Bizarre sex terms (glossary)
The world of sex includes dozen of odd practices, some weird, some bizarre, and some downright illegal. From Abduction to Zoophilia, you may just be surprised.
- Abduction
- to kidnap or carry a person away by force, also used in sex play
- Ablation
- Castration
- Abrasions
- scratching or rubbing off skin
- Abstinence
- Celibacy
- Acault
- Burmese transvestite
- Acmegenesis
- orgasm
- Acomoclitic
- arousal from hairless genitals
- Acousticophilia
- arousal from sounds
- Acrophilia
- arousal from heights or high altitudes
- Acrotomophilia
- sexual preference for amputees
- Actirasty
- arousal from exposure to sun's rays
- Acucullophallia
- circumcision
- Acupressure
- pressure points on body that induce certain responses, some sexual
- Adolescentilism
- cross-dressing or playing the role of an adolescent
- Adultery
- having sex outside a marriage
- Affair
- adultery
- Agalmatophilia
- arousal from statues or manikins; also called pygmalionism
- Agenobiosis
- married couple who consent to live together without sex
- Agonophilia
- person who is aroused by partner pretending to struggle
- Agoraphilia
- arousal from open spaces or having sex in public
- Agrexophilia
- arousal from others knowing you are having sex
- Albutophilia
- arousal from water
- Algophilia
- arousal from experiencing pain
- Aliphineur
- person using lotion to arouse partner
- Alloerasty
- using nudity of another person to arouse partner
- Allopellia
- having orgasm from watching others engage in sex
- Allorgasmia
- arousal from fantasizing about someone other than one's partner
- Allotriorasty
- arousal from partners of other nations or races
- Alphamegamia
- arousal from partner of different age group
- Altocalciphilia
- high heel fetish
- Alvinolagnia
- stomach fetish
- Amatripsis
- masturbation by rubbing labia together
- Amaurophilia
- preference for a blind or blindfolded sex partner
- Ambisexual
- bi-sexual
- Amelotasis
- attraction to the absence of a limb
- Amelotation
- loss of a limb
- Amokoscisia
- arousal or sexual frenzy with desire to slash or mutilate women
- Amomaxia
- sex in a parked car
- Amphisexual
- bi-sexual
- Amychesis
- female who scratches partner during height of passion
- Anaclitism
- arousal from items used as infant
- Analinctus
- licking anus
- Analingus
- rimming or penetration of anus with tongue
- Anasteemaphilia
- attraction to taller or shorter partners
- Androgynophilia
- bi-sexual
- Androgyny
- having both male & female characteristics
- Androidism
- arousal from robots with human features
- Andromania
- nymphomania
- Androminetophilia
- arousal from female partner who dresses like male
- Androsodomy
- Anal sex with a male partner
- Anililagnia
- : Sexual attraction for an older women
- Anisonogamist
- attraction to either older or younger partner
- Anocratism
- Anal sex
- Anomeatia
- Anal sex with a female partner
- Anophelorastia
- arousal from defiling or ravaging a partner
- Anophilemia
- kissing anus
- Anoraptus
- rapist who only attacks elderly women
- Antholagnia
- arousal from smelling flowers
- Anthropomorphism
- attributing human characteristics to half-human half-animal characters
- Anthropophagolagnia
- rape with cannibalism
- Anthropophagy
- cannibalism
- Apellous
- circumcision
- Aphallatia
- celibacy
- Aphrodisiacs
- drugs stimulating a sexual response
- Apistia
- adultery
- Apotemnophilia
- person who has sexual fantasies about loosing a limb
- Arachnephilia
- arousal from spiders
- Arrhenothigmophilous
- nymphomania
- Arsometry
- Anal sex
- Artificial insemination
- deposit of sperm into the vagina by methods other than male penetration of the vagina
- Asceticism
- religious self-denial often including celibacy
- Asphyxiaphilia
- arousal from lack of oxygen often due to strangulation
- Asthenolagnia
- arousal from weakness or being humiliated
- Astyphia
- impotence
- Asynodia
- celibacy particularly due to impotence
- Atestus
- Castration
- Auctions
- public sale with item or sex slave going to highest bidder
- Autagonistophilia
- exhibitionism, arousal from exposing naked body or genitals to strangers while on stage or while being photographed
- Autagonistophilia
- person performing
- Autassassinophilia
- arousal from orchestrating one's own death by the hands of another
- Autoerotic Asphyxia
- arousal from oxygen deprivation and sometimes risk of dying
- Autoerotica
- self induced arousal (i.e. fantasies or other aids)
- Autogynephilia
- arousal from crossdressing
- Automasochism
- arousal from inflicting intense sensations or pain on one's own body
- Automysophilia
- arousal from being dirty or defiled
- Autonepiophilia
- infantilism; arousal from dressing or being treated like infant
- Autopederasty
- person inserting their own penis into their anus
- Autophagy
- self-cannibalism or eating own flesh
- Autosadism
- infliction of pain or injury on oneself
- Avisodomy
- breaking neck of bird while penetrating it for sex
- Axillism
- penis penetrating an arm pit
- Bardajes
- young gay male lover
- Barosmia
- arousal from strong smells
- Basoexia
- arousal from kissing
- Bath house
- commercial baths, some of which allow sex on premises
- Bed of Nails
- lying on a bed of nails for sensory enhancement
- Bee stings
- the use of bees, such as to sting genitals
- Bell dancing
- self-flagellation with bells or other ornaments hanging the skin
- Belonephilia
- arousal from piercings or needles
- Berdaches
- male who performs role of wife in some tribes
- Bestiality
- zoophilia; sex with animals
- Bestialsadism
- cruelty or mutilation of animals
- Bi-Sexuality
- people with sexual attraction for both sexes
- Biastophilia
- those preferring to violently rape their victims
- Bigynist
- sex between one male and two females
- Bihari surgery
- cutting ligament above penis to make it appear longer
- Bindings
- wrapping feet or genitals with string or lace
- Bivirist
- sex between one female and two males
- Blastolagnia
- person aroused by young females
- Blindfolding
- covering the eyes
- Blood Sports
- sex games which involve blood
