Sexual Fantasies

Leitenberg and Henning's (1995) abstract states that the article is a review of the theory and research on sexual fantasy and delineates the basic areas of the research covered in the review (e.g. theories of sexual fantasy, deviant sexual fantasies, etc.) It is also noted in the abstract that the presented review ends with a summary of major findings, a series of conclusions, and a formulation of suggestions for future research. Although the abstract is brief, it presents a well-written and concise summary of the article's primary purpose and basic dimensions.

The article's general purpose is stated to be a review of literature compiled and examined in order to better understand the nature of sexual fantasies and the role they play in both arousal and dysfunction. The purpose is clearly stated and, moreover, the purpose statement is accompanied by a discussion of several reasons why a comprehensive review of this research is significant and needed.

Each of the reasons provided as to why the article is importa

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ssible explanations of gender differences in incidence and frequency of sexual fantasy; (4) Age of onset and sexual fantasy developmental changes in frequency; (5) Sexual satisfaction as it relates to incidence and frequency; (6) Guilt as it relates to incidence and frequency; and (7) Other personalty characteristics and values as related to incidence and frequency of sexual fantasies. Over 60 studies are covered in this section alone. With this tremendous amount of material, coverage is--as might be expected--superficial; this because of the difficulty involved in synthesizing so much material down to some general and basic principles concerning incidence and frequency. What makes this section even weaker is that, after reviewing all of these studies, the authors provide no summary section in which the material is concentrated down to a few basic themes. The result is that the reader is left without any way of organizing what has just been covered. The second section of the review regarding the content of sexual fantasies suffers from the same problems as the first section. The only section that is not unwieldy and which can be and is summarized as to general principles and themes is the section on deviance in sexual fant
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Approximate Word count = 1394
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)

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