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The Kinkdex: kinks in plain language

Explore a searchable list of kinks and plain-language definitions. Browse hundreds of interests by broad type, and find clearer words for something familiar—or understand something new.

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1950s Household

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

A dynamic centered on traditional mid-20th-century domestic roles, aesthetics, and routines, often featuring a homemaker and breadwinner structure. It may include vintage clothing, manners, household rituals, and retro relationship roleplay.

24/7-constantly present power dynamics-not reserved for sex

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

A relationship structure where dominance and submission are maintained continuously as part of daily life, not limited to scenes or sexual activity. The power exchange can shape routines, roles, rules, and interactions throughout the relationship.

69 Position

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A mutual oral sex position where partners align so each can stimulate the other’s genitals at the same time, typically with one person inverted relative to the other.

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ABDL (Adult Baby-Diaper Lover)

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Roleplay & Transformation

A roleplay and fetish interest centered on behaving or being treated like an infant or very young child, often involving diapers, baby clothing, or nursery items. For some, the appeal is emotional comfort or caregiving dynamics; for others, it is erotic.

Abduction Play

Groups: Power & Control, Touch, Sensation & Release, and Roleplay & Transformation

A roleplay scenario centered on being taken, captured, or carried off, often drawing on themes of surprise, resistance, pursuit, or helplessness. It may range from playful fantasy to more intense power-exchange storytelling.

Abrasion Play

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of sensation play involving deliberate friction or scraping on the skin, often using rough materials or surfaces. It can create feelings ranging from mild irritation to intense sting or rawness.

Affection

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Enjoyment of giving, receiving, or emphasizing physical and emotional warmth, such as cuddling, kissing, praise, or gentle touch. It centers closeness, tenderness, and feeling cared for.

Affectionate Cruelty

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A dynamic where someone expresses dominance or intensity through teasing, mock meanness, or mild discomfort delivered in a caring, affectionate way. It blends warmth and tenderness with controlled cruelty as part of the appeal.

Affectionate Domination

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A dynamic where a dominant partner expresses authority through warmth, tenderness, praise, nurturing, or gentle control. It emphasizes emotional closeness and care alongside power exchange.

Aftercare

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

The emotional and physical care, comfort, and check-in that happens after an intense intimate or BDSM experience. It can include cuddling, reassurance, water, blankets, quiet time, or discussion of how the experience felt.

Age Play

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

Roleplay involving age-related dynamics, where someone adopts a younger or older persona, often for nurturing, authority, regression, or caregiving themes. It may be psychological, behavioral, or include clothing, language, and routines associated with a chosen age.

Anal Beads

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A series of connected beads designed to be inserted into the anus and removed gradually for changing sensations. They may vary in size, spacing, and material.

Anal Chastity

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of control or denial involving the anus, often using plugs, belts, or rules to restrict access, stimulation, or removal. It can emphasize restraint, ownership, or prolonged teasing.

Anal Creampie

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Ejaculation inside a partner’s anus during anal sex. It may be appealing for the physical sensation, intimacy, or the visual and symbolic aspect of finishing internally.

Anal Fisting

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A sexual practice involving the gradual insertion of a hand into the anus. It typically emphasizes stretching, fullness, and intense internal sensation.

Anal Hooks

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of anal play involving inserting one or more fingers into the anus, often to stimulate sensitive nerve endings or the prostate. It may be part of foreplay, penetration practice, or partnered erotic touch.

Anal Sex

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Sexual activity involving penetration of the anus, typically with a penis, fingers, or toys. It may be part of partnered sex and can appeal for physical sensation, intimacy, or power dynamics.

Anal Stretching

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A practice involving the gradual expansion of the anus using fingers, plugs, toys, or larger objects. It is often done to accommodate bigger penetration or to explore the sensation of fullness.

Anal Training

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A gradual approach to preparing the body for anal penetration, often using fingers, plugs, or progressively larger toys. It focuses on increasing comfort, relaxation, and familiarity over time.

Analingus

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Oral stimulation of the anus using the mouth, lips, or tongue. It may be given to a partner as a form of erotic touch or foreplay.

Anonymous Encounters

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sexual or intimate meetings where participants know little or nothing about each other’s identity. The appeal often centers on mystery, spontaneity, and limited personal disclosure.

ANR (Adult Nursing Relationship)

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A dynamic involving breastfeeding or suckling between adults, often as part of nurturing, comfort, intimacy, or erotic play. It may include lactation or focus on the emotional caregiver/caregiver-receiver aspect.

Armbinders

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A restraint device that secures the arms behind the back, often with the elbows bent or drawn together. It limits arm movement and can create a feeling of helplessness or display.

Art Erotica

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sexual or sensual arousal centered on artistic depictions of erotic themes, such as paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, or film. It can involve creating, viewing, collecting, or discussing erotic art.

Asphyxiaphilia Play

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of erotic breath restriction or oxygen-limitation play in which reduced breathing, choking sensations, or controlled airflow are sexually arousing. It may involve hands, body positioning, or devices that limit air intake.

Ass to Mouth

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Roleplay & Transformation

A sexual practice where a penis, toy, or fingers move from anal contact directly to oral contact. Some people include any direct transfer from the anus to the mouth under this term.

Auralism

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Sexual arousal centered on sound, especially voices, moans, whispers, breathing, or specific audio cues. It may involve listening to live sounds or recordings as a primary erotic focus.

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Bad Dragon Dildos

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Roleplay & Transformation

Fantasy-themed insertable sex toys known for stylized, creature-inspired shapes, textures, and exaggerated designs. They are commonly associated with fandom, monster-themed erotic play, and collectors of novelty sex toys.

Ball Gags

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A mouth gag with a ball-shaped piece held between the teeth or lips, usually secured with a strap around the head. It restricts speech and can create a sense of helplessness or control during play.

Ball Stretching

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of genital play involving pulling, weighting, or otherwise elongating the scrotum to create sensations of pressure, tension, or heaviness. It may be done by hand, with rings, or with specialized devices.

Ballet Boots/Shoes

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A footwear and posture-focused interest centered on very high-arched boots or shoes that force the foot into an extreme pointed position, creating a stylized, dancer-like look. It may involve visual appeal, restriction, or control themes.

Bare Bottom Spanking

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of impact play involving spanking directly on uncovered buttocks. It emphasizes skin-to-skin contact and can be valued for its sharper sensation, visual intimacy, or ritual aspect.

Bare Handed Spanking

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of impact play involving striking the buttocks with an open hand rather than an implement. It may range from playful swats to more intense rhythmic spanking.

Bareback

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sex without a condom, usually referring specifically to anal sex between men. The term may also be used more broadly for condomless vaginal or anal sex.

Barefoot

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A preference for being without shoes and often socks, sometimes emphasizing the look, feel, smell, or vulnerability of bare feet. It can overlap with foot-focused attraction or simply center on the sensation of going unshod.

Bastinado

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

Impact play focused on the soles of the feet, typically using a cane, rod, paddle, or similar implement. It emphasizes the feet as the target area for sensation or pain.

Bathroom Use Control

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A dynamic where one person directs or restricts another’s access to the toilet as part of power exchange. It may involve asking permission, scheduled use, or intentional delay.

BDSM (Bondage, Discipline, Dominance, Submission, Sadism and Masochism

Groups: Power & Control, Touch, Sensation & Release, and Clothing, Gear & Performance

An umbrella term for erotic practices and relationship dynamics involving restraint, power exchange, discipline, and the giving or receiving of pain or intense sensation. It covers a wide range of activities, roles, and preferences.

Begging

Groups: Power & Control

An erotic dynamic centered on pleading, asking, or verbally expressing desire, often to heighten anticipation, vulnerability, or power exchange. It can involve requesting touch, permission, release, or attention.

Behavior Modification

Groups: Power & Control

A dynamic where one person uses rewards, consequences, routines, or training techniques to shape another person’s habits, responses, or conduct. It often overlaps with power exchange and structured discipline.

Being Overpowered

Groups: Power & Control

A dynamic centered on one person being physically restrained, pinned, or otherwise made to feel unable to resist another’s strength or control. The appeal often comes from intensity, vulnerability, and the sensation of being dominated.

Bellydancing

Groups: Roleplay & Transformation and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

An interest in the movements, costumes, or performance style of belly dance as part of flirtation, erotic expression, or roleplay. It may center on hip movements, music, visual allure, or cultural-inspired aesthetics.

Belt Spanking

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of impact play where a belt is used to strike the body, often the buttocks or thighs. It is typically associated with a stingy, sharp sensation and can carry disciplinary or roleplay elements.

Belt Whippings

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Impact play involving strikes with a belt, typically producing a sharp sting and visible marks. It may focus on the sensation, the sound, or the symbolic intensity of using an everyday object.

Bisexuality

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Attraction to more than one gender, often including both one’s own gender and others. It describes a sexual orientation and may also overlap with romantic attraction for some people.

Biting

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

Using the teeth to nip, bite, or leave marks on a partner’s body as part of erotic touch. It can range from gentle nibbles to more intense pressure, often adding sensations of pain, possessiveness, or primal energy.

Blindfolds

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

Using a blindfold to block sight during intimate or erotic play. It can heighten anticipation and make other sensations feel more intense.

Blood Play

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Roleplay & Transformation

Erotic activity involving blood, such as drawing, seeing, tasting, or using it as part of sexual or BDSM scenes. It may appeal through associations with intensity, vulnerability, taboo, or ritual.

Blow Jobs

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Oral stimulation of a penis using the mouth, lips, and tongue. It may involve sucking, licking, or varying pressure and rhythm for sexual pleasure.

Blushing

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of erotic interest centered on visible embarrassment, shyness, or flushed cheeks. It may involve enjoying the look of someone becoming red-faced from attention, teasing, praise, or awkwardness.

Body Hair

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

An attraction to natural hair growth on areas such as the legs, underarms, chest, pubic region, or elsewhere on the body. It can involve finding visible or tactile hair especially appealing in a partner or in oneself.

Body Modification

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Erotic interest in altering the body’s appearance or sensation through things like piercings, tattoos, scarification, implants, or stretching. It may involve the process, the results, or the symbolism of permanent or semi-permanent change.

Body Paint

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Using paint or similar skin-safe materials on the body for decoration, sensory play, or erotic expression. It can involve creating designs, covering areas of skin, or incorporating the visual and tactile experience into intimacy.

Bondage

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

The practice of restraining or being restrained using items like rope, cuffs, tape, or other bindings as part of erotic play. It can range from simple immobilization to elaborate decorative tying.

Bondage Art

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

An aesthetic practice that uses restraints, rope, or positioning to create visually striking forms, patterns, or scenes. The emphasis is on beauty, composition, and presentation as much as physical restriction.

Bondage Equipment

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Tools and restraints used to limit movement or create a bound sensation during erotic play. This can include items like cuffs, ropes, collars, straps, spreader bars, and harnesses.

Bondage Tape

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A non-adhesive plastic tape that sticks only to itself, used to restrain, wrap, or decorate the body. It allows for secure-looking bondage without adhesive touching the skin.

