The Full A-Z List: 257 Kinks & Fetishes Defined

Below you'll find 257 kinks and fetishes, each with a clear definition and explanation. Think of this as your encyclopedia of kink.

Browse through and ask yourself, "What fetishes do I have?" — or scan this list of different kinks for something new you might want to explore with a partner. You could even turn it into a checklist and see who's tried the most!

Now, let's get into the kink list!

A is for

Abasiophilia: an unusual kink centered on attraction to people wearing neck braces, using wheelchairs, wearing casts, or using other mobility-limiting devices. It was first documented in a woman back in the late 80s [1]. It can overlap with medical fetishism or stem from the appeal of restricted movement.

Abduction as seduction: a kink in which the "kidnapper" treats their "victim" tenderly throughout the scenario (can tie into gentle femdom).

Abrasions: this fetish centers on giving or receiving cuts and scrapes.

Acarophilia: arousal triggered by scratching (tips for scratching during sex). Scratching often shows up as an element of rough sex.

Accidental stimulation: describes unplanned physical stimulation or adrenaline-spiking situations that spark arousal.

Acrotomophilia: a fetish for amputees [2]. Some fetishists have a preference for a particular type of amputation (arm, leg, etc). Someone attracted to the idea of being an amputee themselves has apotemnophilia. This can overlap with morphophilia, and some regard it as an extreme fetish.

Actirasty: arousal triggered by sunlight. Some people enjoy this through sex outside.

Agalmatophilia: describes arousal toward statues, mannequins, and other figurative representations. It can connect to Pygmalionism, an attraction to things one has created oneself.

Age play: role play where one or both partners act out being a different age or life stage.

Agoraphilia: a fetish centered on sex in public settings. Check out the 48 best places to have sex if this is your thing.

Aliens: some kinksters are drawn to the idea of sex with aliens, frequently framed around abduction or forced scenarios.

Altocalciphilia: a widespread kink for high heels, most often worn by women though not exclusively.

Amazons and authoritarians: a fetish centered on physically powerful women, women with dominant personalities, or women who hold positions of authority. 19 tips to be sexually dominant in the bedroom.

Amaurophilia: a kink built around not being able to see — being blinded or blindfolded during sex.

Anal penetration: a fetish for anal penetration using foreign objects rather than sex toys or penises. Objects not designed for anal safety — porous materials, items without a flared base, or anything with sharp edges — can cause real harm.

Anal sex: giving and receiving anal sex can both count as a kink or fetish in their own right. Penetrating a male partner with a strap on is known as pegging (see our guide to pegging).

Anal toys worn under clothing: a fetish for wearing or using anal toys — like butt plugs — throughout the day rather than only during sex. This might be a dominant's instruction to a submissive, part of anal training for bigger items, or simply woven into foreplay.

Anal training: the process of gradually preparing the anus to accommodate larger items. How to train for anal.

Anasteemaphilia: a fetish for people at extreme ends of the height spectrum — giants or dwarves. It can also describe attraction to partners with notably different heights, even without extremes involved.

Angelophilia: fetish for angels.

Anilingus: a kink centered on giving or receiving oral stimulation of the anus, aka eating ass.

Anonymous sex: a kink built around sexual encounters where one or both people remain unidentified. Gloryholes are a well-known example, though far from the only one.

Aquaphilia: fetish for water, whether that means having sex in water or simply around it. It can extend to swimwear or posing in water even without any sexual activity involved.

Asphyxiation: an extremely dangerous kink built around choking, smothering, and strangulation. Self-inflicted choking is called autoerotic asphyxiation. To be blunt, asphyxiation carries serious risk and has caused injuries and multiple deaths [3, 4, 5, 6]. See also breath play.

Autogynephilia: describes men who present or dress as women for arousal (gynemimetophilia refers specifically to men impersonating women). Autoandrophilia is arousal tied to the idea of being a man.

Note that this term was originally coined as an alternative framing to cross-dressing kink, but it's also been applied to transgender individuals and misused to argue that trans people are mentally ill. Many people avoid the term given its frequent transphobic use. That said, some people genuinely do have a fetish for crossdressing or embodying another gender that has nothing to do with their actual gender identity.

Autofellatio: a kink where a man performs oral sex on himself. How to give a good blow job.