- Blow job
- Fellatio
- Body Painting
- temporary designs drawn on body
- Body Worship
- sex game where partner is made to adore another's body
- Bondage
- physical or mental restriction of partner
- Bordellos
- houses of prostitution
- Borderline self-mutilator
- automasochism
- Bottom
- passive partner who experiences stimuli during sex games, masochist, slave, submissive
- Botulinonia
- using a sausage as a dildo
- Bouginonia
- female masturbation from the use of objects such as dildos that stretch open the vagina
- Brachioprotic eroticism
- a deep form of fisting where the arm enters the anus
- Brachioprotic eroticism
- arm in anus
- Bradycubia
- slow movement during penetration
- Branding
- burning patterns or initials into flesh
- Buggery
- Anal sex
- Bundling
- partners sleeping together clothed and without sex
- Bushie Mall
- agoraphilia; sex in an open area
- Butt plugs
- anal inserts used for masturbation
- Candaulism
- spouse who watches partner having sex with someone else
- Caning
- whipping that uses a switch or cane to discipline partner
- Capnolagnia
- arousal from watching others smoke
- Carpet burns
- abrasions from a carpet
- Castration
- removal of the scrotum, testicles, ovaries, or penis
- Cat Fighting
- women fighting without rules and often tearing off each other's clothing
- Catamite
- Anal sex with a male partner
- Catamites
- young gay male lovers
- Cataphilist
- male submitting to female
- Catatasis
- stretching of the penis
- Catheterophilia
- arousal from use of catheters
- Catheters
- insertion of plastic tube into urethra
- Celibacy
- abstinence from sex
- Chaperon
- person who escorts a young couple to ensure they don't engage in sex
- Charms
- objects used to bring good luck and ward off evil
- Chastity Belts
- leather or metal belts used to prevent genital penetration
- Chastity
- sexual abstinence or celibacy
- Chemise Cagoule
- long heavy night shirt with hole for penis
- Chezolagnia
- masturbating while defecating
- Chipil
- Couvade syndrome
- Choreophilia
- dancing to orgasmic release
- Chrematistophilia
- person aroused by having to pay for sex or having sex partner steal from them (see also harpaxophilia)
- Chronophilia
- arousal from passage of time; arousal from older partner
- Chubby Chasers
- people who are aroused by obesity in partner
- Cicatrization
- scarring
- Circumcision
- the removal of foreskin on genitals
- Clamps
- metal, plastic, or wood fasteners used on nipples or genitals
- Claustrophilia
- arousal from being confined in small space
- Clitoridectomy
- surgical removal of the clitoris
- Clitorilingus
- Cunnilingus with the clitoris
- Clitoromania
- nymphomania
- Cock Rings
- rings placed around the base of the male genitals to maintain erections
- Cocktails
- drinking of body secretions from a glass
- Coitobalnism
- sex in bath tub
- Coitolimia
- tremendous sexual drive
- Coitophobia
- fear of sexual intercourse
- Coitus à Unda
- sex or sex games in water
- Coitus à Cheval
- couple having sex on the back of an animal or one acting out role of horse
- Coitus a Mammilla
- penetration of penis between breasts
- Coitus analis
- anal sex
- Coitus Intrafermoris
- penetration between legs
- Coitus reservatus
- birth control method where male withdraws penis before ejaculation
- Coitus
- sexual penetration with orgasm
- Colobosis
- mutilation or castration of penis
- Commasculation
- homosexuality
- Compulsive cruising
- compulsive search for sex partners
- Computer sex
- the use of computers for sex games, communication, and erotic photography
- Concubinage
- use of female slaves as sex partners; living with sex partner without being married
- Condoms
- latex or animal intestine used as shield to guard against skin-to-skin contact with partner's genitals
- Confessions
- Admitting a sin; in some cases to arouse potential partner
- Constrictions
- bondage using rows of strings
- Coprography
- writing obscene words or phrases, usually in public toilets
- Coprolagnia
- Sexual interest in feces
- Coprolalia
- arousal from using obscene language or writing
- Coprophagy
- the consumption of feces
- Coprophilia
- arousal from playing with feces, also called scat
- Coproscopist
- person who has a sexual interest in watching someone defecate
- Corephallism
- Anal sex with young girl
- Corsetting
- body modification or oxygen restriction from using corsets
- Corvus
- Fellatio
- Costumes
- the use of costumes in sexual fantasy play
- Courtesans
- the mistress of a king or nobleman
- Courtship
- the period before marriage where a person tries to entice the other into a commitment
- Couvade
- custom where male mimics child birth or is confined at time of wife's delivery
- Couvade syndrome
- a male who experiences symptoms of pregnancy in sympathy for wife
- Cratolagnia
- arousal from strength of partner
- Cross dressing
- a person who wears the apparel of the opposite sex
- Crurofact
- leg feitsh
- Cryptoscopophilia
- desire to see behavior of others in privacy of their home, not necessarily sexual
- Cuckoldry
- a man whose wife has sex or becomes impregnated by a man other than himself
- Cunnilalia
- talk about female genitals, ie. the vagina
- Cunnilingus
- oral sex on a woman
- Cupping
- drawing blood to the surface of skin by placing heated glass jars onto the skin
- Cutting
- cicatrization, or scarring of skin for sexual purposes
- Cyesolagnia
- pregnant woman fetish
- Cyesolgnia
- stomach fetish
- Cymbalism
- lesbianism
- Cynophilia
- arousal from sex with dogs
- Cyprieunia
- sex with a prostitute
- D'Eon, Chevalier
- French cross-dresser from whom the term "Eonism" is derived
- Dacnolagnomania
- Sexual sadist killer; lust murderer
- Dacryphilia
- person who is aroused by seeing their partner cry
- Dame de voyage
- dolls designed for genital penetration, often used by sailors
- Dame de voyage
- Sex doll
- Danse du ventre
- erotic or fertility dancing; belly dance
- Dating services
- agencies arranging for strangers to meet each other, usually for a fee
- Day belts
- chastity device used for short day excursions
- De Clerambault's syndrome
