Sex and the Single Girl Sex and the Single Girl Sex and the Single Girl is a 1962 non-fiction book by American writer Helen Gurley Brown, written as an advice book that encouraged women to become financially independent and experience sexual relationships before or without marriage. The book sold two million copies in three weeks, was sold in 35 countries and has made the "Los Angeles Times", "The New York Times" and "Time" bestseller lists. In 1960 Brown's husband, David Brown, suggested she write a book that discusses "how a single girl goes about having an affair". The book was rejected by several publishing houses
Sex and the Single Girl Single Girl" (1970). Introduction (New 2003) In the 2003 edition, Brown includes a reintroduction to her book and briefly outlines the static situations and changes that the single woman has faced from the 1960s to 2003. The reviews that followed the publication of "Sex and the Single Girl", "were either highly favourable...or highly negative" and often attacked Brown's writing style and credibility. While several of Brown's concepts were "in common with the second-wave feminist arguments she precedes," other second-wavers such as Betty Friedan "found Brown's message 'obscene and horrible.'" When questioned regarding the criticism the book has received, Brown replied