Kinktionary

Abduction play is a consensual roleplay scenario in which one partner stages a "kidnapping" of the other. Despite the dramatic framing, it is a negotiated scene built on consent, planning, and trust.

Abrasion play is sensation play that uses rough textures — brushes, sandpaper, scratchy fabrics, or textured gloves — to stimulate or lightly abrade the skin for erotic effect.

Affectionate domination is a gentle style of dominance that mixes control with warmth — praise, petting, and tenderness layered over authority rather than sternness or cruelty.

Age dreaming is a softer cousin of age regression — mentally daydreaming or slipping into a younger-feeling headspace without fully committing to a roleplay scene.

Age play is consensual roleplay in which adults act out an age different from their real one — most famously caregiver/little dynamics between grown partners.

Age regression is slipping into a genuinely younger-feeling mental state — a deeper, more immersive headspace than casual age play, often used for comfort or within caregiver dynamics.

Anal pounding is slang for vigorous, high-intensity anal sex — prized in kink contexts for its intensity, stamina demands, and the power dynamics it can carry.

Analytikink describes the habit of studying kink like a discipline — researching practices, reading theory, and analyzing dynamics rather than only playing by instinct.

ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) is the tingly, calming sensation triggered by soft sounds — whispers, tapping, crinkling — that many find deeply relaxing and, for some, erotic.

Ass worship is the erotic veneration of a partner's buttocks — through kissing, massaging, facesitting, or devoted attention — often framed as acts of submission and adoration.

Attunement play is the practice of building deep nonverbal synchrony between partners — breath, movement, and energy matching until the scene feels almost telepathic.

Ballooning is a slow edging technique for penises — gentle stimulation held near climax without release — used to build intense arousal and, over time, control and stamina.

Ball busting is consensual impact play targeting the testicles — slapping, squeezing, kicking, or kneeing them — practiced for the unique sharp pain and extreme vulnerability it creates.

Ball kicking is striking the testicles with the foot or knee — the most intense and theatrical form of ball busting, demanding serious negotiation and control.

Ball stretching is using weights, rings, or tension devices to elongate the scrotum over time — done for the stretched sensation, the low-hanging look, or as CBT play.

Bastinado is impact play on the soles of the feet — caning, tapping, or striking them — an intense pain practice with a long history and a surprisingly devoted following.

BDSM is the umbrella term for bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, and sadism/masochism — the entire consensual power-exchange and sensation-play world the other terms live under.

Behavior modification in kink is deliberately reshaping a submissive's habits — posture, speech, routines — through rules, reinforcement, and training over time.

Belly play is erotic attention to the stomach — rubbing, kissing, nuzzling, or worshiping a partner's belly — common in body worship and feedist circles.

Bellyriding is a body-suspension fantasy and practice involving being strapped beneath a large animal — a niche fetish that exists mostly in fiction rather than real-world practice.

Belly stuffing is the fetish of eating to deliberate fullness — watching, feeling, or being fed to a visibly stuffed stomach — a core practice of the feederism community.

Blood play is edge play involving real blood — needle play, cutting, or blood sharing — practiced for taboo intensity, intimacy, and visceral sensation under strict safety protocols.

A blumpkin is crude slang for receiving oral sex while simultaneously defecating — more famous as a joke term than an actual practiced kink.

Body worship is the devoted veneration of a partner's body — kissing, licking, and adoring every part — often framed as a submissive's act of reverence toward the dominant.

Body modification in kink is permanently or semi-permanently altering the body for erotic or dynamic reasons — piercings, tattoos, scarification, implants, or stretching.

Bondage is consensual physical restraint — rope, cuffs, tape, or devices — practiced for the helplessness, trust, and sensation of being held completely.

Boot blacking is the ritual service of cleaning and polishing leather boots — a labor-intensive devotion act with deep roots in leather culture and service submission.

Boot licking is worshiping a dominant's boots with the tongue — a visceral submission act combining leather fetish, degradation, and devotion at ground level.

Boot worship is reverent devotion to a partner's boots — kissing, licking, cleaning, and adoring them — one of the most iconic acts in leather and femdom culture.