- erotomania Defecolagnia: arousal from defecation
- Defecolagnia
- arousal from defecating
- Defilement
- arousal from partner or self becoming dirty or wet
- Deliberate self-harm syndrome
- automasochism
- Dendrophilia
- arousal from tree or fertility worship of them
- Depilation
- shaving, waxing, or other type of hair removal
- Dermagraphism
- marks left on the skin of a partner by biting, scratching or sucking
- Dermaphilia
- doraphilia; sexual stimulus from skin
- Dermographism
- Scratching
- Deviance
- paraphilia; practice that deviates from the majority of society
- Dildos and Plugs
- instruments used for genital penetration
- Dippoldism
- sexual arousal from abusing children
- Discipline
- punishment and control of a partner in sex play
- Diseases (STD or VD)
- sexually transmitted diseases, also called venereal diseases
- Divertissement
- paraphilia
- Docking
- slipping one partner's foreskin over the glans penis of another
- Dogging
- couples who engage in sex in their car while others watch from outside
- Doleros
- algophilia; arousal from pain
- Dominance/Submission
- power exchange between partners
- Doraphilia
- arousal from animal fur, leather, or skin
- Douches
- rinsing out the anus or vagina with liquids
- Dowry
- sum of money or goods paid to parents of future husband or wife
- Drag queens
- gay men who dress in female attire
- Dungeons
- rooms that are decorated for SM play
- Dysfunctions
- physical disorders relating to sex
- Dysmorphophilia
- arousal from deformed or physically impaired partners
- Ecdemolagnia
- arousal from traveling or being away from home
- Ecdyosis
- arousal from removing clothes in front of others
- Ecorchement
- Arousal from flagellation
- Ecouteurism
- listening to others having sex without consent
- Ederacinism
- to tear out sex organs by the roots as in a frenzy or to punish oneself for sexual cravings
- Ejaculatio praecox
- premature ejaculation
- Electric Shock
- using electric shock for sensory enhancement
- Electrolysis
- an electrical method of removing hair or shaving
- Electrophilia
- arousal from electrical stimulus
- Elopement
- hasty and clandestine marriage without consent of family members
- Emasculate
- Castration
- Emetophilia
- Roman shower; arousal from vomit
- Endytolagnia
- arousal only from partners who are clothed
- Endytophilia
- arousal only from partners who are clothed
- Enema cocktail
- drinking purged contents of enema
- Enema
- the insertion and expulsion of fluids into the anus
- Entomocism
- the use of insects
- Entomophilia
- arousal from insects or using, them in sex play
- Eonism
- crossdressing
- Eopareunia
- engaging in sex while young
- Ephebophilia
- attraction to adolescent sex partner
- Episioclisia
- suturing of the labia majora; infibulation
- Eproctolagniac
- person aroused by flatulence
- Eproctophilia
- arousal from flatulence
- Eretithia
- masturbation playing with own breasts
- Erotamastia
- masturbation playing with own breasts
- Erotica
- sexual literature and photos
- Erotographomania
- arousal from writing love poems or letters
- Erotomania
- people who develop an unreasonable love of a stranger or person not interested in them
- Erotophobia
- fear of sexual love
- Essayeurs
- men who were hired by bordellos to become sexual with women so that timid clients would follow their lead
- Eugenics
- belief that only the fittest should impregnate women
- Eunuchs
- castrated men
- Evirate
- Castration
- Executions
- a legal death sentence, some people become aroused by watching executions
- Exhibitionism
- exposing body to inappropriate and nonconsenting people for arousal
- Exmuliebrate
- castration
- Exophilia
- neophilia; fetish for the unusual or bizarre
- Fainting
- passing out or losing consciousness
- Famulus
- slaves, family
- Fantasy
- mental image or illusion, sometimes sexual Fantasy Play: acting out sexual fantasies
- Felching
- sucking semen out of vagina or anus; or inserting animals into anus or vagina
- Fellatio
- oral sex on a male
- Female impersonators
- men who dress in women's clothing, often for pay
- Fetishes
- an object that replaces people as primary object of love
- Fibula
- bar that runs through foreskin of male and attaches to semi-circle device, used by Romans to prevent intercourse
- Ficaro
- Brothel
- Fisting
- inserting a fist or hand into the vagina or anus
- Flagellation
- striking a person with an object
- Flatulence
- passing gas from bowels
- Flatuphilia
- arousal from flatulemce or having partner pass gas
- Flirting
- pretending to have affection for another person
- Floating hog ranches
- boats used to transport prostitutes to the Western U.S. and from which they conducted business in route
- Florentine Girdle
- Chastity device
- Flower boats
- Chinese boats used for prostitution
- Foot binding
- the wrapping of feet, done by Chinese and others
- Foot fetish
- podophilia
- Foreign woman
- Prostitute
- Formicophilia
- zoophilia; sex play with ants
- Fornicatory Dolls
- plastic blow up, rubber, or mechanical dolls used for penetration
- Fratrilagnia
- arousal from having sex with one's brother, incest
- Frottage
- rubbing body against partner or object for arousal
- Furor uterinus
- nymphomania
- Furtling
- the use of fingers underneath cut-outs in genital areas of photos for arousal
- Galateism
- agalmatophilia; sexual attraction to statues
- Gamahucheur
- Cunnilingus
- Gamophobia
- fear of marriage
- Gang Bangs
- sex with a series of waiting partners
- Gay
- person who prefers same sex lover
- Geishas
- Japanese women used as social companions
- Geld
- Castration
- Gemellus
- testicles
- Gender dysphoria
- person whose behavior matches the opposite sex
- Gender transposition
- the changing of behavior between sexes
- Gendermap
- "A developmental representation or template synchronously in the mind and brain depicting the details of one's G-I/R. It includes the lovemap but is
- Gendoloma
- fantasizing during sex to hasten orgasm
- Genitals
- sex organs of either male or female (penis, testicles, scrotum, clitoris, vagina, G-spot, cervix, etc.)
