Fear of Flying is also credited with providing some not-so-endearing terms for the American lexicon, such as the phrase "zipless f_", of which Jong explains is, "Zipless because when you came together zippers fell away like rose petals, underwear blew off in one breath like dandelion fluff." If that's what women want from sex, they're getting it in this novel, which to date has sold more than 20 million copies. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong read the first chapter ‘There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I’d been treated by at least six of them’: so opens Erica Jong’s iconic. The novel quickly became a national sensation, with the public wondering if it was partially autobiographical (Jong maintains it wasn't, but admits that it does include some autobiographical elements). Instead, she sees that book mirrors the lack of pleasure that many young women experience in sexual interactions.
While on a trip with her second husband, Wing takes an opportunity to have a torrid affair with another man, indulging in sexual fantasies that she felt uncomfortable expressing to her spouse. Jong says that today, women are no longer shocked by the Isadoras sexuality and the depiction of sex and fantasy, but readers were when the book was first released. The novel is narrated by a fictional woman named Isadora Zelda White Stollerman Wing, a 29-year-old poet. Published in 1973, Erica Jong's Fear of Flying resonated with women who felt trapped in sexually unsatisifying marriages. Hailed as a landmark debut and breathtaking tour-de-force, Zipless was an innovative hybrid seamlessly melding velvety jazz, soul, dance, ambient pop and sultry electronica into an intoxicating synthesis that was equally sensuous and sublime.
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