Boot

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

An attraction focused on footwear that covers the foot and lower leg, often involving its appearance, material, scent, sound, or how it is worn. It may include admiring, handling, kissing, licking, or featuring this type of footwear in erotic scenes.

Boot Blacking

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

The care, polishing, and maintenance of leather boots and gear, often as a service-oriented or ritualized act. It can be practical, symbolic, or part of leather and BDSM culture.

Boot licking

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A fetish or submissive act involving licking someone’s boots or shoes, often emphasizing service, humiliation, authority, or the erotic appeal of leather and footwear.

Boot Worship

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A fetish centered on boots as objects of attraction, often involving admiration, kissing, licking, cleaning, or erotic focus on someone wearing them. It can overlap with dominance, service, or uniform-related appeal.

Boss/Secretary

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

A roleplay dynamic centered on workplace authority and professionalism, often involving a commanding employer and a deferential assistant. It may emphasize power imbalance, dress codes, obedience, and office-themed scenarios.

Branding

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of ownership-themed power exchange in which one person marks or presents another as associated with them. It can involve symbols, protocols, titles, clothing, or rituals that signal affiliation or possession.

Brats

Groups: Power & Control

A playful dynamic where someone resists, teases, or challenges a dominant partner to provoke attention, discipline, or a stronger response. It often centers on mischievous defiance as part of power exchange.

Breast Bondage

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of restraint or decorative tying focused on the chest, using rope or other bindings to shape, support, or restrict movement. It may emphasize aesthetics, pressure, or sensation.

Breast Spanking

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

Striking or slapping the breasts for sensation, arousal, or erotic power exchange. It may range from light taps to more intense impact, often emphasizing sting, tenderness, or visual response.

Breast/Nipple Play

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

Erotic stimulation of the breasts and nipples using touch, licking, sucking, pinching, or pressure. It may focus on heightened sensitivity, arousal, or the mix of pleasure and mild pain.

Breath Play

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of erotic play involving controlled restriction or awareness of breathing, often to heighten physical sensation, vulnerability, or psychological intensity. It can include hands, body positioning, or objects that affect airflow.

Breeding

Groups: Roleplay & Transformation

A sexual fantasy or dynamic centered on the idea of causing or receiving pregnancy, or roleplaying impregnation and fertility. It may involve themes of virility, risk, possession, or reproductive taboo.

Bruises

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A focus on creating, receiving, or displaying marks and discoloration on the skin, often from impact, pressure, or biting. The appeal may involve the visual result, the sensation, or the reminder afterward.

Bukkake

Groups: Power & Control, Touch, Sensation & Release, and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A group sexual activity in which multiple people ejaculate onto one person. It is often treated as a visual or humiliation-oriented fantasy, though people may enjoy it for many different reasons.

Bullwhips

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of impact play involving a long, flexible whip designed to create sharp, precise strikes. It can also include skill-based handling or performance focused on accuracy, speed, and control.

Burlesque

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance, Roleplay & Transformation, and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

An erotic performance style that combines striptease, dance, costume, and theatrical teasing. It often emphasizes glamour, humor, character, and playful reveal rather than explicit sexual activity.

Business Suits

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Roleplay & Transformation

A fetish or aesthetic interest centered on formal professional attire, especially tailored jackets, trousers, skirts, and related officewear. It may involve the look, symbolism, authority, or polished presentation associated with such clothing.

Butt Plugs

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Sex toys inserted into the anus and designed to stay in place, typically with a flared base for stability. They may be used for a feeling of fullness, stimulation, or as part of other sexual activities.

Butt plugs in public

Groups: Power & Control, Touch, Sensation & Release, and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Wearing an anal plug while outside the home or in social settings, often for the private thrill of hidden stimulation, a sense of taboo, or feeling controlled or “on display” without others necessarily knowing.

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Caging/Confinement

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A dynamic involving being physically enclosed, restrained, or kept in a limited space, such as a cage, crate, or similar enclosure. It often emphasizes helplessness, restriction, control, or pet-play themes.

Candle Wax

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A type of sensation play that involves dripping warmed wax onto the skin to create heat, texture, and anticipation. Some people enjoy the contrast between brief stinging warmth and the cooling layer left on the body.

Caressing

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Gentle, affectionate touching of the body with hands, fingers, or sometimes other body parts. It often emphasizes softness, intimacy, and sensory pleasure rather than intensity.

Casting

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Roleplay & Transformation

A roleplay or visual fetish centered on having a body part or the whole body enclosed in a cast, brace, or similar medical immobilization device. It may emphasize restriction, dependency, or the medical aesthetic.

Catheters

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Roleplay & Transformation

Insertion or use of a medical tube through the urethra into the bladder for erotic sensation, roleplay, or psychological stimulation. It may overlap with forms of urethral play or medical-themed play.

CBT (cock and ball torture)

Groups: Power & Control, Touch, Sensation & Release, and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of genital play focused on the penis and testicles, involving sensations such as squeezing, slapping, pulling, impact, or restriction. It is often explored for pain, intensity, vulnerability, or power exchange.

Cell Popping

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A body-focused practice involving the intentional popping or rupturing of skin cells, blisters, or similar small bumps for tactile, visual, or psychological satisfaction. It may overlap with pimple popping or other popping-related interests.

Chains

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

The use of metal restraints or decorative links in erotic play, often to limit movement, create a sense of captivity, or add visual and tactile intensity.

Chakra energy play

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A practice that uses concepts from chakra traditions and subtle energy work as part of erotic or intimate interaction. It may involve touch, visualization, breath, or intention focused on specific energy centers in the body.

Chaps

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Roleplay & Transformation

A fetish involving leather or similar legwear, often assless by design, valued for its look, texture, and the way it frames or exposes the body. It can overlap with leather, cowboy, biker, or uniform-related erotic interests.

Chastity

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A dynamic involving control over a person’s sexual release or access to their genitals, often using a device or rules. It can center on denial, anticipation, teasing, and power exchange.

Chastity Devices

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

Wearable restraints designed to limit or prevent access to the genitals, often using a lock or secure enclosure. They are commonly used to create anticipation, control arousal, or emphasize power exchange dynamics.

Cheerleading Uniforms

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Roleplay & Transformation

A clothing-focused interest centered on cheerleading outfits, often involving the look, texture, colors, or team-style aesthetic. It may include roleplay, admiration of specific uniform features, or wearing them for erotic appeal.

Chocolate

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A food-based interest centered on using sweet edible treats in erotic play, such as applying, tasting, or feeding them on the body. It may be part of sensation play, teasing, or themed roleplay.

Choking Play

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

Erotic breath restriction involving pressure to the neck or limiting airflow, often used to create a sense of intensity, vulnerability, or altered sensation during sexual activity.

Clamps and Clips

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

The use of small pinching devices, often on nipples or other sensitive body parts, to create pressure, discomfort, or heightened sensation. Some people enjoy the mix of pain, stimulation, and visual appeal.

Claws

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Roleplay & Transformation

A form of sensation play involving scratching, tracing, or lightly digging fingernails or claw-like accessories into the skin for erotic or sensory effect. It can range from gentle teasing to more intense marking.

Cling Film

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of body wrapping in which a person is covered with plastic wrap, often creating pressure, warmth, and restricted movement. It may be used for sensory play, immobilization, or full-body enclosure.

Clit Spanking

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Striking or tapping the clitoris or clitoral hood for erotic stimulation or pain play. It may be done by hand, with fingers, or with small impact implements.

Clothespins

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Using spring-loaded clips on the skin, often on areas like nipples, genitals, or other fleshy spots, to create pressure and pinching sensations. They may be used for steady discomfort, visual effect, or heightened sensitivity when removed.

Clowns

Groups: Roleplay & Transformation

Erotic or emotional interest involving clown aesthetics, personas, or performance elements such as makeup, costumes, exaggerated behavior, or playful unpredictability. It can overlap with humor, theatricality, fear, or surreal roleplay.

Cock Worship

Groups: Power & Control, Touch, Sensation & Release, and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of erotic focus in which a penis is treated with special admiration, reverence, or ritualized attention. It can involve praise, service, teasing, display, or acts centered on its perceived power or beauty.

Collar and Lead/Leash

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A dynamic involving one person wearing a collar and being guided, restrained, or symbolically handled with a lead or leash. It often emphasizes power exchange, pet play, ownership symbolism, or controlled movement.

Collars

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A symbolic accessory often used in BDSM or power-exchange dynamics to represent roles, commitment, ownership, or connection. It can range from a fashion item to a meaningful marker of a specific relationship.

Consensual Nonconsent

Groups: Power & Control, Touch, Sensation & Release, and Roleplay & Transformation

A roleplay or relationship dynamic where people agree in advance to act out scenarios involving resistance, coercion, or lack of permission. It centers on negotiated power exchange that imitates nonconsensual situations.

Control

Groups: Power & Control

A dynamic centered on directing another person’s actions, choices, or behavior within an agreed interaction or relationship. It can range from subtle guidance and structure to explicit authority and obedience.

Cornertime

Groups: Power & Control

A dynamic where someone is required to stand facing a wall or in a corner, often as a form of discipline, anticipation, or erotic humiliation. It can emphasize stillness, obedience, and power exchange.

Corporal Punishment

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A BDSM practice involving physical discipline, such as spanking, paddling, caning, or whipping, often used for sensation, ritual, or power exchange. It can range from light impact to more intense forms of punishment play.

Corset Piercing

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A body modification and decorative play style where pairs of temporary piercings are placed in parallel rows, then threaded with ribbon or cord to resemble the lacing of a corset. It is usually intended for visual effect rather than long-term wear.

Corset Training

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

The practice of wearing a corset regularly over time to gradually reduce the natural waist measurement and create a more pronounced hourglass shape. It can also be enjoyed for the restrictive sensation and posture changes it creates.

Corsetry

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

The erotic or aesthetic use of corsets to shape the waist and torso, often emphasizing restriction, posture, and body contour. It can involve wearing them for fashion, sensation, or power dynamics.

Corsets

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of bodywear often associated with fetish or fashion play, valued for its structured look, tight lacing, and the way it shapes the torso. It may be appreciated for aesthetics, restriction, posture, or the sensation of compression.

Cosplay

Groups: Roleplay & Transformation

Roleplay involving costumes, props, or character personas, often inspired by fictional, historical, or original characters. It can add fantasy, transformation, or themed scenarios to erotic or intimate play.

Costumes/Dressing-up

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Roleplay & Transformation

Erotic or playful interest in wearing themed outfits, uniforms, character looks, or disguises. It can involve transformation, role embodiment, fantasy, or the visual appeal of specific clothing styles.

Covert Bondage

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A form of restraint that is hidden from others, using discreet devices or clothing so the restriction is not obvious in public or everyday settings. It often emphasizes secrecy, subtle control, and the private awareness of being restrained.

Creampie

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A sexual practice where one partner ejaculates inside another person’s vagina or anus, often with the visible presence or leakage of semen afterward. It may be part of the appeal visually, physically, or psychologically.