Autoplushophilia: a variant of plushophilia centered on arousal at the idea of being a stuffed animal oneself, especially a cartoonish one [7].

We're only just getting going with this kink checklist! On to the B's…

B is for

Balloon fetish: also called globophilia, this involves arousal tied to balloons — their inflation, popping, look, or feel. Some consider it a pretty unusual fetish.

Ba****rebacking: sex without a condom. It's especially common within the gay community, but it carries real risk of STI transmission or pregnancy. Learn how and why you should use a condom.

Bathroom control: when a dominant partner dictates when, how, and where a submissive is allowed to urinate or defecate. Taken to an extreme, this can become genuinely dangerous.

Begging: an intense kink centered on begging and pleading — for sex, for release, to perform some act, and so on. Begging leans submissive by nature. How to be a good submissive – 23 tips & behaviors.

Belonephilia: a fixation on pins, needles, and sharp objects, which can be quite risky. See also knife play.

Bestiality: sex with animals.

Bimbofication: transforming someone into a "bimbo," or being transformed yourself. This can double as a playful "punishment" for a bratty sub.

Blindfolds: a bondage variant that removes someone's sight. See also amaurophilia.

Body Inflation: inflating, or pretending to inflate, part of the body — usually for sexual gratification.

Bondage: restraining a person, whether through physical means (cuffs, rope) or verbal instruction (mental bondage). It can involve the whole body (vacuum beds, suspension) or a single area, like the eyes (blindfold), mouth (ball gag), wrists, or even thumbs. Bondage can be solo, known as self-bondage, or incorporate furniture like sex swings and gear like handcuffs. Our bondage for beginners guide can help you get started.

Body modification: a fetish covering a wide range of physical body changes, from tattoos and piercings to saline injections, though it can also refer narrowly to specific mods like lip sewing.

Branding: marking someone's skin with a symbol or word, typically using a heated object like a metal hanger. This carries real danger.

Breath play: restricting or limiting breathing, tied to choking. Arousal from this is called hypoxyphilia, and it's a genuinely dangerous category of edge play.

Breast/nipple torture: the breast-focused equivalent of cock and ball torture, which can include hitting, pinching, bondage, and other pain-inducing methods aimed at the chest.

Breast/nipple worship: devoted, reverent attention paid to someone's breasts or nipples.

Read next – How to make a man cry in bed.

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Caning: striking someone with a rod, known as caning. Fleshy areas like the back of the thighs and butt are the recommended targets, though some enjoy caning the soles of a partner's feet.

Canes are traditionally wooden, but modern versions might be plastic, metal, or another semi-flexible material. Caning is a more intense form of impact play than typical flogging, and can be risky if done carelessly. Sadists tend to be the type of dom most drawn to caning a sub.

Capnolagnia: a fetish for smoking, or for watching others smoke.

Castration: an extreme fetish involving removing all or part of a man's genitals. Actual castration carries severe danger. Most people with this kink fixate on the idea without ever acting on it. This intense fetish is closely linked to emasculation kinks and to ball-busting, which involves crushing a man's testicles.

CBT: short for cock and ball torture, this is pain deliberately applied to a man's genitals, sometimes framed as punishment. It can involve shoes, sounding, stretching, impact tools, and more, and it does carry risk.

Chasmophilia: arousal tied to crevices, caverns, or valleys.

Chastity: a fetish built around restricting access to someone's genitals. Women may wear chastity belts, while men wear cock cages that block erection and release — also known as forced abstinence or forced celibacy. It can serve as a form of self-denial or orgasm control, including ruined orgasms. How to give a ruined orgasm.

Choking: blood choking refers to choking someone to the point of unconsciousness — an extremely dangerous act (we've covered this before in our guide on choking during sex) that can cause brain damage. It falls under edge play.

Claustrophilia: essentially the reverse of claustrophobia — arousal or orgasm triggered by being confined to a tight space. This falls under the bondage umbrella.

Clothed sex (endytophilia): an attraction to sex while partially or fully dressed. This might mean lifting a skirt for penetration, or simply pushing underwear aside.

Cock and/or ball fetishization: a fixation on the cock and balls specifically.

