I just finished reading "Arousal: The Secret Logic of Fantasies" by Michael J. Bader. While I do have some criticisms, it is generally a thought provoking book. I feel more comfortable about my own fetishes and fantasies after reading it.
Here are some quotes:
"If one peruses Nancy Friday's extensive collections of sexual fantasies, the differences in the form and content of men's and women's fantasies are often quite minimal."
"We acquire not only our strengths and virtues in our families, but our pathogenic beliefs as well. These beliefs will shape who we think we are and who we imagine we can become. These pathogenic beliefs also deeply shape our experience of masculinity and femininity and the form and content of our sexual desire. The influence boys to seek sexual safety in objectification and girls to seek it in relationships."
"There will always be stresses in our lives, there will always be potential interference in our capacity to become aroused, and there will always be a corresponding need for sexual fantasies to help us. Thankfully, human beings are blessed with the imagination to create them. Our imaginations are like a portable first-aid kit for our psyches, soothing our pain, circumventing our guilt, and helping us have pleasure."
"Our capacity for sexual fantasy is an enduring aspect of what it means to be human."
"Men definitely tend to objectify women, but they do so in order to preserve their masculinity not primarily to hurt women. Women definitely prefer sex in the context of love, but the purpose of this preference is to diminish their guilt as much as it is to establish a higher form of intimacy."