Creampie Cleanup

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A sexual practice involving licking, sucking, or otherwise removing semen from a partner’s body or from inside the vagina or anus after ejaculation. It may be part of oral sex, ejaculation play, or power dynamics.

Crops

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A short, flexible striking tool with a firm shaft and small tip, often used in impact play. It delivers a more focused, stingy sensation than a paddle.

Cross-Dressing

Groups: Roleplay & Transformation

Wearing clothing and adopting presentation elements traditionally associated with a different gender. It may be part of self-expression, performance, erotic play, or gender exploration.

Crucifixion Play

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Roleplay & Transformation

A BDSM roleplay or restraint scene inspired by crucifixion imagery, often involving being bound or suspended in a spread position. It may emphasize helplessness, endurance, religious symbolism, or dramatic visual aesthetics.

Crying

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of erotic interest centered on tears or visible emotional release as part of a sexual or BDSM interaction. It can involve arousal from witnessing another person’s tears, bringing about that response through intensity or emotional play, or experiencing that response oneself during a scene.

Cuckold Humiliation

Groups: Power & Control and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A dynamic where someone is aroused by being mocked, belittled, or compared unfavorably in relation to a partner’s sexual involvement with others. The humiliation aspect is central, often emphasizing inadequacy, jealousy, or exclusion.

Cuckold/Cuckcake

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A dynamic where someone is aroused by their partner having sex with others, often involving feelings of jealousy, humiliation, or comparison as part of the appeal. The feminine form refers to a woman in the analogous role.

Cuddling

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Physical closeness through hugging, snuggling, or holding one another, often for comfort, affection, relaxation, or intimacy. It may be gentle and nurturing or part of a broader romantic or erotic dynamic.

Cuddling Naked

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Physical closeness and affectionate touch while nude, usually focused on comfort, intimacy, warmth, and skin-to-skin contact rather than sexual activity.

Cuddling with benefits

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A dynamic centered on affectionate physical closeness, such as cuddling, that may also include sexual touch or activity. It emphasizes comfort, intimacy, and low-pressure erotic connection.

Cum

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Semen, the fluid typically released from the penis during ejaculation. In kink or sexual contexts, it can be a focus of arousal, play, or exchange.

Cunnilingus

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Oral stimulation of the vulva, especially the clitoris, using the mouth, lips, or tongue. It may be part of foreplay or a main sexual activity.

Cutting

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of edge play involving making small cuts or incisions on the skin for sensation, visual effect, ritual, or emotional intensity. It may overlap with blood play or scarification, depending on the intent and extent.

Cyber Sex

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sexual interaction conducted through digital communication, such as text, voice, video, or shared online content. It can include erotic chatting, roleplay, mutual masturbation, or remote-controlled toys.

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D/s

Groups: Power & Control

A power-exchange dynamic centered on one person taking a dominant role and the other a submissive role. It can be expressed through authority, obedience, rituals, service, or erotic play.

Daddy Daughter roleplay

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

A roleplay dynamic where one person takes on a nurturing, authoritative caregiver role and the other plays a younger, dependent, or “little” role. It centers on ageplay themes, power exchange, and affectionate guidance rather than actual family relationships.

Daddy/babygirl

Groups: Power & Control, Touch, Sensation & Release, and Roleplay & Transformation

A dynamic where one partner takes on a nurturing, protective, or authoritative “Daddy” role and the other a younger, more playful or dependent “babygirl” role. It often centers on caretaking, praise, guidance, and power exchange.

Daddy/girl

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

A dynamic where one partner takes on a nurturing, protective, or authoritative paternal role and the other adopts a younger, more dependent, or playful role. It often centers on caretaking, guidance, praise, discipline, or age-regression themes.

Damsels In Distress

Groups: Power & Control, Clothing, Gear & Performance, and Roleplay & Transformation

A roleplay dynamic centered on vulnerability, peril, or rescue, often involving one person portraying someone endangered and another taking the role of rescuer, captor, or observer. It often emphasizes helplessness, drama, and power imbalance.

decorative cutting

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of body cutting done to create visually intentional marks, patterns, or scars for aesthetic, symbolic, or erotic reasons. The focus is often on the appearance of the resulting design as well as the sensation.

Deep Throating

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of oral sex involving taking a penis or similarly shaped object deeply into the mouth and throat. It often emphasizes depth, gag reflex control, and intense throat stimulation.

Defilement

Groups: Power & Control, Touch, Sensation & Release, and Roleplay & Transformation

A dynamic centered on the fantasy of being made impure, degraded, or “ruined” in a sexual or symbolic sense. It often draws on themes of loss of innocence, contamination, humiliation, or being marked by another person.

Degradation

Groups: Power & Control

A dynamic involving humiliation, insults, or being treated as lesser as part of erotic play. It can center on verbal put-downs, demeaning roles, or status-based power exchange.

Dehumanization

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

A form of power exchange where someone is treated as less than fully human, such as being regarded as an object, animal, or thing. It often centers on humiliation, control, and the removal of personhood within an erotic context.

Denim

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A clothing-focused interest centered on jeans and other garments made from this sturdy cotton twill. It may involve attraction to the look, texture, smell, tightness, or the role these items play in outfits and scenes.

Depilation/Shaving

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Erotic interest in removing body hair, such as shaving, waxing, or otherwise making skin smooth. It may focus on the act itself, the appearance afterward, or the sensations involved.

Diaper

Groups: Roleplay & Transformation

A roleplay or comfort-focused interest involving wearing, using, or being cared for in absorbent briefs. It may center on regression, nurturing dynamics, humiliation, or the physical sensations involved.

Dildos

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Using a dildo for penetration, stimulation, or roleplay during solo or partnered sexual activity. They come in many shapes, sizes, and materials, and may be used vaginally, anally, or externally.

Dildos, Large

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Roleplay & Transformation

Sexual interest in using oversized dildos for penetration or stimulation. It often emphasizes the visual, physical, or psychological intensity of larger-than-average toys.

Dildos, Massive

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Roleplay & Transformation

Sexual interest in using very large insertable toys for vaginal or anal play. The appeal often centers on a sense of fullness, visual intensity, or size-focused stimulation.

Dirty Text Messaging

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sexual or flirtatious messages exchanged by phone or chat to build arousal, intimacy, or anticipation. It can range from teasing and suggestive comments to explicit descriptions, fantasies, or instructions.

Discipline

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A dynamic centered on rules, structure, correction, and accountability, often within dominance and submission. It can involve setting expectations and using consequences or rituals to reinforce behavior.

Doctor/Nurse Play

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Roleplay & Transformation

A medical roleplay dynamic where one person takes on a healthcare provider role and the other a patient role. It may involve examinations, uniforms, authority dynamics, or clinical settings and language.

Dollification

Groups: Roleplay & Transformation

A roleplay or aesthetic dynamic where someone is styled, posed, or treated like a doll. It can involve specific clothing, makeup, stillness, passivity, or a toy-like presentation.

Domestic Discipline

Groups: Power & Control, Touch, Sensation & Release, and Roleplay & Transformation

A relationship dynamic where one partner sets household rules, expectations, or routines and the other accepts correction or punishment for breaking them. It often blends authority, structure, and discipline within a domestic or romantic context.

Domestic Servitude

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A dynamic where one person takes on ongoing household labor and service-oriented duties for another as part of their erotic or power-exchange relationship. It often centers on obedience, ritualized chores, and acts of caretaking or submission.

Domination

Groups: Power & Control

A dynamic where one person takes authority, control, or a leading role over another within an erotic or relational context. It can involve directing activities, setting rules, or shaping the power exchange.

Double Penetration

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A sexual activity involving two forms of penetration at the same time, such as vaginal and anal penetration, or penetration by two partners or a partner and a toy.

Douching

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

Cleaning the vagina or rectum by flushing it with water or a prepared solution, often before certain kinds of sexual activity. It may be done for hygiene, comfort, or personal preference.

Duct Tape

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Using adhesive tape to bind, restrain, immobilize, or gag a partner as part of erotic play. It can also involve the look, feel, sound, or sensation of tape on the body.

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Edge Play

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Activities that involve intense physical, psychological, or emotional sensations and are often considered higher-risk or more extreme within BDSM. The term is broad and can include practices that push personal limits or explore fear, pain, control, or taboo.

Edging

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

Deliberately delaying orgasm to build arousal and intensify eventual release. It can involve repeated cycles of approaching climax and stopping before continuing again.

Electrical Play

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of sensation play that uses electrical stimulation on the body, ranging from mild tingling to sharper or more intense pulses. It may involve devices like violet wands, TENS units, or e-stim equipment.

Emotional Masochism

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A dynamic where someone is aroused by emotional pain, humiliation, rejection, or distress as part of erotic play or fantasy. It may overlap with power exchange, verbal degradation, or intense psychological scenes.

Emotional Sadism

Groups: Power & Control

Deriving enjoyment from provoking or witnessing another person’s emotional discomfort, such as embarrassment, jealousy, humiliation, or distress. It centers on psychological impact rather than physical sensation.

Encasement Fetish

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A fetish focused on being enclosed or tightly covered by materials such as latex, rubber, plastic, tape, or fabric. The appeal often involves pressure, restriction, immobility, or the sensation of being sealed in.

Enemas

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Roleplay & Transformation

Erotic interest in giving, receiving, or incorporating rectal fluid insertion into sexual or BDSM play. It may involve sensations of fullness, cleansing, exposure, or control.

Enforced Bedtime

Groups: Power & Control, Touch, Sensation & Release, and Roleplay & Transformation

A dynamic where one person sets and enforces another’s bedtime, often as part of authority exchange, caretaking, or discipline. It can involve rules around sleep routines, lights-out times, or permission to stay awake.

Erotic Literature

Groups: Roleplay & Transformation and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sexual arousal or enjoyment derived from reading or writing stories, scenes, or fantasies with erotic content. It can be part of solo exploration or shared as inspiration with partners.

Erotic Massage

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Sexual touch that incorporates massage techniques to create relaxation, arousal, or both. It may involve full-body touch, focused stimulation, or a sensual atmosphere.

Erotic Photography

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Creating or posing for sexualized or nude images for arousal, self-expression, or artistic effect. It can involve taking, sharing, or collecting intimate photos in staged or candid styles.

Exercise Play

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Roleplay & Transformation

A form of erotic roleplay or activity centered on fitness, workouts, or physical training. It may involve exercising as part of dominance, endurance, body display, or arousal.

Exhibitionism

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A preference for being seen nude, sexual, or engaged in intimate activity by others. It can involve revealing clothing, public sexual display, or the thrill of being watched.

Eye Contact

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A focus on sustained, intentional gazing during intimacy or power exchange. It can heighten connection, vulnerability, tension, or a sense of control without requiring much physical action.

Eye Contact Restrictions

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A dynamic where one person is instructed to avoid making direct eye contact, often as a form of submission, discipline, or heightened anticipation. It can emphasize power exchange, shyness, or controlled attention.

