A-Z of Kinks and Fetishes

Abasiophilia: attraction to people in neck braces, wheelchairs, casts, or other devices that impair mobility.. It may be part of a medical fetish or enjoyed because it restricts movement
Abduction as seduction: a kink where the abductor/kidnapper treats the victim in a loving manner
Abrasions: people who enjoy this fetish like giving or receiving cuts and scrapes.
Acarophilia: arousal from scratching. Scratching is often incorporated into rough sex
Accidental stimulation: refers to accidental physical stimulation and situations that arouse adrenaline and cause arousal
Acomoclitic: sexual attraction to hairless genitals.
Acrophilia: sexually excited by heights, or doing sex acts at great heights.
Acrotomophilia: sexually aroused by amputees (legs or arms).
Actirasty: sexual arousal from sun exposure. It is often associated with sexual arousal to engaging in sexual activities outdoors.
Agalmatophilia: sexual attraction for human-like statues, dolls, and mannequins.
Abasiophilia: attraction to people in neck braces, wheelchairs, casts, or other devices that impair mobility.. It may be part of a medical fetish or enjoyed because it restricts movement
Amazons and authoritarians: fetish dedicated to physically strong women like Amazons, women with strong personalities, or women in positions of authority
Anal Sex: a practice of inserting a penis, fingers, or sex toys into the anus for sexual pleasure
Anal training: the practice of preparing one’s anus for inserting large items.
Anasteemaphilia: a fetish for people of extreme sizes, ie a giant or a dwarf. It can be used to refer to attraction to partners of differing heights even if those people aren’t especially gigantic or tiny.
**Andromimetophilia - a sexual attraction to females who dress or act like men, or female-to-male transsexuals.
Anonymous Sex: a practice of having sex with someone that you are not aware of his/her identity, e.g. glory hole.
Apotemnophilia: sexual arousal from having your own limbs amputated.
Aquaphilia: a sexual attraction to water, places with water, and activities underwater.
Armpits Fetish: sexual arousal from smelling, licking, or kissing armpits
Asphyxiation: choking, smothering and strangulation.
**Autoerotic asphyxiation is self-choking.
Autoandrophilia: a biological female gets aroused by the idea of becoming a male
Autofellatio: a kink where a man performs a blowjob on himself.
Autoplushophilia: a type of plushophilia where a person is aroused by the idea of being a stuffed animal, especially a cartoonish one
Balloon Fetish: sexual arousal from balloons which often involves inflation of one’s body part by inserting balloons underneath clothes.
Barebacking: sex without a condom.
Bathroom control: when the dominant person controls when, how and where the submissive can urinate or defecate
Begging: begging to have sex or orgasm
Belonephilia: sexual arousal to sharp items, such as needles, pins, and razors.
Bestiality: the act of having sex with non-human animals.
Bimbofication: The process of making someone into a bimbo or being turned into a bimbo themselves. This might be a fun “punishment” for a bratty sub
Blindfolds: sexual preference for wearing a blindfold when having sex.
Body Inflation: The practice of inflating or pretending to inflate a part of one’s body, often for sexual gratification
Body modification: kink for a variety of body modifications.
Body Painting: sexual arousal to the act of painting bodies
Bondage: restraining someone or tying them up to arouse sexual gratification for both parties.
Branding: marking someone with a symbol, word, etc. Typically uses a heated object (such as a metal hanger) to produce the brand.
Breast/nipple torture: the breast equivalent of CBT. Torture may include hitting, pinching, bondage, and other methods of inflicting pain on breasts.
Breast/nipple worship: the act of worshipping someone’s breasts or nipples.
Breath play: choking and limiting breath. Being aroused by this is known as hypoxyphilia
Caning: beating someone with a cane to get sexual pleasure.
Castration: An extreme fetish involving the removal of all or part of a man’s genitals. with emasculation fetishes as well as ball busting, in which a man’s balls are crushed
CBT: Cock and ball torture (CBT) is pain applied to a man’s genitals. It may be a form of punishment. CBT can involve shoes, sounding, stretching, impact implements and other tools.
Chasmophilia: aroused by crevices, caverns, or valleys.
Chastity: a fetish where someone’s access to their genitals is blocked. Women wear chastity belts, and men wear cock cages that prevent erection and release.
Choking: restricting one’s breathing and blood supply to the brain by applying pressure to the carotid arteries with hands, a scarf, or a chokehold.
Claustrophilia: this fetish is the opposite of claustrophobia. A person becomes aroused or experiences orgasm through confinement to small spaces. This is a type of bondage.
Clothed Sex: sexual preference for having sex with clothes on
Cock and/or ball fetishization: an obsession with cock and balls.
