Sex Fantasy Questionnaire (Wilson, 1988)

• Populations: Adolescents, Adults
• Age ranges: 13-32
• Languages: English, Spanish
• Countries: Spain

Items

Subscales

• Exploratory,
• Intimate,
• Impersonal,
• Sadomasochistic

Items by Subscale

Exploratory

• Participacion in an orgy (Participación en una orgía)
• Homosexual activity (Actividad homosexual)
• Exchanging partners (Intercambio de parejas)
• Being promiscuous (Promiscuidad)
• Being much sought after by the opposite sex∗(Ser perseguido por el sexo opuesto)
• Sex with two other people (Acto sexual con otras personas)
• Being seduced as an “innocent”∗ (Ser un “inocente” seducido)
• Having sex with someone of different race (Acto sexual con alguien de diferente raza)

Intimate

• Making love out of doors in a romantic setting (e.g., field of flowers, beach at night)∗ (Acto sexual al aire libre, en un lugar romántico)
• Having intercourse with a loved partner (Practicar un coito con una pareja amada)
• Intercourse with someone you know but have not had sex with (Practicar un coito con alguien conocido, pero con el que no se han tenido relaciones sexuales)
• Practicing oral sex (Sexo bucal activo)
• Making love elsewhere than bedroom (e.g., kitchen, bathroom) (Acto sexual en un lugar distinto al dormito ej. cocina)
• Having your clothes taken off (Ser desnudado)
• Being masturbated to orgasm by a partner (Ser masturbado hasta el orgasmo por su pareja)
• Kissing passionately∗ (Besar apasionadamente)

Impersonal

• Watching others have sex (Observar el acto sexual de otros)
• Intercourse with an anonymous stranger∗ (Practicar un coito con un extraño, anónimo)
• Being excited by rubber or leather (Sentirse excitado por el caucho o el cuero)
• Looking at obscene pictures or films (Contemplar imágenes o películas obscenas)
• Using objects for stimulation (e.g.vibrators, candles) (Utilizar objetos estimuladores ej. vibradores)
• Having sex with someone much older than yourself∗ ((Practicar un acto sexual con alguien de mucha más edad)
• Being excited by silk or leather (Sentirse excitado por la seda o las pieles)
• Transvestism (wearing clothes of the opposite sex) (Utilizar prendas de vestir del sexo opuesto)

Sadomasochistic

• Whipping or spanking someone∗ (Azotar a alguien en el trasero)
• Being whipped or spanked (Ser azotado o golpeado en el trasero)
• Tying someone up (Atar a alguien)
• Being tied up (Ser atado)
• Exposing yourself provocatively (Exhibirse provocativamente)
• Taking someone’s clothes off∗ (Desnudar a la pareja como distracción)
• Forcing someone to do something (Obligar a alguien a hacer algo)
• Being forced to do something (Ser obligado a hacer algo)

*Item was not included in the 24 item version by (Sierra, Ortega, & Zubeidat, 2006).

Responses

Items used a 4 point Likert-type response, 0 = never, 3 = often

Items as presented (Sierra, Ortega, & Zubeidat, 2006).

Further items have been presented (Wilson, 1988), 

Scoring

Information on scoring is not consistently reported across subscales:

For the Exploratory Subscale:

“high scores in this section indicate a strong sexual impulse, which is more frequent in men than in women.”  (Sierra, Ortega, & Zubeidat, 2006)

Relating to the full scale:

“On the other hand, the poor fit to the data obtained for the model hypothesizing a second-order factor suggested that using a total SFQ score is not appropriate because it tends to reduce perceptible differences between individuals, decreasing the diagnostic utility
of the test.”  (Sierra, Ortega, & Zubeidat, 2006)

“To obtain scores for these factors only the first column in the SFQ (Daytime fantasies) is considered. (This is because the four fantasy columns are highly correlated, with Column 1 being central.) The item scores of between 0 and 5 are summed over the 10 items in each factor to produce scores on four scales, each ranging from 0 to 50. 

In addition to these four ‘primaries’, a total fantasy score may be obtained simply by summing the scores on the four primaries (equivalent to the sum of scores on all items). This is of interest because it turns out to be a fairly good measure of overall sex drive or ‘libido’.”  (Wilson, 1988)

Citations

Wilson, G. D. (1988). Measurement of sex fantasy. Sexual and Marital Therapy, 3(1), 45-55. https://doi.org/10.1080/02674658808407692

Juan Carlos Sierra, Virgilio Ortega & Ihab Zubeidat (2006) Confirmatory Factor Analysis of a Spanish Version of the Sex Fantasy Questionnaire: Assessing Gender Differences, Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 32:2, 137-159, DOI: 10.1080/00926230500442318