Nurses and firemen dominate the sexual fantasies of men and women with politicians and traffic wardens ranking near the bottom, according to a poll published on Tuesday.
Some 47 percent of women fantasise about firefighters, while almost 54 percent of men dream about women dressed in a nurse's uniform.
By contrast, only 1.7 percent of women confessed to having fantasies about politicians, while 6.5 percent of men fantasise about traffic wardens.
Firemen are followed by soldiers, populating the dreams of 28 percent of women, businessmen (27 percent), doctors (26 percent), and footballers (20 percent).
At the bottom of the list of women's sexual fantasies were milkmen, only in 0.8 percent of women's dreams.
Men, who were more comfortable confessing to sexual fantasies, dreamed about nurses, maids (44 percent), and air hostesses (40 percent).
While a greater proportion of women fantasised about same sex relationships, 23.5 percent compared to 5.3 percent of men, men were more likely to dream about threesomes (55 percent versus 31 percent of women)
Some 40 percent of men and women also fantasised about sex with a celebrity.
The survey questioned 1,818 people above the age of 16 and was carried out by Budget Van Insurance.