Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: At the Convergence of the Cultural and the Individual ([Mariah Larsson] [Sara Johnsdotter]) -- Secret gardens -- Chapters and contributors -- References -- Feminism and Sexual Fantasy: Reading and Defending Fifty Shades of Grey as Pornography (Emma Vossen) -- History and context -- But what is pornography, really? -- Ana's/reader agency -- Depictions of abuse and BDSM -- Pornographic tactics and pornotopia -- Conclusions -- References -- Written Fantasies: A Case of Language-Induced Sexual Excitement (Sara Johnsdotter) -- Introduction -- Sexual words -- Female cum in my corpus of written amateur erotica -- Maximum visibility in filmed pornography -- 'Real' vs. faked female sexual pleasure and the effortless orgasm -- Eroticisation of female bodily fluids - a feast of consumption -- Written depictions of the female cum: authorship and readership -- Female cum in sexual fantasy -- References -- Making the Fantasy: Consumption, Relationships, and the RealDoll (Deborah Blizzard) -- Normalisation of the doll in popular culture -- The RealDoll: creating the ideal -- Making the fantasy real: what is available -- What purchasers see: making the fantasy come to life -- Objectification and consumption of the human -- Concluding thoughts -- References -- The Politics of Sexual Fantasies: The Inversion of Sexual Fantasies in Orientalism and Occidentalism (Pernilla Ouis) -- Sexual stereotypes of the Other -- The veil and the colonial gaze -- The harem: within the forbidden sexual space -- Western erotica of the Orient -- Oriental sexualities -- Postcolonial deconstructions: the example of the veil -- Islamism and the promiscuous Occident -- Foucault reassessed and final reflections -- References -- Blocking out Sexual Fantasies for a Fantasy of Eternal Sex: Islamist Views (Aje Carlbom).

Islam as an institution for sexual discipline -- Sexual fantasies from an activist perspective -- Therapeutic solution -- Paradise and sex -- Summary -- References -- Fantasies Becoming Practice: BDSM as Ritual (Charlotta Carlström) -- Introduction -- Background -- Gender and fantasy -- BDSM - where your dreams come true? -- Playing with taboos -- Personal fantasies become collective rituals -- BDSM - both fantasy and reality -- References -- Documenting Fantasy and Expanding Reality in Queer Pornography (Ingrid Ryberg) -- Introduction to the films -- Validating queer reality -- BDSM as reparative criticism -- A zone of experimentation -- References -- Fantasies Becoming Illegal: The Manga Case, Child Porn Law, and the Regulation of the Sexual Mind (Mariah Larsson) -- Background -- Theoretical framework -- A criminalisation of the mind? -- The Manga case -- Concluding discussion -- References -- Johns' Fantasies of 'the Prostitute' (Sven-Axel Månsson) -- Forbidden fruit -- Space and place -- Curiosity and sexual variation -- Another kind of sex -- The girlfriend experience -- The fantasy of the kind-hearted comforter -- Fantasies of another kind of woman -- Concluding comments -- References -- Just Faking It? Pretend Theory Meets Sexual Fantasising (Daniel D. Hutto) -- The great pretenders -- Why believe in Pretend Theory? -- Real emotional responding to fictions -- A radically enactive take on sexual fantasising with real emotions -- Sexual arousal as a basic emotion -- Full emotional spectrums and fantastical manners -- The final analysis -- References -- Sexual Fantasies in Sexological Psychotherapeutic Settings (Gunnel Brander) -- Theories for the practice -- Recent research on sexual fantasies and psychodynamic therapy -- Case vignettes -- Case 1 -- Case 2 -- Case 3 -- Case 4.

Why and how sexual fantasies matter in sexually oriented psychotherapy -- References -- Contributors.