Breath play is consensually restricting oxygen — choking, smothering, or facesitting — for the lightheaded euphoria and extreme trust it creates. It is among the most dangerous kinks.

Breeding play is roleplay centered on impregnation fantasy — dirty talk, ritual, and power dynamics around "breeding" a partner, usually without actual pregnancy intent.

Bunfuck is slang for sex pressed against a partner's buttocks — friction against the cheeks themselves rather than penetration, essentially clothed-or-naked grinding between the cheeks.

Call and response in kink is structured verbal exchange during scenes — a dominant calls, the submissive answers in set phrases — used to build ritual, headspace, and connection.

Cake sitting is the wet-and-messy fetish of sitting in or on cakes — squashing them under the buttocks for the squishy sensation, mess, and playful destruction.

Cattle play is animal roleplay where a person takes on a cow or bull role — a cousin of pet play involving milking imagery, docility, and farm dynamics.

Castration play is roleplay around the fantasy of castration — threats, props, and scenarios simulating it. It is fantasy-only edge play: actual castration is never performed.

Chastity is orgasm denial through devices or rules — a locked cage or belt preventing release, often with a keyholder controlling access — one of kink's biggest ongoing dynamics.

Key holding is the keyholder side of chastity play — the partner who literally holds the cage key and decides when release happens, on any timescale.

Clit and pussy torture (CPT) is genital sensation and pain play on vulvas — spanking, clamps, wax, or pinching on the clitoris, labia, and surrounding areas.

Cock and ball torture (CBT) is genital pain play on penises and testicles — squeezing, slapping, binding, weights, or devices — one of the most intense sensation kinks.

Cock milking is rhythmically milking a penis — often with machines or to forced ejaculation — framed as extracting something from the receiver rather than giving pleasure.

Collaring is placing a collar on a submissive as a symbol of ownership and commitment — kink's equivalent of a wedding ring, often marked with ceremony.

Consensual non-consent (CNC) is negotiated play that simulates non-consent — one partner "takes" while the other "resists" — all within pre-agreed boundaries and safewords.

Co-topping is two or more dominants topping one submissive together — coordinating a scene as a team for doubled sensation, power, and spectacle.

Cowification is transformation roleplay of "becoming" a cow — mental or physical reduction to livestock, overlapping hucow and bimbofication-style headspace play.

A creampie gangbang is group sex where multiple partners ejaculate inside one receiver — a real practiced variant combining gangbang, breeding imagery, and marking dynamics.

Cuckolding is a kink where one partner is aroused by their partner having sex with others — mixing humiliation, compersion, and voyeurism into one of kink's most complex dynamics.

Cum eating is consuming semen — one's own or a partner's — as an erotic act, ranging from simple swallowing to ritualized CEI (cum eating instructions) and cleanup play.

Cum on command is orgasm training where a partner must ejaculate on a dominant's signal — obedience made physiological through conditioning and timing control.

A cumsicle is semen frozen into ice form — cubes or popsicle shapes — saved for later consumption or play, combining collection fetish with frozen-novelty spectacle.

A cum tribute is ejaculating onto a photo or video of someone — often shared back to that person online — a digital-era marking and worship fetish.

Cunt busting is impact play striking the vulva — slapping, kicking, or kneeing the groin — the vulva-side counterpart to ball busting with similar intensity.

Dark age play is age regression combined with heavier kink elements — non-sexual littlespace mixed with themes like punishment, fear, or strict discipline.

Defilement is the fantasy of "ruining" or making a partner dirty — marking them with fluids, filth, or degradation to symbolically spoil their purity.

Degradation is consensual play that lowers a partner's status — name-calling, humiliating acts, or treatment as lesser — for the psychological charge of being beneath.

Denim play is fetish attraction to denim clothing — jeans, jackets, cutoff shorts — combining fabric fetish with the rugged, casual aesthetics denim carries.

Discipline in BDSM is the system of rules and correction — training a partner's behavior through expectations, consequences, and structure within the dynamic.

