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Article: Guilty or not? A path model of women's sexual force fantasies.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
- Author:
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The majority of women engage in some form of sexual fantasizing (Cado & Leitenberg, 1990; Jones & Barlow, 1990; Strassberg & Lockerd, 1998). Moreover, sexual fantasies appear to play a role in women's sexual functioning and satisfaction (Alfonso, Allison, & Dunn, 1992; Cado & Leitenberg; Nutter & Condron, 1983). For instance, greater frequency of sexual fantasy among women has been found to be associated with greater sexual satisfaction (Alfonso et al., 1992) as well as with lower levels of sexual guilt (Pelletier & Herold, 1988). Unlike other aspects of sexuality, sexual fantasies are a private experience about which others are typically unaware and, because of this ...