Cock worship: similar in spirit to breast worship, involving verbal, physical, and mental devotion to a penis — real or fake (strap-ons included).

Collaring: for many types of submissives, wearing a collar signals submission, loyalty, or devotion to a dominant. It may carry a purely sexual meaning or a more romantic one, similar to an engagement or wedding ring.

BDSM collars can be put on during public or private collaring ceremonies, with dominants sometimes setting rules around when and how they're worn. The collar itself might be a literal pet-store collar, a custom hand-tooled piece, or a discreet necklace or choker suitable for non-kinky settings.

Consensual nonconsent: scenarios where all parties have agreed in advance to activities that look like, or technically involve, non-consent. Rape play is a common example — the "victim" has pre-consented even while appearing to resist.

Couples should always negotiate boundaries ahead of time, including agreeing on a safe word. This kind of play should never happen spontaneously. Skipping negotiation or ignoring safe words can turn consensual nonconsent into real trauma, or even actual sexual assault.

Learn: Consensual non-consent 101: Complete guide to CNC kink play.

Psst, interested in BDSM? Check out the BDSM rules that keep it safe and sane.

Corsetry: wearing a corset, sometimes to the point of reshaping the body. Tight-lacing is what makes waist training possible, and some dominants use it to restrict breathing too. It's not limited to the waist and stomach, either.

Coulrophilia: attraction to clowns, jesters, or mimes — not exactly a fixture on most common-kink lists.

Cross-dressing: wearing clothing associated with the opposite sex. For some it's non-sexual, for others it's very much part of arousal. It can involve clothes, accessories, makeup, and wigs.

Crurophilia: a leg-focused kink.

Crush fetish: centers on crushing small animals or objects; squashing kink is a closely related interest.

Cunnilingus: this can describe a woman's kink for receiving oral sex, or anyone's kink for performing it. Cunnilingus pairs naturally with pussy worship. If your partner is genuinely into going down on you, you likely won't need to convince him to go down on you.

Cupping: small cups or jars are pressed upside down against the skin, typically the back. Fire or a hand pump creates suction, leaving temporary bruising and a tight sensation. Aggressive cupping can break skin, but done properly it's considered safe — the flame only creates suction and never actually touches the skin.

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Dacryphilia: arousal triggered by tears or crying.

Degradation: if being talked down to during sex turns you on, this might be your kink. It pairs especially well with domination and submission dynamics. Enjoying this — whether giving or receiving — doesn't reflect how much you actually respect your partner. Of course, it's not for everyone, and that's completely fine.

Dendrophilia: also called Arbophilia, and one of the more unusual entries on any kink list — sexual attraction to trees, whether for their phallic shape or their texture. Can overlap with xylophilia.

Diapers: usually tied to infantilism, though not always.

Discipline: giving or receiving punishment for real or perceived rule-breaking. It plays a central role in many power-exchange relationships and tends to appeal to masochists on the receiving end and sadists on the giving end. 16 punishment ideas for subs.

Dirty talking: a fairly mild kink centered on talking dirty during sex — some people wouldn't even classify it as a fetish. See also narratophilia. How to talk dirty + 73 dirty talk phrases.

Doraphilia: arousal tied to skin, leather, or fur. Hyphephilia is a similar fetish focused on touching hair, fur, skin, or particular fabrics.

Double penetration: simultaneous penetration of the vagina and anus, whether through toys, penises, or a mix of both. It's often part of group sex scenarios like MFM, which show up frequently within the swinging lifestyle.

Dracophilia: a fetish for dragons. Fantasy-focused companies like Bad Dragon even produce dragon dildos, some of which ejaculate!

DVP: short for double vaginal penetration. Unlike standard double penetration (simultaneous anal and vaginal), DVP involves two penises, or a penis and a toy, both in the vagina. It can be satisfying for everyone involved, though it demands lube and preparation, and typically only one partner has enough room to actually thrust.

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Edge play: an umbrella term for risky or extreme kinks — think choking, breath play, knife play, fire play, or anything that draws blood.

Elastophilia: a fetish for stretchy materials like spandex, latex, or silicone. Elastophiles often enjoy bouncing on these surfaces or sinking into something stretchy.

Electric play: playing with uncontrolled electricity is genuinely dangerous and can even cause cardiac arrest. That said, most people without pacemakers, heart conditions, or other implants can safely explore this kink using TENS units or violet wands.

