Sex Dictionary A–Z

An informal noun meaning a homophobe: a person who dislikes homosexuals. As a suffix, “-phobe” forms nouns for a person who fears or dislikes a particular thing or type of person.

A 13th stepper is a more experienced member of a 12-step recovery program who pursues newcomers for romantic or sexual relationships.

A German term for a homosexual during the period from 1871 to 1994 when homosexuality was illegal.

In BDSM, 24/7 describes a relationship in which the submissive is available to the dominant at all times. It can also describe a lifestyle involving wearing and using a diaper at all times.

ABDL refers to sexual practices involving diapers or other infant-associated paraphernalia, including sexual arousal from wearing diapers or pretending to be an infant. It can also refer to a person who engages in these practices, such as an adult baby or diaper lover.

Abstinence is the practice of refraining from sexual intercourse, either permanently or until marriage. More broadly, it can mean self-denial or restraint from an appetite or desire.

AC/DC is slang for bisexual, describing someone who is attracted to more than one gender.

In a sexual context, access means admission to sexual intercourse.

In sexual slang, “action” refers to sexual intercourse.

In sexual slang, active describes the partner who penetrates during anal sex rather than the partner who is penetrated.

An adult bookstore is a retail store that sells pornography in formats such as books and video, and often also sells sex toys.

Aesthetic attraction is being drawn to someone’s appearance or visual presentation without necessarily feeling romantic or sexual attraction toward them.

Affectional preference refers to a person’s sexual or romantic orientation.

A comb with widely spaced teeth, usually used on kinky hair; an afro pick can also be worn in the hair.

Aftercare is a term used in BDSM or consensual power-exchange contexts. Its practical meaning depends on negotiated roles, boundaries, risks, and agreements.

“Afternoon delight” is a sexual encounter or sexual intercourse that takes place in the afternoon.

Age gap is the difference in age between two or more people, especially romantic or sexual partners.

The age of consent is the age at which a person is legally considered mature enough to willingly engage in sexual intercourse, so that sex with that person is not a crime on that basis.

Agender describes people who identify with no gender, with a lack of gender, or outside conventional gender categories.

In sexuality and gender vocabulary, aggressive describes a female person with a male or masculine gender presentation; butch.

In sexual slang and pornography, “airtight” describes a person being penetrated simultaneously in the vagina, anus, and mouth.

Allo describes a person who experiences sexual and/or romantic attraction. It is used as a short form of allosexual and/or alloromantic, and can also function as a noun for someone described this way.

An allohormone is a hormone transferred from one individual to another through close physical contact, typically during sexual intercourse.

Allonormativity is the assumption that everyone experiences sexual attraction, romantic attraction, or both. The concept describes norms that treat allosexuality and alloromanticism as universal or expected, which can marginalize people who do not experience those forms of attraction, including some asexual people.

Allosexual describes a person who experiences sexual attraction and is not asexual.

A woman who sexually teases someone with the promise of intercourse.

Altfic is fan fiction centered on romantic or sexual relationships between female characters, often in slash-fiction contexts.

Altocalciphilia is a sexual fetish involving attraction to high-heeled shoes.

A humorous adjective describing a bisexual person.

A humorous, sometimes offensive adjective used to describe someone as bisexual. It can also refer to something with both masculine and feminine elements, or to an androgynous or epicene quality.

Ambisexual describes a person who is bisexual or whose sexual orientation is described as ambiguous. It can function as both an adjective and a noun.

Ambisexuality is the state of being ambisexual, or an instance of ambisexual behaviour.

In an ambisexual way.

An adjective describing something as ambisexual or hermaphroditic. The adjective is not comparative.

Amphigenous is an adjective describing bisexual attraction: being attracted to both males and females.

Amy-John is slang for a dominant or butch lesbian.

Anal sex is sexual activity involving the anus, commonly including anal penetration.

Anaphroditic describes something non-sexual or without sexual intercourse.

In botanical usage, androhermaphrodite describes something that produces both male and bisexual flowers.

Producing both bisexual and male flowers on the same plant.

Andromonoecy is a botanical condition in which a single plant produces both bisexual flowers and male flowers.

Oral sex with a partner’s anus.

Anodyspareunia is pain that occurs during receptive anal intercourse.

“Antarctic 10” is slang for a person in Antarctica considered exceptionally desirable as a romantic or sexual partner by local standards, especially because the area’s small population can make someone seem more attractive than they would elsewhere.

Anti-homosexualism is prejudice against homosexual, or gay, people. It is another term for homophobia.

An adjective describing opposition to LGBT people or to their rights.

A derogatory Caribbean slang term for a homosexual man.

An adjective describing something antibisexual.

Antibisexual is an adjective describing opposition to bisexuality.

A vulgar adjective describing opposition to homosexuals.

A derogatory and offensive noun for someone who is opposed to homosexual people.

Antigenderism is opposition to “gender ideology” or “genderism,” broad labels that can refer to transgender rights, same-sex marriage, feminism, and related ideas.

Antihomosexual describes opposition to homosexuality or refers to a person who opposes homosexuality.

Antihomosexuality is opposition to homosexuality.

Antikink describes opposition to kinky sex. It can also refer to a person, attitude, or stance that rejects or objects to kink.

Antilesbian describes an attitude, statement, policy, or other content opposed or hostile to lesbians.

Antiphysical is an adjective describing homosexuality or something regarded as contrary to nature or unnatural.

Antisexual describes opposition to or disapproval of sexual intercourse, sex, or the expression and study of sexuality. It can also refer to something that suppresses or reduces sexual desire, such as an anaphrodisiac.

Antitrans is an adjective describing something antitransgender or antitranssexual.

Aphrodisia refers to sexual intercourse or a state of sexual desire.

Aromantic describes a person who does not experience romantic attraction.

In incel-related slang, to ascend means to cease being an incel, generally by losing one’s virginity and having sexual intercourse or by forming a romantic relationship.

In incel slang, ascension is the act or process of ceasing to be an incel, generally by having sex, losing one’s virginity, or entering a romantic relationship.

Asexual describes a person who experiences little or no sexual attraction.

Ass to mouth is a sexual act in which a penis or another object is removed from someone’s anus and promptly placed in another person’s mouth. The abbreviation ATM is also used in pornography.

A vulgar slang term for anal sex or anal intercourse; as a verb, it means to engage in anal intercourse.

Assless is a vulgar adjective describing something devoid of sexual intercourse. It can also describe clothing that is uncovered at the rear, as in “assless chaps.”

“At it” can mean occupied with an activity. In sexual usage, it means engaged in sexual intercourse or other sexual activity.

Ateuchosaurid is a noun for any skink in the genus Ateuchosaurus.

A slang noun for a woman portrayed as sexually promiscuous or willing to have sex with anyone.

Atherton ctenotus is a species of skink, Ctenotus monticola, in the genus Ctenotus.

In dating and sexual contexts, “attached” describes someone who is in a romantic or sexual relationship.

Autocopulation is sexual intercourse with oneself. The noun is also used in zoological descriptions, including reports of solitary snails attempting apparent autocopulation.

Autoerotism is sexual activity involving oneself, including masturbation.

A slang, idiomatic term for a person—chiefly a homosexual man—who has anal sex.

A derogatory, humorous slang noun for a homosexual man.

A romantic vacation taken by two people who are dating, often with one’s bae or sexual partner.

Baihe refers to romantic or sexual relationships between women, including lesbianism. It can also describe fiction or other media centered on such relationships; in that use, it is related to yuri.

As an informal sexual slang verb, “ball” means to have sexual intercourse with someone. It can be used in both transitive and intransitive constructions.

“Ball down” is slang for having sexual intercourse, especially sex that is intense and sweaty.

A ballet boot is fetish footwear that combines the appearance of ballet pointe shoes with the raised heel of a high-heeled shoe.

A colloquial, vulgar term for the testicles; as a verb, “to balls” means to engage in sexual intercourse.

An Australian slang phrase meaning to have sexual intercourse very frequently or very vigorously.

A derogatory slang term for a woman whose role in a relationship is reduced to providing sex and doing housework.

Bangbus is slang for a motorbus associated with solicited, sexually explicit activity, particularly in pornography.

“Banging” is slang for a session of sexual intercourse. As an adjective, it can also describe someone or something as attractive or sexually appealing.

A banjee boy is a young gay Latino or African American man associated with stereotypically masculine urban fashion.

A homosexual boy or young man kept for sexual use; a catamite.

A US noun referring to sexual intercourse.

A derogatory slang term for a homosexual man, associated with Canada, the Caribbean, Jamaica, and the UK.

A derogatory Caribbean and Jamaican slang term for a homosexual man.

Baudin's skink is a skink species, Emoia baudini, native to New Guinea, Maluku, and Sulawesi.

BDSM is an umbrella term for consensual practices and relationship dynamics involving bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and/or sadism and masochism.

A BDSMer is someone who participates in BDSM. The informal noun can refer to people involved in BDSM activities or, in some contexts, those who incorporate BDSM into their lifestyle.

“Be into” means to enjoy or like something sexually, including as a fetish.

In LGBTQ+ slang, a beard is a woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, to create the impression that the person is heterosexual. The word can also refer more broadly to a fake companion or intermediary used for that purpose.

Beardom is the state or quality of being a bear in gay male subculture.

As a slang verb, “beast” means to engage in sexual intercourse, particularly in an illicit context.

“Beat” is a colloquial verb meaning to have sexual intercourse. It is used in some varieties of English, including US, UK, Australian, Southern US, and Multicultural London English.

“Beef injection” is vulgar slang for penetrative sexual intercourse.

Beige Flag is a term used in modern dating. Its exact meaning depends on the behavior, stage, or expectation being described and on the context in which people use the term.

A UK slang term for a homosexual man, marked as derogatory.

A derogatory slang adjective for someone who is homosexual.

UK slang describing someone or something as ostentatiously homosexual. It can also mean extremely dishonest or criminally minded.

A slang phrase meaning homosexual or bent; it can also mean not lawful.

An offensive term historically used for a Native American person whose gender identity or social role was not exclusively associated with their biological sex. It has also been used to refer broadly to a transgender person.

Bi-asexual describes someone who experiences romantic or aesthetic attraction to people of either sex but does not experience sexual attraction to others.

Bi-curious describes someone exploring or considering attraction, relationships, or sexual experiences with both men and women, particularly while questioning whether they may be bisexual.

An informal term for a recurring shift in a bisexual person’s level of attraction to different genders over time.

A vulgar noun for a bisexual woman or nonbinary person who prefers female or femme partners to male or masc partners.

Bi-erasure is the tendency to ignore, deny, or minimize the existence of bisexual people or bisexuality.

Bi4Bi is an adjective describing something related to or focused on relationships between bisexual or multisexual people.

Bibliophilia is a sexual attraction to books, including sexual intercourse involving books. In general usage, it can also mean a love of books.

Bicentric describes a perspective, framework, or idea that has a bisexual bias or basis.

Bicentrism is the state or quality of being bicentric in a bisexual sense: having a bisexual bias or basis.

An informal term for an iconic bisexual celebrity or fictional character, or for a celebrity or fictional character greatly admired by bisexual people, whether or not that person or character is bisexual.

Bidar is slang for the perceived ability to detect whether someone is bisexual by observing them. The idea is informal and not always accurate: some bisexual people may not be recognizable through bidar, while someone may appear bisexual without identifying as bisexual.

Relating to bisexual love or desire.

Bigender describes a person who identifies with two genders.

Bihet is a derogatory term for a bisexual person who more often engages in heterosexual relationships.

Bikisser is an internet neologism for a cute bisexual or gay, effeminate white cat depicted in a specific furry art style. It can also refer to a person attracted to both men and women.

Binegative describes attitudes, beliefs, language, or behavior that are negative toward bisexuality or bisexual people. It is also used to mean biphobic.

Binegativity is negativity, prejudice, or hostility directed at bisexual people. It is also called biphobia.

Biness is the state or quality of being bisexual. The noun is uncommon and informal.

Binormativity is the adoption or enforcement of limiting, often heterosexist-like values, beliefs, and norms within the bisexual community.

A biphobe is a person who has a negative perception of bisexual people or bisexuality.

Biphobia is antipathy toward bisexual people.

Prejudice directed at bisexual people.

Bisexous is an adjective describing something bisexual or hermaphroditic—having both male and female parts or functions.

Bisexual describes a person with the capacity for romantic, emotional, and/or physical attraction to people of more than one gender.

Marriage between two people in which one or both partners are bisexual.

Bisexualist is a noun referring to a bisexual person.

Bisexuality is the state of being sexually attracted to members of either sex, involving both heterosexual and homosexual attraction.

Bisexualization is the act or process of bisexualizing.

Bisexualize is a transitive verb meaning to render someone or something bisexual.

Bisexualized is the simple past and past participle form of the verb bisexualize.

“Bisexualizes” is the third-person singular simple present indicative form of the verb “bisexualize.”

Bisexualizing is the present participle and gerund form of the verb “bisexualize.”

In a bisexual manner.

Bisexualness is the state or quality of being bisexual; it is another word for bisexuality.

Bisexuous is an adjective describing something bisexual or hermaphroditic, particularly in a scientific context.

Bisexy is slang describing someone or something as appealingly bisexual, or as sexually attractive to both men and women.

A derogatory sexual slang term for a submissive person who does what others want; in prison slang, a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship. It can also be an offensive insult for a promiscuous woman, or a vulgar term for a woman generally.

A highly vulgar, derogatory slang term for having sexual intercourse with a “bitch”; as a verb, it can mean to have intercourse with someone in a vigorous or violent manner.

A bitchsuit is a BDSM bondage suit that restrains the wearer’s arms and legs, folding them to a similar length and forcing the body into a crawling, quadruped-like position. As a vulgar slang verb, “to bitchsuit” means to wear one.

Australian slang for sexual intercourse with an Aboriginal Australian woman; it can also refer to Aboriginal Australian women in that sexualized context. The phrase also names a cocktail made with stout and champagne or, sometimes, a less expensive sparkling white wine.

A derogatory slang term describing a non-Black person who has had sexual intercourse with a Black man.

Blackmail is the use of compromising information to extort money, favors, or another response through threats of exposure. In BDSM, it can also refer to roleplay in which a submissive shares information that a dominant may exploit within the scene.

Blade is informal U.S. slang for a homosexual person, usually a man.

Bleeder is a term for a person who menstruates, used in the context of transgender inclusivity.

Bloodplay is a BDSM or sexual practice in which a participant is deliberately cut so that blood is released.

“Blue bean” is sexual slang for discomfort or swelling in the clitoris after prolonged sexual arousal without orgasm.

Blue-ball is a vulgar slang verb meaning to leave someone—usually a man—sexually frustrated by denying them an orgasm or abruptly ending sexual contact. It can also mean teasing or leading someone on by promising something desirable without delivering it.

Sexually frustrated, especially after experiencing sexual arousal without reaching orgasm.

A blue-tongue lizard is any of several species of Australian skinks in the genus Tiliqua.

A blue-tongued skink is any of several species of Australian skink in the genus Tiliqua. This is a zoological term, not a sexuality, dating, relationship, or BDSM term.

Bobtail lizard refers to the bobtail skink.

Bobtail skink is a common name for Tiliqua rugosa, an Australian blue-tongued skink.

A bodice ripper is an informal term for a romantic novel, usually set in the past, that contains frank depictions of sexual activity, often involving the seduction of a female protagonist. The term can also describe a film or television program with similar sexual content.

Boff is slang for having sexual intercourse with someone.

Boffing is slang for sexual intercourse. It can also refer to reenacted fighting with foam weapons, but the sexual meaning is the relevant sense in sexuality and dating contexts.

In BDSM and sexual slang, a boi is a male bottom or submissive partner whose role is defined by submission to a dominant top, not by being young.

Boink is informal slang for having sexual intercourse. As a verb, it means to have sex with someone; as a noun, it means sexual intercourse.

Boinky is informal sexual slang for sexual intercourse.

A commercial film with pornographic or erotic content; also used to mean softcore pornography, particularly in Philippine usage.

In Philippine usage, a bold movie is a commercial film containing erotic or pornographic material, generally referring to softcore pornography.

Bondage is a kink or fetish-related term used to describe an interest, fantasy, activity, sensation, object, or style of erotic play. Individual interests and boundaries can vary widely.

Bondagewear is clothing designed to be worn during sexual bondage activities.

Boning is vulgar slang for an act of sexual intercourse.

“Bonk” is informal UK sexual slang meaning to have sexual intercourse with someone. It is used as a verb.

A prohibition against sexual or intimate relationships between parliamentarians and staffers, especially in Australian political usage.

Bonking is slang for having sexual intercourse, or a session of sexual intercourse.

“Bonky bonky” is slang for sexual intercourse.

Boogy is a slang term for sexual intercourse.

Bootlicking is a BDSM activity involving licking someone’s boot. The word can also describe obsequious or servile behavior in a figurative sense.

Booty is slang for sexual intercourse or for the buttocks. The word is vulgar in these sexual senses.

Bottom is a role-related term used in sexual, kink, or BDSM contexts. Role labels can describe preferences or dynamics but do not define a person's complete interests or boundaries.

Bottom drop is a low or distressed emotional state experienced by a bottom after BDSM play, as the heightened feelings of a scene wear off.

In informal sexual slang, “bounce” means to have sexual intercourse.

An informal adjective describing strong romantic or sexual attraction to boys in one’s age group.

A vulgar sexual slang term for a man’s anus, usually referring to the passive participant in gay sex. It can also refer to the vagina or vulva of a trans man.

Vulgar sexual slang for a man’s anus, typically referring to the receptive partner in gay sex. It can also refer to the vagina or vulva of a transgender man or another transmasculine person.

A derogatory, vulgar slang term for a homosexual male, usually used as an insult addressed to a man.

Boyremove is a transitive sexual slang verb meaning to remove the male socialization of a trans woman, or “boymoder,” through domination during sexual intercourse.

Boys' love (BL) is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that focuses on homoerotic relationships between male characters. It is also known as yaoi.

Boyslash is slash fiction focused on romantic and/or sexual relationships between male characters.

A slang term for a young man who takes on a homemaking role and enjoys caring for a more dominant partner, often as the submissive partner in the relationship.

Brat is a term used in BDSM or consensual power-exchange contexts. Its practical meaning depends on negotiated roles, boundaries, risks, and agreements.

Brat Tamer is a term used in BDSM or consensual power-exchange contexts. Its practical meaning depends on negotiated roles, boundaries, risks, and agreements.

Breadcrumbing is giving someone occasional signs of attention or interest that keep them engaged without meaningfully pursuing an ongoing relationship.

“Break up” means to end a romantic or sexual relationship. It can describe two people ending the relationship with each other or one person ending it with a partner.

Breath control is a BDSM and sexual practice involving erotic asphyxiation, in which one person controls another person’s breathing.

