Which Sexual Fantasies are the Most (and Least) Popular? Science Finally Weighs in!

You'll have to read the paper to find out how weird — or not — your kink is.

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By Seriously Science
Nov 10, 2014 12:00 PMMay 9, 2020 9:36 PM
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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. 

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