DOI: Despite the importance of the sexuality in the human life, most studies performed up to now have been generally limited to the only evaluation of sexual behaviour and orientation, rather than the intimate sexual feeling in terms of sexual fantasies.
Some preliminary results would suggest the existence of some same sexual fancies beyond the difference occurring between homo and hetero sexuality, in particular the fantasy of androgyny. On this basis a preliminary study was planned to elaborate a sexual test carried out to investigate not only the sexual behaviour but the dimension of sexual fancies and imagination, by proposing a specific analysis that we have called Sexual Imagination Potency SIP.
No significant difference in SIP mean values was observed between men and women. Within the evaluated fancies, a particular importance has been shown to be played by the manner to imagine the androgyny aspect, and the pleasure for pegging. In fact, the subjects with pleasure for pegging showed significantly higher SIP mean values with respect to those, who had no pleasure for pegging. These preliminary results, which have to be confirmed in greater number of healthy subjects, seem to demonstrate the importance of the androgyny image in influencing the sexual mood by connecting hetero and homo sexual fancies in a unique imaginative psychosexual world.
Imagination and desire are looked upon as major determinants of sexuality [1]. Moreover, it has to be considered that the imagination represents one of the fundamental dimensions of human cognition [2]. During the early phases of development, the close interaction of imagination and erotic desire leads to the formation of psychical representatives of experiences of satisfaction, that influence sexual and nonsexual behaviours by establishing an internalized structure of blueprints for satisfaction [3].
These blueprints can also be viewed as an important step in the development of autonomy. Sex differences can be found primarily in the function and employment of erotic fantasies [4].