Breathplay is a sexual practice involving the intentional deprivation of oxygen to the brain, often through choking. It is associated with BDSM and is considered a form of edgeplay.

A slang term for a heterosexual person whose sexual intercourse can result in reproduction. It can also refer, derogatorily, to someone who has or can have children, or who is focused on raising their own children.

A Cockney slang adjective meaning queer or homosexual.

Brojob is humorous slang for oral sex performed by one straight or bisexual man on another, usually between friends.

A slang adjective describing something homoerotic, homosexual, or gay.

A brokeback marriage is an opposite-sex marriage in which one partner, typically the man, is secretly homosexual.

A close, non-sexual relationship between two or more men.

Bromosexual describes a close, nonsexual relationship between two men, usually a gay man and a straight man. As a noun, it refers to a man who has one or more such friendships.

A vulgar term for a homosexual man; it can also refer literally to someone who has incestuous sex with their brother. In some uses, it functions as a generic term of abuse.

Buckle refers to a distortion: a bend, bulge, or kink.

Buckling is bending, kinking, or bulging under pressure or stress, with a possible risk of collapse.

Buddyslash is slash fan fiction centered on a romantic or sexual relationship between two friends.

Bulbus glandis is an erectile tissue structure on the penis of canids and some pinnipeds. During intercourse, it swells and locks inside the female.

A slang verb meaning to have lesbian sex.

Bulldyking is a term for lesbian sex, sometimes specifically tribadism, particularly in reference to Black women. It can also be used adjectivally.

A derogatory and offensive British slang term for a gay man or a male gay partner.

A derogatory, vulgar UK slang noun for a gay man.

A derogatory UK slang term for a gay man.

Bumfoolery is slang for messing about, particularly in a homosexual or sexually suggestive way.

“Bump uglies” is vulgar slang for having sexual intercourse.

“Burn coal” is derogatory, offensive slang for a non-Black person—usually a woman—who seeks sexual relationships with Black people, usually men.

An offensive internet phrase used to admonish or deride white women for having sexual relationships with Black men.

In sexual slang, “burner” is an abbreviation of “coal burner”: a non-Black person, usually a woman, who has sexual relationships with Black people, usually men.

Burusera is a fetish market or shop dealing in used girls’ underwear and school uniforms, typically bought and sold for sexual fetish purposes.

“Bust out” is informal sexual slang meaning to have sex with a woman or bring a woman to orgasm.

Butch is a masculine identity or presentation used especially in lesbian and queer communities.

A derogatory slang term for a homosexual man.

Buttock mail is a historical Scottish term for a fine imposed by the church for sexual intercourse outside marriage.

Californication is a humorous, derogatory noun for sexual intercourse in California or in a Californian style.

To canoodle is to caress, cuddle, or fondle someone; the verb can also mean to have sexual intercourse or make love. As a noun, a canoodle is a caress, cuddle, or hug.

Capnolagnia is a sexual fetish involving arousal from seeing or smelling someone smoking.

Cardiophilia is a paraphilia or fetish involving sexual arousal from, or an intense fondness for, the heart or a heartbeat.

“Carnal knowledge” is a formal or legal expression meaning sexual intercourse. It is an uncountable noun phrase.

“Carry on” is an idiomatic phrase for having an illicit sexual or flirtatious relationship.

A vulgar slang term for a homosexual male who is a paypig or finsub.

Cashmaster is slang for a highly paid or exceptional findom—a dominant who practices financial domination.

A catamite is a boy or younger man involved in a homoerotic relationship with an older man. The word can also be used as a verb for engaging in such a relationship.

“Catch a dick” is vulgar sexual slang meaning to receive penetrative sexual intercourse.

A slang term for an effeminate gay man.

Cenogamy is a system in which members of a community share sexual partners, with husbands and wives held in common.

CFNF refers to lesbian sexual roleplay, usually involving humiliation play, in which one woman remains clothed while the other is naked. It can also refer to pornography depicting this scenario.

CFNM is a sexual roleplay or fetish scenario in which a woman remains clothed while a man is naked. The term can also refer to pornography depicting this setup, which is often associated with humiliation play.

In Polari, charver can mean to have sexual intercourse, or a woman considered as a sexual partner.

To persistently pursue someone as a sexual or romantic partner.

Chastity is a kink or fetish-related term used to describe an interest, fantasy, activity, sensation, object, or style of erotic play. Individual interests and boundaries can vary widely.

To chat someone up is to talk to them in a friendly, charming, or flirtatious way, sometimes with the aim of starting a romantic or sexual relationship.

To cheat on a spouse or partner is to be unfaithful by engaging in sexual or romantic conduct with someone else in violation of the relationship’s agreement or social expectations.

A chemise cagoule is a heavy form of women’s nightwear designed with an opening for sexual intercourse while limiting other physical contact.

A derogatory Jamaican and Caribbean slang term for a homosexual man.

Chinkle is a noun meaning a turn or kink in a rope. As a verb, it can mean to jingle or produce a continued, low-volume tinkling or chinking sound.

The Christmas Island whiptail skink is a species of skink, Emoia nativitatis, native to Christmas Island. It is also known as the forest skink.

Chudai is an Indian internet slang noun referring to sex, sexual intercourse, or pornography.

A derogatory UK slang term for a homosexual man.

A circumfetishist is a person with a sexual fetish for male circumcision. The word can also be used, broadly and often derogatorily, for an advocate of routine male circumcision.

In sexuality and gender terminology, cis describes someone who is cisgender: not transgender or non-binary. It is also sometimes used as a shortened form of cissexual.

Cisbi is an informal term for a cisgender and bisexual person. It can also describe someone or something associated with being cisgender and bisexual.

A cisbian is a cisgender lesbian: a woman who is cisgender and experiences sexual attraction to women.

Cisgender describes a person whose gender identity corresponds with the sex they were assigned at birth.

Cistem is a noun for a system or societal structure that privileges cisgender people and marginalizes transgender people.

Cistemic is an adjective for systems, structures, or conditions that privilege cisgender people and marginalize transgender people.

Classcest is slang for a sexual or romantic relationship between classmates.

A clean fetish is a non-partialist fetish that does not involve bodily fluids or waste, unpleasant smells, messy substances, or other things generally considered unclean.

A person who reaches orgasm. “Climaxer” can also refer to a sex toy.

Clockiness is the state of being clocky, meaning visibly transgender.

Closetedness is the state of not being open about one’s homosexuality.

Closetiness is the state of being reticent or secretive about one’s homosexuality.

Closety is a colloquial adjective describing someone who is not open about their homosexuality or tends to remain in the closet.

CMNF refers to sexual roleplay in which a man remains clothed while a woman is naked, usually in a humiliation-play scenario. It can also describe pornography depicting this situation.

A derogatory term for a non-Black person, usually a woman, who has sexual relationships with Black people, usually men.

A derogatory slang term for the act or habit of a non-Black person, usually a woman, having sexual relationships with Black people, usually men.

A vulgar, derogatory term for a person—usually a woman—who sexually teases a man and then withdraws an implied promise of sexual intercourse.

Cock-drunk is a vulgar adjective describing someone or something rendered incoherent and libidinous by intercourse with a penis.

To cockblock is to interfere with or prevent someone’s attempt to pursue a romantic relationship or have sex. As a noun, cockblock can refer to the act itself or to a person who does it.

Cockblocking is slang for obstructing someone’s attempt to pursue a romantic relationship or have sex. It can describe the act itself or a person who gets in the way.

A derogatory slang term for a homosexual man.

To live together with someone, especially as romantic and sexual partners without being married.

“Coit” is a verb meaning to have sexual intercourse or copulate. It is also used as a synonym for “coition.”

Coital is an adjective meaning related to coitus, or sexual intercourse.

Coitarche is the term for a person’s first sexual intercourse.

Coition is sexual intercourse.

Relating to sexual intercourse.

Coitophobia is the fear of coitus, meaning sexual intercourse.

Coitus is a formal term for sexual intercourse, especially intercourse involving penile–vaginal penetration.

Coitus interruptus is sexual intercourse in which the penis is withdrawn before ejaculation. It is also known as withdrawal.

Coitus reservatus is sexual intercourse in which the penetrating partner deliberately avoids ejaculation and remains in the plateau phase for as long as possible.

Collar is a term used in BDSM or consensual power-exchange contexts. Its practical meaning depends on negotiated roles, boundaries, risks, and agreements.

In BDSM, collared describes a person who is committed to submitting to a particular dominant.

Collaring is a term used in BDSM or consensual power-exchange contexts. Its practical meaning depends on negotiated roles, boundaries, risks, and agreements.

In Australian slang, “combo” is a derogatory term for a Caucasian man who marries or has a sexual relationship with an Aboriginal woman, or who lives among Aboriginal people and adopts Aboriginal culture.

To come on strong means to show intense eagerness or desire, especially toward a romantic or sexual partner. It can suggest wanting someone or something too much or approaching with excessive energy.

“Come out of the closet” is an informal idiom meaning to tell other people about a sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity that was previously kept secret.

Coming out is the process of sharing or disclosing one's sexual orientation or gender identity to other people.

In sexuality-related usage, commerce means sexual intercourse.

In a sexual or relationship context, committed describes an exclusive sexual relationship that is not necessarily permanent.

Commixtion is a noun meaning sexual intercourse, copulation, or coition.

In Marxist theory, a commodity fetish is an item whose value is understood through commodity fetishism.

As a verb, “company” means to have sexual intercourse.

A noun referring to a male homosexual.

Compersion is happiness or pleasure felt in response to another person’s happiness, especially a partner’s positive romantic or sexual experience with another partner.

Conceptum describes romantic or sexual attraction to concepts, or a relationship with a concept. It can also refer to a person who experiences that attraction or relationship.

Concubinarian is an adjective for something involving or relating to a sexual relationship outside marriage. As a noun, it refers to someone who takes a concubine.

In sexual terminology, congress refers to coitus, or sexual intercourse.

Sexual intercourse between two people who are married to each other.

The rights and privileges associated with marriage, including mutual love, affection, companionship, comfort, and sexual relations.

Conjugality is the condition of being conjugal, especially the state of marriage or a sexual relationship between spouses.

In sexual terminology, conjunction refers to sexual intercourse.

A conk is a hairstyle created by chemically straightening and styling kinky hair. As a verb, conk means to chemically straighten tightly curled hair; this usage is dated and primarily associated with U.S. English.

Consensual non-monogamy is an umbrella term for relationship agreements in which all partners consent to romantic, intimate, and/or sexual relationships involving more than one person.

Consent is an agreement to participate in a sexual activity; agreement is required for sexual activity to be consensual.

In polyamory, a constellation is a network of connections among people in related polyamorous relationships—for example, a person, their partner, and that partner’s partner.

To consummate a marriage is to complete it through the spouses’ first sexual intercourse.

A marriage completed through the spouses’ first act of sexual intercourse after the wedding ceremony.

Consummation is the first act of sexual intercourse in a relationship, especially the first such act after marriage.

A contraceptive is something that prevents conception, or makes conception less likely, as a result of sexual intercourse. The word can describe a method, mechanism, or product, and it can also be used as an adjective.

Contubernal describes a sexual, marriage-like relationship between a male and female slave when the parties were legally unable to marry.

In nonstandard sexual slang, “conversation” refers to sexual intercourse.

Cool-skink is a noun for any of various skinks that live in relatively cool climates; it is not a sexuality, dating, relationship, LGBTQ+, kink, BDSM, or sexual-slang term.

Coorie is a Scottish-associated lifestyle centered on hearty food and invigorating outdoor activities, popularized in the late 2010s through a book and tourism campaign. As a verb, it can also mean to snuggle or nestle.

To engage in sexual intercourse. “Copulate” is a formal verb used to describe sexual intercourse, often in clinical, scientific, or deliberately formal writing.

A formal noun for a person who has sexual intercourse.

In sexual slang, a cottage is a meeting place for homosexual men. In archaic UK usage, it can also mean a public lavatory; as a verb, to cottage means to have homosexual sex in a public lavatory, or to practise cottaging.

Cottaging is a UK slang term for sexual activity in a public lavatory, especially sexual activity between men.

Cotton ceiling is a phrase for a social barrier that affects whether cisgender women consider transgender women viable sexual partners.

A couple is two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.

Coupling is a noun for an act of sexual intercourse. In sexual contexts, it can also describe sexual pairings or encounters.

A sexual or romantic relationship between people who are coursemates.

Cowgirl is a sexual slang term for intercourse in which the receptive partner is on top. It can also refer to the partner in that position or be used as a verb meaning to have sex in the cowgirl position.

To realize that one is transgender.

“Cream in one’s jeans” is a vulgar sexual idiom meaning to become wet with sexual arousal. It can also mean to ejaculate or have an orgasm while wearing trousers, and is sometimes used figuratively for being extremely excited or delighted.

A crevice skink is a skink belonging to certain species in the Australian genus Egernia.

Criminal conversation is a legal term for unlawful sexual intercourse with a married person, or adultery. It also refers to a common-law tort arising from adultery, a claim abolished in many jurisdictions.

Crimp describes hair shaped into many short, back-and-forth kinks. As a noun, it can refer to this kinked texture or style.

In sexual and dating slang, to cruise means to move through a particular area while actively looking for a romantic partner or casual sexual partner. It can also mean to troll.

Ctenotus is a noun for any skink of the genus Ctenotus.

Cuckold is a relationship term used to describe a structure, dynamic, feeling, or pattern between people. Its practical meaning can depend on the agreements and language used by the people involved.

Cuckolding is a sexual kink involving making a man a cuckold. The word can also function as the present participle or gerund of “cuckold.”

A vulgar sexual term for a person whose semen is collected by their sexual partner, including in a BDSM or fetish context.

A vulgar, derogatory internet insult for someone portrayed as obsessed with sex or masturbation.

An internet slang adjective for being preoccupied with sex or masturbation; vulgar in tone.

Cumflation is a fetish-pornography genre depicting one or more participants becoming, or appearing to become, inflated with semen, typically after ejaculation inside them. It can also refer to an individual scene of this kind.

A vulgar sexual slang term for an orifice or person used for semen deposition, especially the anus of a gay man. It can also refer to the male urethra.

A vulgar slang term for a pornographic compilation of ejaculation scenes.

Cumrag is a vulgar slang term for a piece of fabric used to clean semen off after masturbation. It can also be used as a derogatory insult for a person described as having sex frequently and receiving semen on or inside them.

A vulgar slang term for a depiction of ejaculation, especially in pornography where semen is ejaculated onto a partner’s body. It can also refer to the resulting trail or splodge of semen.

Cumsports is slang for sexual activity involving semen or ejaculation.

Cunnilingus is a term used in discussions of sex, sexuality, sexual behavior, pleasure, or sexual health. A precise definition depends on the specific concept and context.

A highly vulgar term for the vulva, a woman, or a receptive sexual partner; it is also used as an offensive insult for an unpleasant person.

An offensive, vulgar sexual slang term for an extremely submissive or dominated bottom, also glossed as “pussyboy.” It is also used as an offensive slang term for a transgender man who has a vulva.

Cupiosexual describes a person who desires a sexual relationship despite not experiencing sexual attraction to others. It can also be used as an adjective for something associated with this experience.

In sexuality and dating contexts, curious describes someone interested in entering a romantic or sexual relationship with a specified group. It can also be a shortened form of “bi-curious.”

A cut buddy is a friend with whom someone has a casual sexual relationship, similar to a friend with benefits.

A daisy chain is a network of interconnected personal relationships in which people have had different partners who were also partners with others in the same group over time.

A dalliance is a sexual relationship that is not serious and is often illicit. The noun can also refer to playful flirtation or amorous play.

Dark alternative is an adjective for something connected with subcultures such as gothic, darkwave, industrial, fetish, or metal.

Dark culture is an umbrella term for subcultures including BDSM and fetish, as well as gothic, darkwave, neofolk, industrial, electro, metal, and medieval scenes.

A dart snake is a lance skink, a legless skink of the genus Acontias.

A daughter of Sappho is a homosexual woman.

A “dead bedroom” is a relationship in which there is very little or no sexual intercourse. The phrase is informal and figurative.

To dekink something is to remove its kinks, such as straightening a rope.

Dekinked is the past-tense and past-participle form of the verb “dekink.”

Dekinking is the present participle and gerund form of the verb “dekink.”

Dekinks is the third-person singular simple present indicative form of the verb “dekink.”

Demisexual describes someone who typically experiences sexual attraction only after forming a strong emotional connection.

Desire is a strong romantic or sexual attraction toward someone or something. As a verb, to desire means to want someone or something emotionally or sexually.

A desister is a person who ceases to identify as transgender and did not undergo a physical sex change operation.

Desperado is a colloquial noun for a person who is desperately in love or desperate for a romantic or sexual relationship.

A slang term for sexual intercourse involving one woman and two men.

A diaper lover is a person who wears diapers for pleasure or as part of a fetish, rather than because diapers are medically or practically necessary.

A kink involving the idea of placing or stuffing a person inside another person’s diaper, including in role-play and artwork. The phrase can also refer to putting diaper inserts into a cloth diaper or, in sexual foodplay, placing soft or mushy food in a wearer’s diaper.

Diaperism is a kink or fetish involving sexual arousal from diapers, particularly wearing them. It is also described as diaper fetishism and may involve diaper play or ABDL.

A vulgar term for a person—especially a submissive person—with a sexual interest in diapers; a diaper lover.

A vulgar sexual slang term referring to the penis or to sexual intercourse with a man. It can also mean a contemptible person or, as a verb, to mistreat or take advantage of someone.

Vulgar slang for persuasion or blackmail used to manipulate or attract a man, especially a homosexual man.

A highly offensive, vulgar derogatory term for a homosexual man.

A vulgar, derogatory noun for a person who performs fellatio. It has also been used offensively to refer to a gay man, and more broadly as an insult meaning a contemptible person.

“Dig out” is slang for having penetrative sexual intercourse with someone.

DL usually means “down low” in dating and hookup contexts. It commonly describes keeping sexual activity, attraction or encounters private or undisclosed, although the exact implication depends on context.

In sexual slang, to dock means for one participant to insert the tip of their penis into the foreskin of another participant. The act is called docking.

A vulgar, derogatory term for a person who has sexual intercourse with dogs; it can also be used as an offensive insult, including toward a zoophile or, inaccurately, a member of the furry fandom.

Dogging is the practice of having sexual intercourse in a public place, especially a park, while deliberately taking the chance of being watched.

A slang term for sexual intercourse in which one partner is on all fours and the other penetrates from behind. It can also refer to the position itself or to having sex in that position.

Doggystyle is a slang term for having sex in the doggy-style position, especially referring to the active or insertive partner.

In sexuality and gender slang, “doll” can refer to an attractive young woman or to a transgender woman or transfeminine person. It is also used especially for a trans or transfeminine person with a highly sexual and feminine personal style.

