Whereas imaginative sex, it seems, should be considered as any enhancement of sex beyond the sweet commonplaces of customary intercourse, it frequently reflects themes of deeply rooted male and female sexual fantasy. If there are common elements threading together many of these fantasies, they are those of capture and rape, or subjugation and sexual conquest, of dominance and submission, of the control, sexual and otherwise, of one human being by another. Those who are aware of the attractions of power will find these themes familiar. Similarly, the man who fantasizes rape and the woman who fantasizes herself as his sexually yielding, conquered victim will find them, in theme, not strange at all. In effect this is to say that the human being, given what he is, will comprehend the themes of these fantasies. His own fantasies, of course, may differ. What follows is intended neither as a catalog nor an exhaustive set of recipes for pleasure. We might take it, if we wished, as merely a graphic illustration of, and an introduction to, some of the possibilities of imaginative sex. I expect, of course, that they might serve, in certain cases, as suggestions for scenarios for fantasy, or, in a sense, as suggestions for recipes for pleasure. On the other hand, doubtless one’s own recipes are always the best. They speak most deeply to us. We may have nourished and elaborated them since childhood. Some of the fantasies that follow will simply strike you as strange or funny. Some are, as a matter of fact, strange or funny. Others will strike different people different ways. The point is to get the point, to understand the nature of imaginative sex, the possible role of fantasy in increasing sexual pleasure. Fantasies which are astonishingly sexually provocative to one individual may not be to another. But most of us, I suppose, know or could invent fantasies which, relative to us, would be stimulative of incredible psychosexual pleasure. If we really do not know of any such fantasies, and cannot even think any up, which would appeal to us, then it seems imaginative sex is for others, not for us.

Perhaps a last suggestion is in order.