Statistics

Some 47 per cent of women fantasise about firefighters, while almost 54 per cent of men dream about women dressed in a nurse's uniform.

By contrast, only 1.7 per cent of women confessed to having fantasies about politicians, while 6.5 per cent of men fantasise about traffic wardens.

Firemen are followed by soldiers, populating the dreams of 28 per cent of women, businessmen (27 per cent), doctors (26 per cent), and footballers (20 per cent).

At the bottom of the list of women's sexual fantasies were milkmen, only in 0.8 per cent of women's dreams.

Men, who were more comfortable confessing to sexual fantasies, dreamed about nurses, maids (44 per cent), and air hostesses (40 per cent).

While a greater proportion of women fantasised about same sex relationships - 23.5 per cent compared to 5.3 per cent of men - men were more likely to dream about threesomes (55 per cent versus 31 per cent of women)

Some 40 per cent of men and women also fantasised about sex with a celebrity.