- Genofact
- genital fetish
- Genuphallation
- insertion of penis between the knees of a partner
- Gerontophilia
- attraction to a partner whose age is that of different generation
- Gigolos
- male prostitute
- Girdle of Venus
- Chastity device
- Glory holes
- a hole in a partition that allows a person on the other side to engage in sexual activity
- Goddess Worship
- a toilet scene using Witchcraft rituals
- Godemiche
- dildo in the shape of a penis with scrotum used for masturbation
- Golden enemas and Douches
- urine deposited into anus or vagina
- Golden showers
- urinating onto a partner's body
- Gomphipothic
- arousal by the sight of teeth
- Gonads
- testicles
- Graffiti
- drawing or inscription on public walls, sometimes sexual; coprography
- Graophilia
- arousal from older female partner
- Graphelagnia
- arousal from photographs of nudity or sex
- Green bower
- motels or establishments that catered to short-term rentals of rooms by couples to be used for sex
- Green bower
- bordellos operated from boats
- Gregomulcia
- sexually arousal by being fondled in a crowd
- Groping
- feeling of unknown or unidentified person in boxes, suits, etc.
- Group Sex
- sex with more than one partner or in close proximity of others
- Groupies
- erotomania; people who are devoted to or who follow celebrities
- Gymnocryptosis
- females talking about sex life of husbands
- Gymnophilia
- arousal from nudity
- Gynandromorphous
- hermaphrodite
- Gynecaeum
- area where Greeks kept wives at home and separated from other men
- Gynecomania
- compulsive desire for female sex partners
- Gynecozygous
- lesbianism
- Gynelophilous
- arousal from pubic hair
- Gynelophism
- scalping hair on pubic area, usually done by lust murders
- Gynemimesis
- female impersonation in male who is unable to become sexually aroused
- Gynemimetophilia
- person aroused by a male impersonating a female
- Gynephonia
- effeminate voice
- Gynonudomania
- compulsion to rip clothes off others
- Hand balling
- Fisting
- Handkerchief Codes
- color codes to identify sexual preferences
- Haptosis
- non-consensual sexual touching
- Harem
- area where Arabs kept wives at home and separated from others
- Harem effect
- lesbianism Harlotry: prostitution
- Harlotry
- Prostitution
- Harmatophilia
- arousal from sexual incompetence or mistakes, usually in female partner
- Harmatophobia
- fear of sexual incompetence or making a mistake
- Harnesses
- body harnesses used in suspension or penis restriction
- Harpaxophilia
- arousal from being robbed or burglarized
- Hebephilia
- men aroused by teenage boys Hedonism: act of indulging in pleasure
- Hedonophilia
- sexual arousal from engaging in pleasurable activity
- Hedralingus
- licking anus
- Hemerotism
- daydreaming or fantasizing about sex or nudity
- Hemotigolagnia
- arousal from bloody sanitary pads
- Hermaphrodite
- person who has both part female and male genitalia
- Hetaerae
- the highest class Greek prostitute or female companion
- Heterophilia
- arousal from members of the opposite sex
- Heterosexualism
- arousal from members of the opposite sex
- Hierophilia
- arousal from sacred objects Hirsutophilia: arousal from armpit hair
- Hircusophilism
- preference for underarm hair
- Hirsutophilia
- arousal from armpit hair
- Hodophilia
- arousal from traveling
- Homilophilia
- sexual arousal from hearing or giving sermons
- Homoeroticism
- sexual arousal from person of same sex
- Homophilia
- sexual arousal from person of same sex
- Homophobia
- fear of same gender sex partner
- Homosexuality
- arousal by partners of the same sex
- Hot Wax
- sex game where hot wax is melted onto partner
- House of Prostitution
- Brothel
- Humiliation
- degrading partner to establish sexual power
- Hybristophilia
- love of someone who has committed an outrage
- Hygrophilia
- arousal from body fluids or moisture
- Hymenoclasis
- surgical defloration of virgin
- Hymenorrhaphy
- suturing of the hymen; infibulation
- Hymenorrhexis
- defloration of hymen
- Hyperphilia
- compulsive desire for sex
- Hyphephilia
- arousal from touching skin, hair, leather, fur or fabric
- Hypnosis
- act that induces a level of sleep
- Hypoxyphilia
- strangulation for arousal
- Iantronudia
- arousal from exposing oneself to a physician, usually by faking an ailment
- Iatronudia
- arousal from exposing oneself to physician
- Iconolagny
- arousal from pictures or statues of nude people, pornography
- Idiosyncrat
- compulsive desire for sex
- Impotence
- the inability to achieve enough tumescence to penetrate a partner with one's penis
- Incest
- sex with close family member
- Incubus
- a spirit who was thought to lie on top of women and have sex while they slept
- Infanticide
- the practice of killing a newborn child
- Infantilism
- cross-dressing as a young child for sex play
- Infantophilia
- arousal from playing role of infant
- Infibulation
- closing penis/vagina with suture or ring
- Inflatable dolls
- plastic dolls that are designed for genital penetration
- Inspectionism
- voyeurism
- Insufflation
- blowing air into a body cavity
- Intergenerational
- sex between partners with 20+ years age difference
- Interrogation
- to ask questions, sometimes under duress
- Inunction
- anointing or rubbing person with oil or lather
- Invert
- arousal from person of same sex
- Invirility
- impotence
- Ipserotic
- Narcissism
- Ipsism
- Masturbation
- Irrumation
- Fellatio
- Ischolagny
- avoidance of females to prevent arousal
- -ism
- act or abnormal condition classified by prefix (i.e., transvestism)
- -ist
- person expert in field or adherent of prefix (i.e., sadist)
- Iterandria
- arousal from person of same sex
- Jack gagger
- a husband that procures men to pay for sex with his wife
- Jactitation
- a false boast that causes harm to others, sometimes sexual
- Juvenilism
- dressing or acting out role of a juvenile, sometimes sexual
- Kabbazah Sex
- tantra sex, male passive, female active