In BDSM and sexual contexts, domination is a fetish involving control, power, and discipline directed toward a sexual partner. It can sometimes include topping or sadism.

In BDSM and sexual contexts, a dominator is a male dominant: a man who takes the dominant role.

In BDSM and sexual slang, “dommy” describes someone or something that appears dominant, commanding, or strongly focused on taking control.

“Don’t ask, don’t tell” refers primarily to a U.S. military policy in effect from 1993 to 2011. It barred openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual people from serving while also prohibiting discrimination against gay, lesbian, or bisexual service members who remained closeted.

“Don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t harass, don’t pursue” is the full name of the U.S. military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy concerning the service of homosexuals in the military, as defined in 10 U.S.C. § 654.

A humorous slang term for a romantic or sexual partner who strongly resembles oneself.

Dorian describes homosexuality involving a man who prefers men exclusively as romantic or sexual partners. It is presented as the male counterpart of lesbian and can also appear in the phrase “Dorian love” for male-male love.

Drab is slang for a transgender or non-binary person presenting as the gender associated with their sex assigned at birth, such as a trans woman presenting as a man.

A vulgar slang verb meaning to have sexual intercourse with or sexually penetrate someone.

In dronification kink, a drone is a person portrayed as mindless and obedient to a dominant, with a detached, robotic identity and an anonymous appearance typically associated with a latex suit and gas mask.

A slang phrase meaning to reveal one’s homosexuality.

Dry sex is sexual intercourse without vaginal lubrication. The term can also refer to nonpenetrative sex.

A dry spell is a period of time without sexual intercourse.

To simulate sexual intercourse without direct genital-to-genital contact, usually through clothing or by rubbing the genitals against another surface.

Dry-tool is vulgar slang for having sexual intercourse without lubricant.

DTF means “down to fuck.” It is blunt dating and hookup slang used to express openness to sexual activity, often without implying a desire for a romantic relationship.

DTR is a term used in modern dating. Its exact meaning depends on the behavior, stage, or expectation being described and on the context in which people use the term.

A derogatory, offensive slang term for a homosexual man.

A dungeon monitor is a person responsible for supervising BDSM activities at a play party or BDSM club.

Dyke is a slang term for a lesbian, particularly one associated with masculine or butch traits or behavior. It is marked as offensive and derogatory, although the supplied evidence does not establish how any particular speaker intends it.

A derogatory slang term for a man who enjoys the company of lesbians.

Dykedar is the supposed ability to tell whether someone is a lesbian by observing them.

A young or immature lesbian.

A dyspareunist is an individual, especially a woman, for whom sexual intercourse is painful or difficult.

The eastern crevice skink is Egernia mcpheei, a species of large skink native to eastern Australia.

An ecosexual is a person whose environmental values extend into their romantic or sexual life, including their choice of partner. The word can also describe someone who feels or performs sexual attraction to nature or the Earth.

Edge Play is a kink or fetish-related term used to describe an interest, fantasy, activity, sensation, object, or style of erotic play. Individual interests and boundaries can vary widely.

A member of a gay male movement that opposed prejudice against effeminate behavior.

Electroplay is sexual activity involving electric shock, associated with BDSM and sexual lifestyles.

A skink belonging to the genus Emoia.

Enbian describes a non-binary person who is sexually or romantically attracted to other non-binary people. It can also refer to attraction or relationships between non-binary people.

Endosomatophilia is a subgenre of vorarephilia involving a character being swallowed alive and whole, then safely held inside another character for a period of time. It generally overlaps with fetishism involving internal anatomy.

Enemyslash is slash fan fiction centered on a romantic or sexual relationship between characters who are adversaries.

ENF is a form of sexual roleplay or pornography centered on a woman being accidentally, unintentionally, unwillingly, or reluctantly naked and feeling embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated. It can also refer, rarely, to the woman in that situation.

Enjo kosai is a form of compensated dating in which young girls in Japan or Hong Kong provide companionship or sex to older men in exchange for money or luxury goods.

As a sexual verb, “enjoy” means to have sexual intercourse with someone.

A person with a sexual fetish involving flatulence; someone who has eproctophilia.

An erection is the enlargement and firming of erectile tissue during arousal or other stimulation.

An erogenous zone is an area of the body that can produce sexual pleasure when touched or stimulated.

A hypothesized explanation for some paraphilias in which a person’s primary sexual preference becomes focused in an unusual way—for example, on a nonsexual body part or on traits desired in the self rather than in a partner.

Eroticism is sexual interest, attraction, or arousal, including a particular erotic preference or fetish.

“Eskimo brothers” is slang for men who have had sexual intercourse with the same woman.

“Eskimo sisters” is slang for women who have had sexual intercourse with the same man.

An eternity collar is a BDSM collar worn by a submissive as a sign of devotion and intended never to be taken off. It may have no latches or clasps, creating the effect of an unending circle.

EUF is a sexual roleplay scenario, or pornography depicting one, in which a woman is accidentally, unintentionally, unwillingly, or reluctantly left in her underwear and feels embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated. More rarely, EUF refers to the woman in that scenario.

In dating and relationships, exclusive describes two people who have a romantic or sexual relationship with one another and not with other people.

An Australian humorous slang phrase meaning, of a man, to have penetrative sexual intercourse.

A facial is a sex act in which one person ejaculates onto another person’s face.

A “fact” treated as powerful or authoritative even though it is understood to be a constructed, fact-like idea rather than an unquestionable fact.

A derogatory term for a homosexual man or, more broadly, a queer person. In some contexts, it may be used as a reclaimed or endearing expression, but it can still be deeply offensive when used by others.

Vulgar BDSM slang for money or gifts given by a homosexual male paypig or finsub.

An offensive, derogatory slang term for a female homosexual or lesbian.

An offensive slang verb meaning to make someone homosexual or “faggish.”

A derogatory, vulgar adjective describing someone or something as effeminate, gay, or homosexual.

Faggothood is an offensive, derogatory noun for being gay or homosexual. It describes homosexuality in a slur-based way.

An offensive, derogatory noun for the process of making someone or something homosexual.

A derogatory, vulgar verb meaning to make or depict someone or something as homosexual.

A derogatory, vulgar slang noun referring to stereotypical behavior associated with a gay man or to homosexuality in general. It can also be used more broadly for actions regarded as contemptible.

An offensive, derogatory, and vulgar adjective used to describe someone or something as effeminate, gay, or homosexual.

A derogatory, offensive, and sometimes vulgar noun for a young or short gay man.

A derogatory, offensive, and sometimes vulgar slur for a young gay man.

An offensive, vulgar slang noun referring to homosexuality or the quality of being a “fag,” an insulting slur for a gay man.

“Fairy” is a derogatory slang term for a gay man, especially one perceived as effeminate. In other contexts, it refers to a mythical magical being rather than a sexuality-related identity.

In LGBTQ+ slang, “family” describes something homosexual.

A vulgar sexual slang term that can refer to sexual intercourse with a woman or to the female genitalia. In the UK, it can also refer to women regarded as sex objects; in Canada and the US, “fanny” commonly refers informally to the buttocks.

Fannypacking is a sexual kink in which one partner is strapped to the other during intercourse.

“Fap” is informal, vulgar sexual slang for masturbating, being aroused enough to want to masturbate, or a masturbation session. It can also be used as an interjection or repeated sound in online sexual language, and sometimes refers to pornography.

A derogatory slang term for a homosexual man; it can also be used as a general insult for a contemptible or annoying person.

Fatfur is a noun for a fetish involving overweight furries, or for an overweight furry who is part of this subculture or the focus of paraphilic arousal.

A vulgar noun for a woman who has sex with men much older than herself, or who has an Electra complex. It can also refer literally to someone who has incestuous sex with their father, and is used as a generic insult similar to “motherfucker.” A separate offensive usage refers to a gay man.

Fauxcest is sexual roleplay or pornography involving fictional incest scenarios between people who are not actually related.

Feague is a sexual slang verb meaning to have sexual intercourse.

A febfem is a generally cisgender bisexual woman who exclusively dates other cisgender women.

In a sexual context, “feel the burn” refers to experiencing vaginal or anal pleasure or a burning sensation during sexual intercourse.

Female-to-male describes a transmasculine person or a transition from being female to being male in gender identity, presentation, or physical characteristics. As a noun, it can refer to a trans man.

An offensive adjective describing a transgender person who is perceived as acting or thinking in ways stereotypically associated with women. It can be used either disapprovingly or approvingly, depending on the speaker.

Feminitude is a fetishized, objectified cultural ideal of femininity.

Femslash is slash fiction centered on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.

Femsub is a noun for a female submissive in a BDSM or sexual context.

“Fence sitter” is a slang term for a bisexual person or someone who is uncertain about their sexual orientation.

Fetich is an archaic spelling of fetish. It is not a separate contemporary sexuality term.

Fetichise is an archaic spelling of the verb fetishize, a term used in sexuality-related contexts.

Fetichize is an archaic spelling of “fetishize.”

Fetish is a kink or fetish-related term used to describe an interest, fantasy, activity, sensation, object, or style of erotic play. Individual interests and boundaries can vary widely.

Fetish-adjacent is an adjective for something related in some way to a sexual fetish.

A man who practises magic using fetishes.

A fetisher is a person with a sexual fetish.

An adjective describing something related to a fetish.

The British English spelling variant of “fetishization.”

Fetishise is a nonstandard British English spelling of the verb fetishize.

The simple past tense and past participle of “fetishise.”

Fetishises is the third-person singular simple present form of the verb fetishise.

The present participle and gerund form of “fetishise.”

A fetishist is a person who has a sexual fetish. The word can describe someone whose sexual pleasure is connected to a particular object, such as feet.

Adjective describing something related to fetishism or to people who have fetishes.

Fetishizable is an adjective describing something that can be fetishized or made the focus of fetishistic desire.

The act or process of fetishizing in a sexual or relationship context.

To fetishize someone or something is to make them the subject of an often sexual obsession. The verb can also mean treating a person as a sexually charged racial stereotype, reducing them to that stereotype rather than regarding them as an individual.

“Fetishized” is the past-tense and past-participle form of the verb “fetishize.”

A fetishizer is a person who fetishizes someone or something.

“Fetishizes” is the third-person singular simple present indicative form of the verb “fetishize.”

Fetishizing is the present participle and gerund form of “fetishize.” It can also refer to the act or process of fetishizing.

Fetishwear is clothing associated with or appealing to a sexual fetish. The term can include garments made from materials such as vinyl, PVC, or lycra.

A noun referring to a man who is homosexual or believed to be homosexual.

“Fg” is a filter-avoidance spelling of “fag,” referring to a male homosexual.

“Fggot” is a censored spelling of “faggot,” a homophobic slur directed at a homosexual man. It appears in hostile, insulting online language.

“Fgt” is a filter-avoidance spelling of “faggot,” an offensive homophobic slur referring to a gay man or male homosexual.

Fidelity is faithfulness or loyalty to a romantic partner or spouse, including refraining from romantic or sexual relationships with third parties.

Figging is the BDSM practice of inserting a piece of ginger root into the anus, vagina, or urethra as punishment.

“Fill” is vulgar sexual slang meaning to have sexual intercourse with a female.

Financial domination, often called findom, is a BDSM practice involving erotic humiliation in which a submissive gives money and financial control to a dominator.

A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who expresses sexual desire by sending money or goods to one or more masters or mistresses.

Findom is a BDSM term for financial domination: a dominant who takes control of another person’s finances or spending, often as part of a sexual or lifestyle dynamic.

A findomme is a female dominant who practices financial domination, a BDSM dynamic centered on control involving money or financial submission.

A vulgar term for sexual penetration or masturbation using the fingers. It can function as either a noun or a verb.

In sexual slang, “finish off” means to bring someone to orgasm.

In BDSM terminology, a finsub is a submissive whose submission involves financial domination.

Fireplay is a sexual or BDSM practice involving fire, including practices such as setting fire to alcohol against the skin.

“First base” is a US colloquial expression for kissing as the first phase of a sexual relationship.

A derogatory slang noun for the wife of a homosexual man.

Fisting is sexual activity involving putting several fingers or a hand into a partner’s vagina or anus.

Fixation is an intense preoccupation with a particular person, idea, or thing. In sexual contexts, it can refer to a fetish or a specific sexual turn-on.

A flagellist is a person who whips others or is whipped by others as a sexual fetish.

A slang term for a homosexual man—often one who cross-dresses—whose manner is ostentatious, flamboyant, and diva-like.

A derogatory slang term for a lesbian woman.

A short romantic relationship that is often sexual.

To flirt is to play at courtship or express sexual attraction in a light, playful way, often through conversation. “Flirt” can also mean a person who flirts frequently or an act of flirting.

Fluff is an informal, euphemistic term for the passive partner in a lesbian relationship.

An offensive, derogatory slang term for someone—especially a male—with a foot fetish.

A submissive person with a foot fetish, especially in a BDSM or sexual context.

A sexual fetish in which a heterosexual person, usually a man, is forced to perform homosexual sex acts.

Forcefem is a BDSM term for forced feminization: a sex act or scenario in which a submissive partner is made to take on feminine roles.

Foreplay is sexual activity such as kissing or touching that occurs before other sexual activity or intercourse.

Foresex is sexual activity that takes place before, or leads up to, sexual intercourse; it is another term for foreplay.

Fornication is sexual intercourse between people who are not married to each other, or sex considered illicit in another way. The word can also be used more broadly for sex in general.

A noun for an unmarried person who engages in sexual intercourse, especially when the act is viewed as illicit or illegal.

Fouter is a vulgar UK term for an act of sexual intercourse.

To have an intimate or sexual relationship with a forbidden party.

Free love is the practice of having sex without the restraints of marriage or a committed relationship.

A fan of the Gerard Way–Frank Iero romantic or sexual “ship” involving the My Chemical Romance bandmates; the word can also refer specifically to someone who believes the related conspiracy theory.

“Friar Tuck” is slang for a fuck, meaning sexual intercourse.

“Front door” is sexual slang for the vagina or penis when referring to sexual intercourse, contrasted with the anus, or “back door.”

Sexual body rubbing; the term is also used for dry humping.

A derogatory term for a homosexual man, especially one perceived as effeminate.

In sexuality-related slang, a fruit machine is a device developed to identify homosexual people by measuring their physical responses to different kinds of pornography.

A derogatory US slang term for a homosexual man.

A derogatory slang term for a homosexual man.

A derogatory slang noun for a large gathering of homosexual men.

US slang describing someone or something perceived as stereotypically homosexual, flamboyant, or effeminate.

A vulgar and offensive verb meaning to have sexual intercourse, especially penetrative sex; it can also mean to sexually penetrate someone with a penis or dildo, or to masturbate.

A vulgar sexual slang term for fluid produced during sexual intercourse, such as semen.

A vulgar slang term for a van or truck fitted with a mattress in the back for sexual intercourse.

A prolonged period of sexual intercourse. The word is vulgar sexual slang and is used as a noun.

A vulgar, derogatory noun for a man or woman who constantly thinks about sexual intercourse.

Fuckery is vulgar slang for sexual intercourse. As a noun, it can also refer to a brothel; in other slang uses, it means nonsense, trickery, or an unfair or morally wrong action.

A vulgar term for an act of sexual intercourse, especially one described as lacking passion or sincere love.

A fucking machine is a powered sexual device, substantially larger than a vibrator, designed to penetrate the user and provide sexual stimulation that may lead to orgasm.

Vulgar sexual slang for semen, pre-ejaculate, or vaginal fluids, especially fluids produced during sexual intercourse.

Fuckless is a vulgar slang adjective describing something devoid of sexual intercourse.

A vulgar noun for a person regarded as exceptionally skilled at sexual intercourse.

Fuckmeat is vulgar sexual slang for people regarded as objects for sexual intercourse. In some usage, it also refers to a penis.

A vulgar slang noun for a vehicle used for sexual intercourse.

A vulgar slang term for a bedroom used for sex.

A vulgar, derogatory noun for a person viewed as existing only for sexual intercourse. It can also be used as an insult for a contemptible person or fool.

A vulgar noun for a spot or area discolored after absorbing sexual fluids, especially vaginal fluid or semen.

A vulgar, derogatory noun for a person—usually a man—who is an eager and energetic participant in sexual intercourse.

A vulgar noun for a woman who is an eager and energetic participant in sexual intercourse; it can also refer to a female prostitute.

Fucksweat is the sweat produced during sexual intercourse. It is a vulgar, uncountable noun.

Fucky-fucky is vulgar sexual slang for sexual intercourse.

A derogatory slang term for a gay man or for a person who practices anal sex.

To react with intense delight or fixation to romantic or sexual relationships between men, or to behave like a fujoshi. “Fujo out” is a humorous, intransitive verb.

An Internet adjective describing a female person who is obsessed with media featuring romantic or sexual relationships between men.

A female fan of media featuring romantic or sexual relationships between men.

Fujoslop is a derogatory internet noun for low-quality media depicting romantic or sexual relationships between men and marketed toward women. More broadly, it can refer to anything seen as appealing to fujoshis.

Funishment is a BDSM term for a “punishment” carried out for the submissive’s enjoyment rather than as discipline.

In derogatory, nonstandard slang, “funny” can describe someone as homosexual or gay.

“Funny business” is slang for sexual intercourse or other sexual activity. It can also refer more generally to unethical behaviour, especially in the phrase “no funny business.”

FWB means “friends with benefits.” It describes a relationship in which people have a friendship and also have sexual contact without automatically treating the connection as a committed romantic partnership.

In sexual and pornographic usage, “gape” refers to depicting an anal or vaginal cavity as dilated after penetrative sexual activity.

Gay is an identity term commonly used for people whose enduring romantic, emotional, and/or physical attractions are to people of the same gender.

An expression describing someone or something as very homosexual.

“Gay as pink ink” is slang describing someone or something as overtly or flamboyantly homosexual.

A derogatory phrase describing something as overtly or flamboyantly homosexual.

A gay bar is a tavern or nightclub primarily serving lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. In the Philippines, the term can also refer to a gay strip club.

“Gay bob” is a colloquial, derogatory term for a person or behavior seen as divergent from a group, using comparison with a homosexual person.

Gay-curious describes someone who is curious about their own homosexuality or interested in trying same-sex sexual or romantic experiences.

“Gay for pay” describes performing a homosexual role for money, typically as paid entertainment or sexual performance.

“Gay for the stay” is a colloquial adjective describing someone who engages in homosexual relationships while segregated from the opposite sex.

A celebrity or fictional character admired especially by gay men and/or lesbians.

A gay man is a man who is sexually or romantically attracted exclusively to other men.

The gay panic defense is a claim of self-defense based on an unwanted homosexual advance.