Collaring: wearing a collar or seeing others being collared to show submission to a dominant.
Consensual nonconsent: situations where one or both parties have given prior consent for activities that may appear to be or actually involve nonconsent.
Corsetry: wearing a corset to change one’s body shape.
Cross-dressing: dressing like your opposite gender which involves clothing, accessories, makeup, and wigs.
Crurophilia: A kink related to legs.
Crush fetish: sexual arousal to the act of crushing, it typically involves watching or performing the crushing of small insects, animals, or food
Cuckolding: a sexual obsession in which a man gets aroused by watching his female partner having sex with other men.
Cunnilingus: Cunnilingus plays well with pussy worship
Cupping: small cups or jars are applied upside down to the body, usually the back.
Dacryphilia: sexual arousal to seeing tears or crying.
Degradation: a practice of sexual humiliation or abuse for gratification.
Dendrophilia: also known as Arbophilia. A sexual attraction to trees, either because they are phallic-shaped or because of their texture. May overlap with xylophilia.
Diaper Fetish: sexual arousal from diapers and/or the use of it. It is usually incorporated into infantilism, scat, watersports, humiliation, and dominance
Dirty Talk: using explicit and arousing words to talk about sexual activity.
Discipline:a practice of training a submissive to be obedient to a dominant, punishment inflicted for a defined infraction.
Doraphilia: playing with skin, leather, or fur. Hyphephilia is a similar fetish for touching hair, fur, skin and certain fabrics.
Double Penetration: penetration of a woman’s vagina and anus by penises or sex toys at the same time.
Dracophilia: a fetish for dragons. Fantasy fetish companies such as Bad Dragon make dragon dildos, including those that ejaculate!
DVP: stands for double vaginal penetration. DVP involves two penises or one penis and one toy in the vagina.
Edge play: Any kink or fetish that is considered more risky or extreme. Examples include choking, breath play, knife play, fire play, and any activity that results in bleeding.
Enemas (klismaphilia): inserting a tube into the anus and using a liquid (typically water, but other solutions may be utilized including urine) to clean out the rectum. Enemas may be used to prepare for anal activities, but this is not necessary. An enema could be a form of punishment or control.
Enkuopoiphilia: fetish for impregnation.
Eproctophilia: arousal from flatulence (farts).
Exhibitionism: sexual preference for having sex or being naked in front of other people.
Exoticism: fetishizing members and elements of Far Eastern culture
Face fucking: an extreme form of blowjob where a man roughly fucks a partner’s mouth.
Face Sitting: a sex act whereby one person sits on another person’s face for pleasure, both parties could be anyone of any gender identity or sexuality.
Face slapping: sexually turned on by slapping someone’s face or being face-slapped
Fat fetishism: The sexual attraction to overweight or obese people due to their weight and size.
Feederism: sexual arousal from feeding oneself or another with the intention of gaining weight or increasing body size.
Figging: Insert a peeled ginger root into someone’s anus or vagina to generate a burning sensation.
Fighting/Wrestling: play fighting and wrestling is sexy because of your body proximity as you struggle to maintain control.
Fire Play: any sexual practice involving fire.
Fisting: penetrating a hand into a vagina or ass
Flogging: hitting someone with particular implements such as lashes, whips, switches, rods, etc.
Food Play: any sexual practice involving food. This may mean using someone as a dish or table, covering your partner’s body with food, and licking it
Forced feeding: a kink for forcing someone to eat, potentially until they gain weight. This fetish is a type of body modification fetish. Feederism sometimes specifically refers to men feeding women but can be used without any distinction.
Foot fetish (podophilia): a foot fetishist enjoys feet sexually, footjobs, licking and sucking, and massaging.
Frotting: rubbing of two penises together. One man may hold the penises together during this act. Similar activities include frottage (rubbing while clothed for sexual stimulation) and frotteurism (rubbing or fondling an unsuspecting/non-consenting person).
Gags: a device that is put over or in somebody’s mouth to stop them from speaking. Gags are usually associated with role plays involving bondage, but that is not necessarily the case.
Gerontophilia: sexual preference for the elderly.
Golden Showers: any sex act involving urine, it is also known as ” watersports”
Group Sex: a sexual activity that involves more than two participants. It occurs between people of all sexual orientations and genders.
Haematomania aka hematolagnia: lust for blood and bleeding. May include wounds, vampirism or biting to draw blood.
Harpaxophilia: the fetish for being robbed. Can be played as a role in consensual non-consent. Chrematistophilia is a similar kink for being forced to pay for sex.
