Fantasy

A sexual fantasy is a fantasy of a sexual nature. A person may or may not wish to enact their sexual fantasies in real life; some may find their fantasies completely unacceptable — or even physically impossible — were they to be transposed into real life.

Sexual fantasies may involve any human sexual practice or paraphilia. Common sexual fantasies include:

• adultery
• sexual bondage
• group sex
• Domination and/or Submission
• masochism and/or sadism
• rape fantasy

Unusual, but well-reported fantasies include:

• being cuckolded
• pedophilia
• incest
• various other paraphiliac activities

Gender differentiation

Study suggests that distinct tendencies differentiate male and female sexual fantasies. These traits are hardly universal; just because a person happens to be male does not indicate he will have only "male" fantasies that night, let alone for the whole of his life. In general, however, male sexual fantasies tend to be shorter and imagistic, where female sexual fantasies tend to be longer and have more narrative, as well as a greater focus on the relationships between the characters in the fantasy. The essence of a "male" fantasy might be captured in a photographic moment or a seconds-long clip of film; a "female" fantasy might require pages of text to fully capture the key elements. Note that, contrary to popular expectation, there is little to no difference between the genders in the transgressive content of their fantasies; a female is just as likely to fantasize about group sex with an entire fraternity as a male is to fantasize about group sex with an entire sorority.

Many theories have been propounded to explain these relative gender differences, on both sides of the Sadism and masochism in fiction

External links

• The Top Ten Sexual Fantasies of Men and Women
• Male Sexual Fantasy