The separation between science and art is not only objectively erroneous, but also dangerous, if taken seriously... it prevents the real world from being an object of fantasy; this way we favour a lack of culture that we are bound to face when we prefer a specific competence to the exploitation of all the possible means to reach knowledge of nature and of the world... let us then forget all dec...

This paper explores the arguments put forward for prohibiting the possession of fantasy images of child sexual abuse within the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, and applies them to sexual ageplay in Second Life. Sexual ageplay is the virtual act of simulating child sexual abuse using animated child characters operated by consenting adult users. The arguments underpinning the legislation centre on...

The current study examines changes over time in a commonly used measure of dispositional empathy. A cross-temporal meta-analysis was conducted on 72 samples of American college students who completed at least one of the four subscales (Empathic Concern, Perspective Taking, Fantasy, and Personal Distress) of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) between 1979 and 2009 (total N = 13,737). Overa...

This study addresses forceful submission fantasies in men and women. Although many approaches implicitly or explicitly cast women's force fantasies in a pathological light, this study seeks to explore the associations of such fantasy to female power. By adopting an evolutionary meta-theoretical perspective (and a resource control theory perspective), it was hypothesized that highly agentic, dom...

This paper is an attempt to apply machine learning to fantasy sports in order to gain an edge over the average player. Basketball players’ fantasy scores were predicted using a linear regression algorithm and stochastic gradient descent as well as a naive bayes classifier with discretized state space. A team of eight players was then selected by framing the problem as a constraint satisfaction ...