Homeovestism: attraction to the clothing of one’s own gender or by people wearing the clothing accepted as appropriate for their gender by society.
Hybristophilia: behaviours involving sexual activity with someone who is known to have “committed an outrage or crime, such as rape, murder, or armed robbery.”
Hypnotism: in an erotic situation, hypnosis could be a form of consensual nonconsent.
Hypoxia: paraphilia for being submerged under water to restrict breathing, a type of erotic asphyxiation.
Immobility: a kink involving bondage and forced feeding.
Impact Play: a form of BDSM practice in which one hits another for sexual pleasure, such as spanking.
Impregnation: sexually turned on by the possibility of getting pregnant during unprotected vaginal intercourse for both parties.
Infantilism: a form of roleplay in which one participant acts like an infant or baby, and the other one play a parental role.
Intercrural or interfemoral sex: thrusting between someone’s thighs without penetration.
Intoxication: sexual preference for taking drugs or drinking alcohol before or during a sex act.
Japanese Bondage: a form of bondage that originated in Japan. It is called “Kinbaku” in Japanese, the term “Kin” means “tight” and “baku” means “restraint”. Unlike western bondage, it is not only for the purpose of erotic pleasure; it is more of a type of art
Katoptronophilia: sexual arousal from doing a sexual activity in front of a mirror, such as having sex, masturbating, etc.
Keraunophilia: sexual arousal from thunder and lightning.
Kigurumia: sexual attraction to the wearing of a cosplay costume or anime mask.
Knife Play: a practice of running a knife or a blade along your partner to enhance sexual gratification.
Knismolagnia: sexually aroused by tickling or being tickled as it will trigger some of the same muscles as orgasms.
Lactation: sexual pleasure from breastfeeding, it could be watching women lactate, sucking on women’s milk-filled breasts, and/or having sex with lactating women.
Lesbophilia: a fetishistic fascination (typically in non-lesbians) with lesbians and erotic contact between women.
Lithophilia: a kink for rocks, stones, or gravel.
Macro Fetish: people with this kink enjoy partners who are giant. This may mean plus-sized, but it can mean giants in the realm of fantasy roleplaying and writing.
Macrogenitalism: a fetish for genitals that are particularly large. This isn’t limited just to penises.
Maiesiophilia: sexually turned on by pregnant women or the act of giving birth.
Maschalagnia: a fetish dedicated to armpits, including, kissing, licking and smelling. This kink may also involve inserting penises in the armpit for stimulation.
Mechanophilia: sexual attraction to and arousal by machines.
Masochism: enjoyment of pain, punishment, and torture. Someone who feels this is known as a masochist. Masochists are often but not always submissive.
Medical Play: a medical-themed roleplay in which sexual partners use medical equipment and wear uniforms to take on relevant roles in that scenario.
Menophilia: an obsession with menstrual blood.
Merinthophilia: the fetish for bondage. See also vincilagnia.
Mess fetish (hygrophilia): Mess fetishists enjoy the mess created by sexual fluids, both male and female fluid. They may use the fluids as lubes, to drink, to “paint” on their partner’s body or to pass it back and forth orally (snowballing).
Micro Fetish: a sexual attraction to being small or doing the sex act with small partners.
Military: a military fetish that often goes hand in hand with a uniform fetish.
Mixophilia: a kink related to watching yourself having sex. Recording sex and mirrors are two ways to enjoy this kink.
Morphophilia: a sexual attraction to partners with a certain type of body characteristics (e.g., shape, size, skin, and hair colour) that are different from one’s own, such as fat people, amputees, and dwarves.
Mummification: a kink where someone is bound entirely or nearly entirely to prevent almost all movement.
Muscles: some people have a fetish for defined or large muscles. Muscle worship is one variant of this kink.
Mysophilia: this fetish is for dirt and items that have been dirtied, especially by bodily fluids during sex. Used underwear is a common example.
Narratophilia: a fetish shared by those who enjoy telling and listening to dirty stories, talking about sex or incorporating dirty talk into sex.
Nasolingus: sexual arousal to licking and/or sucking someone’s nose.
Nasophilia: sexual arousal to noses.
Necrozoophilia: the act of killing animals in order to have sex with their dead bodies.
Necrophilia: behaviours involving sexual activity with human corpses.
Needle Play: sexually turned on by piercing, scratching the skin with needles.
Nullification: sexually turned on by removal of a body part.
Nullo: sexually turned on by removal of genitals.
Nyctophilia: sexual preference for being in the dark or at night.
Objectophilia (Objectum Sexuality): also known as fetishism. This refers specifically to arousal by sexual activity with an inanimate object such as shoes.