Endytophilia: arousal from having sex with a clothed partner.

Enemas (klismaphilia) [8, 9]: inserting a tube into the anus to flush the rectum with liquid, usually water though other fluids (including urine) sometimes get used. Enemas can prepare the body for anal activities, though that's not a requirement — they can also function as punishment or a form of control.

Enkuopoiphilia: impregnation fetish, or breeding. We've got an entire guide on the breeding kink.

Eproctophilia: arousal from flatulence [10], a subtype of olfactophilia.

Exhibitionism: a common kink centered on being nude or sexually active in front of others. Masturbating in front of a partner is a mild version, while performing at sex windows or BDSM parties offers a safer, more structured way to explore it further. Public sex overlaps here too. Related terms include agrexophilia (arousal from others knowing about your sex life) and autagonistophilia (exposing yourself on stage or in photographs). The mirror image of voyeurism.

Discover: How to explore your exhibitionism kink.

Exoticism: fetishizing elements or people from Far Eastern cultures (Japan, China, etc.), including fictional worlds inspired by them. A fixation on geishas is a common Western example of this fetish. See also Otherness.

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Face fucking: an intense variation of oral sex where a man thrusts roughly into a partner's mouth. Not inherently dangerous, but it can cause discomfort, tears, gagging, or even vomiting.

Face sitting: a woman sitting on a man's face while he performs oral sex on her. It can include mild breath restriction, though it doesn't have to, and it reads as strongly dominant. Check out other ways to dominate your man.

Face slapping: a slap to the face that grabs attention and "corrects" a mistake. You'll probably only enjoy this if you lean masochistic, but it's fairly tame next to some other entries here. Slapping during sex guide.

Fat fetishism: sexual attraction toward people who are overweight or obese, tied to their size. Gaining, or feederism (covered below under "Forced feeding"), is a related variant where the appeal centers on the process of weight gain itself rather than size alone. Check out the 12 best sex positions for fat people.

Fellatio: not usually classified as a kink, though it counts as one for some people. Check out the Blow Job Guide for tips.

Fictophilia: sexual attraction to fictional characters, typically experienced as unrequited longing.

Figging: using peeled ginger root inserted anally or vaginally to create a burning sensation.

Fighting/Wrestling: play fighting or wrestling gets its charge from physical closeness and the struggle for control. Even "losing" doesn't really feel like losing! And if watching other people fight turns you on, you're far from alone.

Fire play: an edge play category involving flames and fire — about as hardcore as kink gets. It can be genuinely dangerous, and singed hair can smell awful (shaving beforehand helps). Fire/heat sits at the opposite end of the spectrum from cold/ice play.

Fisting: penetration using an entire hand. Despite the name, it typically starts with a straight hand and tucked thumb, duck-bill style. Once the knuckles — the widest part — are inserted, the fingers can curl into more of a fist shape. Fisting demands time, patience, trust, and generous lube.

Flogging (flagellation): striking someone with a multi-tailed tool called a flogger. Depending on how hard it's swung, flogging can range from a gentle warm-up to something intense enough to break skin. Flogger tails come in materials like fur, leather, suede, rubber, silicone, and ball-chain.

Food play: working food into sex, whether that means using a partner as a serving surface, covering their body in something like whipped cream or chocolate sauce and licking it off, or getting creative in other ways. It can be a lot of fun, but be cautious using food near the vagina since it can contribute to a yeast infection. A fetish for food itself is called sitophilia.

Foot fetish (podophilia): enjoying feet in a sexual context — footjobs, licking, sucking, massaging. In a power-exchange scene, foot worship might take the form of polishing shoes or boots, even with the tongue. Some see it as an odd kink, others swear by it.

Forced feeding: an intense kink involving forcing someone to eat, sometimes with the goal of weight gain. It falls under the body modification umbrella. Feederism sometimes specifically means men feeding women, though it's used more broadly too.

Formicophilia: arousal from insects, particularly the sensation of them crawling on or nibbling the skin — far from a run-of-the-mill kink. A specific fetish for bees and wasps is called melissophilia, while attraction to spiders is arachnophilia.

Forniphilia: a BDSM kink where a person serves as literal furniture for others to use.