Disobedience play is performing defiance on purpose — bratting, rule-breaking, and resistance that invites punishment — turning "bad behavior" into the game itself.

Dollification is transformation play of becoming a living doll — posed, dressed, objectified, and controlled — a headspace of stillness and being owned.

Domestic discipline is a lifestyle dynamic where real household rules carry real consequences — accountability as relationship structure, usually involving spanking.

Dominance is the consensual exercise of authority over a willing partner — leading, commanding, and taking responsibility within a power-exchange dynamic.

Dronification is transformation play of becoming a mindless drone — programmed, uniformed, and emptied of self — often with rubber, numbers, and hive aesthetics.

Dumbification is headspace play of becoming "dumber" — reducing intelligence in roleplay through suggestion, rules, and treatment, overlapping bimbofication.

Edgeplay is the umbrella term for high-risk kink — breath play, knife play, blood play, fire play — anything where the danger is real, not theatrical.

Electricity play is using controlled electrical current on the body — violet wands, TENS units, e-stim — for unique buzzing, sparking sensation from mild tingle to serious zap.

Energy play is kink practiced through presence and sensation without heavy tools — breath, touch, intention, and "energy" exchanged between bodies.

Exhibitionism is arousal from being seen — displaying one's body or sexual acts to an audience, from consensual club play to the broader fetish of being watched.

Face farting is farting on or near a partner's face — a niche fetish combining scent kink, degradation, and facesitting-adjacent play.

Facesitting is sitting on a partner's face — for oral service, smothering, or positional dominance — one of the most iconic acts in femdom and ass worship.

Fear play is deliberately frightening a consenting partner — threats, adrenaline scenarios, phobic props — for the terror-arousal cocktail it creates.

Felching is sucking or licking semen out of a partner's body after internal ejaculation — a fluid-fetish act combining creampie and cum-eating kinks.

Feminization is dressing or transforming a partner (usually a man) into a feminine presentation — clothing, makeup, mannerisms — for humiliation, exploration, or aesthetic kink.

Figging is inserting a peeled ginger root anally or vaginally — the ginger oils create a building burning sensation that cannot be relieved, a classic sensation-play trick.

Financial domination (findom) is power exchange through money — a submissive gives tributes and cash to a dominant who takes them, spending the sub's money as the domination act.

Fire play is using flame on the body — flash cotton, fire wands, or cupping — for heat sensation and visual theater. It is edge play requiring real training.

Foot play is erotic attention to feet — massage, kissing, rubbing, or using feet for stimulation — the broader practice umbrella around the famous foot fetish.

Foot worship is devoted veneration of a partner's feet — kissing, licking, sucking toes, and adoring them — the most iconic worship act in all of kink.

Forced gagging is deep oral sex pushing the receiver to the gag reflex — the choking, eyes-watering intensity being the fetish itself, often combined with face-fucking.

Forcemasc is forced-masculinization play — dressing or transforming a partner into a masculine presentation, the mirror image of feminization/sissification.

Funishment is playful "punishment" both partners enjoy — spankings or consequences delivered for made-up infractions, where the penalty is secretly the reward.

Gaping is the fetish for the stretched-open look after anal or vaginal penetration — the visible dilation itself being the erotic focus.

Gokkun is drinking multiple ejaculations collected together — the Japanese-originated fetish of consuming semen in volume, usually from a container.

Group sex is sexual activity with three or more participants — threesomes, orgies, and gangbangs — ranging from casual hookups to organized play-party scenes.

Group worship is multiple submissives worshiping one dominant together — several mouths, hands, and bodies devoted to a single elevated partner.

Gun play is using firearms or realistic replicas in scenes — threats, handling, insertion — for extreme fear and power. It is among the most dangerous kinks listed.

A hairjob is sexual stimulation using hair — wrapping long hair around a penis and stroking — a niche partialism fetish for hair texture and length.

Hair removal play is eroticizing the removal of body hair — shaving scenes, waxing, or grooming rituals where being denuded is the kink itself.

Hand feeding is a service-and-control act where one partner feeds the other by hand — intimate caretaking that ranges from sweet nurturing to pet-style dependence.

