A 2009 study on two separate samples of male undergraduate students in Canada found that 62 to 65%, depending on the sample, had entertained sadistic fantasies, and 22 to 39% engaged in sadistic behaviors during sex. The figures were 62 and 52% for bondage fantasies, and 14 to 23% for bondage behaviors.[92] A 2014 study involving a mixed sample of Canadian college students and online volunteers, both male and female, reported that 19% of male samples and 10% of female samples rated the sadistic scenarios described in a questionnaire as being at least "slightly arousing" on a scale that ranged from "very repulsive" to "very arousing";[93] the difference was statistically significant.[93] The corresponding figures for the masochistic scenarios were 15% for male students and 17% for female students, a non-significant difference.[93] In a 2011 study on 367 middle-aged and elderly men recruited from the broader community in Berlin, 21.8% of the men self-reported sadistic fantasies and 15.5% sadistic behaviors;[94] 24.8% self-reported any such fantasy and/or behavior.[94] The corresponding figures for self-reported masochism were 15.8% for fantasy, 12.3% for behavior, and 18.5% for fantasy and/or behavior.[94] In a 2008 study on gay men in Puerto Rico, 14.8% of the over 425 community volunteers reported any sadistic fantasy, desire or behavior in their lifetime; the corresponding figure for masochism was 15.7%.[95]
Reference 1: Has been restrained for pleasure, Has restrained someone else for pleasure, Has received pain for pleasure and Has inflicted pain for pleasure.
Reference 2: Straight men, Gay men, Bisexual men, Straight women, Gay women and Bisexual women.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_sex
Reference 2: Straight men, Gay men, Bisexual men, Straight women, Gay women and Bisexual women.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_sex
