How long does it take to read Beyond My Control?
forbidden fantasies in an uncensored age
Beyond My Control by Nancy Friday takes about 5 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 42 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1998. 311 pages, about 85,525 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
35 years later, the follow-up to the groundbreaking mega-bestseller My Secret Garden, explores the nature of our sexual fantasies.Nancy Friday was one the sexual revolution's most controversial figures, captivating the world with her 1973 mega-bestseller, My Secret Garden. In Beyond My Control, Friday illustrates how and why the face of sexual fantasy has become more imaginitive than ever before. She collects the sexual fantasies of dozens of women, and for the first time men, and teaches us to proudly own the creativity of our sexual imagination and indulge in the power of our sexual visions.Beyond My Control captures the sexual pulse of a people living in an uninhibited age of equality. Friday explores the wildest and most erotic corners of our collective imagination, and reveals our most hidden desires.
Subjects: Sexual fantasies, Paraphilias, Nonfiction, Psychology, Research, Self-Improvement
