Bare: Irish Women’s Sexual Fantasies

BARE is a revolutionary exploration of female sexuality in Ireland. Author-editor Julianne Daly (not her real name) conducted a comprehensive survey of women living in Ireland, asking them to share and describe their sexual fantasies in (often explicit) detail. This book collects the best of these stories.

There is a real hunger to know what other women are thinking about sex – perhaps out of curiosity, or because we want to know whether what we are thinking is “normal”. Well, Irish women are thinking about men, and women, and couples. They are thinking about their partners, their partners’ best friends, their bosses, their neighbours and their priests. They are thinking about that gorgeous blue-eyed guy from the pub – and his brother.

With a foreword by Shawna Scott, owner of Ireland’s first health- and design-focused online sex shop, sexsiopa.ie, BARE aims to shine a light on a topic which was once considered taboo. Stories range from the mild, to the surprising, to the shockingly provocative, and give a glimpse into the modern Irish woman’s innermost sexual thoughts. This book, inspired by Nancy Friday’s ground-breaking series dating from the 1970s, has started a new conversation among Irish women about sex.

Publisher Seán O’Keeffe writes about the journey that led to BARE