Editing Nancy Friday (section)

===Criticism===
"Critics have labeled Friday's books unscientific, because the author solicited responses",<ref name="Sova">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8VAIbXY8rUUC&pg=PA281|title=Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds|first=Dawn B.|last=Sova|date=September 1, 2006|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=9780816071494 |accessdate=September 1, 2023|via=Google Books}}</ref> thus potentially biasing the contributor pool.

''My Secret Garden'' was greeted by a "salvo from the media accusing me of inventing the whole book, having made up all the fantasies"; ''My Mother/My Self'' was "initially ... violently rejected by both publishers and readers";<ref name="Friday, Top p. 8"/> while ''Women on Top'' "was heavily criticized for its graphic and sensational content."<ref name="Sova" />

Friday was also criticized for her reaction to the [[Clinton–Lewinsky scandal]] affair, which critics interpreted as sexist. The journalist [[Jon Ronson]] wrote "In February 1998, the feminist writer Nancy Friday was asked by the ''[[New York Observer]]'' to speculate on Lewinsky's future. 'She can rent out her mouth,' she replied."<ref>{{cite news | last = Ronson | first = Jon | author-link = Jon Ronson | title = Monica Lewinsky: 'The shame sticks to you like tar' | url =  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/16/monica-lewinsky-shame-sticks-like-tar-jon-ronson | work = [[The Guardian]] | date = April 22, 2016 }}</ref>