Gay pride is a positive sense of identity connected with being gay, including rejecting shame imposed by homophobia. It can also refer to a gay pride festival or parade.

Gay vague is an advertising strategy that appeals to gay consumers through subtle, ambiguous, or not fully explicit representations of same-sex relationships or sexual orientations.

Gay-hate is dislike or hatred directed at homosexual people. The uncountable noun can also modify phrases such as “gay-hate killings” or describe preaching that expresses hostility toward gay people.

Gay-shaming is criticizing or deriding someone because of their homosexual orientation. It is also the present-participial and gerund form of “gay-shame.”

A school- or community-based organization that offers a safe, supportive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth, along with their straight supporters.

Gaybait is slang for harassing or vilifying someone because they are believed, accurately or not, to be homosexual. It can also refer to queerbaiting, seducing a heterosexual person into homosexual relations, or a man who attracts gay men.

“Gayby boom” is a noun for a sudden increase in the number of gay parents.

An informal noun for a vacation tailored to gay people or centered on gay subculture.

A gay man who identifies as an incel.

A neologistic noun for a gay woman or lesbian.

“Gayer” is the comparative form of “gay,” meaning more gay. In colloquial UK usage, it can also refer to a gay person or be used as a derogatory insult, including with the sense of “more uncool.”

Gayface is slang for an appearance that someone interprets as visibly or stereotypically homosexual, often associating effeminacy with men or masculinity with women. It can also refer to a straight person portraying a caricature of a gay person.

An offensive, vulgar slur for a homosexual person.

Gayification describes the process of making something homosexual.

An informal, non-comparable adjective describing something as somewhat homosexual or gay.

Gayization is the act or process of making something gay or homosexual. The noun can describe a cultural shift in areas such as television or advertising.

Gaylicious is slang for something strongly associated with gay identity or culture, or especially appealing to gay people.

A gayling is a young or immature gay person. The noun is associated with sexual-orientation slang.

Gaymer is slang for a homosexual gamer, especially a gay man who plays video games.

Gaysoc is a club or society, especially at a university, that promotes and supports the needs of gay people.

Gayspeak is a style of language associated with people who are gay or homosexual.

Gaystream is a noun for the homosexual mainstream: gay culture, people, or interests treated as part of mainstream public life.

A derogatory slang term for a gay person, especially a gay man.

A vulgar, derogatory slang noun used as an insult for a homosexual person or for someone described as lame or uncool.

Gender refers to a person’s identification as a man, a woman, or something else, along with associated social roles, behaviors, cultural traits, and clothing. As an adjective, it can describe something that evokes positive feelings connected with gender, such as gender euphoria or gender envy.

Gender expression is how a person communicates or presents gender through characteristics such as appearance, clothing, behavior, voice, or mannerisms.

Gender identity is a person's internal understanding or experience of their own gender.

Genderfluid describes a gender identity in which a person's experience of gender can change over time or across contexts.

Genderism is a term for beliefs that treat gender as rigid—usually binary and inherently linked to sex assigned at birth—or for opposition to traditional gender roles and the idea that gender is distinct from sex. It can also refer to discrimination or claims that one gender is superior.

Genderqueer is a gender identity or umbrella term for people whose gender falls outside or challenges a strict man/woman binary.

“Generative act” refers to sexual intercourse between a man and a woman.

Genito-pelvic pain disorder is a disorder characterized by dyspareunia and vaginismus during sexual intercourse.

Genitorture is a BDSM and sexual term for torture of the genitals. It can refer to genital-torture acts, scenes, or content.

A genophobe is a person who has a psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse.

Genophobia is a physical or psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse.

“Gentleman of the back door” is a sexual expression for a man—chiefly a homosexual man—who has anal sex.

A derogatory British slang expression meaning that someone was revealed to be homosexual. As an idiomatic imperative, “get bent” can also dismiss someone or what they are saying and end the conversation.

“Get jiggy” is slang for having sexual intercourse. It is an intransitive verb phrase.

“Get off” means to cause sexual excitement or arousal, or to cause someone to experience an orgasm.

“Get one’s dick wet” is vulgar sexual slang meaning to have sexual intercourse.

An informal phrase meaning to have sexual intercourse.

“Get physical” is slang for beginning sexual physical contact, including contact as part of sexual intercourse.

Slang for having sexual intercourse involving deep penetration.

GGG means “good, giving and game.” The acronym describes an approach to sex centered on being a considerate partner, giving mutual attention, and being open to trying things within reasonable personal boundaries.

Ghosting is abruptly ending communication with someone without explaining that the relationship or interaction is over.

A derogatory slang noun for a transgender person perceived as passing extremely well.

Humorous sexual slang for sexual intercourse; it can also express sexual desire or function as a playful catchphrase.

A Cockney slang term for a queer person—that is, a homosexual person. “Ginger beer” is also the name of a fermented, usually non-alcoholic ginger-flavoured drink.

“Girl crazy” is an informal adjective describing strong romantic or sexual attraction to girls of the same age group.

Girls' love is a genre of Japanese media centered on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.

Girlslash is slash fiction centered on romantic or sexual relationships between female characters.

“Give someone one” is vulgar slang meaning to have sexual intercourse with that person.

A lesbian with a very feminine appearance.

“Go both ways” is an informal phrase meaning to be bisexual, or, in sexual contexts, to be versatile and able to take either a top or bottom role.

Australian slang for a Caucasian man having a sexual relationship with an Aboriginal woman.

“Go in unto” is a biblical phrase meaning for a man to have sexual intercourse with a woman.

“Go off” is sexual slang meaning to ejaculate or have an orgasm.

A lesbian who has never had sex with a man.

A gay man who enjoys urinating on other gay men or being urinated on by them.

A gooner is someone characterized as being addicted to sexual or sexualized content, or someone who practices gooning: prolonged masturbation involving edging.

A noun for someone who repeatedly engages in gooning, especially while fixated on a particular person, character, or fetish; a frequent masturbator.

Gorean describes a BDSM subculture or a person associated with the Gorean lifestyle portrayed in John Norman’s erotic science-fiction novels about the fictional world of Gor.

Goreanism is a BDSM subculture based on practices established in the fictional world of Gor, created by science-fiction author John Norman.

A derogatory term for a trans woman perceived as exceptionally large or masculine-looking and recognizable as transgender because of her size.

A derogatory slang term for a celibate man, especially a Japanese man, who avoids dating and sexual relationships.

Grease is informal slang for having sexual intercourse.

“Gurl” is a term of address used between cis gay men, transgender women, or drag queens. It can also refer to a trans girl or woman and serves as an informal alternative spelling of “girl.”

Gynecophile refers to a lesbian or to someone sexually attracted to women. As an adjective, it describes sexual attraction to women; it can also specify attraction to adult women.

In botany, describing a plant that has both bisexual flowers and female flowers on the same plant.

“Haa” is an expression representing the sound of heavy breathing during sexual arousal.

A person who has engaged in some sexual activity but has not had intercourse.

In sexual and pornography contexts, hardcore describes explicit material depicting penetration and sexual activity characterized as abnormal. It can also mean obscene or highly explicit.

Hardcore pornography is sexually explicit pornography that depicts sexual penetration or other explicit sexual acts.

A slang term for a woman who once identified as lesbian but now identifies as heterosexual or bisexual. It is sometimes used in a derogatory or offensive way.

Vulgar sexual slang for sexual intercourse between people who hate each other; it can also refer to having sex with someone one hates.

Hate sex is sexual intercourse between people who hate one another. The phrase is an informal slang term and is typically used as a noun.

“Have” can mean to engage in sexual intercourse.

To engage in a romantic or sexual relationship outside a marriage.

“Have it off” is slang for having sexual intercourse.

An offensive, informal term for a transgender woman—a woman who was assigned male at birth. It has also been used as a derogatory label for a butch or masculine woman, and sometimes for a trans man viewed as a masculine woman.

A BDSM slang term for a person who plays a healer character in a multiplayer video game while taking a submissive role and providing healing support to a dominant tank.

Helicity is a measure of how vortex lines in fluid flow, or field lines in magnetic or electromagnetic fields, twist, kink, link, or coil around one another. In physics, it can also mean the component of a moving particle’s quantized spin along its direction of motion.

Hentai is anime, manga, or a similar medium featuring heavily sexual or pornographic art.

In fan fiction, “het” refers to stories involving characters in an opposite-sex romantic or sexual relationship. As slang, “het” can also mean heterosexual or refer to a heterosexual person.

Heteroflexible describes someone who is primarily heterosexual but open to a limited amount of same-sex or homosexual activity. It can also describe a person with that sexual orientation or pattern of behavior.

The assumption that everyone is either male or female in both sex and gender, and that sexual or romantic attraction and activity occur only—or are only considered normal—between people of different sexes.

Heterosexuality is sexual and romantic attraction primarily or exclusively to people of the opposite sex. The word can also refer to sexual activity with a person of the opposite sex.

Hetfic is fan fiction featuring fictional characters or celebrities in an opposite-sex romantic or sexual relationship. The word can refer to one story or to this type of fan fiction collectively.

Hetsex is an informal term for heterosexual sexual intercourse. It can also be used informally as an adjective meaning heterosexual.

In sexual slang, “hit and run” refers to sexual intercourse followed by a prompt departure—a one-night stand.

HLB is an abbreviation referring to a homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual person.

A slang noun for a holiday or festive occasion associated with homosexuality or gay culture.

The Holocaust refers to the systematic mass murder carried out by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II against Jews and, more broadly, disabled people, homosexuals, Romanis, Slavs, and others. The word can also refer more generally to the state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group.

An internet adjective describing homosexual-appearing behavior between a person and his male friends.

“Homo” is an adjective describing something related to homosexuality. As a clipped noun for “homosexual,” it is colloquial and often derogatory, so it is generally not a neutral way to refer to a person.

Homocentric is an adjective describing something with a homosexual bias or basis.

An offensive U.S. political slang term for a gay person who supports the Democratic Party. In historical usage, it could also refer specifically to a gay assimilationist who favored gradual, party-aligned progress toward equality rather than radical activism.

Homoculture refers to the subculture of homosexual people.

Homoecious is a botanical adjective describing a plant species whose flowers are all hermaphroditic, or bisexual, with both stamens and carpels.

Homoerotic describes something that relates to, expresses, or arouses same-sex sexual desire or love.

Homoerotica is erotic material involving homosexual attraction or desire, including homoerotic imagery, lyrics, or other creative work.

Homoerotophobia is antipathy toward homosexual people; it refers to homophobia.

Homofascism is a derogatory noun for a political stance that associates fascism with homosexuality. It can also be used disparagingly for aggressive support of gay rights.

Homoflexible describes someone who is primarily homosexual but experiences limited attraction to other genders or is willing to take part in heterosexual activity.

Homohysteria is a cultural aversion to being perceived as homosexual, particularly when that perception leads men to avoid behaviors stereotypically associated with being gay.

A derogatory neologism for a person who likes or supports homosexual people.

Homomisia is a noun referring to hatred of homosexuals. It is an uncountable term.

Homomisic is an adjective describing hatred or prejudice directed at gay people.

An adjective describing something that holds or expresses negative attitudes toward homosexuality.

Homonegativity is the presence of negative attitudes toward homosexuality.

Homoness is an informal noun for the state or degree of being homosexual.

Homonormalization is the process of absorbing homosexuality into heteronormative culture, often by presenting it in ways that conform to dominant social expectations.

Homonormativity is the adoption of heterosexist values, beliefs, and norms within gay or queer communities. It can also refer to treating same-sex attraction and activity as normal in ways that preserve dominant expectations about relationships, gender, and social institutions.

A social subsystem in which cisgender homosexual men predominate over other LGBTI people.

Homophilia is a noun referring to homosexuality.

A homophobe is a person who is prejudiced against homosexual people or LGBTQ+ people more broadly, or who exhibits homophobia.

Homophobia is hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice directed at homosexual people. The term is also used more broadly for hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice directed at LGBTQ+ people in general.

Expressing or reflecting a positive attitude toward homosexuality.

Homopositivity is a positive attitude toward homosexuality.

Prejudice directed at homosexual people.

Showing prejudice against homosexual people.

A derogatory noun for propaganda promoting homosexuality.

Homosex is a noun referring to sexual intercourse between people of the same sex.

An adjective describing something as both homosexual and sexless.

Homosexual describes sexual or romantic attraction to people of the same sex, typically in the sense of sole or exclusive attraction. It can also refer to a person with that attraction.

In Blanchard’s transsexualism typology, a transgender person who is attracted to people of the same birth sex.

The simple past tense and past participle of “homosexualise.”

Homosexualises is the form of the verb homosexualise used with a singular third-person subject in the simple present.

Homosexualising is the present participle and gerund form of “homosexualise.”

A derogatory term that portrays homosexuality or gayness as an ideology, rather than a sexual orientation. It also has a dated use meaning homosexuality itself.

Homosexuality is sexual and romantic attraction primarily or exclusively to people of the same sex. The word can also refer to sexual activity between people of the same sex.

Homosexualization is the act or process of homosexualizing.

A transitive verb meaning to make someone or something homosexual.

The past-tense and past-participle form of “homosexualize.”

The third-person singular simple present indicative form of the verb “homosexualize.”

“Homosexualizing” is the -ing form of the verb “homosexualize,” used as either a present participle or a gerund.

In a homosexual way.

Homosexualness is the quality of being homosexual.

Homosocialization is the process of integrating individuals into a homosexual subculture or community.

Prejudice against gay and/or transgender people.

Homotransphobic describes prejudice against gay people, transgender people, or both.

A derogatory term for a transgender woman described as grotesquely unattractive and non-passing. It is an insulting slur.

A honey trap is the use of a romantic or sexual relationship to entice someone into revealing secret information or entering a compromising situation. As a verb, “honey trap” means to entice someone in this way.

Hoochie is U.S. slang for sexual intercourse or sexual interaction. It can also refer to the vulva or genital area, or describe a woman in a revealing way or as sexually promiscuous; those uses are derogatory. In some contexts, it is a playful or affectionate form of address for a woman.

A hookup is a casual sexual or intimate encounter without an automatic expectation of a committed relationship. The term is deliberately broad, so what happened during a hookup depends on context rather than one fixed sexual act.

“Horse’s hoof” is UK slang for a male homosexual.

A vulgar slang term for penetrative sexual intercourse.

Hothusband is slang for a husband who has sex with people other than his spouse with the spouse’s approval. As a verb, hothusbanding means taking part in this kind of consensual sexual relationship.

Housecest is slang for a romantic or sexual relationship between people living in the same boarding house at a boarding school.

Hucow is a noun for a person—particularly someone with large breasts—who roleplays as a dairy cow and engages in lactation for sexual purposes.

Humansexual describes sexual attraction to other people without specifically identifying as straight, homosexual, bisexual, or another particular orientation.

Humiliationplay is sexual roleplay involving acted-out humiliating or embarrassing situations, or one person being humiliated by another.

“Hump” is vulgar slang for an act of sexual intercourse. It is used as both a noun and a verb.

An informal, uncountable noun referring to sexual intercourse.

A slang noun for a prolonged session of sexual intercourse.

“Humping” is vulgar slang for sexual intercourse. It is the gerund or present participle form of “hump” when used in this sexual sense.

Hyperdom refers to a person who is excessively dominant. It can also describe excessive domination or the act of dominating excessively, particularly in BDSM and sexuality-related contexts.

Hyperscat is a kink or fetish involving excessive defecation or an abnormal amount of feces, usually in role-play, fiction, or art, and sometimes involving diapers.

“I’m a lesbian” is a phrase used by a woman to state that she is sexually attracted to women.

“I’m bisexual” is a phrase a speaker uses to state that they are bisexual.

“I’m homosexual” is a phrase in which the speaker states that they are homosexual.

A vulgar proverb suggesting that someone who has begun puberty or grown pubic hair is old enough for sexual intercourse.

Impact play is a category of BDSM activity involving consensual striking of the body by hand or with implements to create sensation.

Impotent describes an inability to engage in sexual intercourse, often because of an inability to achieve or sustain an erection. As a noun, it can refer to a man with erectile dysfunction.

“In and out” is an informal expression for sexual intercourse, especially a brief session.

“In the closet” describes someone who is not open about their sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.

“In the sack” is an informal idiom meaning in bed, especially in reference to having sex or sexual performance. It can also refer literally to being in bed.

A slang noun referring to sexual intercourse.

A common name for any member of the species Cryptoblepharus australis, an arboreal skink endemic to inland and Central Australia.

A noun for the person who is penetrated by another person during sexual intercourse.

A noun for the person who penetrates another partner during sexual intercourse.

Insta-sex is slang for sexual intercourse with someone soon after meeting them.

Of or relating to sexual intercourse.

Intercourse is a formal term for sexual intercourse; its exact scope can depend on context.

A noun referring to someone who has sexual intercourse. The word is sometimes derogatory.

Interintromission is an adjective describing the period or event between successive intromissions during sexual intercourse.

“Intimate relations” is a plural noun phrase referring to sexual intercourse.

Intimatopia is a fantasy world imagined as an ideal setting for sexually charged relationships built on sustained emotional intimacy.

In sexuality-related usage, inversion refers to homosexuality, particularly in early psychoanalysis.

A noun referring to homosexuality, described as sexual inversion.

A proponent of the sexual inversion theory of homosexuality.

As a relationship verb, involve means to engage someone or oneself in an emotional or sexual relationship, typically followed by “with.”

A Cockney slang noun referring to a gay man.

In relationship slang, an item is a pair of people who are romantically or sexually involved with each other.

In sexual slang, “jape” means to have sexual intercourse. It can also refer to a joke, prank, or act of mockery in nonsexual usage.

A US slang expression for the female genitalia, sexual intercourse, or a lover.

A dated, colloquial term for a man described as cowardly, effeminate, or homosexual; an alternative letter-case form of “jessie.”

“Jig-jig” is slang for sexual intercourse. It can be used as a noun for sex or as a verb meaning to have sex.

Jigajig is slang for sexual intercourse. It is an uncountable noun.

Jigga-jigga is a slang noun referring to sexual intercourse.

Juju is a fetish or charm believed to possess magical or supernatural powers. The word can also refer to the power attributed to such an object.

To juke is to thrust with the pelvis, especially during sexual intercourse.

In US informal slang, “jump” means to engage in sexual intercourse with a person.

A jumpoff is a sexual partner who is more than a one-night stand but is not intended to become a long-term romantic partner.

K/S is fan fiction in which James T. Kirk and Spock from the Star Trek franchise are depicted in a homosexual relationship.

Kai kai refers to sexual activity or intercourse between drag queens.

Kamp is an adjective describing something homosexual. In historical New Zealand Māori usage, “kamp girls” referred to lesbians.

Kathoey is a term for a feminine or effeminate transgender person, or a third-gender person assigned male at birth, from Cambodia, Laos, or Thailand. In Thailand, it can also refer to an effeminate gay man.

