Thinking About Someone Else During Sex Is More Common Than You Think, Study Finds
If you’ve ever been mid-sex with your partner and started to think about someone else, you’re normal—and you’re not sabotaging anything. A new study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that sexual fantasies shift pretty significantly depending on context. Researchers at the University of Northern British Columbia and Queen’s University recruited 546 adults in committed relationships and asked them to describe their most recent fantasy during solo masturbation and their most recent fantasy during partnered sex. What they found challenges many of the assumptions people carry around about what their own imagination means. When it came to solo masturbation, 56% of fantasies involved someone outside the relationship. During partnered sex, that dropped to 38%. Only 35% of participants said their partner was the only person in their head during sex—meaning most people had some version of an outside thought. A New Study Says Thinking About So...