Chapter 4, Where Did a Nice Girl Like You Get an Idea Like That? Summary and Analysis

Ms. Friday sets out to explain where some women get the ideas for their fantasies with childhood. Ms. Friday explains that many women begin fantasizing as young children and that these fantasies are set off by many things including the first time a young girl sees a penis, such as Lindsay who stumbled across a man urinating in the woods when she was ten. Others begin fantasizing when the vibrations in the car awake sexual feelings, as it did for Sonia, or spankings lead to sexual excitement as they did for Mona.

Sounds also seem to affect women in different ways, especially the sounds of sex. Some women enjoy conversation during sex and will often recall those...