- Karezza Sex
- coitus reservatus
- Kegel exercises
- exercise of the pelvic muscles that control orgasm
- Kleptolagnia
- arousal from stealing
- Kleptomania
- compulsion to steal
- Kleptophilia
- arousal from stealing
- Klismaphilia
- arousal from enemas
- Knismolagnia
- arousal from tickling
- Kokigami
- the wrapping of the penis in a paper costume
- Kolpeuryntomania
- stretching of the vagina
- Labiorrhaphy
- suturing of the labia
- Lacing
- suturing body parts to another object for bondage
- Lactaphilia
- arousal from lactating breasts
- -lagnia
- lust, arousal
- Lagnocolysis
- inhibition of sex
- Lagnolalia
- discussion of sexual subjects
- Lagnonector
- person who kills in order to have sex with corpse
- Lagnoperissia
- nymphomania
- Lap dancing
- squatting above a sitting person and rubbing against them to create arousal without touching genitals
- Latex
- rubber or plastic suits worn by people with this fetish
- ldrophrodisia
- arousal from the odor of perspiration, especially from the genitals
- Lectamia
- caressing in bed without coitus
- Lena
- female pimp, panderer or procurer for prostitute
- Leno
- male panderer or pimp for prostitute
- Leptosadism
- mild form of sadism
- Lesbian
- woman who prefers female lover
- Levirate marriage
- marriage of widow without a son to deceased husband's brother
- -lingus
- suffix meaning with the tongue
- Love addiction
- irresistible compulsion to fantasize about or to be with a partner
- Love
- attachment, fondness, and devotion
- Love map
- "A developmental representation or template in the mind and in the brain depicting the idealized lover and the idealized program of sexuoerotic
- Love potions
- potions that are thought to increase a person's sexual desire
- Lung-yang
- arousal from person of same sex
- Lust Murder
- murdering a person one feels a sexual attraction toward
- Lygerastia
- arousal only in darkness
- Macrogenitalism
- arousal from large genitals
- Maieusiophilia
- arousal from pregnant women
- Mammagymnophilia
- arousal from female breasts
- -mania
- suffix indicating an abnormal preoccupation, compulsion, or craving for an act or object
- Manuxorate
- male using his hand to masturbate
- Maritate
- : Masturbation by female alone
- Martymachlia
- arousal from having others watch during sex
- Maschalophilous
- arousal from armpits
- Masochism
- ability to transfer emotions caused by pain to erotic feelings or as median in which to analyze weaknesses and strengths
- Massage Parlors
- a business establishment that specializes in massage
- Massage
- rubbing of the body to increase circulation
- Mastigothymia
- Arousal from flagellation
- Mastix
- female sadist
- Mastofact
- breast fetish
- Masturbation
- orgasm not involving penetration of partner
- Matricest
- Incest with mother
- Matrincest
- sex with one's mother
- Matronolagnia
- arousal from older female partner
- Maturation
- the process of aging including sexual changes
- Mazoperosis
- mutilation of breasts
- Mazophallate
- rubbing penis between breasts
- Meatotomy
- dilating urethra with a medical dilating device, the urethra is stretched to eventually facilitate a finger or a penis
- Medical scenes
- sex play that involves using medical instruments or settings as props
- Medocure
- the clipping or perfuming of the penis Medolalia: talking about the penis
- Medolalia
- talking about about penises
- Melissophilia
- use of insects
- Melolagnia
- arousal from music
- Menage a trois
- a husband and wife having sex with a third party
- Menophilist
- arousal from menstruating women
- Menstrual taboo
- separation of spouses during female's menstrual cycle
- Merinthophilia
- arousal from being bound
- Merkin
- artificial vagina used for sex by men, also a wig for the pubic area
- Merlin
- an artificial vagina used for penetration
- Miscegenation
- sex between races
- Misogynist
- a man who hates women
- Misogyny
- hatred of women by either sex
- Mixoscopia
- having orgasm from watching others engage in sex
- Moriaphilia
- arousal from telling sexual jokes
- Morphophilia
- arousal from person with a different physique
- Mortality
- inevitable death
- Mucophagy
- consuming mucous secretions as in nasolingus
- Mummification
- wrapping the full body in a manner that prevents movement
- Munchausen's syndrome
- arousal from reopening a wound
- Mutilation
- tearing the skin or otherwise deforming a person's body
- Mysophilia
- arousal from soiled clothing or foul decaying odors
- Nanophilia
- sexual attraction to a short partner
- Naphephilia
- arousal from touching or being touched
- Narcissism
- self love
- Narratophilia
- person who is aroused by discussing sex with others
- Nasolingus
- arousal from sucking nose of partner
- Nasophilia
- nose fetish
- Natural family planning
- birth control by rhythm method
- Necrochlesis
- sex with a female corpse
- Necrocoitus
- penetration of corpses
- Necrophagia
- cannibalism of corpses
- Necrophilia
- sex with corpses
- Necrosadism
- sadism or mutilation of corpses
- Negotiation
- arranging transactions for conduct with sex partner
- Neophilia
- arousal from novelty or change
- Nepiolagnia
- arousal by infants of opposite sex
- Nepiophilia
- arousal by infants of opposite sex
- Nepiphtherosis
- attempted sex with an infant
- Nepirasty
- arousal from handling infant often experienced by childless females
- Niddah
- abstaining from sex 1/3 of the time to create arousal during rest of month
- Nomavalent
- arousal from traveling or new places, usually impotent at home
- Nonmonogamy
- lifestyle that does not restrict number of partners; multiple sex partners
- Normophilia
- those only aroused by acts considered normal by their religion or society
- Nosolagnia
- arousal from knowing partner has terminal illness
- Nosophilia
- arousal from knowing partner has terminal illness
- Nudity (Recreational)
- nudity in group settings, beaches, nudist camps, etc.