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Face Fucking

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A sexual practice where one partner thrusts their penis into another person’s mouth or throat, often with the receiving partner taking a more passive role. It may emphasize deep penetration, intensity, and control dynamics.

Face sitting/smothering

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A practice where one partner sits on or over another person’s face for erotic pressure, oral stimulation, or a feeling of breath restriction. It may emphasize dominance, submission, or sensory intensity.

Face Slapping

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of impact play involving slaps to the face, often for physical sting, psychological intensity, humiliation, or power exchange. It may range from light taps to harder strikes depending on preference.

Facesitting

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of oral sex or domination in which one partner sits on or over another person’s face, allowing direct mouth-to-genital or mouth-to-anus contact. It can emphasize pleasure, control, or physical closeness.

Facial Hair

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Erotic or aesthetic interest in beards, mustaches, stubble, or sideburns. It may focus on appearance, texture, grooming, or how these features shape someone’s overall presentation.

Facials

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A sexual activity in which someone ejaculates onto another person’s face. It may be part of visual, erotic, or power-exchange dynamics.

Fear

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of erotic play centered on feeling afraid, threatened, or psychologically unsettled as part of the experience. It can involve suspense, intimidation, vulnerability, or the anticipation of something unknown or overpowering.

Fear Play

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Roleplay & Transformation

Roleplay or activities that use fear, intimidation, suspense, or the illusion of danger to create psychological intensity and arousal. It often centers on controlled scenarios that feel threatening without being intended as actual harm.

Feet

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

An erotic interest centered on the appearance, touch, smell, or role of this body part in intimate play. It may include kissing, massage, admiration, or stimulation using them.

Female Ejaculation

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

The release of fluid from the vulva during intense sexual arousal or orgasm, often associated with stimulation of the urethral sponge or surrounding areas. It may range from a small amount to a more noticeable gush.

Female Supremacy

Groups: Power & Control

A BDSM dynamic centered on women holding authority, leadership, or dominant roles over others. It can involve power exchange in relationships, scenes, or roleplay, often emphasizing female-led control.

Fetish Wear

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Sexual or erotic interest centered on specific garments or materials, such as latex, leather, lingerie, uniforms, or high heels. It may involve wearing them, seeing others wear them, or focusing on their look, feel, or symbolism.

Figging

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Inserting a peeled piece of ginger root into the anus, vagina, or urethra to create a strong warming or burning sensation. It is used as a form of sensation play or erotic discomfort.

Fingering

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Manual stimulation of the vagina, clitoris, or anus using fingers. It can be used for arousal, penetration, or orgasm.

Fingernails

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

Erotic interest in nails being used for scratching, tracing, dragging, or pressing on the body. It may focus on the look, feel, sensation, or marks they leave.

Fire Cupping

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A technique using heated cups placed on the skin to create suction. It may be explored for intense sensation, visual marks, or the ritualistic and dramatic aspects of heat and pressure.

Fire Flogging

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of impact play that combines a flogger with small, controlled flames, heat, or fuel effects to create a warm, stinging sensation. It blends the rhythmic strike of a flogging scene with the visual and sensory intensity of fire play.

Fire Play

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Using controlled flame or heat on the body for sensation, intensity, or erotic effect. This can include briefly passing fire over the skin or igniting a flammable substance on the body.

Fish Hooks

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A body-play practice involving inserting fingers or hooks into the corners of the mouth, skin, or other soft tissue to pull, stretch, or control the body. It can be part of pain play, humiliation, or restraint-focused scenes.

Fishnets

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A lingerie or fashion preference centered on fishnet stockings, bodysuits, or similar open-weave garments. It often involves attraction to the look, texture, or styling of the material on a partner or oneself.

Fisting

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A sexual activity involving inserting a whole hand into the vagina or rectum. It emphasizes gradual stretching and fullness, and may be explored for intense physical sensation or psychological excitement.

Flashing

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Exposure of one’s body, usually intimate areas, to others for excitement, thrill, or reaction. It can involve planned reveals in private or semi-public contexts, or the fantasy of being seen unexpectedly.

Flesh Hooks

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A body play practice involving temporary sterile hooks inserted through the skin, often for ritual, sensation, aesthetic display, or suspension. It can range from decorative hook pulls to full-body suspension.

Flirting

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Playful, suggestive communication used to express attraction, interest, or sexual tension. It can include teasing, compliments, body language, or innuendo.

Flogging

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of impact play using a multi-tailed whip or similar tool to strike the body. Sensations can range from light, stingy taps to deeper, thuddier impact depending on the implement and technique.

Foot Massage

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

Erotic or sensual enjoyment centered on rubbing, kneading, or caressing the feet. It may involve relaxation, arousal, service, or attention to this body part.

Foot/Feet

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A focus on feet as a source of attraction, arousal, or aesthetic interest. It can involve looking at, touching, kissing, massaging, smelling, or incorporating feet into sexual or intimate play.

Forehead Kisses

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Affection centered on kissing a partner’s forehead, often emphasizing tenderness, comfort, protection, or praise. It can be part of gentle intimacy, caregiving dynamics, or romantic aftercare.

Forniphilia

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Roleplay & Transformation

A form of objectification roleplay in which a person takes on the role of furniture or a household object for aesthetic, service, or erotic effect. It often emphasizes stillness, display, and use as an inanimate item.

Freckles

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

An attraction to speckled skin markings as a notable physical feature, often finding them especially cute, striking, or erotic. It may involve focused admiration of this appearance in romantic or sexual contexts.

French Maids

Groups: Power & Control, Clothing, Gear & Performance, and Roleplay & Transformation

Roleplay or aesthetic centered on the classic maid uniform: short dress, apron, stockings, and a polished, submissive or service-oriented presentation. It may involve domestic-service themes, flirtation, or costume-focused erotic play.

fucking machines

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

Sexual activity involving motorized or mechanical devices designed to provide repetitive thrusting, vibration, or penetration. It can be used solo or with partners and often emphasizes intensity, consistency, or hands-free stimulation.

Fur

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Roleplay & Transformation

An erotic interest in animal textures, tails, ears, pelts, or anthropomorphic styling and roleplay. It can center on touch, costume, fantasy personas, or animal-inspired presentation.

Furry

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Roleplay & Transformation

Interest in anthropomorphic animal characters, often expressed through roleplay, art, costuming, or attraction to animal-like personas. For some, it overlaps with sexuality; for others, it is primarily social, creative, or identity-based.

G

Gagging/Choked by Cock

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A sexual practice involving deep oral penetration that triggers the gag reflex or creates a sensation of being choked by a penis. It may center on intensity, loss of control, or the physical challenge of taking someone deeply.

Gags

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

Items placed in or over the mouth to limit speech, muffle sounds, or create a feeling of restraint. They are often used to emphasize power dynamics, helplessness, or sensory experience.

Gangbangs

Groups: Power & Control, Touch, Sensation & Release, and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A group sex scenario where one person is the central focus of sexual activity with multiple partners. The emphasis is often on shared attention, intensity, and the dynamic between the group and the central participant.

Gas Masks

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

Using military-style or industrial-style face masks as part of erotic roleplay or fetish aesthetics. The appeal may involve anonymity, authority, intimidation, restriction themes, or the visual and sensory qualities of the mask.

Gender Play

Groups: Roleplay & Transformation

Roleplay or erotic expression that explores gendered identities, presentation, or stereotypes. It can involve dressing, behavior, language, or power dynamics tied to masculinity, femininity, or gender transition themes.

Genital Piercings

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

Sexual interest in pierced genitals, including the look, sensation, or stimulation they can create. It may involve attraction to having them, seeing them, or interacting with them during sex.

Glass Dildos

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Sex toys made from smooth, non-porous tempered or borosilicate glass, often used for penetration or external stimulation. They are valued for their firmness, easy cleaning, and ability to hold warm or cool temperatures.

Glasses

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Roleplay & Transformation

A preference or attraction centered on eyewear as part of someone’s appearance or sexual presentation. It may involve finding spectacles especially appealing on a partner or incorporating them into flirtation, roleplay, or erotic imagery.

Glory Hole

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A setup where one person has sexual contact through an opening in a wall, door, or partition, often without seeing the other person. It can emphasize anonymity, limited interaction, and the physical act itself.

Gloves

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

An erotic focus on hand coverings, often involving the look, feel, smell, or symbolism of materials such as leather, latex, satin, or rubber. It may center on wearing them, seeing others wear them, or incorporating them into touch or roleplay.

Grooming

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A dynamic involving age-regressive caretaking, where one person takes on a nurturing, parental, or guiding role and the other adopts a younger headspace or dependent role. It can be emotional, behavioral, or roleplay-based.

Group Sex

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sexual activity involving more than two people at the same time. It can include many configurations, such as threesomes, orgies, or other multi-partner encounters.

H

Hair

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

An erotic focus on a person’s locks, including their appearance, texture, scent, movement, or styling. It may involve arousal from touching, brushing, cutting, washing, or giving that feature special attention.

Hair Pulling

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of erotic play involving tugging or pulling a partner’s hair to create sensation, intensity, or a feeling of control. It can range from gentle grasping to firmer pulling, often during sex or power exchange.

Hairbrush Spanking

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of impact play involving spanking with a hairbrush, usually using the flat back or handle. It often creates a stingy, concentrated sensation compared with using a hand.

Handcuffs

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Using wrist restraints, often metal or padded, to limit a partner’s movement during intimate play. It can create feelings of control, helplessness, anticipation, or heightened sensation.

Handjobs

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Manual stimulation of a partner’s penis using the hand, often involving stroking, squeezing, or varying rhythm and pressure. It may be part of foreplay or a standalone sexual activity.

Hands

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of attraction or erotic focus centered on this body part. Interest may involve appearance, touch, movement, strength, dexterity, or what someone does with them.

Head Shaving

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

Erotic interest in shaving a person’s head or having one’s own head shaved. It may center on the visual transformation, the sensation of clippers or razors, or symbolic meanings like control, renewal, or humiliation.

High Heels

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

An interest in wearing, admiring, or incorporating high-heeled shoes into erotic or power-oriented play. It may focus on the look, posture, sound, symbolism, or physical sensations associated with them.

Hojojutsu

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A Japanese rope-tying style derived from historical methods of restraint and transport. In modern kink contexts, it refers to decorative or restrictive bondage patterns inspired by that tradition.

Honesty

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A preference for directness, transparency, and truthful communication in intimate or relational contexts. It can be valued as part of trust-building, clear expectations, and emotional openness.

Hoods

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Head coverings used in erotic or BDSM contexts, ranging from simple masks to full-head enclosures. They can emphasize anonymity, sensory restriction, roleplay, or a particular visual aesthetic.

Hook Suspension

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A body play practice where sterile hooks are temporarily placed through the skin so a person can be lifted or supported in the air. It may be done for ritual, performance, endurance, or intense physical sensation.

Hot Oil Massages

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Using warmed oil to massage the body for relaxation, arousal, or heightened sensory pleasure. The heat and slick texture can make touch feel more intense and intimate.

