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Scientists Reveal the Surprising Truth About Common Sexual Fantasies

Research shows that most sexual fantasies are more common than you think.

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Sexual fantasies: we all have them, yet many people think they're in the minority when it comes to their own fantasy of choice. Enter these scientists, who took it upon themselves to catalog the most common sexual fantasies in a population of 1,516 people from Quebec, Canada.

Turns out that very few fantasies are truly rare; the rest are primarily ranked as "common", while a few are so common as to be "typical" (e.g., "receiving oral sex"). Curious where you rank on the list? See below for the full fantasy tally.

Although several theories and treatment plans use unusual sexual fantasies (SF) as a way to identify deviancy, they seldom describe how the fantasies referred to were determined to be unusual.

The main goal of this study was to determine which SF are rare, unusual, common, or typical from a statistical point of view among a relatively large sample of ...

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