A slang term for a lesbian who is neither butch nor femme. The term is classified as derogatory.

Kink is a broad term for sexual interests, fantasies, roles, or practices that a person or community regards as outside conventional sexual norms.

An online space where people anonymously post requests for fan fiction involving a specific kink, and others fulfill those requests.

To have a kink for a particular person, activity, or sexual idea.

To dress in kinky, BDSM-themed clothing.

The simple past and past-participle form of kink-shame.

Kink-shames is the third-person singular present-tense form of the verb kink-shame.

Kink-shaming is the present participle and gerund form of “kink-shame.”

Adjective describing something in which kinks may be formed.

Kinkadian is an adjective relating to American painter Thomas Kinkade or his artistic style.

A Kinkaider is a person who claimed land under the provisions of the Kinkaid Act.

“Kinked” is the simple past tense and past participle of “kink.” As an adjective, it describes something bent or twisted into a tight curl.

Kinked on is the simple past and past participle form of the verb “kink on.”

Kinked out is the simple past and past participle form of “kink out.”

Kinkedness is the state of being kinked.

A kinkeeper is someone who maintains relationships with family and friends by investing time and energy in those social connections.

Kinkfic is fan fiction that features kink content, particularly BDSM themes. The writing may explore sexual and emotional power dynamics, including dynamics that also appear in BDSM practices.

Kinkier is the comparative form of kinky, describing sexual activity, preferences, or behavior as more unconventional or more focused on kink than something else.

The superlative form of kinky, describing someone or something as the most kinky in a comparison.

Kinkiness is the state or quality of being kinky, or something characterized as kinky.

Kinking is the present participle and gerund form of the verb “kink.”

“Kinking on” functions as both the present participle and gerund of “kink on.”

The present-participle and gerund form of the verb “kink out.”

Kinkled is the past-tense and past-participle form of the verb kinkle.

Describes sex or sexual behavior presented as not kinky and without unusual sexual practices.

Kinkling is the present-participle and gerund form of the verb “kinkle.”

Kinkly is an adjective describing hair that is tightly curled, kinked, or liable to kink.

“Kinks on” is the third-person singular simple present indicative form of “kink on.”

The third-person singular simple present form of the verb “kink out.”

To mock, shame, bully, harass, or condemn someone because of their sexual preferences, interests, or fetishes; the verb can also describe condemning a sexual preference or fetish itself.

The simple past tense and past participle of “kinkshame.”

The third-person singular simple present form of the verb “kinkshame.”

Kinkshaming is the -ing form of the verb kinkshame, used as either a present participle or a gerund.

A female kinkster: a woman who participates in or is associated with kink or BDSM.

Kinkwear is clothing associated with sexual kinks. Fetishwear is a near synonym.

Kinky describes unconventional sexual preferences, behavior, or practices, including fetishism and sadomasochism. It is an informal adjective.

Kittenfishing is a term used in modern dating. Its exact meaning depends on the behavior, stage, or expectation being described and on the context in which people use the term.

Kleptogamy is deceptive dating or mating in which someone imitates women’s attitudes or claims to share women’s views to obtain sex or marriage.

Kleptogenesis is reproduction in which a unisexual species uses sperm obtained through mating with members of a related bisexual species.

Knobbing is UK vulgar slang for a session of penetrative sexual intercourse or the act of sexual penetration.

In sexual or legal language, knowledge can refer to sexual intimacy or intercourse, usually in the phrase “carnal knowledge.”

In the culture of the Indian subcontinent, kothi refers to an effeminate man who takes on a passive or female gender role in same-sex relationships.

Labrys is a double-headed axe symbol associated with lesbian pride.

Lactophilia is a sexual fetish involving lactating breasts and breastfeeding.

Ladder theory is an informal model claiming that men rank women on one scale based on attractiveness, while women place potential sexual partners and non-sexual friends on two separate scales.

Lapidable is an adjective describing a woman considered nubile or mature for sexual intercourse. It is a non-comparable adjective.

A late bloomer is a person who enters a romantic relationship or has sexual intercourse significantly later in life than is typical.

In sexuality-related usage, latent describes homosexuality that is present but concealed or inactive.

Latexwear is fetishwear made from latex.

Lavender describes something related to lesbian feminism, opposed to heterosexism, or associated with LGBT people and rights.

“Lavender lad” is U.S. slang for a homosexual man.

Lavender linguistics is the study of language as used by gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer speakers.

A lavender marriage is a heterosexual marriage of convenience intended to conceal one or both spouses’ homosexual sexual orientation.

The Lavender Scare refers to the fear and persecution of homosexuals in the United States during the 1950s.

In sexual slang, a lay is an act of sexual intercourse.

“Lay up” is US sexual slang meaning to have sex or enter a sexual relationship.

Layless is an informal adjective describing someone or something lacking sexual intercourse.

LBT is an adjective describing something related to lesbian, bisexual, and/or transgender people or communities.

A slang term for a gay man with a fetish for leather.

A lesbian involved in BDSM practices.

A leatherwoman is a woman who belongs to a sexual subculture centered on a fetish for leather clothing.

A slang noun referring to an act of sexual intercourse.

Lesbian commonly describes a woman whose enduring romantic, emotional, and/or physical attraction is to other women.

“Lesbian bed death” is a label for the supposed phenomenon that lesbian couples in committed relationships have less sex than other couples, with sexual intimacy declining as the relationship lasts longer.

“Lesbian rule” is an alternative letter-case form of “lesbian rule.” The phrase can also refer to a flexible rule used to follow irregular curves, or figuratively to a principle adapted to different circumstances.

“Lesbian until graduation” is slang for a high-school- or college-aged woman who is experimenting with, or temporarily adopting, a lesbian or bisexual identity.

Lesbianate is a verb meaning to engage in lesbian sex.

Lesbianism is female homosexuality: the state of a woman being sexually attracted to other women.

Lesbianity is the state or experience of being lesbian, referring to female homosexuality.

Resembling a lesbian or female homosexuality.

Lesbiflexible describes someone who is primarily lesbian but has a limited attraction to men or a limited interest in romantic or sexual activity with a man.

Lesbigay is an informal term describing something related to lesbian, bisexual, and gay people or the LGB community. It can also refer informally to a lesbian, bisexual, or gay person.

An informal adjective describing something related to lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender or transsexual people, or to the LGBT community.

A person, typically not a lesbian, who has a fondness for lesbians or for erotic contact between women.

Lesbophobia is fear, dislike, or hatred directed at lesbians.

A person who identifies as both male and lesbian.

Lesbro is derogatory slang for a man who is sycophantic or groveling toward lesbians and/or bisexual women. It can also refer to a male friend or companion of a lesbian.

A colloquial verb, chiefly used of a heterosexual woman, meaning to engage in lesbian activity.

Lezploitation is the portrayal or exploitation of women’s same-sex relationships and female-female sexual expression in media, especially to titillate heterosexual men.

LGD is an initialism for “Lesbians Getting Dicked,” a pornography genre centered on a lesbian character being pushed into sexual activity with a man.

A liaison is an illicit sexual relationship or affair.

Liberal homophobia is the acceptance of homosexuality only as a private matter, with resistance to discussing it publicly or acknowledging it openly.

Libido is sexual desire or sex drive.

A derogatory slang term for a gay man.

“Live with” can mean to share a home with an unmarried partner in a sexual relationship.

LJBF is a slang verb meaning to ask someone to remain a platonic friend after turning down a romantic or sexual relationship.

An informal noun for a person with a balloon fetish.

An idiomatic verb phrase meaning to have sexual intercourse for the first time.

In tort law, loss of consortium is the deprivation of benefits from a family relationship—including sex, affection, and companionship—because personal injuries caused by another person prevent the claimant from receiving them.

A love chair is a custom-built 19th-century erotic device designed to allow one person to have sexual intercourse with two partners simultaneously.

A love doll is a sex toy made in the size and shape of a human sexual partner, used to aid masturbation.

A love hotel is a short-stay hotel, found in Japan and elsewhere, that primarily provides private rooms for couples to have sex.

“Love is love” is a phrase affirming that love in LGBTQ+ relationships is as genuine, valid, and personally meaningful as love in heterosexual relationships.

“Love life” refers to a person’s romantic or sexual relationships, considered as part of their personal life.

A love nest is a place used or considered suitable for sexual intercourse. Colloquially, it can also mean a private home where a couple spend time together, or refer to the vagina.

A love toy is an object used during sexual intercourse or for sexual pleasure; the phrase can also refer to a person treated as a source of sexual pleasure.

A noun referring to sexual intercourse.

Love-shy describes someone who is ineffectual at courtship or at attaining sexual intercourse. As a rare noun, it refers especially to a man in that position.

A lovemaker is a person who has sexual intercourse.

“Lovers” is the plural of “lover” and describes people in a romantic or sexual relationship.

LTR means “long-term relationship.” On dating apps and in personal profiles, it usually indicates an interest in a relationship intended to be ongoing rather than primarily casual or short-term.

A vulgar, derogatory term for a transgender person who passes extremely well despite beginning their transition at a relatively late age.

To lust after someone is to have strong sexual feelings or desire for that person, typically when the two people are not in a relationship.

Sexual intercourse motivated solely by lust, rather than love or romantic feeling.

Lygosomine is an adjective for a skink belonging to the subfamily Lygosominae.

M-spec is an adjective for something connected with the multisexual spectrum, including bisexuality and pansexuality.

Mabouya is a name for an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore. In one historical-art description, a mabouya is shown with bent arms and legs and an erect penis.

Mahu is a slang noun referring to a gay person or homosexual. In Hawaiian and Tahitian cultural contexts, it can also refer to a person of the third gender with traditional spiritual and social roles.

As a colloquial, euphemistic verb, “make” can mean to have sexual intercourse with someone. This usage is associated with dialectal speech in parts of the UK, Ireland, and the US.

“Make a move” means to approach or engage someone you find romantically or sexually appealing, usually with the aim of developing a romantic or sexual connection.

“Make it” is sexual slang meaning to have sexual intercourse.

Make out means to engage in heavy petting or sexual intercourse.

“Make whoopee” is slang for having sexual intercourse.

Sex between romantic partners after an argument, quarrel, or period of emotional tension, often as part of reconciling or restoring intimacy.

Male-to-female describes a transfeminine person or a transition from being male to being female, including changes in gender identity, physical characteristics, or presentation. As a noun, it can refer to a male-to-female transgender person, also called a trans woman.

An offensive adjective describing a transgender person who acts and thinks in ways stereotypically associated with how a man should act and think, whether the speaker approves or disapproves.

A male submissive, especially in a BDSM context.

A vulgar sexual slang term for a man’s anus, usually referring to the receptive partner in gay sex. It can also refer to the vulva or vagina of a trans man.

“Man pussy” is vulgar sexual slang for the anus and rectum of a man, typically referring to the receptive partner, or bottom, in gay sex. It can also refer to the vulva or vagina of a trans man.

A mandrel is a round object or tool used to support, guide, grip, or shape material. It can help shape or enlarge a ring, bend or enlarge a pipe without creasing or kinking it, or hold a workpiece or tool during machining. As a verb, mandrel means to shape something with a mandrel.

A vulgar slang term for a man’s anus, especially in the context of gay sex. It is also used as a derogatory insult for a man perceived as cowardly, effeminate, or feminist.

A manipancha is a wooden humanoid figure used as a fetish in Africa and believed to enable communication with distant places.

Mankeeping is the often-unseen social and emotional labor women perform for men in heterosexual relationships, including meeting emotional needs and acting as a partner’s life coach.

Adjective describing something related to Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989), the American photographer known for controversial images of New York City’s homosexual male BDSM subculture.

In some Spanish-speaking regions, especially Central America, “maricon” refers to an effeminate homosexual male.

Sexual intercourse between two people who are married to each other.

In prison slang, “marriage” refers to a homosexual relationship between male prisoners.

“Mary” is a term of address for a male homosexual.

Masturbation is sexual stimulation of one's own body, commonly including the genitals, for pleasure or arousal.

Masturbational is an adjective describing something related to masturbation or sexually alluring in a way that incites a desire to masturbate.

A close-up image or video shot showing the genitals of one or more performers, typically in pornographic media.

A vulgar slang term for sexual intercourse given out of pity for someone perceived to have an inadequate sex life.

Merkin is a slang term for either a pubic wig or, in sexuality-related slang, a companion used by a lesbian to present herself as straight. In the latter sense, it is a derogatory term.

“Mess around” is an informal slang verb meaning to have a sexual relationship, especially one that is noncommittal.

Mesugaki is Japanese sexual slang for a bratty, sexually provocative girl character—often young or young-looking—who teases or acts suggestively toward someone presented as her superior.

A metamour is your partner’s other partner when you are not yourself romantically involved with that person.

A dated term for a typically urban, heterosexual man associated with careful grooming, fashion, and personal aesthetics. It can also describe something relating to this kind of man or lifestyle.

A vulgar adjective describing something that happens during sexual intercourse.

Midsex is an adjective describing something that happens during sexual intercourse.

“Midshit” is derogatory transgender slang for a trans person who began transitioning at a relatively young age, but after puberty.

A UK derogatory slang term for a homosexual man.

Ming is a verb meaning to bring people or animals together, or to be joined in marriage or sexual intercourse. In the supplied usage, it refers to joining or coupling, including sexual union.

A slang term for a man who reaches orgasm undesirably quickly during sexual intercourse.

Miscegenetic is an adjective describing an interracial marriage or other interracial sexual or romantic relationship.

Miscegenous describes an interracial marriage or other sexual or romantic relationship. It can also describe something relating to miscegenation.

In sexual slang, “missionary” refers to sexual intercourse in the missionary position.

A sexual intercourse position in which a man and woman face each other, with the man on top.

A derogatory and offensive South African term for an effeminate homosexual man.

Molly can refer to a male homosexual, especially one described as effeminate. In slang, it can also mean pure MDMA powder.

A molly house was an 18th- or 19th-century English tavern or other establishment where homosexual men could meet for social and sexual encounters, including cross-dressing.

A noun referring to a homosexual man.

An obsolete historical slang term for a gay man.

“Mommy porn” is an informal term for mainstream erotic fiction aimed primarily at the tastes or sensibilities associated with mothers and housewives. In a more literal reading, it can also refer to pornography featuring mother characters.

An unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships. In sexuality-related usage, “monk” describes a man living without sex rather than necessarily referring to a member of a religious order.

Monoamory is the practice of having one romantic or sexual relationship at a time. It may not involve an expectation of mutuality and usually does not include an expectation of marriage.

Monoclinous is an adjective describing something bisexual in a biological or botanical context.

Monogamous describes a relationship or partnership characterized by mutual sexual and romantic exclusivity, with one partner at a time.

Monogamy is a relationship structure based on romantic and/or sexual exclusivity between partners according to their agreements.

Monoheterosexual describes a person who is sexually attracted only to people of the opposite sex. It is used in the heterosexual sense, excluding bisexual attraction.

The assumption that romantic and sexual relationships are normal or acceptable only when they involve two monogamous partners. The term can also refer to treating attraction to people of only one gender as the only normal or significant form of sexuality.

Monosexism is the belief that people are, or should be, attracted to only one sex or gender. It can also involve denying that bisexuality and pansexuality exist or treating people who experience attraction beyond one sex or gender as wrong.

Sexuality involving attraction to only one sex, generally described as heterosexuality or homosexuality.

A verb meaning to have or begin sexual intercourse with someone.

An offensive racial slur for a non-Black person—usually a white woman—who has sexual relationships with Black people, usually men.

An offensive, derogatory slang term for a non-Black person—usually a white woman—seeking sexual relationships with Black people, usually men. It can also function as the present participle or gerund of “mudshark.”

Mukhannath is a noun referring to the receptive partner in homosexual activity.

Multimate is an adjective describing someone or something involving multiple romantic or sexual partners.

Munch is a term used in BDSM or consensual power-exchange contexts. Its practical meaning depends on negotiated roles, boundaries, risks, and agreements.

A slang term for a bodybuilder, especially a gay man.

“Muscle Mary” is derogatory slang for a homosexual man who works to maintain a muscular physique.

Mutual masturbation is sexual activity in which two or more people masturbate themselves or one another in each other’s presence.

Naai is South African slang for having sexual intercourse. It is a blunt, explicitly vulgar verb equivalent to “fuck.”

A vulgar slang verb meaning, of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse.

“Nailing” is sexual slang for an act of sexual intercourse, especially rough or vigorous intercourse.

A derogatory and offensive slang term for an effeminate man, especially a homosexual man.

A derogatory slang term for a homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate.

A derogatory slang adjective describing a person with kinky or tightly curled hair.

“Naps” refers to kinky or curly hair.

Nasophilia is a paraphilia involving sexual attraction to the nose or nostrils, also called nose fetishism.

A neck corset is a collar worn as fetishwear or as an alternative-fashion accessory.

Necrosadism is sexual arousal or gratification derived from mutilating, humiliating, or otherwise defiling dead bodies. It refers to sadism directed toward the dead.

A derogatory slang term for an effeminate homosexual man; it can also describe someone or something as unmanly or effeminate.

Netorase is a Japanese slang term for a genre of sharing or cuckoldry pornography in which a protagonist’s love interest has sex with other people, and the protagonist enjoys, encourages, or causes it.

A derogatory term for a transgender person who is seen as extremely clockable and incapable of passing.

New relationship energy, or NRE, describes the heightened excitement and emotional or sexual intensity that can occur near the beginning of a new relationship.

In informal sexual slang, “nibble” means to engage in sexual intercourse.

A UK slang adjective describing someone who engages in homosexual relationships only while in prison and segregated from the opposite sex.

A highly offensive racial slur used as a noun for someone who has sexual intercourse with Black people. It is also recorded as a derogatory term for a Black person.

An ejaculation or orgasm that occurs during sleep, often accompanied by an erotic dream.

Night hunting is a traditional Bhutanese courtship custom in which a young man enters a young woman’s room through her window at night to engage in sexual activity.

“No money, no honey” is a slang phrase meaning that sexual intercourse will not take place without payment.

“No promo homo” describes laws in some U.S. states that prohibit or limit discussion of homosexuality and transgender identity in public schools.

In transgender usage, “no-op” describes a transgender person who has chosen not to undergo sex reassignment surgery. It can function as a noun or an adjective. Outside sexuality and gender contexts, “no-op” also means an instruction or operation that has no effect.

An ejaculation or orgasm that occurs during sleep, often accompanied by an erotic dream.

Nodome is a crossing hitch used in Japanese rope bondage. It is also referred to as a Munter hitch.

A non-kinkster is a person who is not a kinkster, meaning they are outside the BDSM or kink community.

Non-op is an informal term for a transgender person who has chosen not to undergo sex reassignment surgery. It can also describe that person or their status in relation to surgery.

