Sexual fantasies are mental representations of desires that provoke sexual arousal through ideas, images, feelings or situations generated in the mind. These may not be directly related to the sexual act, but focus on desire or pleasure. These arise consciously and unconsciously equally and in all people (men and women without difference). In recent years, sexual fantasies have been breaking the taboo in which society had locked them up and they are beginning to become something everyday and not at all scandalous or prohibited.
One of the most common beliefs about sexual fantasies is that everything we imagine in our mind is something we want to carry out in reality , but it doesn’t have to be that way. Much of the charm that sexual fantasies have derives precisely from the fact that they occur in our minds and therefore we can carry them out without pain, fear or remorse . In many cases, these are just one way to generate arousal and would surely lose their appeal if they were to be fulfilled .
Numerous studies and professionals in sexology and psychology support the fact that fantasies are beneficial for sexual health , since they are not had due to dissatisfaction but rather activate the pleasure receptors of the brain and stimulate sexual desire, since the The brain activates the same parts when you do something and when you imagine doing it . Professional athletes often resort to a visualization technique in which they imagine reaching the finish line first or making the best throw; sexual fantasies are the equivalent of this method.
As we have already said, fantasies should not be understood as a desire to carry out the practices that we see in our mind because it may not be so. Suppressing or denying them as if they were something bad is also not beneficial for health. They can pose a problem if they become an obsession or if a certain fantasy becomes the only source of excitement that one finds, although then we would go on to speak of a paraphilia.
The mind is a very complex apparatus and many of these fantasies will not have that hidden meaning no matter how hard one tries. Fantasies are neither good nor bad, they just are. We tell you some curiosities about them.
