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Are Your Sexual Fantasies Really Outside the Norm? [1]

Researchers at the Université du Québec and the Philippe-Pinel Institute of Montreal recently conducted a study on sexual fantasies [2]. Conducting interviews with more than 1,500 adults, researchers compared the commonality (or rarity) of a wide range of sexual fantasies. Results showed that, for a large number of people, sexual fantasies tend to fall into very similar categories: sex in a certain place, sex with a certain person (who isn't their primary partner), dom/sub scenarios, fetishization of body parts and objects, and voyeurism.

Christian Joyal, the paper's lead author, hopes the research will "start a debate where we can talk about no longer stigmatizing people."

You can find the study here [2]. See the data at a glance [3] over at Business Insider. And read an official statement released by the study's researchers here [4].

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Steph Auteri

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Published date

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Source URL: https://www.aasect.org/blog/are-your-sexual-fantasies-really-outside-norm

Links:
[1] https://www.aasect.org/blog/are-your-sexual-fantasies-really-outside-norm
[2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jsm.12734/abstract
[3] http://www.businessinsider.com/which-sexual-fantasies-are-normal-2014-10
[4] http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-10/uom-sfa103014.php
[5] https://www.aasect.org/blog-tags/quick-hits