High protocol is the most formal D/s style — strict rules of speech, posture, and conduct governing every interaction, like living inside ceremony.

Humiliation is consensual play inducing embarrassment and shame — being exposed, mocked, or embarrassed for arousal. It is one of the most psychologically complex kinks.

Erotic hypnosis is using trance and suggestion to create kink experiences — implanted triggers, headspace control, and hands-free sensations — a real practiced skill.

Incest play is roleplay where consenting adults act out related-family-member personas — strictly fantasy between unrelated adults, a heavy taboo kink.

Inner thigh spanking is striking the sensitive skin of the inner thighs — a tender-zone impact technique that hurts far more than the usual target areas.

Inspection play is examining a partner's body closely and formally — the dominant inspecting the submissive like property, blending exposure, evaluation, and power.

Impact play is striking the body for sensation — spanking, flogging, caning, paddling — the most widespread physical kink and the entry point for most pain play.

Knife play is using blades in scenes — tracing, threatening, or shallow cutting — for fear, sensation, and the exquisite trust of a blade at the skin.

Lactation play is erotic activity around breast milk — nursing, milking, or lactation induction — combining intimacy, hucow fantasy, and the fetish of milk itself.

Maid roleplay is service roleplay where a partner acts as a maid — cleaning, serving, and obeying — one of the most iconic service-submission personas.

Maid service is ongoing domestic service as D/s practice — a submissive cleaning, cooking, and serving as their contribution to the dynamic, beyond occasional roleplay.

Maintenance spanking is scheduled discipline not tied to any infraction — regular spankings reinforcing the dynamic itself rather than punishing behavior.

Masculinization is transforming a partner into masculine presentation — clothing, mannerisms, and persona — the genderplay counterpart to feminization.

Masochism is arousal from receiving pain or intense sensation — the M in BDSM, encompassing everything from playful spanking to extreme edge practice.

Medical play is clinical roleplay — exams, instruments, procedures — borrowing the doctor/patient frame for vulnerability, exposure, and authority dynamics.

Muscle worship is adoring a partner's muscles — touching, kissing, and revering a muscular body — a major fetish in both straight and gay communities.

A mushroom stamp is slapping someone with the head of a penis — leaving a "stamp" mark or just the act itself — crude novelty play combining marking and comedy.

Nantaimori is serving food off a naked male body — the lesser-known counterpart to nyotaimori (female body sushi), the body-as-platter fetish.

Needle play is piercing skin temporarily with sterile needles — sensation play, decorative patterns, and the unique sharp intensity of needles under skin.

Neotantra is the modern Western adaptation of tantric practice — sacred sexuality, breathwork, and energy exchange applied to contemporary intimacy and kink.

Nipple play wrestling is erotic grappling where nipple stimulation — pinching, twisting, sucking — is the weapon and the objective mid-wrestle.

Nipple torture is intense sensation play on nipples — clamps, pinching, twisting, wax — exploiting one of the body's most sensitive zones for sharp pain.

Non-sexual kink is power exchange and kink practice without sexual content — service, protocol, and D/s dynamics that are emotional, not erotic.

Nyotaimori is serving sushi on a naked woman's body — the famous "body sushi" practice that turns the body into platter and centerpiece.

Obedience training is conditioning a submissive to obey commands reflexively — positions, responses, and protocols drilled until compliance is automatic.

Objectification is treating a partner as an object — furniture, decoration, tool — for the psychological charge of being stripped of personhood and used.

Omorashi is arousal from a full bladder or wetting oneself — the desperation and the accident itself being the fetish, often tied to desperation and humiliation.

One-sided nudity is asymmetrical exposure — one partner naked while the other stays clothed — a power and vulnerability kink (CFNM/CMNF are the classic forms).

Orgasm denial is preventing a partner's release — teasing, edging, and refusing climax — so that arousal becomes sustained, desperate, and controlled by another.

OTK spanking is the classic position — bottom bare over the spanker's knee — the most iconic spanking position in all of kink.

Pain play is the broad umbrella for consensual sensation-and-hurt activities — impact, clamps, wax, needles — everything where pain itself is the medium.