Nonbinary is an umbrella term and identity for people whose gender is not exclusively man or woman.

Nonbisexual describes a person who is not bisexual. As a noun, it refers to someone who is not bisexual.

Noncelibate describes someone who is not celibate and engages in sexual activity, including sexual intercourse. As a noun, a noncelibate is a person who engages in sexual intercourse.

A derogatory UK and Irish slang term for having sexual intercourse with someone under the age of sixteen.

Nonconception is the failure to conceive after sexual intercourse, when an egg is not fertilized by sperm.

Nonfetishized describes something that is not fetishized or treated as a fetish.

Nongay describes a person or thing as not gay, meaning not homosexual. As a noun, a nongay is a person who is not gay.

Nonhomosexual describes something that is not homosexual. As a noun, it refers to a person who is not homosexual.

Nonintercourse means a lack of sexual intercourse, or describes something that does not involve or relate to sexual intercourse.

Nonkinky describes sex or sexual activity that does not involve kink. It can also broadly mean not kinky.

Sexual activity that does not involve penetration of the vagina, mouth, or anus. It can include masturbation, manual sex, mutual masturbation, frottage, and dry humping.

Nonqueer describes a person, identity, relationship, or subject that is not queer, including identities such as heterosexual or otherwise non-LGBTQ+.

Nontrans is an adjective describing something that is not trans, meaning not transgender or transsexual.

Nonvanilla describes sexual activity, preferences, or experiences that are not conventional or routine, often involving unusual or kinky elements.

NPNC means “no pic, no chat.” On dating and hookup apps, it tells other users that a person does not want to continue a conversation unless they can see a profile or face photo.

NSA means “no strings attached.” In dating and hookup contexts, it describes an arrangement without an expectation of a committed romantic relationship or long-term obligation.

Nukige is a Japanese visual novel genre built around sexually explicit content intended primarily to facilitate masturbation or sexual gratification, rather than story or character relationships.

“Number two” is a slang term for a mistress: a woman involved in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.

“Oats” is slang for sexual intercourse, sexual satisfaction, or semen.

In sexual slang, occupy is a verb meaning to have sexual intercourse with someone.

Oculophilia is a paraphilia involving sexual attraction to eyes, including the act of licking them. It is also called eye fetishism.

An uncommon, derogatory internet term for a non-Black person—usually a white man—who seeks sexual or romantic relationships with Black women.

“Old hat” is an archaic slang term for sexual intercourse. It can also refer to the female genitalia or, derogatorily, to a woman treated as a sexual partner.

“Oldshit” is a derogatory term for a transgender person who began transitioning relatively late, after puberty was complete. In some usage, the label is applied to people who started transitioning in their late teens or adulthood, sometimes as part of jokes or criticism about trans people’s attitudes toward age and transition.

A small procyonid of most species in the genus Bassaricyon, resembling a kinkajou and native to the rainforests of Central and South America.

A Polari noun for a homosexual man.

An adjective meaning bisexual; a nonce-word used to describe someone attracted to more than one sex.

Omnisexuality is a sexual orientation involving the potential for aesthetic attraction, romantic love, and/or sexual desire toward people of multiple genders, with different patterns of attraction for different genders.

Omorashi is a sexual practice or paraphilia involving arousal from the sensation of having a full urinary bladder or from someone else having one. It can also include erotic denial of bathroom access.

“On a promise” is a UK colloquial phrase meaning that someone is looking forward to having sexual intercourse later.

“On the other bus” is a derogatory UK slang phrase meaning homosexual or gay.

“Once you go black” is an informal phrase suggesting that someone who has had sex with a Black person will not return to sexual relationships with people of their previous race.

An informal sexual proverb claiming that after someone has had sex with a Black person, they will not want sex with non-Black people. It is a racialized joke or stereotype rather than a literal rule about sexual preference.

An informal sexual proverb claiming that after having sex with a Persian person, someone will not want sex with people of other ethnicities.

An open relationship is a consensually non-monogamous relationship in which partners agree that one or both may have sexual or romantic connections with other people.

“Opposite sex” refers to people of different sexes, especially a woman and a man in a heterosexual relationship or other relationship context.

Oral sex is sexual activity involving stimulation of a partner’s genitals or anus with the mouth.

An orgasm is a peak or climax of sexual arousal that can involve intense pleasure and involuntary physical responses.

Orgastic potency is the ability to experience complete orgasmic gratification during sexual activity. In this psychological theory, it involves surrender to involuntary bodily pleasure and the full release of sexual excitation, and is distinguished from erectile or ejaculatory potency.

Otter is gay slang commonly used for a relatively lean or slim man with noticeable body hair. The term is part of an informal family of gay-community body-type labels that also includes bear and twink.

Outercourse is partnered sexual activity that does not involve penetration.

A vulgar transitive verb meaning to have better or more frequent sex than someone else, or to be superior to them at sexual intercourse.

Outgay is an informal transitive verb meaning to surpass someone in being homosexual or in behaving in a stereotypically gay manner.

Oyakodon is a sexual slang term for a threesome involving the mother of one person’s partner.

P-in-V means sexual intercourse involving penile-vaginal penetration, also called vaginal sex.

Painal is a noun for anal sex that causes pain to the receiving partner. The term can also describe intentionally painful anal sex in which the receiving partner wants the pain or finds it pleasurable.

Painplay is a sexual practice involving the intentional infliction of pain, often in a BDSM or erotic context.

A Polari noun referring to a homosexual woman.

Pansexual describes a person with the capacity for romantic, emotional, and/or physical attraction to people regardless of gender.

Pansexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by the potential for aesthetic attraction, romantic love, and/or sexual desire toward people regardless of their gender or sex.

A derogatory colloquial adjective describing something as effeminate or homosexual; it can also mean overly adorned or affected.

A derogatory slang term for a male homosexual, especially one described as effeminate.

A derogatory Caribbean slang term for a homosexual man.

A paramour is a lover or sexual partner, especially someone involved in an affair or a secret or illicit relationship. The word is often dated or literary, and can refer specifically to a married person’s adulterous partner.

Parasexual is an adjective describing something related to parasexuality, or something indirectly connected with sex and sexuality rather than sex itself. It can also describe a one-sided sexual relationship that combines parasocial and sexual elements.

In informal sexual slang, to park means to engage in romantic or sexual activity inside a stationary vehicle that was driven to a suitable spot for that purpose.

A vulgar slang phrase meaning, of a man, to engage in penetrative vaginal sexual intercourse.

In the Philippines, parlorista refers to a low-income gay man who is described as feminine and stereotypically associated with work in a beauty parlor.

Passade is a noun for a brief romantic or sexual relationship—a fling.

Passion can refer to sexual intercourse, especially when it is highly emotional. It can also mean strong romantic love or another powerful emotion.

In a sexual or romantic relationship, passive describes someone who is inactive or submissive rather than taking an active role.

A derogatory term, sometimes used in transgender slang, for a transgender person who passes.

“Pause” is slang used immediately after a statement to deny that it was intended as innuendo or to carry a homosexual meaning, especially when the wording could reasonably be interpreted that way.

A paypig is a submissive participant in financial domination who provides another person with money. The term is internet slang associated with BDSM and sexuality.

Pedra Branca skink is a common name for Carinascincus palfreymani, a species of skink.

A brothel for men who have sex with men.

A penetratee is the partner who is penetrated during sexual intercourse.

A penile pearl is a small, bead-shaped implant placed beneath the skin of the penis for cosmetic appeal or to increase sexual pleasure during intercourse.

In sexual usage, perform can mean that a man is able to initiate or complete an act of sexual intercourse.

Period play is sexual intercourse during menstruation.

Describing something related to, involving, or practicing unusual or “kinky” sex. The word is sometimes used as a derogatory label.

A derogatory slang term for a gay man or male homosexual.

Petpill is BDSM slang for a strong interest in petplay, especially the desire to be a long-term submissive partner. As a verb, to petpill someone is to influence them into developing an interest in petplay.

Petplay is a form of roleplay in which one or more people take on animal roles, especially the role of a pet. It is often sexual, but it is not always sexual.

Petticoat punishment is a BDSM fantasy scenario in which a boy is dressed in girls’ clothing as a form of supposed punishment or humiliation.

Petukh is offensive, vulgar slang for a man forced into a homosexual relationship and used as a sex slave or servant by another man, especially in Russian prison and military systems.

Phallation is sexual intercourse carried out by means of a penis.

Physical love is a noun phrase referring to sexual intercourse.

A pick-up joint is a place, such as a nightclub, where people gather to find a romantic or sexual partner.

A pillow princess is a slang term for someone who prefers to receive sexual attention rather than reciprocating in the same way.

Intimate conversation shared by bedmates, especially after sexual intercourse.

In BDSM and sexual contexts, “pineapple” is a safeword: a word used to signal a boundary or request during an intimate or kink interaction.

In colloquial slang, “ping” means to trigger someone’s gaydar or to look or act obviously homosexual.

In sexuality-related slang, pink describes something relating to homosexual people as a group. The usage is informal and can be derogatory.

An informal, often unacknowledged barrier that can limit promotion or advancement for gay and lesbian people, particularly in employment.

A slang noun referring to a homosexual person.

Pissplay is sexual activity involving urine or urination. It is a BDSM- and sexuality-related term, also written as “piss play.”

“Pity fuck” is vulgar slang for sexual intercourse given out of pity for someone’s inadequate sex life.

In dating slang, a plate is a potential romantic or sexual partner whom someone keeps in touch with as part of plate spinning.

Plate spinning is the practice of staying in contact with several potential romantic or sexual partners at the same time.

A playa is a player: someone who plays the field or has particular prowess in gaining romantic and sexual relationships.

An informal term for a person who dates or has sexual relationships with multiple people instead of pursuing one long-term sexual relationship.

A man who allows or approves sexual relationships between his girlfriend and his male friends. In UK, Irish, and Commonwealth slang, “plonker” can also refer to a penis, so the surrounding sexual context determines which sense is intended.

“Plough the back forty” is a vulgar slang expression meaning to engage in sexual intercourse.

Plurisexuality is a romantic or sexual orientation involving attraction to more than one gender. Bisexuality and pansexuality are examples of plurisexual identities.

Pocket pool is slang for masturbating by manipulating the genitals through a trouser pocket.

A podophile is a person who has a sexual interest in feet or a foot fetish.

Pogue is a slang term for a young male described as a passive homosexual.

In sexual intercourse or masturbation, the point of inevitability is the level of male sexual arousal at which orgasm and ejaculation can no longer be stopped.

In sexual slang, “poke” means to penetrate someone during sexual intercourse. It is used as a verb and is informal or colloquial.

Political lesbianism is a feminist doctrine that promotes lesbianism and lesbian separatism as part of the struggle against sexism.

In sexual usage, pollution is the ejaculation of semen outside sexual intercourse, especially during a nocturnal emission.

Polyamory is a form of consensual non-monogamy involving multiple romantic and/or intimate relationships with the knowledge and consent of the people involved.

A polycule is a network or group of people connected through polyamorous relationships, even when every member is not romantically or sexually involved with every other member.

Polycurious describes someone who is curious about or open to polyamory and may be interested in relationships with multiple partners.

In botany, describing plants in which some have bisexual and male flowers, while others have bisexual and female flowers.

Polysexual describes sexual attraction to many genders, sometimes specifically multiple but not all genders. In some relationship terminology, it can also describe being sexually open, rather than romantically open.

Pomosexual describes someone or something that rejects, avoids, or does not fit within a sexual-orientation label such as heterosexual, homosexual, asexual, pansexual, or bisexual. As a noun, pomosexual refers to a person with this position.

In BDSM, a ponygirl is a woman who takes on the role of a pony, usually in a submissive role and typically wearing tack such as a bridle and bit.

A derogatory, vulgar slang term for a gay man, especially one perceived as effeminate. It is associated with Australian, Commonwealth, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinean English.

An offensive noun referring to homosexuality.

An offensive slang noun referring to homosexuality, associated with Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the UK.

A derogatory slang adjective referring to homosexual behavior or culture.

An Australian slang noun referring to a male homosexual.

Poontang is vulgar US slang for sexual intercourse with a woman. It can also refer to female genitalia or, in a dated and derogatory usage, a woman viewed in a heavily sexualized way.

An adjective describing something homosexual or poofy.

“Pop” is a sexual slang verb meaning to sexually penetrate.

Porno chic is positive mainstream attention toward sexually explicit films, a phenomenon that began in the late 1960s around commercial American pornography.

Pornocopia is a noun for an abundance or profusion of pornography, sexual imagery, or nudity.

Pornography is the explicit literary or visual depiction of sexual subject matter, or material presented in an erotic way.

Pornonormativity is the shaping of human sexual expression by the conventions of mainstream pornography.

A pornophobe is a person opposed to or hostile toward pornography and sexual expression in art.

In sexual usage, possess means to dominate someone sexually or to have sexual intercourse with them. More generally, it can mean to control or dominate a person, their heart, or their mind.

An adjective describing a social condition or perspective understood as coming after homosexuality has been established as a social norm.

Postorgasmic illness syndrome is a syndrome in which men experience severe cognitive and physical symptoms immediately after ejaculation, including fatigue, muscular weakness, perspiration, and mood disturbances, without a local genital reaction.

Postqueer is an adjective describing something that comes after the establishment of the queer movement or queer theory.

Postsex is an adjective describing something that occurs after sexual intercourse.

Postsexual describes something that occurs after sexual intercourse.

Potency is sexual virility: the ability to become erect or achieve orgasm.

Power Bottom is a role-related term used in sexual, kink, or BDSM contexts. Role labels can describe preferences or dynamics but do not define a person's complete interests or boundaries.

Powerslash is slash fan fiction centered on a romantic or sexual relationship between characters with unequal social status or rank.

A derogatory term for a woman or girl someone does not want a genuine relationship with but may date or have sex with briefly to practice romantic or sexual skills and build confidence.

“Pray the gay away” is an informal US phrase meaning to attempt to change one’s homosexuality through prayer.

Pre-cum, or pre-ejaculate, is fluid released from the penis before ejaculation.

An informal adjective describing someone who has not undergone any gender-affirming health care procedures.

Pre-slash is a subgenre of slash fiction in which a same-gender relationship between two characters has not yet developed or is only implied.

Preceremonial describes sexual intercourse that takes place before a marriage ceremony between a couple committed to marrying in the future.

Precoitional describes something that occurs or exists before sexual intercourse.

A man who experiences orgasm and ejaculates soon after initiating sexual intercourse, generally within one minute or less.

Presexual describes something that occurs before sexual intercourse. It can also describe something not yet capable of sexual reproduction.

Pro-LGBT describes a person, policy, organization, or other position that supports LGBT people and/or LGBT rights.

A procyonid is a member of the Procyonidae family of New World carnivores, which includes raccoons, coatis, kinkajous, olingos, ringtails, and cacomistles.

Protohomosexual is an adjective describing something related to the early development of homosexuality in an individual or society.

Adjective describing something that appears bisexual but is not actually bisexual.

Pseudobisexuality is a concept in certain theories associated with Blanchard’s transsexualism typology. It describes an apparent bisexual attraction pattern arising from an autogynephilic desire to be a woman who is desired by, or has sex with, men.

Pseudoheterosexual is an adjective for something that appears heterosexual but is homosexual in nature.

Pseudoheterosexuality is behavior that appears heterosexual but is understood as homosexual in underlying meaning or motivation.

According to Lionel Ovesey, pseudohomosexual describes a man whom he characterized as becoming homosexual through abnormal interpersonal relationships rather than having an innate homosexual orientation. It can also function as a noun for such a man.

Pseudohomosexuality is a noun referring to the property of being pseudohomosexual.

In dating and sexual slang, “pull” means to attract someone and interest them in dating or pursuing them; in Ireland and the UK, it can also mean persuading someone to have sex.

In sexual slang, a pump and dump is sex with a partner on one occasion, without an immediate intention to stay in contact or pursue a serious relationship. It can also be used as a verb.

Vulgar slang referring to the vulva or vagina, and also used for sexual intercourse with a woman.

“Push it” is sexual slang meaning to have sexual intercourse.

A vulgar sexual slang term for sexual intercourse with a female, especially in the phrase “get some pussy.” It can also refer to the female genitalia, meaning the vulva or vagina.

A vulgar slang term for a man who seduces many women, especially when those sexual relationships are considered illicit because he is already committed to another relationship.

Vulgar sexual slang for vaginal intercourse, especially sex described as rough or forceful. It can also refer to a specific instance of that activity.

A vulgar slang adjective meaning without a pussy, or without sexual intercourse with a woman, depending on context.

Queefing is the release or sound of trapped air from the vagina, often during or after sexual intercourse or exercise. The word is informal and vulgar.

A colloquial term for an effeminate man or a male homosexual, especially when used as a form of address.

A queening stool is a low seat with an opening that allows a dominant partner to sit above and receive oral sex from a submissive partner lying underneath.

An informal slang adjective meaning like a queen or queenly; it can also describe an effeminate homosexual man or something associated with that presentation.

Queer is a reclaimed identity term used by some people whose sexual orientation and/or gender identity is not exclusively heterosexual or cisgender; not everyone is comfortable with the term.

An adjective describing something as unusually camp or conspicuously homosexual; it can also suggest that something is strange or unusual.

A UK informal adjective describing someone or something as ostentatiously homosexual.

Queercore is a subculture that emerged from the 1980s punk movement, associated with young, rebellious homosexuals. The term also refers to the aggressive rock music associated with that subculture.

Queerification is the process of making or becoming queer by moving away from mainstream expectations about sexual identity or behavior.

To make queer, or to cause someone or something to depart from mainstream sexual identity or behaviour.

Queerization is the process of making something queer, including in relation to homosexuality or transgender identity.

Queerize is a transitive verb meaning to make queer, including homosexual or transgender, or to queer something. It can also describe applying this transformation to spaces, disciplines, or heterocentrist structures of power and knowledge.

A derogatory and offensive term for a homosexual person.

Queerness is the quality of being queer in the sense of not conforming to sexual or gender norms.

A derogatory, vulgar slang term for a homosexual person.

Queerplatonic describes a relationship that is not romantic and usually not sexual, but has a stronger emotional bond than a typical friendship.

Questioning describes someone who is exploring or considering their sexual orientation and/or gender identity.

Raceplay is sexual roleplay involving racially charged situations or racialized power dynamics, including interracial master–slave scenarios.

RACK stands for Risk-Aware Consensual Kink, a BDSM framework emphasizing informed awareness of risk and consent.

A slang term for a pornography fan who prefers films with abundant sex and little plot or character development; it can also refer to someone who prefers pornography featuring rough, degrading, or violent treatment of women.

To make a forceful thrust during sexual intercourse.

A derogatory noun for a transfeminine lesbian portrayed as sexually aggressive or predatory.