Oculolinctus: sexual arousal from licking eyeballs.
Oculophilia: an obsession with the eyes.
Odaxelagnia: sexually aroused by biting or being bitten.
Odontophilia: the general fetish for teeth, which can include biting, licking teeth or even removing them.
Olfactophilia: attraction to smells, especially pungent body odours. Osmolagnia is the fetish for sweat or gaseous emissions specifically.
Omorashi: the Japanese word for a fetish related to having a full bladder and urinating oneself. Often shortened to “omo.”
Orgasm Control: a sexual practice of taking control over how, when, and if an orgasm will take place.
Orgasm Denial: a sexual practice in which one person is kept at a high level of sexual arousal for an extended period of time without orgasm.
Otherness: sexual attraction to someone from other places, including aliens.
Parthenophilia: a fetish for virginal partners.
Partialism: a sexual obsession for a specific part of the body, such as feet, breasts, hair, etc.
Partialism: the sexual obsession for specific body parts and not the whole. Eyes, faces, forearms, and feet are all common objects of obsession, but any body part will do.
Pecattiphilia: sexual arousal from doing something considered sinful by your religion, e.g. any conduct of the seven deadly sins.
Pediophilia: fetish for dolls, especially sex dolls.
Pegging: woman penetrates a male with a strap-on.
Penis Humiliation: a kink involving insulting a man’s penis, including size, appearance, and performance.
Peodeiktophilia: showing one’s penis to others (flashing).
Pet play: any kink where someone acts like a domesticated pet. Cats and dogs are especially common with leashes, collars and food/water dishes used as props.
Phalloorchoalgolagnia: arousal from pain directed toward male genitals.
Phobophilia: sexual obsession with being afraid. This fetish can be directed toward hate as well as fear.
Phygephilia: fetish for being a fugitive on the run.
Pictophilia: sexual arousal to watching porn, especially of the same act or actor.
Play piercing (Piquerism, Picquerism): play piercing is performed for temporary decoration as well as for the sensation of breaking the skin.
Plushophilia: a sexual attraction to stuffed animals or soft toys.
Polyiterophilia: sexual preference for group sex.
Pony play: a kink for acting like a pony or its master. “Ponies” can wear everything from blinders to bits to bridles to fake ears and hooves. Ponies are trained by their masters and may even do manual labour.
Psychrocism: fetish dedicated to being cold, having sex with a cold partner or using cold objects (ice cubes, cold dildos, etc) during sex.
Psychrophilia: a sexual obsession with the cold or watching someone being frozen
Pteronphilia: kink for being tickled specifically by feathers.
Pubephilia: obsession with pubic hair. A love for pubic hair has been expressed in literature and art.
Puppy Play: a type of roleplay in which one takes on the role of a puppy.
Pygmalionism: sexual obsession with human-like images, especially when you made it yourself
Pygophilia: partialism to butts and seeing, touching and playing with them.
Pyrolagnia: sexual arousal from watching or setting fires.
Queening: a sex act in which a woman sits on her partner’s face for pleasure.
Quirofilia: fetish for hands. Some people fetishize certain parts of the hand such as the fingers or fingernails. Others may prefer hands of a certain size or shape.
Rape fantasy: a fetish for acting out a pretend rape (consensual nonconsent).
Raptophilia: the act of committing rape in order to get sexual gratification, it is also called “biastophilia”.
Retifism: the fetish for shoes and footwear. Also known as altocalciphilia.
Revving: watching someone rev an engine, especially when they wear heels. Also known as “pedal pushing” or “pedal pumping.”
Rhabdophilia: a fetish for receiving physical beatings such as flogging or whipping.
Rimming: an oral-to-anal sexual practice in which one person stimulates another person by licking, kissing, and sucking their anus.
Robotism: sexual arousal to robots, aroused by using a robot in a sex act.
Ropework: a kink for rope as used as a specific type of bondage. Popular types of ropework include the Japanese-inspired shibari, more correctly called “Kinbaku”.
Sadism: sexual arousal from inflicting physical or psychological pain and/or humiliation on others.
Savantophilia: fetish for people who have a cognitive impairment or delay.
**Scatophilia is a fetish for faecal matter. Also known as coprophilia.
Sensation play: a light kink where partners exchange sensations on the skin. Items with different textures (soft, hard, bumpy, smooth, cold, hot, etc) can be run across the skin.
Sensory deprivation: any play that prevents someone from using one of their five senses. Blindfolds block sight, gloves prevent touch, earmuffs deprive the sense of hearing, etc.
Siderodromophilia: a fetish for trains or engaging in sexual activity on a train.
