In my experience while many male sadists can hit harder (on average) with impact play, in every single other way female sadists are far more extreme - and far more effective - in their sadism. I'm not saying that men can't be mean or very fun sadists to play with but the way women invest in it and relish it is just different and usually carries a much more intense energy.

Also women will not hesitate a bit when they get permission to go wild; men tend to be a bit more timid at the start and be easier. In this way it's kinda like men tend to not want to risk breaking their toy or worry about you being too fragile while other women know you're not gonna break and don't assume you're fragile and so have no timidity when approaching their sadism. That lack of (unwarranted) concern really makes it hit differently, in a very fun way.

No, not at all.

There's a lot of surveys specifically about youth sexual attitudes and interests; just because someone is under 18 doesn't mean they don't experience desires or fantasies. It also doesn't mean that discussing that with them and understanding their perspective isn't useful (both for developing educational materials for people in their age group and for understanding how sexuality develops among people).

There's also the fact that with any international survey "legal adult" gets a lot more nebulous. Even in the US Alabama doesn't consider someone a legal adult until 19, while they are emancipated federally at 18 (this includes banning 19 year olds from porn, strip clubs, adults only concerts, and sex shops). Then there are the European and Asian nations which emancipate anywhere between 16 and 20; some which don't emancipate women at the same age as men - if at all.

That's why I mentioned people aged 16-22 specifically; a 19 or 20 year old being interested in a 16 year old isn't comfortable to think about, but in an area where you're emancipated at 16 it's not extremely inappropriate either. Similar feelings to a 22 year old and someone who is 17.

Even further I was in university at 22 and had friends who started Uni at 16. I also dated a couple 18 year olds briefly when I was 21/22: Because we were in the same classes, similar majors, and had similar social circles.

I'm not saying all this to exempt the skeeviness of the fact that clearly a LOT of (mostly men, but definitely a few women as well) are attracted to people in the teen & young teen demographic while being fully developed whole-ass adults 😑😵‍💫🤢 but just to point out that the people who tend to respond to surveys - especially sexual surveys - tend to skew younger and have an extreme bias towards university aged people we should take that into account when looking at the age related data.

Ultimately I really like that they had the attention to detail to break up the ages by (older) "teen" - ephebophilia, (younger) "teen" - hebephilia, "child" - paedophilia, and "infant" - infantophilia. It allows for exactly this nuance to float to the top. Especially since ephebophilia is actually a healthy condition of people who are in the 14-19 age group. That is to say: it's good for teenagers to prefer other teens over young children or fully grown adults.

Well it's people into the fantasy of animal related things. A large part of that comes from the "perversion" perception of it. Being embarrassed turns a lot of people on and those things are really extremely abhorrent - but also aren't things that people often do or are exposed to - so they're very easily used for fantasy fodder. It's the same idea as "Harry Potter," most people who are really into HP don't want to be child soldiers fighting a Neo Nazi cult watching their closest friends and family die in the most horrific ways that they could imagine while they are permanently warped and twisted by horrific trauma before their life even really got started. At the same time: as a fantasy it's pretty exciting. The fact that it's so disconnected from the average reader's real life or things they'll ever likely experience is WHY it's something they can be excited by without fear of it actually happening.

It should be noted that since they all had a very high male bias that also means that of that population only a tiny fraction (like within the margin of error for sure) were women. That category of stuff is 100% a male dominated thing; with the seeming exception of teenagers, but we also don't know how many of the respondents were 16-22 which would be the age where dating someone under 20 is pretty normal. That probably skewed that result a fair bit.