Hotwife

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A dynamic in which a woman has sexual or romantic experiences with other partners, often with the knowledge, encouragement, or involvement of her primary male partner. It may overlap with exhibitionism, cuckolding, or partner-sharing, depending on the relationship.

human ashtray

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

A dynamic where one person uses another’s body as a place to tap, stub, or drop cigarette ash. It often centers on humiliation, objectification, or service themes.

Human Toilet

Groups: Power & Control, Touch, Sensation & Release, and Roleplay & Transformation

A form of toilet play in which one person is used as a receptacle for another person’s urine or feces. It centers on humiliation, service, taboo, or bodily waste themes.

Humiliation

Groups: Power & Control

A dynamic where arousal comes from being embarrassed, demeaned, mocked, or made to feel foolish. It can be verbal, situational, private, or public, and may overlap with dominance and submission.

Humor

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Roleplay & Transformation

Playfulness, jokes, teasing, or comedic energy used to create connection, lighten the mood, or enhance erotic or intimate interactions. It can range from witty banter and silly scenarios to shared laughter as part of the experience.

Hypnosis

Groups: Power & Control

An erotic or power-exchange practice where one person guides another into a focused, suggestible mental state using voice, scripts, or ritual. It may involve relaxation, roleplay, behavior cues, or altered awareness.

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Ice Cubes

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Using ice on the body for a brief, intense cold sensation, often to heighten touch or create contrast with warmth. It may be traced over skin, nipples, genitals, or other sensitive areas.

Impact Play

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of erotic play involving striking the body with hands or implements such as paddles, floggers, or canes. It can range from light spanking to more intense sensation-focused scenes.

Impregnation Fantasy

Groups: Roleplay & Transformation

An erotic interest in the idea or roleplay of causing or experiencing pregnancy. It often centers on themes of fertility, breeding, risk, or the symbolic intensity of creating life.

Infantilism

Groups: Roleplay & Transformation

A roleplay or identity expression involving adopting childlike behaviors, speech, clothing, or routines. It may overlap with age regression, nurturing dynamics, or diaper-related interests, but does not necessarily involve all of those elements.

Infidelity

Groups: Roleplay & Transformation and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sexual or romantic activity that breaks the agreed exclusivity rules of a relationship, often involving secrecy or deception. In kink contexts, it can also refer to fantasies or roleplay centered on cheating or being unfaithful.

Inflatables

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Roleplay & Transformation

A fetish or roleplay interest involving inflatable objects, clothing, suits, or body modifications, often centered on their look, feel, expansion, or the fantasy of becoming inflated.

Internal Enslavement

Groups: Power & Control

A BDSM dynamic centered on a strong sense of ownership and total submission, often framed as one person being “enslaved” within the relationship. It typically emphasizes obedience, control, and service as part of an ongoing power exchange.

Interrogation

Groups: Power & Control, Touch, Sensation & Release, and Roleplay & Transformation

A roleplay dynamic centered on asking intense, probing, or repetitive questions to create pressure, vulnerability, or psychological tension. It may draw on themes of confession, authority, resistance, or extracting information.

K

Kicking

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of impact play involving striking with the foot, ranging from light taps to stronger blows. It may be used for sensation, power exchange, or as part of rough physical play.

Kilts

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Roleplay & Transformation

A clothing-focused interest centered on a traditional pleated skirt-style garment, often involving attraction to its look, movement, cultural associations, or the way it frames the body. It can overlap with fashion, roleplay, exhibitionism, or preferences around what is or is not worn underneath.

Kinbaku

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A Japanese-inspired style of erotic rope bondage that emphasizes intricate patterns, restraint, and the aesthetic or emotional experience of being tied. It often focuses as much on connection, presentation, and sensation as on immobilization.

Kissing

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Physical intimacy involving the lips, mouth, or tongue, ranging from soft affectionate contact to more intense or erotic interaction. It can be romantic, sensual, playful, or sexual depending on context.

Kitten Petplay

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

A form of pet play where someone takes on feline traits or a kitten-like role, often emphasizing playfulness, affection, curiosity, or brattiness. It may involve behaviors, accessories, or dynamics associated with being cared for like a pet.

Klismaphilia

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Sexual arousal involving enemas, often from the sensations, ritual, or imagery associated with receiving or administering them. It may overlap with medical, humiliation, control, or body-focused interests.

Knee High Socks

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A clothing-focused interest centered on knee-length socks as a visual, tactile, or symbolic element. It may involve attraction to their look, texture, styling, or the associations they evoke.

Knife Play

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Roleplay & Transformation

An activity involving knives or similar blades as part of erotic play, often to create psychological intensity, visual drama, or controlled sensations. It may include tracing, light pressure, or the presence of a blade near the body.

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Lace

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

An interest focused on garments, lingerie, accessories, or decorative details made with openwork fabric patterns. It may center on visual appeal, tactile enjoyment, or associations with elegance, delicacy, or erotic presentation.

Lactation

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Interest in breast milk production, expression, or feeding as part of intimacy or erotic play. It may involve nursing, stimulation that encourages milk flow, or fascination with the presence of milk.

Latex

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A material-based interest centered on the look, feel, smell, sound, or tight fit of rubber clothing and accessories. It can involve wearing items made from the material, being around others who wear it, or focusing on its distinctive shine and texture.

Leather

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

An interest in animal-hide clothing, gear, and related aesthetics as part of erotic expression or identity. It can include enjoying the material’s look, smell, and texture, as well as participation in BDSM or fetish communities associated with that style.

Librarians

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Roleplay & Transformation

A roleplay or attraction centered on librarian imagery, such as bookish aesthetics, quiet authority, organization, or a studious, reserved demeanor. It may involve settings like libraries, themes of research and discipline, or fantasies tied to intelligence and order.

Licking

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Using the tongue to taste, tease, or stimulate a partner’s body. It can be sensual, affectionate, or erotic depending on the context and body area involved.

Light Bondage

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

Mild restraint using items like scarves, cuffs, rope, or similar tools to limit movement without heavy restriction. It often emphasizes teasing, anticipation, and a sense of vulnerability rather than intense immobilization.

Lycra/Spandex

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A fetish or strong attraction centered on tight, stretchy synthetic clothing and how it looks, feels, or fits on the body. It may involve wearing, touching, or watching others in garments like bodysuits, leggings, or swimsuits.

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Maid

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

A roleplay or aesthetic centered on domestic service, often involving uniforms, cleaning, serving, or deferential behavior. It can range from playful costume-based scenes to structured service dynamics.

Maid Uniforms

Groups: Power & Control, Clothing, Gear & Performance, and Roleplay & Transformation

A roleplay or aesthetic preference involving maid-style outfits, often emphasizing service, formality, or playful domestic themes. It may appeal through elements of costume, presentation, or power dynamics.

Making Home Movies

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Creating intimate photos or videos for personal enjoyment, memory-keeping, or sharing with chosen partners. It can range from casual snapshots to more planned, erotic filmmaking.

Making Out

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Kissing and close-mouth or open-mouth intimacy, often including prolonged lip contact, tongue play, and affectionate touching. It can range from gentle and romantic to intense and sexually charged.

Masks

Groups: Roleplay & Transformation and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

An interest in wearing face coverings or having a partner wear them as part of erotic play. The appeal may involve anonymity, altered identity, visual style, restricted expression, or the contrast between concealment and exposure.

Masochism

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A sexual or emotional interest in experiencing pain, discomfort, humiliation, or intense sensation as part of arousal or pleasure. It can range from mild teasing or impact to more intense forms of sensation play.

Massages

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Erotic or sensual touch focused on rubbing, kneading, or stroking the body for relaxation, arousal, or intimacy. It can range from gentle full-body touch to more targeted stimulation.

Master/Slave

Groups: Power & Control

A power-exchange dynamic centered on authority and service, often as an ongoing role or relationship structure rather than a single scene. One person takes a commanding role while the other focuses on obedience, duty, or devotion.

Masturbation

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Sexual self-stimulation, typically involving touching one’s own genitals or other sensitive areas for pleasure or orgasm. It can be done alone or as part of partnered sexual activity, including mutual or observed play.

Medical Play

Groups: Roleplay & Transformation

Roleplaying medical exams, procedures, or clinical authority for erotic or psychological stimulation. It can involve costumes, instruments, diagnosis themes, or patient-provider dynamics.

Medieval Devices

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

Interest in restraints, punishment tools, or roleplay aesthetics inspired by medieval imagery, such as stocks, pillories, cages, or dungeon-like settings. It may emphasize historical fantasy, theatricality, or severe-looking equipment.

Mental Bondage

Groups: Power & Control

A form of erotic restraint focused on psychological control, suggestion, or the feeling of being unable to move or act. It emphasizes the mind’s experience of restriction rather than physical restraints.

Metal

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A sensual or fetishistic interest in hard industrial materials, objects, sounds, or aesthetics. It can center on jewelry, chains, restraints, cold surfaces, armor, or a sleek mechanical look.

Military

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

Erotic interest in armed-forces themes, imagery, roles, or settings. It may involve uniforms, rank-based dynamics, drills, discipline, or roleplay inspired by service culture.

Military Uniforms

Groups: Power & Control, Clothing, Gear & Performance, and Roleplay & Transformation

Interest in military-style clothing, insignia, or role presentation as part of attraction, fantasy, or scene aesthetics. It may involve authentic uniforms, replicas, or inspired outfits.

Mind Control

Groups: Power & Control

A fantasy or roleplay centered on one person influencing, directing, or overriding another’s thoughts, decisions, or behavior. It can range from hypnotic suggestion themes to imagined total mental domination.

Mind Fucks

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

Psychological play that aims to create confusion, anticipation, uncertainty, or emotional intensity through manipulation of perception, expectations, or meaning. It often centers on teasing, misdirection, and mental or emotional stimulation rather than physical sensation.

Monogamy

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A relationship structure in which people agree to have one exclusive romantic and/or sexual partner at a time. It can emphasize emotional, sexual, or both kinds of exclusivity.

Morning Sex

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sexual activity that takes place in the morning, often shortly after waking up. It may appeal because of natural arousal on waking, a relaxed start to the day, or the intimacy of sharing that time together.

Multiple Orgasms

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Experiencing several orgasms in one sexual encounter, either in quick succession or with short pauses between them. It can involve repeated peaks of arousal without a long refractory period.

Mummification

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of bondage involving wrapping the body in materials like plastic wrap, tape, bandages, or fabric to restrict movement and create sensations of tightness, enclosure, or helplessness.

Muscles

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

An attraction to pronounced muscularity, often focused on strength, physique, or the visual and tactile qualities of a well-developed body. It may involve looking at, touching, flexing, or embodying a powerful physical build.

Music

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

An erotic interest focused on sound, rhythm, songs, or performance as a source of arousal. It can involve listening, singing, playing instruments, dancing, or using particular genres or soundscapes in intimate settings.

