It's all about the old rape fantasy thing - you have to relinquish control to someone else to allow yourself to enjoy sex. These are really seduction fantasies - "Oh, I didn't really want to do that dirty thing - he MADE me do it!" (And then I loved it). Of course rape really isn't about sexual enjoyment - it's about power and no rape victum enjoys being raped - that's for sure.
@intime: Absolutely. There's really no such thing as a rape fantasy (unless you fantasize about being the rapist, which... euch) because if it's a fantasy, you're creating it in your mind, you have complete control over everything that happens and everything that happens is exactly what you want. Anyone claiming that women "ask" or "want" to be raped, and rape fantasies prove it, is an asshole of the highest order. Rape/submission fantasy and actual rape have nothing to do with each other, and are not comparable in any way.
@Slovenly Muse: Yes, you are correct, of course. I knew a woman who liked to discuss and, to a point, act out fantasies of very rough sex which could, at its extreme, approach physical abuse. And, she refused to adopt a safe word. However, I could plainly see that certain things turned her on and others didn't, which determined for me how I would limit my actions while doing exactly what she requested, so in the end she still exerted control over the situation.
Seriously, I'm a scientist. I do research for a living and I'm extremely offended that you're referring to psychologists and sociologists as scientists unless they're working on hardcore statistical theories. Folks in the biological and physical sciences refer to them as the crazies, just kidding. No, only a little bit. So, PLEASE add the word "SOCIAL" in front of these research professionals. Thanks.
While I agree that most sociologists are not "scientists" in the same way that chemists and biologists are (or even more humanistic professionals like anthropologists), they are certainly more scientific than laymen.
Many sexual fantasies involving dominance and surrender occur b/c someone wants to relinquish responsibility & guilt (think Bristol Palin) after all, so much baggage comes w/ sex when all we want to do is simply enjoy it(hence fantasies b/c of the repercussions of free love)It's logical that some socially dominant women fantasize in this way: in real life, they're (usually) responsible & control the urges that lead to trouble (i.e., cheating)
@Smitros: "No, you can't make me, you bastard! You can't make me! Bully! You cad! You can't make me do anything!-ALRIGHT, YOU HAVE A LARGE SAMPLE SIZE! Aaaaaand...Thank you for fulfilling my secret desire to be dominated. I hope that it was as satisfying for you as it was for me."
I think my 4 yr old could take on these pirates. We stood in line for 45 minutes to meet Captain Hook on a Disney ship and when we got to the front to have her picture taken with Hook, she looked at his enormous phoney pirate head, locked detachable hooks with him, and said, "You're plastic!" and refused to have a picture taken with him. I'd like to finish the story by saying that she stabbed him in his hindquarters and he ran away yelling, "Smee!" but instead we just walked away, dejected, having learned a sad lesson about pirates.
I think their one attempt to one-upping the bar was trying to take on a fucking cruise ship... ... with 1500 people on board!.. I mean.. how is that even logistically possible for four scumbag teenagers on a raft to commandeer that many people at gunpoint??
They need to create a distraction to divert attention from how badly they suck right now. Maybe some reality show where rival pirate teams square off against one another for prizes and booty? You know, Survivor: The Pirate Edition or something?
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While I agree that most sociologists are not "scientists" in the same way that chemists and biologists are (or even more humanistic professionals like anthropologists), they are certainly more scientific than laymen.
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You said "lay".
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That's a falsifiable hypothesis with further definition of terms. I will leave the reproduction of results to others.
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"You want stochastic, I'll give you stochastic."
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This is where the anonymity of commenting is a problem.
Are you heteroskedastic?
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A couple of ground rules.
No Stata.
Must be discrete.
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Lots of trial and error.
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"As these issues are beyond the scope of this paper, further research is required. Future outcomes, though, may be amenable to policy interventions."
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I won't even ask about the confidence interval.
Scenarios like this come up on Maury Povich.
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Which, of course, I have excerpted on my blog.
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