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There are WAY more than 101 kinks and fetishes out there, but let’s look at some of them – for curiosity, for fun … for science.
Also, understand this list is a mixture of Kinks AND Fetishes (fetishes being something that isn’t necessarily sexual, but people get a degree of sexual arousal from it).
Ready to roll up your sleeves and get dirty?
NOTE: (E) = Edge play, kink with an increased risk/danger factor
- 1950’s Fetish – roleplay of the traditional, American, nuclear family – can be practiced in reverse
- 24/7 – a power exchange relationship that functions 24/7
- Abduction Seduction – kidnapping someone but in a loving manner
- Adult Baby – acting like an infant, wearing diapers and receiving care
- Aliens – fantasy about having sex with aliens, often abduction and forced
- Amazonian – wanting to get it on with really strong, authoritative women
- Amputees – getting turned on by people with amputations
- Anal Sex – some people just like it in the butt
- Armpits – arousal or enjoyment from smelling, licking, or kissing armpits
- Autofellatio – a guy giving a blowjob to himself
- Bare-backing – sex without a condom (E)
- Bathroom Control – deciding when someone can use the restroom
- Biting – gimme those teeth
Can you guess what fetish “Nyotaimori” is?
Hint: Food
- Blood Choking – making someone pass out by restricting blood flow to the brain (E)
- Blood Play – sexual arousal from seeing, letting, or playing with blood. Has many other subgenres like vampirism (E)
- Body Painting – painting bodies, treating the skin as a human canvas
- Bondage – restraining or restricting movement
- Branding – marking the skin with a heated object to form an image, word, or symbol (E)
- Breast or Nipple Torture – the equivalent to CBT, causing pain to the breasts and nipples (E)
- Breath Play – coking by restricting breathing (E)
- Caning – stroking someone with a cane
- CBT – cock and ball torture – causing pain to male genitalia (E)
- Chasity – no sex for you
- Clothed Sex – sex with clothes on, so the fabric goes inside you
- Collaring – wearing a collar to show you are a submissive. Can be as serious as a wedding ring in some BDSM circles
- Consensual Non-consent – also known as rape play (still consensual)
- Corseting/Tight-lacing – shape changing of the body through corsetry, sometimes includes breath-play
Want to learn more about corsets? Check this out:
Corset Guide – Get the Sexy Shape You Crave
- Cross Dressing – wearing another “gender’s” clothing
- Culcockery – when a male partner loves watching his woman have sex with another man – a form of humiliation
- Cupping – heating up a specialized round cup that creates a vacuum on the skin – often used in Chinese therapy
- Dacryphilia – turned on by tears/crying
- Double Penetration – one penis in the vagina, another in the ass
- Electric Play – the “safest” way is by using a TENS unit (E)
- Enema – douching or cleaning the anal cavity or rectum
- Exhibitionism – enjoying when other people watch you having sex
- Face Fucking – blowjob where the man roughly fucks someone’s mouth
- Facial Hair – you like beards and mustaches etc.
- Figging – inserting a peeled piece of fresh ginger into the anus
- Fire Play – play that involves fire (E)
- Fisting – using a fist to penetrate the vagina or anus
- Flogging – striking someone with a multi-tailed whip
- Food Play – using food during sex
- Foot Fetish – getting turned on by feet
- Forced Feeding – feeding someone so they gain weight
- Furry Yiff – dressing up in furry animal costumes itself isn’t considered sexual, but if you DO have sex while in costume, it’s not just “furry”
Want to learn about the non-sexual side of Furry? Check this out:
What is Furry? The Truth Behind the Costume.
- Garters and Stocking – many men get turned on seeing a woman in this (now) uncommon underwear
- Gerontophilia – attraction to someone in a much older age group
- Golden Showers – peeing one someone (E)
- Graphoerotica – writing words on someone’s body
- Gun Play – arousal from use or threat of a firearm (E)
- Hand Fetish – well, people like feet, why not hands?
- Hermaphrodites – fetish for someone with male and female body parts
- Human Furniture – where someone loves to act like a piece of furniture
- Impact Play – striking someone with various objects to create a “sting” or “thud” sensation
- Impregnation – getting someone pregnant, typically from a man’s point of view (E)
- Intelligence Fetish – sexual arousal from intellectually stimulating conversation or debates
- Knife Play – play using knives or sharp objects. Can be sensory or a “threat” roleplay (E)
- Knismolagnia – arousal through tickling
- Lactation – when you get off on women with milk-producing breasts (usually drinking)
- Long Hair – turned on by long, beautiful locks
- Loud Sex – yep, getting off knowing other people can hear you having sex
- Medical Play – play or scene using medical equipment/tools (E)
- Mummification – wrapping someone entirely to limit movement
- Needle Play – involves the use or threat of needles (E)
- Nyotaimori – eating sushi off a person’s body
- Orgasm Control – controlling someone’s orgasms through signals and cues (different from denial
- Orgasm Denial – not allowing someone to have an orgasm for a certain period of time
- Orgies – lots and lots of sex with lots and lots of people
- Pecattiphilia – fetish for sinning by breaking religious rules
- Play Piercing – temporary piercing the flesh for aesthetic or sensory reactions (E)
- Pony Play – using someone as a pony (including riding). Can include costumes
- Pregnancy Fetish – usually from males, thought to be from hormonal reactions
- Puppy Play – treating someone like (or pretending to be) a dog
- PVC – to love wearing PVC clothing
- Queening – also called face-sitting. Oral sex with the woman on top (or just sitting on top without oral sex)
- Rough Sex – includes biting, scratching, power play etc.
- Rubber – to love wearing rubber clothing
- Scat Play – play with fecal matter (E)
- Sensation Play – running different materials across the skin to create different sensations. Eg. silk, burlap, brush bristles
- Sensory Deprivation – taking away various senses, like sight with a blindfold, plug for the ears etc.
- Sex Toys – a general love of using sex toys, but people can have a specific love for one kind of toy (eg. butt plugs)
- Shibari – Japanese rope bondage
- Sleepsack Fetish – comes from an arousal from closed spaces. The sub gets into a sleepsack, bag, or box etc.
- Sounding – inserting metal rods into the urethral openings (originally a medical term) (E)
- Spanking – tap dat ass
- Swinging – committed couples consensually indulging in sex with other couples
- Tattoos – some like giving them, some like getting them (E)
- Texting and Audio – Audiobooks, messages etc.
- Trampling – being under someone’s foot/shoe. Can be related to foot fetish, but not necessarily
- Transformation – the fetish for transforming or changing people into other people, objects, or creatures – popular in Japanese hentai
- Uniform Fetish – pretty straightforward, you get turned on by uniforms
- Vacuum Bed – a device that is two sheets of latex with the air sucked out and the person inside breathing through a tube. A form of sensory deprivation (E)
- Vampire – role-playing as a vampire (or victim of one). Can, but doesn’t have to, include bloodplay
- Voyeurism – watching other people have sex
- Watersports – playing with urine (E)
- Wax Play – play with dripping hot wax on the skin
- Werewolf Play – same as vampire play but with werewolves
- Wrestling – play fighting for body contact and power control
- Xenophilia – intense attraction towards people from other cultures or strangers
- Yaoi – a fetish for male-on-male sexuality in anime, manga, or fan fiction. Aimed at a female audience, not a gay male (Bara)
- Zentai – a fetish to wear full lycra bodysuits
Which of these floats your boat? Dare to share in the comments!