Panty sniffing is arousal from smelling worn underwear — a common scent fetish driving a real marketplace for used panties.

Parental controls in kink are device and app restrictions a dominant sets on a submissive — screen limits, app locks, monitoring — as digital-age discipline.

Penis shrinking is the fantasy of a penis becoming smaller — roleplay, devices, or hypnosis simulating shrinkage, usually as humiliation play.

Percussion play is rhythmic drumming on the body — hands, fists, or implements used like percussion instruments to create sustained, wave-like sensation.

Pet play is animal roleplay where a partner takes on a pet persona — puppy, kitten, pony — for headspace, service, and the freedom of non-human simplicity.

A plapgasm is an orgasm triggered by the "plapping" sound and sensation of vigorous sex — the slap of bodies as the arousal trigger itself.

Play fighting is consensual roughhousing — wrestling, pinning, and mock-fighting that turns physical struggle into foreplay and power play.

Pony play is equine roleplay — a partner as a pony being trained, carted, groomed, or ridden — the most athletic and elaborate form of pet play.

Poop desperation is arousal from needing to defecate and holding it — the scat-adjacent fetish of desperation, denial, and losing control.

Post-orgasm torture is continuing stimulation after climax — the unbearable oversensitivity of the refractory period used as deliberate torment.

Power exchange is the consensual trading of authority — one partner leading, the other following — the fundamental transaction underneath all D/s.

Power neutral describes kink activity without power exchange — play where neither partner is dominant or submissive, just sensation and connection.

Primal play is raw, animalistic kink — chasing, wrestling, growling, biting — sex stripped of civilization and run on instinct.

Protocols are the formal rules of conduct in a D/s dynamic — how to speak, kneel, serve, and behave — the ritual structure of formal power exchange.

Public play is kink activity outside private space — discreet acts in public settings, kink venues, or semi-public scenes — with the exposure itself as the charge.

Public reminders are discreet signals in public that the dynamic is running — a text, a word, a gesture reminding the sub who they belong to.

Pussy spanking is light-to-moderate impact on the vulva — slapping the genitals for sharp sensation, vulnerability, and the charge of striking the most intimate area.

Pussy worship is devoted oral adoration of a partner's vulva — treating the genitals as deserving reverence, the devotional form of oral sex.

Race play is roleplay involving racial dynamics — racial slurs, master/slave scenarios, or racial power frames — one of the most controversial kinks in the community.

Rape play is the CNC fantasy of forced sex — a consenting partner "taken" against staged resistance — the most extreme taboo kink and the heaviest negotiated.

Role play is acting out personas and scenarios — doctor, teacher, stranger — using character and scene framing to escape ordinary dynamics.

Role reversal is partners swapping their usual power positions — the submissive tops, the dominant submits — exploring the dynamic from the other side.

Rough body play is hands-on force — grabbing, slapping, throwing, wrestling — the body as the toy, bruising allowed, nothing but hands and strength.

Rough sex is aggressive, forceful intercourse — hard thrusting, hair pulling, pinning, choking-adjacent intensity — sex with the politeness turned off.

A ruined orgasm is stimulation stopped at the exact moment of climax — the orgasm fires without pleasure, the most frustrating release possible.

Running energy is deliberately moving sensation between bodies — hands hovering, breath, intention creating felt charge without touch — the core energy-play technique.

Sadism is arousal from giving pain or intense sensation — the S in BDSM, the joy of the top who delivers and the partner who wants it received.

Sadomasochism is the combined giving and receiving of pain — the SM of BDSM, the whole pain-exchange spectrum from playful spanking to edge practice.

A scene is a bounded kink session — play with a beginning, middle, and end, negotiated beforehand and closed with aftercare.

Sacred play is kink practiced as ritual — scenes framed as ceremony, with intention, symbolism, and the treating of the play space as consecrated.

Self-spanking is spanking oneself — for self-directed sensation, discipline rituals assigned by a remote dominant, or solo practice.

Semen retention is deliberately not ejaculating — edging without release, sex without climax — for energy, control, and the intensity of held arousal.

