Sex And The Single Girl
Published in 1962 (Helen was 40 at the time), the book offered advice to women on how to become financially independent and experience sex before marriage. The book sold 2 million copies in two weeks and made
The Los Angeles Times,
New York Times and
Time bestseller lists. The book, in large, paved the way for the book and TV series "Sex and the City" and Hurley is accredited to being the leader of the second wave of feminism and the antecedent for the third.
After receiving some tough criticism on the book, Hurley responded by saying,
"This is how it was for me. This is how I played it. It’s just a pippy-poo little book and people come back with this diatribe about its great social significance. Well it’s just because nobody ever got off his high horse long enough to write to single women in any form they could associate with. If they had, somebody else would be the arbiter for single women at this point instead of me."
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