In an investigation of German boys 12 to 18 years of age, only 13% admitted to have ever masturbated with homosexual fantasies and only 3% said that they mostly did so. Heterosexual fantasies, on the other hand, occupied the minds of 95%, and with 73% this was mostly the case. 81% had used pictures or written stories to stimulate their fantasy: 19% used them most of the time. 38% had masturbated looking at their own naked bodies in a mirror and 1% did this regularly (Giese & Schmidt 1968, 80).
In the archives of the Brongersma Foundation are the results of an unpublished survey made by a psychologist (1980) of 74 grammar school boys in a southern German city. The boys, aged 9-17 years (median 13.9), were selected in that only those whose parents consented to their sons’ participation were questioned. Only the six youngest (9-10 years) denied that they masturbated. This is the first investigation, to my knowledge, in which boys have given detailed information about the content of their masturbatory fantasies. Many boys mentioned more than one theme. Two boys (twin brothers) said they had no fantasies at all. With 46 boys their fantasies were exclusively heterosexual; with 14 exclusively homosexual; with 6 they were mixed. Fantasy content and themes mentioned were:
- Heterosexual: my girl friend, a girl (10); naked women (13); (big) tits (16); a (naked, hairy) cunt (19); fucking (11); arse-fucking (3).
- Homosexual: my friend, a boy (7); a (stiff) cock (and big balls) (9); jerking off (8); rough-housing with a boy (1); seeing a boy jerking off (3); arse-fucking (1)
In their sexual fantasies, males shake off the burdens of civilisation imposed upon them by parents and society and become once again uninhibited animals, says Nancy Friday (1981, 261). Her inquiry into men’s sexual fantasies resulted in an interesting collection of them from some 3,000 subjects, including a number of teenage boys. A few examples from her book: Virgil, 13, together with his best friend, assaults a girl he knows. At first she resists, but finally she wants to be fucked, which both boys do (319–320). Clark, 14, has a powerful urge to have sex with someone. He invites a 14-year-old Arab schoolmate to sleep with him. The Arab boy has a penis 8 inches long and rather wide, and he puts this in Clark’s anus and fucks him endlessly through the whole night. Later the Arab boy brings Clark other boys and a 30-year-old man, also with an enormous penis: they all fuck him. Clark starts body-building with these people and so earns the respect of the girls at school. He has sex with the most beautiful of these girls (380- 381). Sherwin, when he reached puberty at age eleven, first had romantic dreams about girls. When he turned fourteen his fantasies shifted to incest, rape, paedophilia and even incredibly gory sadistic themes (522). Andrew, 14, can look through holes into a swimming pool changing room and so sees “a lot of cunts and tits”. His fantasy is to masturbate in under panties soiled with vaginal juices. The lady whose under panties he uses invites him to have sex with her. Or he visits a whore house (526-527). Arthur, 15, is drawn to boys his own age. He fantasises being stripped by his comrades in a locker room. When they see his huge erection they are stunned. He is made to suck one of them off, and then he fucks another. He would like to realise this fantasy (408-409). Joe, 15, sometimes masturbates four times a day. His fantasy is to meet a 30-year-old man in the showers. Looking at each other, they both get erections. Finally they suck each other and fuck each other and have intercrural sex. “I’d love to fulfill that fantasy.” (414-416) Vernon, 15, “unfortunately a virgin”, fantasises about skinny dipping in a pool with a girl and then screwing her (511). Bobby, just turned 15, fantasises about a harem of 50 chicks who “rip my clothes off and make me fuck each of them. All those wet cunts…” and about fucking a girl in the middle of Broadway with everyone watching (520-521). Milt, 15, masturbates an average of two or three times a day, and on some days four or five times, to relieve his pent-up desire. His 146 fantasies “range far and wide, from animals to girls to other guys” (529-530). Jonas, 16, fantasises about a young male who goes down on him after he has gone down on the young male. “I would like this to happen, but not now.” (404) Tommy, 16 and very horny, has had sex with both sexes, but prefers well-hung men. His fantasy is about being raped by a good-looking guy who, after sucking him, gets three other friends to tie him down. Tommy is made to suck one man, while another “would shove my hard cock up his ass and go up and down.” One man, who has been sucking another, would at the end spit it out all over Tommy (404-405). Red was 12 when he was made to tick the penises of some older boys in the woods. Now, at 20, he fantasises about that a lot. He has had sex with women and men. When he was fifteen he fantasised feeling up males and females, stripping them and posing them in sexual positions with others. His latest fantasy is about being sucked and raped by a girl (406-408).