Sensual BDSM is the soft, luxurious side of kink — slow sensation, teasing, tenderness mixed with power exchange — kink as seduction rather than punishment.

Sensory deprivation is removing senses — blindfolds, hoods, earplugs, isolation — to heighten what remains and deepen surrender.

Sensory play is stimulating the senses for arousal — textures, temperatures, sounds, tastes — the broad umbrella over sensation-focused kink.

Serve on tiptoe is a posture rule — the submissive serves while standing on tiptoe — an elegant discipline demanding balance, endurance, and constant poise.

Shame play is eroticizing embarrassment — the blush, the squirm, the exposed feeling — converting social discomfort into arousal.

Shaving play is eroticizing the removal of body hair — a partner shaved bare, the razor's care, and the smooth result as the kink.

Shoe stealing is the fetish of taking a partner's shoes — for the scent, the object fetish, or the naughtiness of the theft itself.

Shrimping is sucking on toes — the oral worship of a partner's toes, one of the classic foot-fetish acts.

A sissygasm is a hands-free anal orgasm achieved in sissy/feminization contexts — cumming without touching, framed as the sissy's signature release.

Sissy maid service is the feminization-meets-service kink — a male sub dressed as a maid performing domestic service, its own large subculture.

Slave training is the most intense obedience conditioning — shaping a submissive into total service and obedience through rigorous protocols and discipline.

Slutification is transformation play of being "made" into a slut — trained, dressed, and treated as sexually available — an -ification kink about sexual liberation through degradation.

SPH is humiliation play about penis size — mocking, measuring, comparing — turning the body insecurity into erotic charge.

Soft kink is the gentle end of the spectrum — light restraint, teasing, sensory play, affectionate dynamics — kink without the edge.

Spanking is striking the buttocks — with hand or implement — the most iconic kink act in the world and the foundation of impact play.

Spitting is spitting on or in a partner — degradation, lubrication, or marking — the crudest and most direct form of fluid play.

Splosh is wet-and-messy play — food, custard, slime, mud on bodies — the fetish of being covered in substances for the mess and sensation.

Stagging is the stag/vixen lifestyle — a couple shares the woman with other men — the joyful alternative to cuckolding, without the humiliation.

Submission is the consensual surrender of authority — choosing to follow, obey, and be led — the complementary half of dominance.

Sword play is using swords or blades theatrically in scenes — weapon handling, threat display, or choreographed combat — for the aesthetic and fear-power of steel.

Tease and denial is arousing a partner then withholding release — building desire to the edge and keeping them there, desperate, as long as the dominant decides.

Temperature play is using hot and cold on the body — ice, wax, warm oil, chilled toys — for the sharp, contrast-driven sensations temperature produces.

Tickling is tickle torture and tickle play — laughter as torment, the involuntary response used as sensation play and helplessness.

Tongue sucking is sucking on a partner's tongue during kissing — an intense, intimate oral act that is its own micro-fetish.

Total Power Exchange is the deepest D/s — the dominant holds total authority over the submissive's life, the extreme end of power exchange.

Trampling is standing or walking on a partner — feet on body — using weight and the ground-floor position as dominance and sensation.

Urethral fuck is inserting objects into the urethra — sounding and urethral penetration — an extreme niche kink at the edge of medical play.

Urine play is kink involving urine — golden showers, watersports, being peed on or peeing — one of the most common fluid kinks.

Voyeurism is arousal from watching — observing others' intimate moments, the mirror-kink to exhibitionism.

Water bondage is restraint combined with water — bound and held in or under water — a high-edge kink combining bondage and breath play.

Wax play is dripping hot wax on skin — the heat, the drip, the hardening — one of the most iconic sensation-play techniques.

Wet and messy (WAM) is the splosh fetish — covering bodies in food, slime, custard, mud for the tactile and visual pleasure of the mess.

Whipcasso is the art of whip-cracking on skin — patterns and precision whip-work that turns the single-tail into an artistic instrument.

Zentai is the full-body-suit fetish — skintight spandex covering every inch — anonymity, sensation, and the erotics of total coverage.