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29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

The Themes and Structure of Sexual Fantasy

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Clinical Science

  • Martin Seehuus
    Middlebury College
  • Ariel Handy
    The University of Texas at Austin
  • Amelia Stanton
    The University of Texas at Austin

Abstract

A large corpus (N = 244,629) of erotic fantasies was downloaded from the internet and analyzed using the Meaning Extraction Method (MEM), which identifies patterns of word occurrence. The top twenty themes were identified using exploratory factor analysis, and many of those themes were found to predict story popularity.

Sexuality/Sexual Behavior

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