This book was previously published by Broadway Books under the title In the Garden of Desire: Women’s Sexual Fantasies as a Gateway to Passion and Pleasure

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Copyright © 1997, 2001 by Wendy Maltz and Suzie Boss

Cover design: David Friedman / FriedMedia

Cover image: Romeo and Juliet, 1870
Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893)
Oil on canvas
53 3/8 x 37 in. (135.6 x 94 cm)
Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Maltz, Wendy.

     Private thoughts : exploring the power of women’s sexual fantasies / Wendy Maltz & Suzie Boss ; foreword by Beverly Whipple.

              p.  cm.

     Rev. ed, of: In the garden of desire, c1997.

     Includes bibliographical references and index.

     ISBN 1-4196-9070-1 (alk. paper)

     1. Women—Sexual behavior. 2. Sexual fantasies. I. Boss, Suzie. II. Maltz, Wendy. In the garden of desire. III. Title.

HQ29.M36 2000

306.7'082—dc

00-065382

ISBN 1-57731-146-9

First printing, January 2001

Printed in Canada on Recycled Paper

Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West

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