Sex and the Single Girl: The Unmarried Women's Guide to Men, by Helen Gurley Brown
Sex and the Single Girl originally came out in the 1962 and had a significant cultural impact selling two million copies in three weeks.
It's considered the antecedent to second wave feminism, and third wave feminism. Helen Gurley Brown became the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan in 1965, inserted her ethos into it and put the magazine on the map. Fifty years later, most of Brown's advice and messages still apply.
I'd want to be the kind of single girl Brown describes:
Theoretically a "nice" single woman has no sex life. What nonsense! She has a better sex life than most of her married friends. She need never be bored with one man per lifetime. Her choice of partners is endless and they seek her.
Her married friends refer to her pursuers as wolves, but actually many of them turn out to be lambs— to be shorn and worn by her.
Shorn and worn?— AY yi yi!
Narrated by the pitch perfect Dawn Harvey.
-Aretha Bright
