What do you want when no one is watching?
Sexual Fantasies by Gillian Anderson is a groundbreaking journey into those very silent rooms. In this powerful collection, Anderson has brought together the anonymous sexual fantasies of women from around the world, including her own. These stories are not fantasies; they are lavish, crude articulations of lust, fear, closeness, shame, gratification, and, above all, liberation.
The fantasies shared in Want range from the forbidden to multiple partner scenarios, in content and tone. There are tender and gentle encounters, passionate and playful. The voices include women who have never had sex and women who have had more sexual encounters than they can count. These fantasies offer an intimate glimpse into the most secretive corners of the female psyche.
But what most specifically makes Want incisive is how it reveals the intensity of what women have to say about sex when they are free to speak their mind without judgment. This is not a book of sexual fantasies, but rather of the power those fantasies have to reflect our truest selves, unfiltered, unrestrained, and authentically us.
In Want, Anderson dares us to face taboos regarding female desire and to understand the many complexities of sexuality. This is a work that acts as a mirror and magnifying glass through which we may see ourselves and the landscape around us with clarity anew.