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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"sexual fantasy"”.
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Sexual Fantasy: A Hermeneutic Literature Review
… based his theories of unconscious and psychosexual development on the link between the undischarged libidinal (sexual) tensions and neurosis. He postulated that when a conscious imaginary wish fulfilment (fantasy) was unacceptable to the fantasiser, it became repressed. Thus, it can be argued …
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Effectiveness of Psychological Techniques in Increasing Deviant Sexual Fantasy Self-Disclosures
<p>The assessment of deviant sexual fantasy and interests is an important component in sex offender risk assessment and subsequent treatment planning. However, clinicians and researchers have long acknowledged that sex offenders often distort or underreport details related to their sex offenses, …
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Women’s Sexual Fantasies in Context: The Emotional Content of Sexual Fantasies, Psychological and Interpersonal Distress, and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships
… thinkers propose that aspects of an individual’s sexual fantasies are related to her psychological and interpersonal functioning. The present study aims to elucidate the significance of sexual fantasies with respect to women’s emotional and interpersonal lives. The study evaluated a model, which …
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Gender differences in cognitive interference with sexual arousal
… cognitive interference detrimentally influences sexuality, but little is known about the content of that interference. This study compared the self-reports of 220 college men and 337 college women on two types of cognitive interference during sex, performance-oriented and appearance-oriented. …
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Beyond the illusion of inclusion: A new vision for cannabis social equity
… the commodification of Blackness alongside the sexualization and objectification of women is utilized to promote a White fantasy, decriminalize cannabis for white purposes and appropriate Black culture to sell magazines. Black representations are often found to be tokenized and represented as …
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Examining the relationships between childhood sexual abuse, sexual identity development, and sexual satisfaction
… cohesive identity, including forming a cohesive sexual identity, is essential in one's life (Erikson & Erikson; 1998, Weeks, 1985). This study examined how a history of childhood sexual abuse impacts the process of forming a cohesive sexual identity in homosexual and heterosexual participants, …
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Vampires in Literature
… everyday life, into the world of excitement and fantasy, and experience the relief which follows when the horror has ended. Vampires belong to the literary tradition of horror and started out as monsters of pure evil that preyed on the innocent. Count Dracula, from Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula …
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Sexuality, desire and the ageing female body: An essay
… ‘One Night in Hong Kong’, and an essay, ‘Sexuality, Desire and the Ageing Female Body.’ The novella tells the story of an erotic affair between the female narrator and a man in a hotel room in the neon city of Hong Kong. Told in four parts, the story shifts in time, reflecting on earlier …