Contemporary Chinese sex symbols in dreams

Abstract

The present study aimed to determine how often Chinese people dream of sexual metaphors and to examine the association between the dreaming of sexual experiences and contemporary Chinese sex symbols. A list of sex symbols was derived from a thorough review of the sexual analogies that Chinese people most often use in slang language. This list, together with the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised-Short Form, was administrated to a sample of 608 upper-secondary school graduates from Hong Kong. It was found that the participants rarely dreamed about food analogies for sex, such as "eating litchis" and "bananas or banana-like objects." By contrast, sex symbols involving weapons and aggressive behavior, such as "knives, swords, or daggers" and "shooting," occurred in dreams with moderate prevalence rates. Moreover, gender, the frequency of dreaming sexual experiences, and social desirability significantly predicted the frequency scores on the scale formed by these aggressive symbols for sex.

Contemporary Chinese Sex Symbols in Dreams. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232527574_Contemporary_Chinese_Sex_Symbols_in_Dreams [accessed Nov 27 2017].