This archive report was first published on 2 October 2019.
Published on October 2, 2019, a study by the University of Freiburg in Germany has shed light on the changing dynamics of women's dreams.
Contrary to the long-held assumption that men are more interested in sex, the study found that women today spend just as much time as men dreaming about sex.
According to the researchers, erotic dreams are those that are sexually motivated and may include scenes of kissing or flirting.
Young women today are having three times as many erotic dreams as their grandmothers did 50 years ago, with more than one in five dreams experienced by a young woman today being erotic in nature.
The study suggests that women today deal with sexuality more openly than women from older generations, and that they are no longer ashamed about admitting to such dreams.
Women aged between 16 and 30 have the highest rate of erotic dreams, and are also more likely to remember their erotic dreams than women from previous generations.