Mutual Masturbation

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sexual activity where partners stimulate themselves in each other’s presence, often watching or interacting without direct genital contact. It can be part of foreplay, shared intimacy, or a primary sexual activity.

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Neck Biting

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of erotic biting focused on the neck, often combining pressure, teeth, and sucking. It may range from light nips to firmer bites and can overlap with marking or vampire-themed play.

Necks

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

An attraction to the appearance, feel, or erotic focus of the neck. It can include kissing, touching, admiring, or lightly biting that area.

Needle Play

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of sensation play involving sterile needles placed through or just under the skin for visual effect, focused pain, or endorphin response. It can range from temporary decorative patterns to more intense body play.

Nipple Clamps

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

Devices that pinch the nipples to create pressure, pain, or heightened sensitivity. They may be adjustable or weighted and are often used to intensify arousal or sensation play.

Nipple Piercings

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A body modification in which one or both nipples are pierced to wear jewelry. It may be appreciated for its appearance, symbolism, or the added sensation and sensitivity it can create.

Nipples

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

Erotic focus on the chest’s sensitive points, often involving touch, licking, sucking, pinching, or clamps for pleasure or heightened sensation. It can be enjoyed as a standalone interest or as part of broader sensory play.

Nun/Priest Play

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

A form of religious roleplay centered on clergy or sacred archetypes, often drawing on themes of authority, devotion, confession, ritual, or taboo. It may involve costumes, titles, and scenarios inspired by Catholic or other religious imagery.

NylonLegs & Feet

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Attraction to legs and feet, especially when covered in nylon stockings, tights, or pantyhose. It may center on the look, texture, scent, or sensation of hosiery on skin.

O

Obedience Training

Groups: Power & Control

A BDSM dynamic focused on learning and reinforcing compliance with a dominant partner’s rules, commands, or protocols. It may involve drills, rituals, correction, and praise to shape behavior over time.

Objectification

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

A dynamic where someone is treated or viewed primarily as a body, body part, or thing for another person’s use, attention, or desire. It often centers on depersonalization, reduction to function, or being valued mainly for specific physical traits.

Online Play

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sexual or BDSM interaction conducted over the internet, such as through text, voice, video, or interactive media. It can include roleplay, remote domination, mutual masturbation, or guided activities done from different locations.

Oral Sex

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Sexual activity involving stimulation of the genitals or anus with the mouth, lips, or tongue. It can include acts such as cunnilingus, fellatio, or anilingus.

Orgasm Control

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A dynamic where one person influences if, when, or how another reaches orgasm. It can include delaying, denying, edging, or requiring permission to climax.

Orgasm Denial

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A dynamic where someone is kept from reaching orgasm for a period of time, often to build arousal, anticipation, or a sense of control. It can involve teasing, edging, or rules about release.

Orgies/Sex Parties

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Group sexual activity involving multiple people in the same space, ranging from informal gatherings to organized events. Participation can include watching, interacting with several partners, or joining shared sexual scenes.

Outdoor Bondage

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Being restrained in outdoor settings, such as parks, woods, or other open-air locations. The appeal may include exposure to nature, a heightened sense of risk, or the contrast between bondage and a public or semi-public environment.

Outdoor sex

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sexual activity in outdoor or public settings, such as nature, secluded areas, or places where there is a risk of being seen. The appeal may involve novelty, exhibitionism, spontaneity, or the setting itself.

Over-the-knee Spanking

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of spanking where one person is positioned face-down across another person’s lap. It emphasizes physical control, close body contact, and a traditional disciplinary or playful dynamic.

Ovipositor

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Roleplay & Transformation

A fantasy or roleplay involving egg-laying, often using a toy designed to insert and release smooth, egg-shaped objects into the body. It may draw on alien, creature, or reproductive themes.

P

Paddling

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Striking the buttocks or other fleshy areas with a paddle for sensations ranging from light sting to deep thud. It may be part of erotic impact play, discipline dynamics, or sensory exploration.

Pain

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Physical sensation used for stimulation, intensity, or emotional release, ranging from mild discomfort to stronger impact or pressure. It may be enjoyed on its own or as part of power exchange, endurance, or sensation play.

Panty-Sniffing

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A fetish centered on the smell of worn panties or underwear, often finding the scent sexually arousing. It may involve smelling, collecting, or fantasizing about used garments.

Pantyhose/Stockings

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

An interest in the look, feel, or symbolism of sheer legwear and hosiery. It may focus on wearing these garments, seeing them on a partner, touching the fabric, or incorporating them into erotic scenes.

Pegging

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A sexual practice where one partner anally penetrates another using a strap-on dildo. It often refers specifically to a woman penetrating a man, but can apply more broadly.

Percussion Play

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of impact play involving rhythmic or repeated striking of the body with hands or implements such as paddles, floggers, or canes. It may range from light tapping to more intense sensation.

Pet Play

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

A roleplay dynamic where someone takes on the behaviors, mindset, or aesthetic of an animal—such as a puppy, kitten, or pony—while another person may act as an owner, handler, or trainer. It can range from playful and affectionate to more structured or service-oriented.

Phone Sex

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sexual conversation conducted over the phone, often involving erotic talk, fantasy, roleplay, or mutual masturbation. It focuses on arousal through voice, language, and imagination rather than in-person contact.

Photography

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A focus on taking, sharing, or being the subject of erotic or intimate photos. It can involve posing, candid-style imagery, specific aesthetics, or the excitement of documenting sexual expression.

Piercings

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

An interest in body jewelry and punctures such as nipple, genital, or other adornments as part of attraction, aesthetics, sensation, or erotic focus. It can involve existing modifications or the idea of getting or displaying them.

Piggy Play

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

A roleplay dynamic centered on behaving like a pig or piglet, often emphasizing messiness, rooting, snorting, feeding, or animal-like dependence. It may overlap with pet play, humiliation, or caretaking themes.

Pinching

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of sensation play involving squeezing or pressing the skin with fingers, nails, or small tools to create brief sharpness or pressure. It can range from light teasing to more intense discomfort.

Play Piercing

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of body play involving temporary insertion of sterile needles or small piercings for sensation, visual effect, or ritualized experience. It may be erotic, aesthetic, or emotionally intense.

Polyamory

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A relationship style in which someone has or is open to multiple romantic and/or sexual relationships at the same time, with the knowledge of everyone involved. It can take many forms, from hierarchical structures to more egalitarian networks.

Pony Play

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

A form of pet play where one person takes on the role, behavior, and aesthetic of a horse or pony, often using tack, training, or performance. It can emphasize obedience, handling, movement, or showmanship.

Porn

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sexually explicit media created to arouse or entertain, including videos, images, audio, or writing. It can be consumed alone or shared as part of erotic exploration or fantasy.

Posture Collars

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A rigid or structured neckpiece designed to limit head and neck movement, often creating an upright, formal posture. It may be used for aesthetic effect, restraint, or to emphasize control and presentation.

Power Exchange

Groups: Power & Control

A relationship or scene dynamic where one person takes authority and another yields or follows within agreed roles. It can be temporary or ongoing, and may involve emotional, symbolic, or practical expressions of dominance and submission.

Praise

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

Enjoyment of giving, receiving, or being motivated by verbal appreciation, admiration, or approval. It can center on compliments about appearance, behavior, achievements, or personal qualities.

Predicament Bondage

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of restraint where someone is placed in a position that forces a difficult choice between discomforts, such as moving to relieve one sensation while increasing another. The tension comes from being unable to avoid all discomfort at once.

Pressure points

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of sensation or pain play involving pressing, squeezing, or striking specific areas of the body that are especially sensitive due to nerves, tendons, or muscle attachments. It may be used to create sharp discomfort, control, or intense focused sensation.

Primal Play

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A dynamic centered on instinct, pursuit, resistance, and raw physical energy, often framed as predator/prey. It emphasizes animalistic intensity, roughhousing, chasing, or wrestling rather than formal roles or protocol.

Prostate Massage

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Stimulation of the prostate gland, usually through the anus, using fingers, toys, or other methods. It may be done for sexual pleasure, erotic exploration, or as part of partnered intimacy.

Psycholagny

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

Arousal linked to being mentally or emotionally manipulated, such as through mind games, humiliation, or psychological control. It focuses on the erotic charge of influence over thoughts, feelings, or perception.

Pubic Hair

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

An interest in the appearance, texture, grooming, or presence of hair in the genital area as part of attraction or erotic focus. It can center on natural growth, specific styles, or the contrast between hair and bare skin.

Public Humiliation

Groups: Power & Control and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A dynamic where someone is embarrassed, mocked, or exposed in front of others for erotic or psychological effect. It can involve teasing, scolding, revealing information, or orchestrated social awkwardness.

Public Play

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sexual or BDSM activity done in public spaces, semi-public settings, or places where others might see, hear, or become aware of it. For some, the appeal is exhibition, risk of discovery, or involving an audience.

Punching Play

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

Erotic impact involving closed-fist strikes to the body, usually explored for sensations such as intensity, adrenaline, or catharsis. It may range from light body blows to more forceful striking, depending on preference.

Punishment

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A dynamic where one person imposes consequences for a perceived rule break, mistake, or unmet expectation. It often involves a power exchange and may be physical, verbal, psychological, or symbolic.

Puppy Play

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

A form of roleplay where one person takes on dog-like behaviors, mannerisms, or a “pup” headspace, often emphasizing playfulness, obedience, training, or companionship. It may involve gear such as hoods, collars, or kneepads.

Pursuit, Take-Down & Capture

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

Roleplay or power exchange centered on being chased, overpowered, and physically restrained or “captured.” It often emphasizes struggle, adrenaline, helplessness, and the dynamic of hunter and prey.

Pussy Worship

Groups: Power & Control, Touch, Sensation & Release, and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of erotic attention centered on the vulva or vagina, often emphasizing admiration, praise, oral stimulation, or devoted focus. It can involve treating this part of the body as especially desirable, powerful, or revered.

Q

Queening

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A face-sitting activity where one person sits over another’s face for erotic stimulation, often involving oral contact. It may emphasize dominance, worship, or receiving pleasure.

R

Religious Play

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

Roleplay or erotic scenarios that use religious themes, symbols, rituals, or power dynamics. It can involve reverence, taboo, confession, punishment, or authority associated with faith traditions.

Remote-Control Devices

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

Use of app- or wireless-controlled toys, stimulators, or other equipment that can be operated from a distance. It often adds anticipation, surprise, or shared control during play, whether partners are together or apart.

Restraints

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

The use of physical devices or materials—such as cuffs, ropes, straps, or ties—to limit a person’s movement. It can range from light immobilization to more restrictive bondage as part of erotic play.

Retifism

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Sexual interest focused on shoes or footwear, often involving looking at, touching, smelling, or incorporating them into erotic scenarios. It can overlap with attraction to feet, fashion, or specific types of shoes.

Rituals

Groups: Power & Control

Structured, repeated actions or ceremonies that add meaning, anticipation, or symbolism to an interaction or relationship. These can be formal or personal, ranging from spoken phrases and protocols to elaborate scenes with specific roles and timing.

