Explanations for Gender Differences in Preferences for Submissive Sexual Fantasies.

Fantasy Gender differences Kink Sex differences Submission

Journal

Archives of sexual behavior

ISSN: 1573-2800

Titre abrégé: Arch Sex Behav

Pays: United States

ID NLM: 1273516

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Date de publication:
10 Jun 2024

Historique:

received: 28 06 2023

accepted: 20 05 2024

revised: 07 05 2024

medline: 11 6 2024

pubmed: 11 6 2024

entrez: 10 6 2024

Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Women have a stronger preference for sexual submission than men do. In the current studies, we investigated gender differences in fantasies about sexual submission. Replicating previous research, in two studies we found that women expressed a stronger affinity for fantasies about sexual submission than men did. However, controlling for age and several sociocultural factors made the relationship between gender and preference for sexual submission non-significant-that is, we could statistically eliminate the gender difference. These analyses suggest the multiple factors that may influence sexual preferences and the multiple ways that gender differences in preference for submissive sexual fantasies can be eliminated by easily assessed demographic and contextual differences in the experiences of women and men.

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DOI: 10.1007/s10508-024-02909-2 PMID: 38858231

pubmed: 38858231

doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-02909-2

pii: 10.1007/s10508-024-02909-2

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eng

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