Interesting Links for 03-11-2014

[andrewducker]

• This is the best Vine loop I've ever seen. https://t.co/RewnZciCmZ
  (tags: video time )
• Is "general intelligence" a Myth?
  (tags: intelligence iq )
• Manchester gets their next tram line open - a year ahead of schedule
  (tags: trams manchester UK transport )
• Why Japanese housing is so...odd
  (tags: architecture housing Japan )
• Have an _actual_ post

Comments

[despotliz]

I can think of no finer use for my academic journal access. There is a great big fascinating table, here are a few of the questions, with percentage of females and males who answered positively (they also gave an intensity score):

Top common fantasies:
I have fantasized about taking part in fellatio/cunnilingus. Female 78.5%, male 87.6%
I have fantasized about having sex in an unusual place (e.g., in the office; public toilets). Female 81.7 male 82.3
I have fantasized about having sexual in a romantic location (e.g., on a deserted beach). Female 84.9 male 78.4
I have fantasized about having sex with someone that I know who is not my spouse. Female 66.3 male 83.4
I have fantasized about masturbating my partner. Female 68.1 Male 76.4
I have fantasized about being masturbated by my partner. Female 71.4 Male 71.7

Some with significant sex differences:
I have fantasized about having sex with two women. Female 36.9 male 84.5
I have fantasized about watching two women make love. Female 42.4 male 82.1
I have fantasized about being dominated sexually. Female 64.6 male 53.3
I have fantasized about having sex with a star or a well-known person. Female 51.7 male 61.9
I have fantasized about giving fellatio. Female 72.1 male 26.8
plus fantasies about anal sex and group sex with different genders had significant sex differences.

BDSM:
I have fantasized about being dominated sexually. Female 64.6 Male 53.3
I have fantasized about dominating someone sexually. Female 46.7 Male 59.6
I have fantasized about being tied up by someone in order to obtain sexual pleasure. Female 52.1 Male 46.2
I have fantasized about tying someone up in order to obtain sexual pleasure. Female 41.7 Male 48.4
I have fantasized about spanking or whipping someone to obtain sexual pleasure. Female 23.8 Male 43.5
I have fantasized about being spanked or whipped to obtain sexual pleasure. Female 36.3 Male 28.5

Forced sex:
I have fantasized about being forced to have sex. Female 28.9 Male 30.7
I have fantasized about forcing someone to have sex. Female 10.8 Male 22.0

The data from this particular questionnaire isn't specific enough to see which of the options above are common, they're all lumped into a more general fantasy. They reach a few conclusions: few fantasies are rare, and a lot more fantasies sometimes considered "deviant" are reported by a lot of the participants; fantasies of dominance and submission are pretty well correlated; more people fantasise about same-sex encounters than label themselves as homosexual or bisexual; about half of the women who report submissive sexual fantasies specified that they would not be interested in this is real life.

[andrewducker]

Thank you!

[andrewducker]

That's oddly male-centric. No question about having sex with two men. No cunnilingus. I wonder why.

[despotliz]

I'll have to check this tomorrow as I don't have the paper to hand at home, but possible they were on there and I got bored of cutting and pasting at some point in the list. Which probably means they were at the less popular end of things.