Author(s): Helen Gurley Brown

Cultural Studies

A nice single woman has no sex life? Think again says Helen Gurley Brown. First published in 1962 this bombshell bestseller that took the giggles out of girl talk-and thoroughly shocked the prudes is back in print. In Sex and the Single Girl, Cosmo's leading lady, Helen Gurley Brown, tells women how to fill their lives with romance and delectable men. Sexual attitudes may have changed, but the art of being a woman has not. The book explains how to meet men, weep them off their feet and even slip a ring on the right man's finger. The pleasures of flirting, enjoying affairs from beginning to end, finding men where you might not think to look, the delights and drawbacks of married men, the frustration of little-boy men and Don Juans, are all covered in this book that tells women how to live their own life and love it. Sex and the Single Girl was a phenomenon when it was first published. It has been published in 28 countries and has been translated into 16 languages, including Japanese. The book was also made in to a movie starting Natalie Wood and Tony Curtis.