Jokes and Giggles
Copyright© 2015 by Jack Spratt
Chapter 625
From the latest in PREVENTION Magazine concerning a study in CANADA!)
Five “Unusual” Sex Acts That Are More Normal Than You Think
If you’re embarrassed by daydreams of being tied up and given a good spanking, don’t be. They’re not so weird after all: Almost half of people in a recent Canadian survey published in the Journal of Sex Research admitted to at least thinking about sexual behavior considered “anomalous” by psychiatric standards, and a third have even engaged in the behavior at least once. “It turns out some of these so-called ‘taboo’ behaviors are actually pretty common,” says Christian Joyal, PhD, a professor of psychology at the University of Montreal.
Here are the most common fantasies:
Voyeurism:
Almost half of people surveyed have fantasies about voyeurism, or watching a stranger get undressed or have sex. About a third copped to doing this deed.
Fetishism:
About a quarter of respondents confessed they’ve indulged in fetishism, or being aroused by a nonsexual object like a pair of high heels or a silk scarf.
Exhibitionism:
Thirty percent of people admit to having had sex in public or in an area where there was a high chance of getting seen or caught.
Frotteurism:
Around a quarter of respondents had engaged in something called frotteurism, which is getting turned on by touching or rubbing themselves against a stranger.
Masochism:
Almost 20% of people lived out the fantasy of being sexually aroused by being dominated or humiliated by another (think handcuffs).
The people surveyed were by no means sexual deviants. “We’d done past studies in students and weren’t shocked that many were experimenting, but this was the first time we looked at the general population,” Joyal says. And yet, although all of these behaviors seem fairly mainstream, they’re still considered abnormal in the most recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association.
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