ABSTRACT
The healthy function of erotic fantasies is to serve as a bridge to desire and as a special erotic charge to facilitate arousal and orgasm. The danger comes when people take this fantasy view of eroticism seriously and try to translate it to real-life behavior. In the great majority of cases, these make better erotic fantasies than erotic behavior for real-life couples. In truth, sexual fantasy and erotic behavior belong to very different realms.