A sexual slang term for a submissive partner portrayed as willing to be used indiscriminately by others.

In sexual slang, ravage means to have vigorous sexual intercourse. It also has a separate slang sense meaning to rape.

As a verb, “ravish” can mean to have vigorous sexual intercourse. In dated usage, it can also mean to rape.

Reality pornography is a genre of pornography built around staged sexual encounters filmed in a cinéma vérité style.

In BDSM and sexual contexts, “red” is a stop signal indicating that the speaker wants current sexual activity to stop immediately.

Relation can refer to the act of sexual intercourse.

A romantic or sexual involvement between people.

Relationship anarchy is an approach to relationships that rejects predetermined hierarchies and rules in favor of agreements created by the people involved.

A relationshipper is a person who supports a romantic or sexual relationship between fictional characters or real people. The slang is especially associated with fans focused on a particular pairing.

Relationshopping is the practice of seeking romantic or sexual partners by comparing them against a preferred shortlist of attributes, much like selecting a product while shopping.

Repfuel is a derogatory noun for something that provokes a transgender person to repress their gender identity or its expression.

A derogatory slang term for a person who has realised they are transgender but refuses to accept it or begin gender transition.

Retifism is a sexual fetish involving attraction to shoes.

A sexual scenario involving more than two women and one man as the central participant. As a verb, “reverse gangbang” means to take part in this kind of sexual activity.

A derogatory term for a non-Asian man, usually a white man, who has a sexual fetish for Asian women.

A colloquial term for an act of sexual intercourse.

A vulgar verb meaning to have sexual intercourse with the woman on top of the man.

Rigger is a term used in BDSM or consensual power-exchange contexts. Its practical meaning depends on negotiated roles, boundaries, risks, and agreements.

A ristellid is a skink belonging to the family Ristellidae.

A vulgar UK slang term meaning to have sexual intercourse, especially when describing a man having sex with someone; it can also mean an act of sexual intercourse.

A vulgar UK and Irish slang noun for sexual intercourse, especially when described as rough.

“Roll around” is colloquial sexual slang meaning to have sexual intercourse with someone, usually in the phrasing “roll around with” a person.

An intensely emotional relationship between two people that involves love, physical affection, or emotional communication beyond what is typical in friendship, while sexual activity is usually absent or unimportant.

In a humorous or ironic sexuality-related use, “roommate” refers to a same-sex significant other with whom someone lives—a coinhabitant in a non-heterosexual relationship.

In sexual slang, root means to have sexual intercourse or to engage in an act of sexual intercourse.

Rope Bunny is a term used in BDSM or consensual power-exchange contexts. Its practical meaning depends on negotiated roles, boundaries, risks, and agreements.

Rubberism is a fetishistic interest in rubber or rubberwear.

A rubberist is someone with a fetish for rubber or rubberwear. The word can also function as an adjective describing something related to a rubberist or rubberism.

Rubberwear is fetishwear made of rubber.

A derogatory slang noun for a gay man.

Informal slang for anal sex between men, or for a man associated with male-male anal sex. It can function as either a noun or an adjective.

Rumpo is a colloquial, humorous noun for sexual intercourse. It is an uncountable term.

To run after someone is to make a determined effort to win their affection or pursue a sexual relationship with them.

“Run up in” is vulgar slang meaning to have sexual intercourse with someone, especially in a non-romantic way.

As sexual slang, “saddle up” means to engage in sexual intercourse. It is an uncommon verb phrase and can also refer literally to preparing a horse and saddle for riding.

Sadomasochism is the sexual enjoyment of both inflicting and receiving pain. The word can also refer collectively to consensual sadistic and masochistic practices within BDSM.

Safer sex refers to practices intended to reduce, rather than eliminate, risks associated with sexual activity, including sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy.

A safeword is a previously agreed word or signal used to clearly communicate that a BDSM or sexual activity should pause, change intensity, or stop.

A sexual fetish in which the active partner enjoys making a mess of someone whose appearance was previously neat and tidy.

A vulgar slang term for having sexual intercourse with a woman after cold-approaching her earlier that same day.

Same-gender describes people, relationships, or sexual behavior involving people of the same gender, particularly homosexual or bisexual men or women.

Same-gender-loving describes homosexual attraction, relationships, or people, particularly in African American communities.

In sexuality and relationship language, same-sex describes something involving, relating to, or occurring between homosexual men or women. It appears in phrases such as “same-sex marriage.”

A nonstandard noun for a person who is attracted to, or has sexual relations with, people of the same sex; homosexual.

Same-sexness is a noun referring to homosexuality, or the condition of being or having the same sex.

Same-sexuality is sexuality or sexual activity involving people of the same sex; it refers to homosexuality.

A sand skink is a skink associated with sandy habitats. The name can refer to the ocellated skink (Chalcides ocellatus), found in southern Europe, or Plestiodon reynoldsi, a lizard endemic to Florida.

Sandfish is a name for several fish and other animals associated with sandy environments, including the sandfish skink, a lizard that burrows and swims through sand.

Sandfish skink is the common name for Scincus scincus, a skink known for burrowing into sand. It is not a sexuality, dating, relationship, kink, or BDSM term.

Sapphism is a noun referring to female homosexuality, or lesbianism.

A sapphite is a homosexual woman.

Sard is a verb meaning to have sexual intercourse with a woman.

Satori is a mutant gene in Drosophila, the genus that includes fruit flies, associated with homosexual behaviour in males—specifically, courtship directed toward other males.

A derogatory slang term for a homosexual male.

In sexuality and relationship language, “save” means to refrain from romantic relationships—or, especially in later use, sexual relationships—until marriage or until being with a suitable partner.

Schlong is vulgar slang for engaging in sexual intercourse. As a noun, it refers to a penis, especially a long one.

A scincid is a member of the Scincidae family of reptiles, commonly known as skinks.

Scincoid describes something related to the family Scincidae, or skinks. As a dated noun, it can also mean a skink.

A slang term for an effeminate gay man or a man perceived as obviously homosexual.

A crude, informal slang term for sexual intercourse, used as both a noun and a verb.

Screwable is vulgar sexual slang describing someone or something considered suitable or desirable for sexual intercourse.

A vulgar slang term for sexual intercourse; also the present participle and gerund form of “screw” in this sense.

Scullyslash is fan fiction featuring Dana Scully from *The X-Files* in a romantic and/or sexual relationship with another woman.

Second virginity is the act of reclaiming a virgin identity after previously having sexual intercourse, often as a commitment to sexual purity until marriage.

Seduction is the act of attracting or persuading someone into sexual involvement, typically through physical attraction, desire, or deliberate attempts to influence them. In a historical legal sense, the word also referred to a felony involving a man inducing a previously chaste unmarried woman to have sexual intercourse by promising marriage.

An informal noun phrase referring to an act of sexual intercourse, often used in expressions such as “a seeing-to.”

Self-facial is a sexual slang term for ejaculating onto one's own face.

“Self-rape” refers to submission to an unwanted sexual act. It can also describe rape in which the rapist identifies with, or is the same person as, the victim. In some derogatory usage, it refers to masturbation, including masturbation without self-love.

Seme refers to an active or dominant male partner in a same-sex relationship; in sexual slang, it is broadly equivalent to “top.”

Semi-single describes someone who is more or less single but is not in a serious, long-term romantic or sexual relationship.

Semibisexual describes someone who identifies as bisexual but is attracted to only one gender. In another definition, it describes sexual attraction to two genders alongside romantic feelings for only one.

Semibisexuality is the state of identifying as bisexual while being attracted to only one gender.

Semicloseted describes someone who is partially open about their sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.

Semivirgin is a colloquial adjective for someone who has had a sexual experience but has not had sexual intercourse; it can also describe someone as almost a virgin.

Sensation Play is a kink or fetish-related term used to describe an interest, fantasy, activity, sensation, object, or style of erotic play. Individual interests and boundaries can vary widely.

Service Top is a role-related term used in sexual, kink, or BDSM contexts. Role labels can describe preferences or dynamics but do not define a person's complete interests or boundaries.

“Sesbian lex” is an internet slang phrase formed by a spoonerism of “lesbian sex.”

A discreet code for lesbian or bisexual actresses in Hollywood during the industry’s golden age.

A sex addict is a person described as being addicted to watching or taking part in sexual activity, particularly sexual intercourse.

A sex dungeon is a dungeon-like space designed and equipped for BDSM sexual activities.

Sex education is instruction about human sexual anatomy, reproduction, intercourse, and other sexual behavior.

Sex flush is the flushed appearance, redness, or blush that can appear after sex or orgasm. It is also called an afterglow.

“Sex hair” is colloquial, uncountable slang for bed hair resulting from sexual intercourse.

A sex pillow is a pillow designed to facilitate or enhance sexual intercourse.

A sex position is a physical arrangement or posture used during sexual intercourse.

A sex shop is a retail store that sells sexual products such as sex toys, erotic lingerie, and pornography.

Sex-hunger is an intense desire for sexual intercourse.

Sex-negative describes an attitude, policy, or sexual climate that views sexuality negatively and seeks to restrict or control sexual desire, including by opposing sex work, pornography, or kinky and otherwise unconventional sex.

Sex-positive describes an approach that regards sexual activity as potentially beneficial and healthy while supporting personal autonomy and rights in matters of sex. It can include acceptance of consensual kinky sex, queer sex, and sex work.

Sexathon is an informal noun for a prolonged session of sexual intercourse.

A sexbot is a robot designed for sexual intercourse with humans. The word can also refer to a lifelike robotic love doll that simulates human movement and intelligence, or to a chatbot used for erotic roleplay.

A sexfest is an informal term for an event involving a great deal of sexual intercourse.

Sexfight is an erotic fetish involving a physical competition in which participants try to bring one another to orgasm. As a verb, to sexfight means to take part in this kind of competition.

A sexmobile is a vehicle in which people have sexual intercourse. The slang noun refers to the vehicle itself, rather than to a particular sexual act.

A sexship is a relationship based purely on sex, with the connection centered on temporary physical gratification rather than a long-term committed relationship.

Sexsurfing is an informal, uncommon term for sexual intercourse between a couch-surfing guest and their host.

A humorous adjective describing sexual activity outside a personal relationship.

Relating to sexual attraction, sexuality, sexual feelings, behavior, intercourse, or other intimate physical contact. In discussions of sexual orientation, sexual can describe someone who experiences sexual attraction, in contrast with asexual.

Sexual arousal is a state of sexual excitement that can involve subjective feelings, physical responses, or both.

Sexual attraction is an experience of being drawn to another person in a sexual way.

A psychological complex involving fixations of a sexual nature; a fetish.

Sexual desire is the desire or urge for sexual activity.

A sexual fantasy is an imagined scenario, thought, or mental image that a person experiences as sexual or erotic.

A sexual act performed by one person for another, usually outside a romantic relationship.

Sexual identity is a person’s understanding of themselves in relation to the people they are romantically or sexually attracted to, including their identified sexual orientation.

A historical term for homosexuality, based on a late-19th- and early-20th-century theory that treated same-sex attraction as an inborn reversal of gender traits.

Sexual matters are topics or concerns related to sexual intercourse or sexual relations, especially when discussed in conversation or writing.

Sexual orientation describes a person's enduring pattern of romantic, emotional, and/or physical attraction to others.

The sexual response cycle is a framework describing stages of human response to sexual stimulation.

Sexual union is a formal or euphemistic term for sexual intercourse.

In zoology, a sexuale is a bisexual aphid.

Sexually is an adverb describing something done in an erotic or sexual manner, especially in relation to sexual intercourse.

Sexx0r is an Internet and leet spelling for sexual intercourse. It can function as a noun or as a verb meaning to engage in sexual intercourse.

“Sexy time” is humorous slang for time spent on sexual activity, or, by extension, sexual intercourse.

“Sexy times” is informal slang for time spent engaging in sexual activity, and can also refer specifically to sexual intercourse.

Shaboink is a humorous, informal verb meaning to have sexual intercourse with someone. In some usage, it can refer more broadly to sexual contact or activity, including oral sex.

A sexually attractive, brooding, and intimidating man—often morally gray—who has powers connected with shadows or darkness.

“Shaft” is slang for an act of sexual intercourse. It can be used as a noun or as a transitive verb.

Shagfest is slang for an event or encounter involving a large amount of sexual intercourse.

A slang noun for a person who has sexual intercourse.

Shagger’s back is a humorous slang term for back pain or a bad back, jokingly attributed to having too much sex.

Shagging is a vulgar British slang term for sexual intercourse, used as a noun or as the present participle and gerund of “shag.”

Shagless is a UK slang adjective describing a person or period without sexual intercourse.

A UK slang adjective meaning brilliant or excellent, with an implication of sexual intercourse.

A shingleback is a species of blue-tongued skink, Tiliqua rugosa, with a short, broad tail that resembles its head and may confuse predators.

Shink is not identified here as a sexuality, dating, relationship, LGBTQ+, kink, fetish, or BDSM term. In general usage, it means to pour or serve wine or beer, and it can also describe the sound or movement of sliding metal, especially a blade.

A shipper is a person who supports a romantic or sexual relationship between fictional characters or real people.

In fandom, shipping is the desire for two or more real people or fictional characters to be in a romantic or sexual relationship. As a verb, to ship people or characters means to support or want that relationship.

A derogatory slang adjective, used in Australia and the UK to describe a man as effeminately homosexual.

A vulgar, derogatory slang term for a male homosexual.

An offensive, vulgar slang term for a homosexual man.

A vulgar, derogatory term for a person—especially a submissive person—with a sexual interest in excrement; also used as an insult.

Shoeplay is the erotic use of a foot to play with a shoe, such as lifting or dangling it. The term is associated with a shoe fetish.

Shoujo ai is a term for anime, manga, or hentai centered on romantic or erotic relationships between women. It can also refer to stories focused on emotional, largely platonic homoerotic relationships between women, and is associated with yuri.

Shounen ai is a fictional narrative or visual work centered on a romantic or sexual relationship between two or more males.

“Show someone one’s etchings” is a clichéd idiom used as an innuendo for inviting someone to a private place to have sex.

Similisexual is an adjective meaning homosexual.

Similisexualism is a noun referring to homosexuality.

The condition of being sinthomosexual.

“Sisexual bex” is an Internet noun referring to the spoonerism of “bisexual sex.”

An informal noun for a close, non-sexual relationship between two women.

Sissy hypno is a genre of erotic media that presents itself as hypnotically persuading a male consumer to feminize himself.

Sissyfication is a BDSM practice or scenario in which a submissive is forced to take on a feminine role as a “sissy.” The word is informal and derogatory.

Sistagirl is an informal term used in Tiwi Islands culture for a gay or transgender person, particularly a transgender Aboriginal person. The traditional Tiwi term is yimpininni.

A situationship is a romantic or sexual relationship that has not been clearly defined by the people involved, often leaving commitment, exclusivity, or expectations uncertain.

“Size matters” is a humorous phrase expressing the opinion that people prefer sexual partners with larger penises, or that penis size affects the quality of intercourse.

The simple past and past participle form of the verb “skink.”

Skinking is the present participle and gerund form of “skink.”

In UK colloquial slang, “skirt” refers to sexual intercourse with a woman. The term is derogatory and may also refer figuratively to women collectively in a sexual context.

“Slap bellies” is vulgar slang meaning to have sexual intercourse.

Slash fiction is a genre of fan fiction about romantic and/or sexual relationships between characters of the same sex, typically male characters. A single story in this genre can also be called a slash fiction.

Slave is a term used in BDSM or consensual power-exchange contexts. Its practical meaning depends on negotiated roles, boundaries, risks, and agreements.

In BDSM, a slave-girl is a young female submissive partner who takes on a slave role within a BDSM relationship.

In BDSM, a slaveboy is a young male submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who occupies a slave role.

No sexuality-specific meaning is identified for “slider” in the available definitions.

A slang verb meaning to have penetrative sexual intercourse with someone.

A slump is a period when someone has less sex or dating than they expected or usually experience.

A vulgar, contemptuous insult for a person who has sexual intercourse with people described as “sluts.”

Small penis humiliation is a sexual fetish or kink involving the belittling or demeaning of a man’s penis size, potentially for the arousal of either participant.

Smalldom is a BDSM or sexual dynamic in which a shorter or smaller partner dominates a taller or larger partner. It can also refer to the shorter or smaller dominant partner.

Smash is an informal sexual or dating term. Slang meanings can shift by community, platform, region, and time, so context matters.

An informal, vulgar term for an act of sexual intercourse.

A slang, vulgar term for a place used for casual sex.

Smoxploitation is a genre of fetish films focused on a person smoking a cigarette.

Sneaky Link is an informal sexual or dating term. Slang meanings can shift by community, platform, region, and time, so context matters.

A piece of fan fiction centered on sneezing, usually in a fetishized context.

A derogatory slang term for a white woman who pursues sexual relationships with Black men.

A snow skink is any skink in the taxonomic genus Carinascincus, endemic to south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania and Victoria.

A humorous slang term for rough sexual intercourse with a tall or muscular woman.

Sociosexuality refers to a person’s predisposition to engage in sexual activity outside a committed relationship. The term can also describe the sociological aspects of sexuality.

Socratic love is an archaic term for male homosexuality or pederasty.

A soft launch is an indirect or partial reveal of a romantic relationship, often through social media posts that hint at a partner without clearly identifying them.

Soft swap is a swinging practice in which couples exchange partners without having full sexual intercourse. The term can also refer to couples having sex in the same room without exchanging partners.

Softcore refers to pornography that does not depict explicit sexual penetration. The word can function as an adjective or as a noun for this type of pornography.

Softcore pornography is sexually explicit media that depicts sexual themes or activity in a relatively non-graphic way.

Solo polyamory is a form of polyamory in which a person has multiple intimate relationships while maintaining an independent lifestyle rather than combining households or finances with partners.

Somnophilia is sexual arousal involving a person who is asleep or unconscious, including sexual activity with a partner who is asleep or nearly asleep.

Southern litter skink is the common name for Caledoniscincus notialis, a species of skink lizard. It is not a sexuality, dating, relationship, LGBTQ+, kink, fetish, or BDSM term.

A person with a fetish for spanking, usually but not exclusively in a sexual context.

In sexual slang, spend means to have an orgasm or to ejaculate.

A derogatory, vulgar slang term for a gay man; it can also insult a man by calling him contemptible or an asshole.

An adjective describing sex or fornication involving three or more people, especially when the participants include a homosexual pairing.

Sport-fucking is slang for having sexual intercourse for its own sake, without seeking commitment or emotional depth. The term is vulgar and usually frames sex as a recreational activity rather than an emotionally intimate relationship.

In sexual slang, a squeezer is a hand job, an act of male masturbation, or manual sexual stimulation performed on a man.