Sneezing Fetish: a kink for watching someone else sneezes. This person is usually naked.
Slime fetish: slime and slimy things.
Snuff: a fantasy fetish for killing someone or being killed.
Somnophilia: the fetish for sexual partners who are asleep.
Sounding: a kink for inserting thin tubes, usually made of glass or metal, into the urethra.
Spanking: sexually aroused by spanking or being spanked. The act of spanking is usually done with your bare hands, whips, paddles, or other implements.
Stigmatophilia: sexually aroused by piercings and tattoos, especially in genitals and/or nipples.
Stockings: sexual arousal to the wearing of stockings.
Strap-on: fetish specifically for using strap-ons. Anal, oral or vaginal penetration can be achieved. Anally penetrating a male with a strap-on is known as pegging.
Stuffing: eating until the point of physical pain.
Stygiophilia: arousal by thoughts of hell and eternal damnation.
Suspension: the practice of suspending someone from the ground or being suspended yourself. Suspension can be accomplished with ropes, harnesses and other devices and items.
Symphorphilia: fetish for watching car accidents or other traumatic incidents.
Taphephilia: fetish for being buried alive. This may be connected to an imprisonment kink.
Teasing (Tantalolagnia): To enjoy teasing as sexual gratification. This may be prolonged sexual teasing or teasing in the form of insults and ribbing.
Technophilia: a sexual attraction to technology, such as cyborgs, robots, mechas, and sex machines.
Teleiophilia: the erotic preference for persons between the age of physical maturity and the onset of middle age.
Telephonicophilia: sexual arousal from talking about sexual and erotic matters over the phone.
Tentacle fetish: fetish for tentacles. Many people enjoy animated erotica/pornography with tentacles, and tentacles dildos
Teratophilia: attraction to people with bodily deformities. However, it may also refer to a sexual attraction to “actual” monsters.
Thesauromania: kink for collecting women’s clothing. The collector may focus on specific items/categories such as underwear.
Tickling (Knismolagnia, Knismo, Titillagnia): Tickle torture is a kink for tickling or being tickled while bound.
Transformation fetish: kink for transforming into other people or even non-human creatures. TF is common in hentai and some written erotica.
Trichophilia: a sexual obsession with human hair, most commonly head hair, people with this kink or fetish get arousal from viewing, touching, or in some extreme cases eating hair.
Triolism: sexual arousal to threesomes. This may include watching your partner have sex with someone else.
Tripsolagnophilia: massage fetish.
Underwear fetish: the fascination with underwear, usually women’s underwear. Men with this fetish will collect, wear or smell underwear.
Uniforms: sexually aroused by seeing your partner wearing a certain type of uniform.
Ursusagalmatophilia: kink for teddy bears or dressing up as a teddy bear/animal.
Urtication: a practice of applying stinging nettles to stimulate the skin for sexual gratification.
Vaccinophilia: sexually aroused by getting vaccinated.
Vampire: a sexual fascination with a vampire or role-play of a vampire.
Vicarphilia: sexual arousal from hearing narratives about other people’s (sexual) activities, experiences, and behaviours.
Vincilagnia: kink for being tied up and at the mercy of another person. This is a type of bondage fetish.
Vomit Fetish (Emetophilia): a sexual obsession with the act or substance of vomit.
Vore/Vorarephilia: the act of eating someone while they are still alive or being eaten in order to get sexual gratification. It is incredibly dangerous and illegal in practice.
Voyeurism: a kink for watching someone else while naked or engaged in sexual activity.
Wax play: a form of temperature play in BDSM that applies wax to stimulate a slight burning sensation to the skin.
Weapon fetish: sexual arousal due to weapons.
Wet and messy (WAM) fetish: sexually aroused by the act of applying wet, slime, and messy substances other than bodily fluids to the naked skin or clothes. Also known as sploshing.
Xenophilia: sexual attraction to exotic people or objects.
Xylophilia: fetish for wood. It may also be described as an attraction to nature, sexual or in general.
Yaoi: sexual arousal to male-on-male sexuality in anime, manga, or fan fiction.
Yeastiality: sexual arousal to baked food which has risen with yeast, such as bread, pastry, and especially warm dough. People with this obsession are also attracted by partners with yeast infection as applying yeast to the genitals can lead to an infection.
Yiffing: sex with stuffed animals or a furry.
Zelophilia: arousal due to jealousy, either your own or someone’s jealousy over you
Zentai: wearing skintight suits while grinding against others in similar suits.
Zoophilia: dressing like an animal for sex or feeling romantic attraction to animals.
Zoosexual: sexual attraction to animals.
Zwischenstufe: the sexual obsession with people of the same sex.