Road Head

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Oral sex performed on someone while they are driving or riding in a moving vehicle. It emphasizes the setting and the added thrill of mobility, urgency, or risk.

Robots

Groups: Roleplay & Transformation

A fascination with machines, androids, or highly mechanized partners as erotic or romantic figures. It can involve attraction to metallic aesthetics, artificial voices or movements, or roleplay centered on being synthetic or interacting with something synthetic.

Rope Play

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Using rope to bind, restrain, decorate, or position a partner as part of erotic play, sensation, or power exchange. It can range from simple ties to intricate patterns and suspension-focused styles.

Rough Sex

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

Sexual activity that emphasizes intensity, force, or a physically vigorous style, such as hard thrusting, grabbing, pinning, or impact. It often centers on heightened sensation, aggression, or a raw, primal dynamic.

Rubber

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Sexual or sensual interest in latex clothing, accessories, or materials, often centered on their look, smell, texture, or tight fit. It can overlap with fetishwear, body encasement, or specific garments like catsuits and gloves.

S

Sacred Sexuality

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

An approach to erotic connection that treats sex as spiritually meaningful, often blending intimacy, ritual, mindfulness, energy work, or devotional practices. It may emphasize healing, transcendence, or a sense of the sacred in sexual experience.

Sadism

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

Arousal from inflicting pain, discomfort, humiliation, or a sense of control over another person. It can be physical, psychological, or both, and may range from mild teasing to intense domination.

Sapiosexuality

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Attraction driven primarily by another person’s intelligence, wit, or way of thinking. It describes finding mental stimulation especially appealing in romantic or sexual interest.

Saran Wrap

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of body wrapping using plastic film to create tight immobilization, pressure, or a cocooned sensation. It is often associated with bondage, sensory play, or erotic restraint.

Satin

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A sensory-focused interest in the look, feel, and sound of smooth, glossy fabric on skin. It may involve wearing it, touching it, rubbing against it, or incorporating it into erotic scenes.

Scarf bondage

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Using a scarf or similar soft fabric as a restraint, typically to tie wrists, ankles, or secure someone to furniture. It is often chosen for its accessibility, softness, and aesthetic appeal.

Scent

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A focus on natural body smell, perfumes, clothing odor, or other distinctive aromas as a source of attraction or arousal. It can involve enjoying a partner’s skin, sweat, hair, underwear, bedding, or chosen fragrance.

Schoolgirl Uniform

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Roleplay & Transformation

A roleplay or aesthetic interest centered on outfits associated with female students, often emphasizing youth-coded styling such as pleated skirts, blouses, knee socks, or blazers. It may overlap with innocence, authority, or classroom-themed dynamics.

Scratching

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Using fingernails or similar contact to rake, drag, or dig into the skin for sensation, intensity, or marks. It can range from light teasing touches to firm, mark-making pressure.

Seduction

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

The act of enticing or alluring someone through charm, flirtation, teasing, or psychological tension. It often emphasizes anticipation, persuasion, and the build-up of desire rather than immediate sexual contact.

Sensation Play

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A broad category focused on creating varied physical feelings for arousal or enjoyment, such as heat, cold, pressure, vibration, or texture. It emphasizes the experience of sensation itself rather than a specific act.

Sensory Deprivation

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

Restricting one or more senses, such as sight, hearing, or touch, to heighten anticipation, focus, or sensitivity. This can involve blindfolds, earplugs, hoods, or other methods that limit sensory input.

Sensual Domination

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A style of power exchange that emphasizes teasing, seduction, and heightened physical sensation rather than pain or harsh intensity. It often centers on touch, anticipation, restraint, and erotic control.

Sensual Play

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Erotic interaction centered on the senses, such as touch, taste, scent, sound, or visual stimulation. It often emphasizes teasing, atmosphere, anticipation, and pleasure over intensity or pain.

Sensual/slave dances

Groups: Power & Control, Clothing, Gear & Performance, and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A style of erotic performance or roleplay where one person dances in a sensual, teasing, or obedient way for another. It often blends seduction, display, and power dynamics.

Sensualism

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A focus on heightened sensory pleasure through touch, taste, scent, sound, and atmosphere. It often emphasizes slow, immersive experiences, teasing, and physical intimacy over explicit intensity or goal-oriented sex.

Service

Groups: Power & Control

A dynamic centered on doing tasks, providing care, or anticipating needs to please another person. It often emphasizes helpfulness, devotion, structure, and fulfillment through being useful.

Service-oriented submission

Groups: Power & Control

A dynamic where a submissive expresses devotion through helping, anticipating needs, and performing tasks or acts of care. The focus is often on usefulness, attentiveness, and pleasing a dominant partner through service.

Sex In Public

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sexual activity in places where others might see or hear, such as parks, cars, or semi-private venues. The appeal often involves exhibitionism, risk, spontaneity, or the possibility of being noticed.

Sex in the kitchen

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sexual activity in a kitchen setting, often appealing because of the domestic atmosphere, novelty, or use of counters, tables, and other household surfaces. It may be part of a broader interest in sex in everyday spaces.

Sex in videostore porn rooms

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sex taking place in private viewing booths or back rooms of adult video stores, often involving anonymous or semi-anonymous encounters. The appeal may include public-adjacent risk, voyeurism, exhibitionism, or spontaneous hookups.

Sex Magick

Groups: Power & Control and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A practice that combines sexual energy, arousal, or orgasm with ritual, symbolism, meditation, or intention-setting. It is often used in occult or spiritual frameworks to focus will, manifest goals, or pursue altered states.

Sex with Strangers

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Interest in sexual encounters with people one has just met or does not know well. The appeal often centers on novelty, spontaneity, anonymity, or the thrill of unfamiliar partners.

Sexting

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Exchanging sexually explicit messages, photos, videos, or voice notes through phones or online platforms. It can range from flirtation and erotic storytelling to sharing fantasies or intimate images in real time.

Sexual Objectification

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

A dynamic where someone is treated primarily as a body, body part, or sexual function for another person’s desire. It can involve depersonalization, being displayed or used, or emphasizing physical attributes over individuality.

Shackles

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Restraints, usually around the wrists or ankles, used to limit movement during erotic play. They can be made from metal, leather, or other materials and may be attached to chains or fixed points.

Shaving

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Erotic interest in removing a partner’s body hair, or having one’s own body hair removed. It can center on the visual result, the ritual of grooming, or the sensations involved.

Shibari

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A Japanese-inspired style of decorative rope bondage that emphasizes intricate patterns, body positioning, and aesthetic presentation. It can range from simple ties to elaborate suspensions.

Shoes

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

An interest centered on footwear as a source of attraction, arousal, or aesthetic focus. It can involve looking at, handling, smelling, wearing, or incorporating specific styles into sexual or intimate scenarios.

Shower Sex

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sexual activity that takes place in a shower or bath area, often involving standing positions, running water, and a slippery, enclosed setting. It may appeal for its intimacy, novelty, or sensory elements.

Sissification

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

A form of feminization play in which a person is dressed, styled, or encouraged to act in exaggeratedly feminine ways, often with themes of humiliation, submission, or role reversal.

Sissy

Groups: Roleplay & Transformation

A roleplay or identity expression centered on feminization, often involving traditionally feminine clothing, mannerisms, or language. It can range from playful humiliation dynamics to affirming gendered presentation, depending on the person.

Sissy Training

Groups: Power & Control and Roleplay & Transformation

A form of feminization roleplay centered on being taught or encouraged to adopt exaggerated feminine presentation, mannerisms, or roles. It may involve clothing, speech, posture, tasks, or humiliation themes, depending on the dynamic.

Sister/Brother Roleplay

Groups: Roleplay & Transformation

A form of age-peer family roleplay in which partners act as siblings, often emphasizing taboo, rivalry, teasing, closeness, or household dynamics as part of the fantasy.

Skirts

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

An interest in this garment as a source of attraction, arousal, or stylistic expression in erotic or intimate contexts. It may involve wearing it, seeing a partner wear it, or focusing on its look, movement, or cultural associations.

Slapping

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of impact play involving open-handed strikes to the body, often chosen for the sting, sound, or sense of intensity. It may range from light smacks to harder hits depending on preference.

Slave Bells

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of adornment or signaling in power-exchange dynamics where a submissive wears small bells on the body or clothing. The sound can emphasize movement, presence, or a sense of ownership and ritual.

Slave Tattoos

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

Permanent or semi-permanent markings used to symbolize ownership, devotion, or role within a power-exchange dynamic. These may include words, symbols, brands, or tattoo designs chosen for their personal or relational meaning.

Slavery

Groups: Power & Control

A power-exchange dynamic in which one person takes a dominant, owner-like role and the other takes a submissive, service-oriented role, often emphasizing authority, obedience, and belonging. It may be explored as a scene, roleplay, or ongoing relationship structure.

Sluts

Groups: Power & Control, Roleplay & Transformation, and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A term some people reclaim for sexual openness, promiscuity, or confidence, often used as an identity, role, or erotic label. It can be embraced playfully, proudly, or provocatively in sexual or social contexts.

Small penis humiliation

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of erotic humiliation centered on mocking, comparing, or belittling someone’s penis size. It often involves verbal teasing, denial of masculinity, or enforced comparison as part of a power dynamic.

Small Tits

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Attraction to or appreciation for smaller breasts, often as a physical preference or focus of erotic interest. It can involve visual admiration, touch, or fantasy centered on that body type.

Smothering

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of breath-control play involving covering or obstructing someone’s nose and mouth with a body part, object, or surface. It centers on sensations of pressure, helplessness, or restricted breathing.

Snuggling

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Close, affectionate physical contact such as cuddling, holding, or nestling together. It often emphasizes warmth, comfort, intimacy, and relaxed bodily closeness.

Socks

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

An interest in hosiery or foot coverings as an erotic or aesthetic focus. It can involve attention to their look, texture, smell, the act of wearing them, or incorporating them into sexual play.

Sounding

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Roleplay & Transformation

A practice involving the insertion of smooth, sterile rods or similar instruments into the urethra for sensation, stimulation, or exploration. It may be done for erotic pleasure or as part of medical-roleplay interests.

Spandex

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A fetish or strong attraction centered on tight, stretchy clothing such as bodysuits, leggings, or unitards. The appeal may involve the look, feel, shine, compression, or full-body coverage of the material.

Spanking

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of impact play involving slapping the buttocks with a hand or implement for physical sensation, erotic stimulation, discipline, or power exchange. It can range from playful and light to more intense.

Speculums

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Roleplay & Transformation

Use of a medical-style instrument to gently open a body orifice, most often the vagina or anus, for viewing, sensation, or penetration play. It often overlaps with medical or examination-themed scenes.

Speech restriction

Groups: Power & Control and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A dynamic where a person’s ability to speak is limited or controlled, such as being told to stay silent, speak only when permitted, or communicate in specific ways. It can emphasize power exchange, obedience, or helplessness.

