Gillian Anderson Is Collecting Sexual Fantasies For A New Book

Gillian Anderson wants to hear all about your sexual fantasies — no, really.

The Sex Education star put out a call on Wednesday for women to submit stories about their deepest desires and wildest experiences for a new book to be published by Bloomsbury Publishing exploring “the heart of what it is to be a woman today.”

“I want women across the world, and all of you who identify intrinsically as women now — queer, heterosexual and bisexual, non-binary, transgender, polyamorous — all of you, old and young, whatever your religion, and married, single or other, to write to me and tell me what you think about when you have sex,” she writes in a piece for The Guardian.

While the gender identity specifications are a little messy, Anderson’s request is clear. She wants to hear about “fantasies, frustrations, explorations, the forbidden, childhood, sounds, fetishes, guilt, insatiability…”

“Anything is up for grabs,” she adds.

The book is intended to be a modern follow-up to Nancy Friday’s My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies. Published in 1973, it was proof of the sexual revolution bubbling up among women after decades of such discussion being considered improper.

Despite the frank discussions and depictions of sex that occur in media today, our modern society certainly continues to have its own issues with puritanical policing. Thus, Anderson is left wondering whether conversations like the ones that take place in Sex Education are “something that people feel comfortable doing in real life.”

“Since Sex Education was broadcast, friends and journalists started asking me if women sometimes felt compelled to share their sexual problems or fantasies with me,” she said. “Well, they don’t.”

And that’s something she would like to change.

Anyone interested in learning more about the project or submitting a fantasy of their own can head over to deargillian.com from now through February 28.