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“increased my compassion for men four-fold”
http://evolutionarytimes.org/files/bd4988b205d403c244617c86dcf34e8c-21.php
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number of negative side effects
Basaria & Dobs (2004).
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many women prefer to be the seducer
Targosz (2008).
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complex relationship with their desire to be dominant or submissive
Here’s one woman’s comment on
http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/why_dont_men_read_more_romance_novels
: “Fanfiction fanfiction fanfiction. Thank you kindly. Though gay sex is still the major content of fanfiction, and while I think that some of that is just the plain old two-hot-dudes-for-the-price-of-one thing, I also think it’s because to many women two male bodies read as kind of neutral and equal—one doesn’t start off coded as passive/receptive or active/ aggressive. And then there’s the whole subset that I think is women acting out their issues with sex on ‘neutral’ male bodies. Pretty much every trope that Amanda has decried as being disturbing in male-oriented porn has a fairly popular fanfiction equivalent.”
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“I can read and am very fond of [dominant and submissive roles]”
An interesting anecdote from a submissive: “i sleep with a collar on at night. i find it comforting and it gives me a sense that there is more than me, i am not the biggest thing in the world, and that i’m not meant to control everything. i submit to plenty of things in my life and the collar symbolizes that, even though a collar usually symbolizes submission to your Master.”
http://hislittlepet.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_archive.html
.
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“How does the idea of being slapped hard in the face during sex make you feel?”
 
 
QUESTION #11: HOW DOES THE IDEA OF BEING SLAPPED HARD IN THE FACE DURING SEX MAKE YOU FEEL? HORRIFIED; AROUSED; NOSTALGIC; INDIFFERENT.
Straight Males: # of Respondents: 104,623; 37.0% Horrified; 16.14% Aroused; 1.97% Nostalgic; 20.59% Indifferent.
Bisexual Females: # of Respondents: 12,786; 42.59% Horrified; 21.63% Aroused; 2.40%; 12.33%.
Straight Females: # of Respondents: 66,646; 62.58% Horrified; 8.44% Aroused; 1.11%; 7.23%.
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fan fiction scholar Brita Hansen
Personal e-mail communication with Brita Hansen, June 2010.
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generally prefer sexual submission
Troisi & Carosi (1998) reported that female Japanese macaques experience orgasm more frequently when mating with dominant males.
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scientists erroneously believed that BDSM participants
Wright (2006), Richters et al. (2008).
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“It’s about the voluntary exchange of power”
Personal face-to-face and e-mail communication, June 2010.
207
This centrality of power
See
http://www.iron-rose.com/IR/support_groups.htm
,
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would derive sexual satisfaction from relinquishing control
Lawrence & Love-Crowell (2008). “One therapist suggested, however, that the negotiation skills required in BDSM play tended to weed out persons with significant psychopathology: It takes really good boundaries to negotiate anything in sex and in particular around dealing openly with fantasy and stuff. And mentally ill people really aren’t good at that and they don’t get very far. (Therapist L). They seem smarter than the average client, I think. . . They tend to be articulate, imaginative, creative people. (Therapist J).”
Richters et al. (2008). “Our findings support the idea that BDSM is simply a sexual interest or subculture attractive to a minority, and for most participants not a pathological symptom of past abuse or difficulty with ‘normal’ sex.”
Stark et al. (2005). “This interpretation is also supported by an unpublished investigation of our group, in which 110 sadomasochists had shown only minor differences with regard to various personality traits in comparison to a nonSM group. The SM group depicted more activation in the ventral striatum than the nonSM group when they saw the pictures with a sadomasochistic content, which were rated highly erotic by them and disgusting by the nonSM group.”
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“wearing someone’s collar to be romantic”
http://gloria-brame.com/therapy/kinkoverview.html
“Men who had engaged in BDSM scored significantly lower on a scale of psychological distress than other men. Engagement in BDSM was not significantly related to any sexual difficulties.”
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“A sub might orgasm, if the dom allows it”
Personal communication with Tiiu, June 2010.
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“goodly number of the members who cancel”
Personal email communication with Colin Rowntree, August 2010.
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the left column lists the ten most common phrases in BDSM
The 1,500 most frequent two-word phrases from stories in the BDSM category on Literotica were compared to the most frequent two-word phrases from stories in the NonConsent/Reluctant category on Literotica. Thus, each column lists the most frequent two-word phrases relative to the two-word phrases in the other genre.
CHAPTER 11
 