- Nudomania
- arousal from nudity
- Nymph
- young woman or nature goddesses
- Nympholepsy
- trance state induced by erotic fantasies
- Nymphomania
- uncontrollable desire of woman for sex
- Nymphophilia
- adult males who are attracted to young females
- Nymphotomy
- removal of the inner labia
- Obscene Phone Callers
- people who become aroused by making phone calls, using vulgar language, or trying to elicit a reaction from the other party
- Ochlophilia
- arousal from being in a crowd
- Oculolinctus
- licking partner's eyeball
- Oculophilia
- eye fetish
- Odaxelagnia
- arousal from biting
- Odontophilia
- arousal from tooth extractions or tooth fetish
- Oedipus complex
- repressed desire to have sex with parent of opposite sex
- Olfaction
- the sense of smell
- Olfactophilia
- arousal from strong smells
- Olisbos
- dildos
- Omolagnia
- arousal from nudity
- Onanism
- masturbation or withdrawing penis from vagina before ejaculation
- Ondinisme
- arousal from urine
- Oneiropornism
- fantasizing about sex or prostitutes
- Open marriage
- consensual adultery
- Ophidicism
- use of snakes, sometimes for sexual purposes
- Ophidiophilia
- arousal from snakes
- Oral sex
- contact between the mouth and genitals; use of the mouth in sex play; fellatio or cunnilingus
- Oral sex
- fellatio or cunnilingus
- Ordune
- arousal from photographs of nudes or sex
- Organofact
- fetish for some part of the body
- Orgasms
- climax of sexual excitement, often accompanying ejaculation
- Orgies
- group sex
- Orgy
- Group sex
- Osculocentric
- arousal from kissing
- Osmolagnia
- arousal from strong smells and odors
- Osmophilia
- arousal from odors
- Osphresiolagnia
- arousal from strong smells and odors
- Othello's syndrome
- jealousy
- Oxygen regulation
- regulating intake of oxygen for sexual enhancement
- Ozolagnia
- arousal from strong smells and odors
- Pageism
- male submitting to female
- Panderer
- a procurer, pimp or go-between for prostitutes and clients
- Paraphallus
- dildos
- Paraphilia
- sexual arousal to unusual or socially unacceptable object or act
- Parascopism
- voyeurism, especially through bed room windows
- Pareunasthenia
- impotence
- Pareunomania
- compulsive desire for sex
- Parthenity
- Virginity
- Parthenophagy
- cannibalism of young girls
- Parthenophilia
- sexual desire for virgins
- Parthenos
- virgin
- Passivism
- submission
- Pathicant
- a minor who engages in anal sex with an adult
- Pathicus
- passive recipient in gay anal sex; catamite
- Pathophobia
- phobia of contracting a sexually transmitted disease
- Patrolagnia
- sex with one's own father; incest
- Pecattiphilia
- arousal from sinning or possibly guilt
- Pederasty
- anal sex
- Pediophilia
- arousal from dolls
- Pedophilia
- sex with minors
- Peeping Tom
- voyeur
- Penectomy
- penis castration only
- Penetration toys
- devices used for penis insertion during masturbation
- Penis ligation
- the tying of the foreskin of a penis
- Penis modification
- physical alteration of penis
- Penosugia
- Fellatio
- Peodeiktophilia
- arousal from shocking others with exposure of genitals; exhibitionism
- Peritomy
- circumcision
- Perogynia
- mutilation of females
- Personal ads
- advertisements designed to attract sex partners
- Perversion
- sexual acts that differ from the majority; paraphilia
- -phagy
- practice of eating object specified by prefix
- Phallolalia
- talking about penises
- Phallophilia
- large penis fetish or preference
- Pheromones
- natural chemicals or hormones that induce sexual response
- Philemamania
- craving for kissing
- Philemanmania
- compulsion to kiss
- -philia
- suffix that indicates an abnormal sexual attachment to what is specified by acronym
- Phlebotomy
- arousal from bloodletting
- Phobias
- an irrational fear of an object or situation
- Phobophilia
- arousal from fear or hate
- Phone Sex
- verbal sex between partners on a phone
- Phygephilia
- sexual arousal from being a fugitive
- Pictophilia
- arousal from pictures, video or movies with a sexual subject; pornography
- Pie throwing
- arousal from being hit with a pie
- Piercing
- inserting needles into skin for arousal
- Pimps
- procurer for sexual partners that pay
- Play room
- room equipped with sex paraphernalia and used primarily for sex play
- Play
- the consensual acting out of a role or game, sometimes sexual
- Podophilia
- arousal from feet
- Polyandry
- one wife with multiple husbands
- Polygamy
- one person with multiple marriage partners
- Polygyny
- one person with multiple wives
- Polyiterophilia
- arousal only after having sex with a series of partners
- Polymorphous
- having several forms of arousal techniques
- Pompoir
- vaginal muscle control that masturbates penis when inserted
- Pornography
- depictions of sex that are considered unacceptable by one's society
- Posthetomy
- circumcision
- Power tools
- electric or battery operated tools that can be used in sex play, although this was not their original function
- Preblysis
- premature ejaculation
- Prisha
- religious separation of males and females
- Proctophallism
- Anal sex with young girl
- Proctotitillia
- tickling anus
- Procurer
- a person or pimp who solicits or provides prostitutes for clients
- Professional dominatrix
- woman hired to function as a top or sadist
- Prostitution
- sex performed for financial gain Pseudo: pretended act
- Psycholagny
- orgasm induced from psychic or mental stimulation
- Psychopathic
- person who indulges in own pleasure without regard for hurting others
- Psychose passionelle
- erotomania
- Psychrophilia
- arousal from being cold or watching others freeze
- Psychrotentiginous
- arousal from cold weather
- Pubephilia
- arousal from pubic hair
- Pubic dressing
- coloring or adding ornaments to pubic hair
- Pubic Hair sculpturing
- removing pubic hair so that the remainder forms a pattern (i.e. a heart)
- Pudendacure
- pubic dressing for female
- Purdah
- veil used on women to hide their face
- Puritans
- a protestant group that became excessively strict regarding morals
- Pygmalionism
- agalmatophilia; statue fetishism where person rubs their body against statue
- Pygophilemania
- arousal from kissing buttocks
- Pygophilia
- arousal from contact with buttocks
- Pygotripsis
- arousal from rubbing buttocks
- Pygotripsis
- rubbing buttocks
- Pyrophilia
