Women have a stronger preference for sexual submission than men do. In the current studies, we investigated gender differences in fantasies about sexual submission. Replicating previous research, in two studies we found that women expressed a stronger affinity for fantasies about sexual submission than men did. However, controlling for age and several sociocultural factors made the relationship between gender and preference for sexual submission non-significant—that is, we could statistically eliminate the gender difference. These analyses suggest the multiple factors that may influence sexual preferences and the multiple ways that gender differences in preference for submissive sexual fantasies can be eliminated by easily assessed demographic and contextual differences in the experiences of women and men.

女性比男性更倾向于性顺从。在当前的研究中，我们调查了对性屈服幻想的性别差异。重复之前的研究，在两项研究中，我们发现女性比男性对性服从的幻想表现出更强的亲和力。然而，控制年龄和一些社会文化因素使得性别和性服从偏好之间的关系不显着——也就是说，我们可以在统计上消除性别差异。这些分析表明，可能影响性偏好的多种因素，以及通过轻松评估女性和男性经历中的人口统计和背景差异，可以通过多种方式消除对顺从性幻想偏好的性别差异。