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Margaret Livingstone, a professor of neurobiology
Livingstone (2002).
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“Cravable foods stick in customers’ imagination”
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3190/is_4_37/ai_97314567/
.
215
Lopamudra
Parameshwaranand (2001).
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“I call it the ‘Trannie Peek’”
Personal communication, August 2009.
Shemale porn has even made its way into mainstream television, such as this clip from
Dexter
:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE0N103hkS4
. “’Cause I can explain all that shemale stuff.”
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“Transsexual Porn is classified as Straight Specialty”
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=22387538&blogId=496679913
.
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“the audience for most shemale porn, are straight dudes”
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=22387538&blogId=496679913
.
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“Transsexual porn is one of the largest-selling niches”
http://www.amydaly.com/blog/grooby/the-tranny-awards-show.html
“We are one of the if not the most profitable genre in porn” says transsexual star Amy Daly.
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Mr. Miami Latino
User #5083529.
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Mr. Squirt
User #3018011.
218
Two sociologists visited a Chicago bar frequented by transsexual women
Weinberg & Williams (2010).
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Mr. Sexy
User #4317947.
221
Meyer’s Web site has received more than a million visitors a day
Traffic information from Quantcast.
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fifty-four of them are facials
Of the hundred top-rated videos on Fantasti.cc in March 2010 that were tagged “hardcore” (which means hetero sex, not lesbian or solo girl), fifty-four featured facials.
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“compilations”
PornHub search data for February 2010.
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just as turned on by watching two guys sexually satisfy each other
“I am a 100% heterosexual 19 year old girl. And there is nothing better than two men having sex with one another. I can’t stand hetero porn. Gay male sex is so erotic. Ive been looking at it sense I was 14 or 15 and it only gets better. If I ever get married I think I would encourage my husband to have lots of gay sex that way I can watch in person, and I can join in. It’s my dream! I can’t wait to see my husband having gay sex. Sometimes I dream about how great it would be to come home and find my man in bed with another man. I bet he would probly think I’m mad but then I would tell him how turned on I get from watching with other men and how I want to see himm have gay sex everyday because it brings out th freak in me.”
http://www.ukblackout.com/entertainment-mainmenu-76/film-theatre-tv/873-women-who-like-to-watch-gay-porn-.html
.
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“Draco took a quill from Harry’s case”
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=270398
.
228
“‘I bet my weapon’s bigger than yours’”
http://www.agaysex.com/Tortured-by-Cop/index.html
.
229
The fastest expanding subgenre of EroRom is
male-male romances
http://www.laweekly.com/2009-12-17/art-books/man-on-man-the-new-gay-romance
.
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The largest audience for the groundbreaking film
Brokeback Mountain
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1997/10/13/1997_10_13_074_TNY_CARDS_000379463
.
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more than a half million slash stories
Estimated from the number of slash stories tagged on the social bookmarking engine Delicious. Delicious alone lists 536,243 stories tagged “fic” (a commonly used abbreviation for fiction), and 167,028 tagged as “slash” and “fic.” Almost all stories tagged using “fic” on Delicious belong to the slash genre. The “slash” tag is less common and character pairing tags are used more often. For instance, stories pairing Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter series are tagged as “harry/draco.” There are 24,691 stories tagged as “harry/draco,” but only 10,622 of these also employ the tag “slash.”
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“One of the guys is almost always written as shorter”
Personal e-mail communication with Brita Hansen, August 2009.
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yaoi
Macwilliams (2008)
.
231
1992 Tokyo Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
McLelland (2006/2007).
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“I wore embroidered corsets and gold and black robes”
Choisy (1994).
234
How Annie and Toni Became Best Friends Forever Part 2
http://tgtony.deviantart.com/art/BFF-Best-Friends-Forever-Pt1-168406985
.
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enjoyment of transformation stories
Veale et al. (2008).
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autogynephilia
Bailey (2003).
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in transformation stories, the man is always forced
Beigel and Feldman (1963).
241
Edward Abbey writes
Abbey (1982).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
 
Abbey, E. (1982),
Down the River
. New York: Dutton.
Abel, G. G., and E. B. Blanchar (1974). “Role of Fantasy in Treatment of Sexual Deviation.”
Archives of General Psychiatry
30(4): 467–475.
Abel, G. G., L. Coffey, et al. (2008). “Sexual Arousal Patterns: Normal and Deviant
.” Psychiatric Clinics of North America
31(4): 643–+.
Abel, G. G., and C. Osborn (1992). “The Paraphilias—The Extent and Nature of Sexually Deviant and Criminal Behavior.”
Psychiatric Clinics of North America
15(3): 675–687.

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