Kinks

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Cumsports is slang for sexual activity involving semen or ejaculation.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

A skink belonging to the genus Emoia.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Feminitude is a fetishized, objectified cultural ideal of femininity.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Lactophilia is a sexual fetish involving lactating breasts and breastfeeding.

Latexwear is fetishwear made from latex.

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.

An informal noun for a person with a balloon fetish.

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

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.

A male submissive, especially in a BDSM context.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Nonfetishized describes something that is not fetishized or treated as a fetish.

Nonkinky describes sex or sexual activity that does not involve kink. It can also broadly mean not kinky.

Nonvanilla describes sexual activity, preferences, or experiences that are not conventional or routine, often involving unusual or kinky elements.

Oculophilia is a paraphilia involving sexual attraction to eyes, including the act of licking them. It is also called eye fetishism.

A small procyonid of most species in the genus Bassaricyon, resembling a kinkajou and native to the rainforests of Central and South America.

Painplay is a sexual practice involving the intentional infliction of pain, often in a BDSM or erotic context.

In a sexual or romantic relationship, passive describes someone who is inactive or submissive rather than taking an active role.

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.

Describing something related to, involving, or practicing unusual or “kinky” sex. The word is sometimes used as a derogatory label.

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.

In BDSM and sexual contexts, “pineapple” is a safeword: a word used to signal a boundary or request during an intimate or kink interaction.

Pissplay is sexual activity involving urine or urination. It is a BDSM- and sexuality-related term, also written as “piss play.”

A podophile is a person who has a sexual interest in feet or a foot fetish.

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 procyonid is a member of the Procyonidae family of New World carnivores, which includes raccoons, coatis, kinkajous, olingos, ringtails, and cacomistles.

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.

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 sexual slang term for a submissive partner portrayed as willing to be used indiscriminately by others.

In BDSM and sexual contexts, “red” is a stop signal indicating that the speaker wants current sexual activity to stop immediately.

Retifism is a sexual fetish involving attraction to shoes.

A derogatory term for a non-Asian man, usually a white man, who has a sexual fetish for Asian women.

A ristellid is a skink belonging to the family Ristellidae.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Seme refers to an active or dominant male partner in a same-sex relationship; in sexual slang, it is broadly equivalent to “top.”

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.

A sex dungeon is a dungeon-like space designed and equipped for BDSM sexual activities.

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.

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 psychological complex involving fixations of a sexual nature; a fetish.

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 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.

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.

The simple past and past participle form of the verb “skink.”

Skinking is the present participle and gerund form of “skink.”

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.

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.

Smoxploitation is a genre of fetish films focused on a person smoking a cigarette.

A piece of fan fiction centered on sneezing, usually in a fetishized context.

A snow skink is any skink in the taxonomic genus Carinascincus, endemic to south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania and Victoria.

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.

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

In BDSM, particularly petplay, a stray is a submissive who has not committed to submitting to a particular dominant.

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.

In BDSM, switchable describes someone who can take either a dominant or a submissive role.

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.

In BDSM, TNG refers to younger practitioners, typically people under approximately 35, or to a social group for younger members of the BDSM community.

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.

Toybob is a breed of small, compact cats distinguished by short, kinked tails.

A paraphilia involving recurrent, intense sexual urges, arousal, or orgasm associated with actual or fantasized cross-dressing, occurring in some males.

Trichophilia is a sexual interest in human hair, including strong fondness for or arousal from hair.

Uke is a term for a passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship, especially one portrayed as the bottom.

Not fetishized; not presented or treated as a fetish object.

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.

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.

A vac bed is a BDSM device that creates a vacuum inside a latex envelope, enclosing the person inside for sexual use.

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

Verbal humiliation is a form of erotic humiliation carried out through words, associated with BDSM and sexuality.

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.

Vorarephilia is a paraphilia involving sexual cannibalism or role-playing about devouring another person or creature, or being devoured.

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.

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.

WIITWD refers to kinky sexual activities, particularly in discussions of BDSM and consensual sexual play.

In sexual or BDSM contexts, “yellow” is a signal that the speaker needs a temporary break from the current sexual activity.

Youthitude is a fetishized, objectified cultural ideal of youth.