- arousal from fire or of its use in sex play
- Quadoshka
- American Indian form of tantric sex
- Queening
- sitting on the side of a person's face as a form of bondage
- Rape
- nonconsensual sex involving coercion, empowerment or anger
- Rape rack
- bondage device which leaves victim's genitals exposed for sex or rape
- Raptophilia
- arousal only from raping a victim
- Red light district
- area with bordellos and perhaps street prostitutes
- Relics
- an object that has historical or special interest
- Renifleur
- person aroused by smell of urine or by sniffing underwear
- Retifism
- shoe fetish
- Rhabdophilia
- arousal from being flagellated
- Rimming
- penetration of anus with tongue
- Ringing
- insertion of permanent jewelry into a body piercing
- Ritual Sex
- sex performed with specific rules of conduct (i.e., Wicca, weddings, slave training)
- Robotism
- attraction to or the use of robots in sex play
- Roman Showers
- vomiting on partner, usually after drinking urine or wine
- Sacofricosis
- cutting a hole in pant pocket to facilitate masturbation in public
- Sadism
- empowerment and arousal derived from injuring others
- Sadomasochism by proxy
- arousal from watching others disciplined; Dippoldism
- Salirophilia
- person ingesting human sweat or saliva (fluids with a salt content)
- Sapphosadism
- lesbian sadism
- Sarmassophilia
- arousal from kneading flesh
- Satan worship
- religious rituals performed to Satan as a god
- Satyriasis
- men who have an uncontrollable desire for sex
- Scarfing
- the use of a scarf in strangulation for sexual arousal
- Scat
- arousal from using feces in sex play
- Scopophilia
- arousal from being stared at oneself
- Scoptolagnia
- arousal from seeing the genitals of the opposite sex
- Scoptophilia
- arousal from looking at sexually stimulating scenes
- Scortum
- Prostitute
- Scrotal infusion
- infusion of saline into the scrotal sack so that it enlarges
- Selgolalia
- telling stories that include sex, or about the female genitals
- Sensory compensation
- our body's regulation of incoming stimulus to a tolerable level
- Sensory deprivation
- using lack of sensations to create desire
- Sensory enhancement
- increasing arousal by increased body sensations
- Sensory overload
- inability of our body to absorb and comprehend incoming stimulus
- Seraglio
- the Chinese practice of keeping wives secluded at home from other men
- Serenades
- musical performance during courtship given outdoors at night
- Sergeism
- infliction of injury to suppress arousal, automasochism, based on story of Sergius by Tolstoy
- Sex addiction
- compulsion to have sex
- Sex Magick
- the use of witchcraft rituals for sexual purposes
- Sex rings
- organized groups of children being sexually exploited by one or more adults
- Sex surrogates
- people who are trained to help people overcome sexual dysfunctions
- Sex toys
- mechanical objects used to assist in masturbation or sex play
- Sexautism
- fantasizing during sex to hasten orgasm
- Sexercise
- exercises designed to improve muscles used for sex
- Sexologists
- people who study the science of sex
- Sexoschizia
- bi-sexual
- Sexual aberration
- paraphilia
- Sexual anomalies
- paraphilias
- Sexual inversion
- arousal from person of same sex
- Sexual sadist killer
- lust murderer
- Shaving
- removing the hair with a razor of a partner or oneself for arousal
- Showers
- depositing body fluids onto a partner's body
- Shunammitism
- caressing in bed without coitus
- Siderodromophilia
- arousal from trains
- Siphnianize
- anal masturbation
- Sitophilia
- arousal from food
- Slapping
- slapping partner for arousal
- Slaves
- person who contracts to be sex slave
- Sleeping princess syndrome
- those aroused by partner who appears to be asleep
- Slings
- swings or other forms of support for suspension from which a person may engage in sex
- Smegma
- secretions from gland under foreskin of penis or clitoris
- Snapping pussy
- constrictions of muscles used for orgasm; sexercise
- Snuff films
- films that portray the actual murder and mutilation of one of the actors
- Sodomy
- oral or anal intercourse involving penetration with male, female, or animal
- Somnophilia
- fondling stranger in their sleep
- Sororate marriage
- right of spouse to engage in sex with sisters-in-law or sometimes brothers-in-law
- Sororilagnia
- Incest with sister
- Sororilagnia
- sex with one's own sister
- Sotadism
- Anal sex with young girl
- Sounding
- insertion of an object into the urethra
- Spanking
- using hand to slap partner's buttocks for sensory enhancement and arousal
- Spay
- castration
- Spectrophilia
- either coitus with spirits or arousal from image in mirrors
- Speculum
- dilating device used by physicians when doing pelvic exams and in SM medical scenes
- Spermatophobia
- fear of semen loss
- Sphagia
- a sacrifice used to placate the gods, the whole offering was completely burned
- Sphincter
- anal or urethral muscle that closes to prevent passage of urine or feces
- Splitting
- splitting the penis from the glans toward the base
- Stabbing
- insertion of a sharp object into flesh
- Stag parties
- private parties where only men and possibly a female stripper or entertainer are permitted
- Stapling
- inserting a U-shaped wire into skin during sex play
- Statuophilia
- agalmatophilia; sexual attraction to statues
- Sthenolagnia
- arousal from demonstration of strength or muscles
- Stigmatophilia
- arousal from partner who is stigmatized (i.e., tattoos, piercings, scars)
- Strabismus
- arousal from eyes of partner
- Strangulation
- controlling oxygen by restricting windpipe or blood vessels in neck
- Stretching
- stretching body or genitals for arousal
- String bondage
- constrictions; wrapping string around body at certain intervals for arousal
- Strip poker
- card game where the losers remove articles of clothing
- Strip search
- interrogation process where sex partner is stripped and searched
- Stripping
- removal of clothes, sometimes performed on stage in an erotic manner
- Stuffing
- insertion of objects into vagina or anus
- Stupprator
- man who prefers virgins
- Subincision
- cutting part of the glans penis from the tip toward the base
- Subliminal tapes
- audiotapes that give messages intended to alter habits
- Submission
- surrender to and trust of a partner
- Subpersonality
