weird.
Dunno if that switchy one is Gil, but I’m sus.
Your husband deserves better.
Are there private heated pools in the 1930s?
It’s so depressing when even other women are fantasizing about other women being subservient and sexually repressed and having to be goaded into fucking.
I am amazed at how many of these fantasies involve a single finger and I’m just like am I greedy or are they boring?
Honey, that’s the porn version of the seven dwarfs.
There’s consequences even on your bachelor and bachelorette. I hate that mindset. That is cheating.
She must mean glans given this book’s subject matter. That’s really upsetting for that to be a typo. How do you miss that?
I don’t think a moan can be dominating, babe.
lingam
Girl, leave that man. Are you joking?
I find it interesting how many of these letters are coming from women with high sex drives who somehow married men with low ones. I’m like didn’t you test this out before you got married?
I think it’s interesting how many of these letters specifically mention stretch marks.
What do you mean you don’t know what women taste like? Haven’t you tasted yourself? I feel like you’re lying.
Girlypops are really out here fantasizing about the bare minimum, and I am so depressed.
Oh my god, and another one getting the BV.
I feel like it shouldn’t need to be said, but don’t fuck trees.
Me: bopping along like I’m not having a good time but like I guess it’s a book you could read. Like I don’t think it’s entirely without value
Me: getting to the part where they included a letter about fucking Bigfoot.
Me: remembering there’s a single sentence in here that’s like I wanna do anal.
Gillian, what the shit
Oh sorry, not just Bigfoot- Bigfoot and his three dicks.
What are we doing?
And Harry Potter fanfiction. In this day and age.
Isn’t Sleepy Time Tea copywrit?
Girl, you literally just want a healthy relationship. That’s so sad.
This book: we’re not gonna do anything too taboo.
Also this book: here’s a letter about how I wanna fuck a horse.
This is Shrek fanfiction.
I-
Why is there bestiality in here? What the fuck is wrong with you?
We didn’t include any rape fantasies in here because it would be unethical.
But like you did. Also, how did that ethics conversation not also draw the line at bestiality?
No, because why is literally every fantasy please be nice to me? What the fuck.
Men reading the books you tell them to will never not be hot.
Post-reading:
Look I’m a veteran of the fanfiction trenches. I’ve read some weird shit. I’m very live and let live as long as we’re doing no harm.
What the fuck was this? Why are we selling this as a collection of feminist lens essays? This is not that book.
Predominantly it’s a bummer. I’d say 70% of these women’s fantasies are just being treated with basic decency. The rest are people who actively dislike their partners and need to break up. And then there’s a cute little 2% of absolutely fucked shit. You’re gonna get infections. You’re committing crimes. There were completely unethical stories in this collection, and I don’t understand why they were given the dignity of being published. The book literally starts off by giving the disclaimer that they consciously chose not to include any rape fantasies. And then that’s not an accurate statement for the collection. I think there’s a couple stories in here that are beyond dubious consent, and bestiality will always be rape. Seriously, I don’t know how you draw the ethical line at that, but not at fucking animals.
I think the book is being sold as a sexy examination of a diverse group of women. It’s not sexy. Sex scenes are hard- no pun intended. Professionals have a hard time getting them right. A group of amateurs is not doing any better. Using anatomical terms is not sexy. Using cutesy euphemisms is not sexy. Also, I think you need some length and depth-again, no pun intended-to craft a sexy scene. This book published a letter that was a single sentence that was like I want to do anal and thought it was doing something. I think the diversity sampling is very flawed. There were so many letters that came from people making over $120,000 a year. I’m sorry, but they are the exception to the human experience, so to act like they have the voice to speak for the common people is wild.
I think Gillian’s forewords were the most successful part of this book, but there was such an opportunity here to partner with an actual sex therapist, or a psychologist, or anyone involved in that field of study to give these fantasies more context. Without that authoritative voice, it’s just musing.
I think there’s a significant number of typos in the finished copy. How you miss that you wrote gland instead of glans in a book literally about sex is beyond me.
It doesn’t feel feminist. It doesn’t feel empowering. A lot of the stories end up feeling repetitive, which is ridiculous because desire is so wide and varied. And I think most damningly, the book just kind of lets women wallow in their mistreatment with this sort of eh, that’s life! air. Why aren’t these opinions being challenged? Why isn’t the audience given advice on if you feel this way too, here’s how you can love your body. Here’s how you can advocate for yourself. Here’s how to dump your trash, abusive partner.
So if it’s not for smut readers to get hot and bothered, if it’s not for feminists to critically analyze, if it’s not gonna have a self-help spin, what the hell is it for other than to be a lazy cash grab?
Who should read this:
People into sexual psychology but you’re gonna have to do all the analyzing yourself
Do I want to reread this:
No
Similar books:
* Fetish by Anonymous-collection of sexy short stories
* Laid and Confused by Maria Yagoda-sex self help book that reads more like a memoir
* Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again by Katherine Angel-examination of consent culture
* Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke-nonfiction about the history of the sexualization of butts
* Wordslut by Amanda Montell-examination of language and misogyny
* Best Women’s Erotica Volume 8 by Rachel Krammer Bussel-collection of sexy short stories
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Oct 12, 2024 01:01PM
I enjoyed this review more than the book, thought maybe I was going a bit crazy by the end skimmed for the last chapter
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Oh gosh I could not like this review more if I tried!
Liking this review so much! And then the epic words: 'Men reading the books you tell them to will never not be hot'...
Obsessed with your review. You’re just saying what most of us thought but like, way funnier than we ever could.
no wonder no one voices their sexual fantasies! goodness.
thank you for saving me time & money. ppl should have more freedom with their fantasies but beastiality should def never be part of that jfc. I really appreciate your other recommendations! you rock
someone missed the point
A brilliant review, so much more fun than the book.
I would have a painting like that too!