Spiritual BDSM

Groups: Power & Control

A dynamic that blends power exchange, ritual, or sensation play with spiritual beliefs, practices, or symbolism. It may frame scenes as sacred, meditative, devotional, or transformative experiences.

Spitting

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

An erotic activity centered on saliva, such as directing it onto a partner or exchanging it in an intentional, explicit, or symbolic way. People may enjoy it for the physical sensation, its taboo quality, or its associations with dominance, submission, humiliation, or intimacy.

Spreader Bars

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A restraint device that keeps a person’s limbs apart, typically by attaching cuffs to a rigid bar. It limits movement and exposes the body, often used in bondage or power-exchange play.

Squirting

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

The release of fluid from the urethra during sexual arousal or orgasm, often associated with stimulation of the front wall of the vagina. The amount and sensation vary widely from person to person.

Staples

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of edge play involving the use of office-style fasteners on the skin, usually to create sharp pressure or a pinching sensation. It may be applied to areas like the chest, genitals, or other sensitive body parts for pain, stimulation, or visual effect.

Stockings

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A fetish or aesthetic preference centered on thigh-highs, nylons, or similar hosiery. It may involve the look, texture, sound, or ritual of wearing, touching, or removing them.

Strap-ons

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A wearable dildo attached to a harness or similar support, used for penetration or other forms of sexual play. It may be used by people of any gender with partners of any gender.

Submission

Groups: Power & Control

A dynamic centered on one person being physically restrained or immobilized by another, often as part of power exchange or sensation play.

Subspace

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A trance-like, altered state some people experience during intense BDSM play, often marked by euphoria, floating sensations, reduced pain awareness, or deep focus. It can vary widely in intensity and duration.

Suspension

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of rope bondage in which a person is partially or fully lifted off the ground using ropes attached to support points above. It can emphasize restraint, body positioning, and the visual or physical sensations of being airborne.

Suspension Bondage

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of rope or restraint play in which a person is partially or fully lifted off the ground using rigging. It emphasizes body positioning, weight distribution, and the visual or physical sensations of hanging support.

Sweat

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Arousal centered on perspiration, body scent, and the sensory qualities associated with physical exertion or warmth. It can involve attraction to the smell, taste, appearance, or feel of moisture on the skin.

Swinging

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A form of non-monogamy where committed partners engage in sexual activities with other people, often together as a couple. It can include partner swapping, group sex, or attending social events centered on sexual connection.

Switching

Groups: Power & Control

A dynamic where someone takes on different roles or power positions at different times, such as alternating between dominant and submissive. It can describe a preference for flexibility rather than a fixed role.

Sybian

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A motorized saddle-style sex machine designed to be straddled, typically with a vibrating or thrusting attachment for hands-free stimulation. It’s often associated with intense, adjustable stimulation and erotic performance.

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Talking Dirty

Groups: Power & Control

Sexualized or provocative language used to build arousal, tease, praise, dominate, or describe fantasies and acts. It can range from playful flirting to explicit verbal exchange during intimacy.

Tattoos

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

An interest in permanent body art made by placing pigment under the skin, valued for its visual style, symbolism, lasting nature, or the experience of being marked. In an erotic context, the appeal may focus on appearance, personal meaning, ritual, or arousal linked to receiving body art or seeing it on others.

Tease & Denial

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A dynamic centered on building arousal through flirting, stimulation, or erotic play while delaying or preventing orgasm. It often emphasizes anticipation, frustration, and heightened sensitivity.

Tens Unit

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Using a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation device to create tingling, pulsing, or muscle-contracting sensations on the body for erotic stimulation. Intensity, placement, and rhythm can vary widely depending on the desired effect.

Threesomes

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sex involving three people at the same time, or a planned sexual encounter among three partners. It can involve any mix of genders, roles, and relationship structures.

Throat Fucking

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of oral sex involving deep penetration of the mouth and throat, often emphasizing gag reflex, depth, and intensity. It may be associated with dominance, submission, or rougher sexual play.

Tit Fucking

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

Sexual stimulation involving a penis being rubbed, thrust, or held between a partner’s breasts. It may be used as foreplay or as a form of partnered sexual activity.

Toilet

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A sexual interest involving urine or feces, often centered on bodily functions, elimination, or associated smells, sights, and sensations. It may include watching, being present for, or incorporating these elements into erotic scenarios.

Toilet slave

Groups: Power & Control, Touch, Sensation & Release, and Roleplay & Transformation

A submissive role centered on serving a dominant in bathroom-related ways, often involving cleaning, assisting, or eroticizing bodily functions. It typically overlaps with humiliation, service, and bodily-fluid or toilet-focused fetish interests.

Tongue Sucking

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of kissing or oral play where one person gently sucks on the other’s tongue. It is often used to heighten intimacy and sensation during making out or foreplay.

Tongues

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Emphasizes the tongue as the main focus of erotic play, such as licking, tasting, tracing, or oral teasing on different parts of the body. It can center on sensation, intimacy, and anticipation.

Touching

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Physical contact used for comfort, affection, arousal, or connection. It can range from light caresses and holding to more intimate forms of contact.

Toy Making

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

A kink involving creating, customizing, or modifying erotic toys and implements for personal use or shared play. It can include crafting items by hand, altering existing gear, or designing pieces for specific sensations or aesthetics.

Toys

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Objects used to add stimulation, sensation, or variety to sexual play, such as vibrators, dildos, plugs, sleeves, or impact implements. They may be used alone or with partners.

Trampling

Groups: Power & Control, Touch, Sensation & Release, and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A practice where one person steps or walks on another person’s body for sensation, pressure, or erotic stimulation. It can range from light barefoot pressure to more intense stomping or use of shoes.

Triple Penetration

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A sexual act involving three simultaneous forms of penetration, such as vaginal, anal, and oral, or penetration by multiple partners or toys at the same time. Definitions can vary depending on the people involved.

Trust

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A dynamic centered on relying on another person’s care, judgment, or follow-through. It can involve emotional vulnerability, surrendering control, or testing and reinforcing reliability within a relationship.

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Uniforms

Groups: Power & Control, Clothing, Gear & Performance, and Roleplay & Transformation

Sexual or romantic interest centered on specific outfits associated with roles, institutions, or professions, such as military, police, school, medical, or service attire. The appeal may come from the look itself, the symbolism of authority or structure, or the roleplay it suggests.

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Vacuum Bed

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of enclosure play using a latex or similar sheet that is vacuum-sealed around the body, creating tight full-body compression and restricted movement. It often emphasizes pressure, immobilization, and sensory intensity.

Vacuum pumping

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Using a pump to create suction around genitals, nipples, or other body parts, causing temporary swelling and increased sensitivity. It may be done for sensation, appearance, or erotic stimulation.

Vaginal Fisting

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A penetrative activity involving inserting a whole hand into the vagina, typically gradually and with the fingers compressed together. It often emphasizes intense fullness and stretching sensations.

Vaginal Stretching

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of penetration play focused on gradually increasing fullness or width in the vagina using fingers, toys, or larger insertables. It centers on the sensation of expansion and accommodating greater size over time.

Vampire gloves

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release, Clothing, Gear & Performance, and Roleplay & Transformation

A glove style associated with vampire-themed or predator/prey play, often featuring long, pointed nails or claw-like fingertips. It emphasizes a dramatic, eerie aesthetic and can add a scratching or teasing sensation.

Velvet

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A tactile interest focused on the look, feel, and texture of a soft, plush fabric, often involving enjoyment from touching it, wearing it, rubbing against it, or being surrounded by it. For some people, the material itself is a primary source of arousal or comfort.

Verbal Humiliation/Degradation

Groups: Power & Control

A dynamic involving insulting, belittling, or degrading language used to create arousal, reinforce power exchange, or evoke specific emotional responses. It can range from teasing and name-calling to more intense humiliation play.

Vibrators

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance

Sex toys that use vibration for sexual stimulation, commonly applied to the genitals or other sensitive areas. They come in many shapes and intensities for solo or partnered use.

Vintage Lingerie

Groups: Clothing, Gear & Performance and Roleplay & Transformation

An interest in lingerie from past eras, such as corsets, slips, stockings, or bras styled after specific decades. It often centers on the look, materials, craftsmanship, and nostalgic or glamorous aesthetic.

Vintage Porn

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Erotic media from earlier eras, often valued for its distinctive aesthetics, styles, and cultural context. It can include old magazines, films, photographs, or other adult material from past decades.

Violence

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

An interest in physical aggression, force, or harm as part of erotic play or fantasy. It can range from staged struggle and impact to more severe forms centered on pain, domination, or threat.

Violet Wand

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of sensation play using a handheld device that creates high-voltage, low-current electrical sparks on or near the skin. It can produce tingling, warmth, snapping sensations, and visible arcs.

Voyeurism

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

A sexual interest in watching others who are nude, undressing, or engaged in sexual activity. It can involve observing openly, secretly, or as part of an agreed erotic dynamic.

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Waking up to oral sex

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Being sexually stimulated with a partner’s mouth while asleep or just waking. It centers on the surprise, vulnerability, and blurred transition from sleep to arousal.

Wartenberg Pinwheels

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A sensation-play tool with a small spiked wheel rolled over the skin to create prickling, scratching, or light stinging feelings. It is often used to vary intensity and stimulate nerve endings.

Waterboarding

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Roleplay & Transformation

A breath-control activity involving pouring water over a covered face to create the sensation of drowning. It is often associated with intense fear, helplessness, and interrogation-style roleplay.

Waterbondage

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release and Clothing, Gear & Performance

A form of restraint involving water, such as being bound in a bath, pool, shower, or other wet environment. It combines physical restriction with the sensations and atmosphere created by water.

Watersports

Groups: Power & Control and Touch, Sensation & Release

A sexual interest involving urine, such as urinating on a partner, being urinated on, or incorporating urine into erotic play. It may center on sensation, taboo, humiliation, or bodily fluid exchange.

Wax

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

A form of sensation play involving warm melted candle material dripped onto the skin to create heat, a light sting, and texture. Some people enjoy the contrast of warmth, anticipation, and the feeling of it cooling on the body.

Webcams

Groups: Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Sexual or erotic activity performed over live video, often for a partner or audience watching remotely. It can include chatting, teasing, masturbation, or interactive online roleplay.

Whipping

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Impact play involving strikes with a whip or similar tool, creating sensations that can range from light stinging to intense pain. It may be used for physical stimulation, erotic focus, or as part of dominance and submission dynamics.

Whips

Groups: Touch, Sensation & Release

Using a flexible striking tool to create sensations ranging from light stings to intense impact during erotic play. It can involve different materials and styles that affect the feel and sound.

Wrestling

Groups: Power & Control

A form of erotic play centered on grappling, pinning, and physical struggle. It may emphasize strength, competition, restraint, or body contact.

Writing Erotica

Groups: Roleplay & Transformation and Environment, Taking it in & Heat

Creating or sharing sexually explicit stories, scenes, or narratives for arousal, expression, or exploration. It can be done alone or with others, and may range from fantasy-driven fiction to personalized scenarios.