- a temporary personality or character change but one where the person does not lose all consciousness with their current surroundings, they are
- Succubus
- a female spirit who was thought to lie underneath men and have sex with them while they slept
- Support groups
- groups of people that find solace in discussing a common problem
- Suspension
- suspending body for sensory deprivation and bondage
- Suttee
- religious practice of killing wife upon husband's death and burial
- Suturing
- stitching flesh together
- Swing
- an object that allows a person to be suspended and move back and forth
- Swinging
- group sex or wife swapping
- Switch
- people who play either the top or bottom role (sadist or masochist)
- Sybian
- a vibrating dildo that sits on top of an object that resembles a saddle
- Symphorophilia
- arousal from arranging a disaster, crash, or explosion
- Syntribate
- rubbing thighs together to masturbate
- Tachorgasmia
- premature ejaculation
- Talisman
- charm, sometimes used in love spells
- Tantalolagnia
- arousal from teasing
- Tantra
- yoga type sexual discipline
- Taphephilia
- arousal from being buried alive
- Tattooing
- tattooing for arousal and marking
- Tea Room
- slang term for restrooms used for hustling and fellatio
- Teasing
- to excite sexually but without fulfilling implied message
- Teledildonics
- arousal from computer sex games
- Telegony
- belief that first man impregnating woman will be the father of any subsequent children
- Telephone scatophilia
- arousal from obscene phone calls
- Telephonicophilia
- arousal from using phone calls for sexual conversations
- Teratophallic
- large penises
- Terror play
- sex play using terror or fear for arousal
- Thalpotentiginy
- arousal from heat
- Thelectize
- clitoridectomy
- Thesauromania
- compulsion to collect objects or clothing belonging to females
- Thlipsosis
- arousal from pinching others
- Three-legged bloomers
- bondage underwear garment that has sleeve for head that opens to genitals of partner
- Thusiai
- a sacrifice of food cooked on an altar and eaten later by priests or worshippers
- Thygatria
- Incest of father/ daughter
- Thygatria
- sex between father and daughter
- Tickling
- light touch that sometimes causes a laughter response
- Timophilia
- when a person's primary arousal comes from gold or wealth
- -tion
- suffix indicating a state of being
- Tithiolagnia
- having an orgasm while nursing
- Tithioscopia
- arousal from watching infant nurse
- Titillagnia
- arousal from tickling
- Toilet Training
- urinating or defecating on a partner as a form of slave training
- Top/Bottom
- Dominance/Submission
- Top
- term used for partner who controls stimuli during sex games
- Torture
- inflicting pain to get information or for revenge, also used in sex play
- Toucheurism
- non-consensual touching; arousal from touch
- Tourniquets
- a device that compresses blood vessels to control bleeding, sometimes sexual
- Tragolimia
- compulsive desire for sex regardless of attraction of partner
- Transsexual
- person who are in the process of physically changing sexes
- Transvestite
- person who is aroused by crossdressing
- Transvestophilia
- arousal from transvestism
- Transvestophilia
- arousal from crossdressing
- Traumaphilia
- arousal from wounds or trauma; automasochism
- Trial marriage
- couple who lives together for a period to determine compatibility for marriage
- Tribadism
- lesbianism; sex by rubbing
- Triborgasmia
- wife who masturbates husband
- Trichophilia
- hair fetish
- Tripsolagnia
- arousal from having hair manipulated or shampooed
- Tripsolagnia
- arousal from having hair shampooed
- Tripsolagnophilia
- arousal from massage
- Tripsophilia
- arousal from being massaged
- Troilism
- arousal by being third party in sex scene
- Troubadours
- 11th-13th century musician poets that popularized love and chivalry
- Tunnel of love
- carnival boat ride that passed through a dark tunnel allowing couples a moment of privacy
- Tyrannism
- mild form of sadism
- Undinism
- arousal from water; sex in bath tub
- Uranism
- arousal from person of same sex
- Urethral self-instrumentation
- sounding; inserting object into urethra for arousal
- Urolagnia
- arousal from urine
- Urophilia
- arousal from urine
- Urtication
- the use of nettles to create extra sensation
- Vampirism
- consuming blood of partner for arousal
- Vertigo
- dizziness, sometimes used to enhance sex acts
- Vertugadin
- large hooped skirts that also acted as chastity devices
- Vibrators
- tools that are inserted and which vibrate
- Vicarphilia
- arousal from other people's exciting experiences
- Victorian lace
- sexual discipline using crossdressing as punishment
- Victorianism
- a 19th century English society that was notorious for bigotry and restrictive about morals
- Vincilagnia
- arousal from bondage
- Virgin
- person not having experienced penetrative sex with another person
- Virimimism
- adoption of masculinity
- Visualization
- an image formed by the mind, sometimes used in sex rituals and often in sexual fantasy
- Voyeurism
- arousal by watching others without their consent
- Water sports
- the use of urine for arousal; urophilia
- Waxing
- removal of body hair by a sticky substance applied to a strip laid against hair and pulled off
- Weddings
- marriage ceremonies
- Weight training
- the use of hanging weights on genitals or hooks for arousal
- Whipping
- striking or flagellating a partner for sensory enhancement
- White slavery
- the sale of one race to another for purposes of prostitution
- Whore house
- bordello Wife swapping: exchanging spouses with another couple for sexual purposes
- Whorehouse
- Brothel
- Wife swapping
- Group sex
- Worship
- reverence of an object or person
- Wrestling
- a physical struggle between two or more people, used as sexual arousal by some
- Xenodynamic
- only potent with strangers
- Xenodynamic
- person who is only potent with strangers
- Xenolimia
- arousal from strangers
- Xenophilia
- arousal from strangers
- Yoni worship
- worship of the female genitals
- Yoshiwara
- Japanese prostitutes
- Zelophilia
- arousal from jealousy
- Zooerasty
- arousal from animals
- Zoophilia
- arousal from animals
- Zwischenstufe
- arousal from person of same sex
Reference
- Brenda Love, Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, 1992, Barricade Books