A squish is a non-romantic, generally non-sexual infatuation with someone you are not dating, or the person who inspires that feeling. It is also called a platonic crush.

SSC is a term used in BDSM or consensual power-exchange contexts. Its practical meaning depends on negotiated roles, boundaries, risks, and agreements.

A verb meaning to behave like a stallion, especially by engaging in sexual intercourse. It can also mean to make someone or something more virile or manly.

A slang term for a homosexual man who prefers passive partners.

An informal slang verb meaning to have sexual intercourse.

In a sexual context, straight describes something related to conventional sexual intercourse.

A humorous phrase meaning gay or homosexual. Although it uses the word “straight,” the phrase reverses that expected meaning.

“Straight as an arrow” describes someone as completely heterosexual, with no homosexual desires or thoughts.

Describing a person or presentation that has the appearance or mannerisms stereotypically associated with a heterosexual person of the same gender, rather than those stereotypically associated with gay men or lesbians.

To interpret or present a queer person, relationship, or situation as exclusively heterosexual.

Straightwashing is the act of removing or omitting nonstraight sexual orientations from an account of a person, relationship, or situation.

In relationship or dating contexts, “strange” describes someone or something outside a person’s current relationship, or something unfamiliar to them.

In BDSM, particularly petplay, a stray is a submissive who has not committed to submitting to a particular dominant.

In sexual usage, a stroke is a thrusting movement of the penis during sexual intercourse.

“Stuffing” is vulgar internet slang for an act of penetrative sexual intercourse.

Sub Drop is a term used in BDSM or consensual power-exchange contexts. Its practical meaning depends on negotiated roles, boundaries, risks, and agreements.

In BDSM slang, subby describes someone or something associated with a submissive role. It is an informal alternative form of “subbie.”

Subdrop is a period of low spirits experienced by a submissive after BDSM play.

Succubation is sexual intercourse with a succubus, a female demon in folklore.

Regional slang for an effeminate male, often with an implication that he is homosexual.

“Sugar in one’s tank” is an old slang expression referring to latent or secret homosexuality, or to perceived effeminacy in a man.

Superfecundation is the fertilisation of two or more ova by sperm from separate acts of sexual intercourse. It can result in twins who have different biological fathers.

A remarkable session of sexual intercourse.

The ideal that a person should or will have only one sexual or romantic partner throughout their lifetime.

SWERF stands for “sex worker-exclusionary radical feminist.” It refers to a feminist who opposes the sex industry, particularly the production and distribution of pornography, typically viewing it as coercive or abusive toward the women involved.

Swirl refers to interracial mingling, including interracial dating, sex, or marriage. As a verb, it can mean to mingle interracially; this usage is dated.

A slang term for an effeminate male homosexual; it can also describe someone or something as effeminate, attractive, stylish, sophisticated, or fashionable.

Switch is a term used in BDSM or consensual power-exchange contexts. Its practical meaning depends on negotiated roles, boundaries, risks, and agreements.

Slang describing bisexuality or someone who is bisexual.

In BDSM, switchable describes someone who can take either a dominant or a submissive role.

A UK slang term for an act of sexual intercourse performed on or against a table.

In sexual slang, “take it” means to submit to passive sexual intercourse.

A vulgar sexual slang term referring to sexual intercourse with a woman.

As sexual slang, “tap” means to have sexual intercourse with someone.

Tbulge is a noun for the visible outline of a transgender person’s genitals through clothing.

Teamcest is slang for a sexual or romantic relationship between teammates.

A fetish centered on technology, including technological spaces such as cyberspace.

Technosexual describes sexual attraction to or a sexual fetish involving machines, robots, computers, or androids. It can also describe sexuality expressed through technology or technological media.

TEHM is a derogatory term for a trans-exclusionary homosexual male: a gay man who holds gender-critical or anti-transgender views, particularly the view that trans men are women.

Temple prostitution refers to sexual intercourse performed as part of religious worship.

A vulgar noun for a fictional or fantasy genital shaped like an octopus or squid tentacle.

A derogatory slang noun for a gender-critical feminist or anti-transgender advocate who is portrayed as having an unhealthy fixation on transgender people’s genitals.

In sexuality and dating slang, textual describes sexual or intimate communication through text messages, as in “textual harassment” or “textual intercourse.” It is related to sexting.

“TG girl” is slang for a trans woman—a transgender woman or male-to-female transsexual person.

A humorous proverb meaning that plenty of potential romantic or sexual partners are available, but many seem strange or eccentric.

Thighing is masturbation involving rubbing oneself against or between another person’s thighs. It can also refer to frottage or intercrural sex.

A gender category recognized in some societies as neither male nor female, within systems that recognize three or more genders.

“Throes of passion” is a euphemistic phrase for sexual intercourse.

A throuple is a romantic or sexual relationship involving three people.

In sexual slang, a tiger is a person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.

Tinkerbell is a derogatory and offensive slang term for a homosexual or effeminate man.

In BDSM, TNG refers to younger practitioners, typically people under approximately 35, or to a social group for younger members of the BDSM community.

“Toe-tapper” is an informal, possibly derogatory term for a homosexual person who is closeted about their sexual orientation, especially one who solicits gay sex.

Toonophilia is sexual and/or romantic attraction to cartoon or anime characters.

In BDSM, to top from the bottom is to make demands while supposedly occupying a submissive role.

In a BDSM or sexual context, torture refers to activity involving the infliction of pain to a particular body part or in a particular manner. Outside sexuality, the word refers to severe pain or anguish, or to deliberately inflicting it as punishment or during interrogation.

As sexual slang, “touch” can mean to have sexual intercourse with someone. In ordinary use, it means making physical contact with a person or thing.

A queer person, typically a lesbian, who does not want to receive sexual pleasure.

Toybob is a breed of small, compact cats distinguished by short, kinked tails.

A derogatory and offensive internet term for a transgender person.

Trans describes a person or identity that is not cisgender. It is an umbrella term that can include transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, nonbinary, genderfluid, and third-gender identities.

The trans community is the community of transgender and transsexual people.

A trans man is a man who was assigned female at birth and has a male or primarily male gender identity.

The trans panic defense is a claim of self-defense against an unwanted sexual advance by a transgender person.

A trans person is a transgender or transsexual person.

A trans woman is a transgender or transsexual woman who was assigned male at birth and has a female or primarily female gender identity.

Trans-erasure is the ignoring, denial, or minimization of transgender people or transness. It is an uncountable noun used in discussions of representation, reporting, and legislation.

An informal term for a trans lesbian.

An informal adjective describing something as both transgender and sexy.

An informal term for someone who is attracted to transgender or transsexual people.

Transgender describes people whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.

Transgenderal is a dated, uncommon term used as an adjective for a person whose gender differs from their assigned sex, or as a noun for a transgender person. It has also been used for someone expressing a different gender role.

“Transgendered” is a nonstandard, often offensive form of “transgender,” referring to a person whose gender identity does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. “Transgender” is the usual form.

Transgenderism is a derogatory and offensive noun used to portray transgender identities, activism, or rights movements as an ideology. In a dated sense, it can also refer to being transgender.

Transhet describes a transgender person who is heterosexual, or an identity that is both transgender and heterosexual.

Transness is the condition or quality of being transgender or transsexual. It is an uncountable noun used to refer to someone’s trans identity or experience as trans.

Transnormativity is either the normalization and visibility of diverse transgender experiences or the pressure for transgender people to conform to a cissexist idea of what is “normal.”

A nonstandard noun for a transgender or transsexual parent.

Transphile is a noun or adjective for a person who feels attraction toward transgender people or has a positive attitude toward transness. The term is rare and marked as derogatory.

Transphilia is sexual attraction to transgender or transsexual people.

A transphobe is a person who expresses fear, hatred, or prejudice toward transgender, transsexual, or gender-nonconforming people.

Transphobia is hatred, fear, or prejudice directed at transgender and transsexual people, or at transness more broadly. It can also appear as prejudice against people who do not conform to social gender roles.

Transploitation is the exploitation of transgender or transsexual people in media, especially film and television. The noun can also label a film or other work associated with that genre, including cases where creators reclaim the term.

Transromantic describes romantic attraction to people of varied or ambiguous genders, including transgender people.

Transsex refers to transsexuality or transsexualism—the state of being transsexual. It is also used as a verb for undergoing, or causing, a change from one sex or gender to another, especially through sex reassignment surgery.

A paraphilia involving recurrent, intense sexual urges, arousal, or orgasm associated with actual or fantasized cross-dressing, occurring in some males.

Tray is an Australian slang term for a gay transgender person, particularly a transgender man who is gay.

A tribade is a woman who engages in sexual activity with another woman; the word can also refer to a lesbian.

Tribbing is a sexual practice involving vulva-to-vulva contact with the partners’ legs intertwined. The word is used as both a noun and a verb.

Trichophilia is a sexual interest in human hair, including strong fondness for or arousal from hair.

Sexual slang for sexual intercourse with a woman.

Trimonoecious describes a plant whose individual flowers include male, female, and bisexual (hermaphroditic or perfect) types.

An offensive, derogatory internet slang term for a transgender person.

An offensive internet slur for a transgender person, especially a trans woman. It is also used as a derogatory verb for undergoing gender transition or causing someone to undergo gender transition.

A derogatory and offensive slang term for a transgender person described as an incel.

An offensive, derogatory internet term for a transgender person.

A derogatory internet term that portrays transgender identities or related ideas as an ideology, rather than using neutral language to describe transgender people or experiences.

Truck is an archaic or dialectal noun meaning social intercourse, dealings, or relationships. In this sense, it refers to interaction or association between people rather than a vehicle.

A colloquial phrase meaning to try to start a sexual relationship with someone.

A UK informal slang term for an act of sexual intercourse.

A vulgar, derogatory slang term for a gay man. It is a homophobic insult rather than a neutral description of sexual orientation.

A derogatory slang term for a gay man.

Twink is gay and queer slang commonly used for a young or youthful-looking, relatively slim man, often with little body or facial hair. It is a social and cultural label rather than a precise physical category.

Two-Spirit describes a Native North American person associated with a traditional tribal third-gender, fourth-gender, or transgender cultural category, sometimes involving a ceremonial role. The term can also refer to a person described as bisexual, homosexual, or gender-variant within that cultural context.

A “U-Haul lesbian” is a lesbian in a relationship that progresses very quickly, such as moving in together after only a short time. The slang is sometimes used in a derogatory way.

U-Haul syndrome is slang for the tendency, associated with lesbian relationships, for a couple to progress very quickly—for example, moving in together after only a short time.

Uke is a term for a passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship, especially one portrayed as the bottom.

Unclockable describes someone whose homosexuality is not detectable, or someone who is not recognizable as transgender or a drag performer and is therefore passing.

Underage describes a person or activity involving someone below the legal age required for a particular activity, including sexual intercourse. It can also describe someone who is not yet a legal adult and is still a minor.

“Unf” is an inarticulate sound expressing sexual desire on seeing someone attractive, or a grunt of pleasure during sexual intercourse.

Not fetishized; not presented or treated as a fetish object.

In a way that precludes sexual intercourse; a vulgar, emphatic adverb describing someone or something as sexually unavailable or undesirable.

Ungay describes something as not homosexual, or not gay. As a transitive verb, it means to make something not gay or less gay. The adjective is also recorded in a dated sense meaning not cheerful or merry.

Having had no sexual intercourse.

In dating and non-monogamy, a unicorn is a person who joins an existing couple for sex, dating, or a relationship, often as a third partner.

A unicorn hunter is someone who seeks a “unicorn”: a bisexual woman willing to participate in swinging or polyamory with them. The term is derogatory and can imply that the person harasses women who are not interested.

Unkink is a transitive verb meaning to remove kinks from something.

Unkinkable describes something that cannot form kinks, such as a cord or cable.

Unkinked is the simple past and past participle of “unkink.” As an adjective, it means not kinked.

Unkinking is the present participle and gerund form of the verb “unkink.”

“Unkinks” is the third-person singular simple present indicative form of the verb “unkink.”

In sexual contexts, “unkinky” describes sex or sexual activity that is not kinky.

Unlaid describes someone or something that has not had sexual intercourse. In sexual slang, it can refer to a person who has not had sex.

Unorgasmic describes something as not involving orgasm; it can also mean sexless or dull.

A UK slang adjective describing a person who has not had sexual intercourse.

A humorous UK slang euphemism for having anal intercourse.

A UK slang term for a homosexual man. It is derogatory and can be offensive.

Uranistic is an adjective describing something as homosexual.

A homosexual person, especially a man.

Urningism is homosexuality, especially homosexuality among males.

Urophilia, also called undinism, is a sexual fetish or dependency involving the smell or taste of urine, or the sight or sound of someone urinating.

Ursusagalmatophilia is sexual or romantic attraction to teddy bears, including a fetish or paraphilia involving stuffed animal bears.

In a sexuality-related sense, “usable” describes something homosexual.

A lesbian described as socially or romantically inept.

A vac bed is a BDSM device that creates a vacuum inside a latex envelope, enclosing the person inside for sexual use.

A sexual relationship formed during a vacation that has no ongoing attachment and ends when the vacation is over.

Sex in which a penis enters a vagina; also called vaginal intercourse or penis-in-vagina sex.

Vanilla is a term used in BDSM or consensual power-exchange contexts. Its practical meaning depends on negotiated roles, boundaries, risks, and agreements.

A vee is a polyamorous relationship involving three people, where one person has two partners who are not romantically or sexually involved with each other.

Vegansexual describes a person who chooses to have sex or pursue sexual relationships only with other vegans.

Vegansexuality is the practice of having sex or pursuing sexual relationships only with other vegans.

Verbal humiliation is a form of erotic humiliation carried out through words, associated with BDSM and sexuality.

Vers is short for “versatile.” In gay and queer sexual slang, it commonly describes someone who is comfortable taking either the top or bottom role in anal sex rather than identifying exclusively with one role.

In sexuality and BDSM, versatile describes someone who can take either a dominant or submissive role. In anal-sex terminology, it can also mean willing to take either a penetrative or receptive role.

A vibrator is a device that produces vibration and is used to stimulate the genitals or other sensitive areas during masturbation or partnered sexual activity.

A virgin is a person who has never had sexual intercourse. The word can also describe someone who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.

A promise made by a young adult to refrain from sexual intercourse until marriage.

A woman who has never had sexual intercourse; the phrase can also refer to a girl or woman whose hymen remains unbroken.

To confirm one’s identity, sex, or status as a human rather than a bot by providing a voice sample, often by telephone or during online dating.

Vorarephilia is a paraphilia involving sexual cannibalism or role-playing about devouring another person or creature, or being devoured.

Wanderlust is an impulse to be unfaithful or to seek other romantic or sexual partners—a straying heart.

To desire a romantic or, especially, sexual relationship with someone; to lust for them.

Wap is a vulgar sexual slang term meaning to engage in sexual intercourse. WAP can also stand for “wet-ass pussy,” referring to a vulva or vagina described as highly sexually aroused or lubricated.

A slang noun for a former lesbian who is now heterosexual. The label is sometimes considered derogatory or offensive.

Watersports is a kink or fetish-related term used to describe an interest, fantasy, activity, sensation, object, or style of erotic play. Individual interests and boundaries can vary widely.

An adjective describing something related to wet and messy fetishism.

Wet and messy fetishism is a sexual fetish involving slimy substances other than bodily fluids. It can also refer to sexual activity involving those substances.

A wet dream is an erotic dream during sleep that brings the sleeper to orgasm and may involve fluid released from the sex organs. As a verb, it means to have such a dream or to fantasize sexually about someone or something.

Wet play is sexual activity involving liquids, including urolagnia or sploshing, a form of wet and messy fetishism.

Wetlook describes the appearance of a person whose body is wet, especially when that appearance is considered attractive or connected with a fetish.

“Wham, bam, thank you ma’am” describes swift, formulaic, and unromantic sexual intercourse.

A slang term for a homosexual man, especially one described as having camp mannerisms.

“Whore’s bath” is vulgar slang for a quick sponge bath using a wet washcloth or premoistened towelette, often to freshen up between showers or clean up after casual sex.

A humorous proverb suggesting that having sexual relationships with various people is preferable to committing to one partner.

Widow cleansing is a tradition in which a widowed woman is expected to have sexual intercourse as a form of ritual purification.

WIITWD refers to kinky sexual activities, particularly in discussions of BDSM and consensual sexual play.

A close, non-sexual relationship between women; “womance” can also describe being in that kind of relationship.

In transgender slang, “woodwork” means to become completely stealth as a transgender person, blending into the background like someone who fades into the woodwork.

A UK slang term for a gay man.

A slang noun referring to a male homosexual; in Australian, New Zealand, and UK usage, it can also describe a foolish or cowardly person.

Woundfuck is a sexual slang term for sexual intercourse involving penetration of a wound, especially an open wound. It can be used as either a noun or a verb.

Woundfucking is a slang term for sexual intercourse involving an open wound. It is also the present-participial and gerund form of “woundfuck.”

Xenosexual is an adjective describing sexual intercourse between different species or sexual attraction to another species, especially an extraterrestrial or alien species.

Yaoi is a Japanese term for fiction or visual media depicting a romantic or sexual relationship between two or more men, especially erotic or pornographic works.

Yaouri is a narrative or visual work featuring a romantic or sexual relationship between two or more non-binary people.

In sexual or BDSM contexts, “yellow” is a signal that the speaker needs a temporary break from the current sexual activity.

A slang term for a gay man who is now in a heterosexual relationship.

Yiff is informal slang for sexual activity, especially sex involving furries or anthropomorphic animal characters. It can also refer to furry pornography or be used as an expression of sexual appeal or excitement.

Yiffy is a slang adjective describing something related to yiff, sexual intercourse among furries. It can also describe someone as sexually aroused or sexually attractive.

Yobai was an ancient Japanese custom in which a young unmarried man secretly entered a young unmarried woman’s home at night for sexual intercourse, sometimes as a step toward marriage.

“You don't dip your pen in company ink” is a proverb advising people to avoid romantic or sexual relationships with coworkers.

A derogatory term for a transgender person who began transitioning at a young age.

Youthitude is a fetishized, objectified cultural ideal of youth.

Yuri is a genre or label for fiction and other visual or narrative works featuring a romantic or sexual relationship between women.

Yuribait is media that teases a romantic relationship between female characters without explicitly confirming that the relationship exists. It can also refer to producing media in this way.

Yurigem is slang for exceptionally good lesbian erotic or romantic content. It can also refer to a particularly admired lesbian pairing or work featuring one.

A derogatory slang term for lesbian erotic or romantic content considered low quality.

A derogatory slang term for a flamboyant or effeminate homosexual.

“Zigzig” is US slang for sexual intercourse.

Zooerastia is the practice of a human engaging in sexual intercourse with an animal.

Zooerasty is the practice of a human engaging in sexual intercourse with an animal.