How do womens sexual fantasies differ from mens?
Actually, men’s and women’s fantasies are more alike than different. Both sexes fantasize most often, for instance, about being intimate with their current partner. Men’s fantasies tend to be more visual and get to the sex acts more quickly. Women’s involve more foreplay and more tactile stimulation. No big surprise there, right? More importantly, women’s fantasies tend to focus in on the relationship dynamics between characters, while men’s are more often about impersonal sexual escapades. Both men and women can get physically turned on by the hot graphics you find in porn films, for instance, but women tend not to report feeling aroused by explicit images unless their emotions are also engaged. What was your biggest surprise in researching sexual fantasy? The richness and range of women’s sexual fantasies amazed me, even after 20 years as a sex therapist. Women’s private thoughts are much more creative and original than I could have guessed. Also, I discovered that we can learn so mu