Frotting: rubbing two penises together, sometimes with one partner holding both in place. Related terms include frottage (rubbing while clothed for stimulation) and frotteurism (rubbing against someone without their knowledge or consent). All three are hot topics in the kink world!

Furries: a kink that runs hot, quite literally. Furries dress as animals or humanoid animal characters, sometimes in full-body fur suits. Many incorporate animal-shaped dildos into strap-on play, and plenty engage in role playing games and cosplay as part of a broader (and sometimes costly) lifestyle.

Note: some furries stick purely to costuming and role play with zero sexual component (though not everyone agrees there's a clear line). "Yiffy" is the term used for the explicitly sexualized side of furry fandom.

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Gags: a form of mouth-based bondage. Ball gags are the most familiar type, but options also include bits, cleave gags, pacifier gags, penis gags, and spider gags. Not usually dangerous, though they can be uncomfortable — proper fit matters.

Gerontophilia: attraction to someone from a significantly older generation. May-December relationships can fall under this kink specifically when the age gap itself is the draw.

Golden showers: see watersports.

Group sex (Polyiterophilia): multi-partner scenarios can be thrilling, though they come with their own complications. Threesomes are the most common setup (a specific fascination with three-person sex is called troilism). Learn how to have a threesome and try these satisfying threesome positions.

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Haematomania, aka hematolagnia: arousal tied to blood, including wounds, vampirism, or biting to draw blood. Unsurprisingly, this carries real danger.

Harpaxophilia: a fetish for being robbed, which can be played out within consensual non-consent. Chrematistophilia is a related kink involving being forced to pay for sex.

Helplessness: any role centered on being helpless — perhaps as the "victim" of a role-play partner (robber, kidnapper), or with the partner cast as a rescuer (a princess needing saving, an overwhelmed housewife).

Homeovestism: attraction to wearing clothing tied to one's own gender, or to others dressed in what society deems gender-appropriate clothing. First defined by George Zavitzianos [11].

Hybristophilia: arousal from knowing a partner has committed a serious crime — cheating, lying, robbery, even murder. Sometimes called Bonnie and Clyde Syndrome, after the infamous American outlaw duo. One partner gets turned on by the other's misdeeds, and some people find themselves drawn to incarcerated criminals specifically.

Hypnotism: in an erotic context, hypnosis can function as a form of consensual nonconsent. A sexy magician-and-assistant role play is a fun way to try it.

Hypoxia: a paraphilia involving submersion underwater to limit breathing — a form of erotic asphyxiation that can be fatal [12].

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Immobility: a bondage-adjacent kink that can also involve forced feeding.

Impact play: covers any activity involving hitting, whether with body parts or tools — spanking, flogging, whipping, paddling, and more, with intensity ranging widely depending on the tool and force used.

Impregnation: fascination with the idea of getting someone pregnant, typically framed from a man's perspective.

Imprisonment: fixation on being locked inside cages, cells, coffins, or similar enclosed spaces.

Infantilism: a specific age-play variant where someone acts as an infant, potentially using pacifiers, diapers, and bottles, often with a second person playing nanny or parent.

Internal cumshots: related to semen fetishism, but the arousal here comes specifically from being ejaculated into rather than onto. If pregnancy prevention matters, anal sex is the only safe route for this kink — though STIs can still spread through semen even anally. Also called a creampie fetish.

Intercrural or interfemoral sex: thrusting between someone's thighs without actual penetration. How to thrust during sex.

Intoxication: using drugs or alcohol before or during a sex scene. This can lead to poor judgment, risky choices, and mistakes that turn dangerous — even fatal — particularly when combined with edge play.

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Japanese bondage (Shibari): some people are drawn specifically to these intricate rope ties.

Jerk off instructions (JOI): being given step-by-step instructions on how to masturbate.

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Katoptronophilia: a fetish for having sex in front of mirrors — a fairly common one.

Keraunophilia: fascination with thunder and lightning, related to arousal from storms generally (brontophilia). You can't exactly incorporate a thunderstorm into sex, but it makes a great backdrop, and plenty of people notice heightened desire during storms.

Kigurumi: a fetish centered on wearing anime-style masks, particularly men wearing masks depicting women.

Knife play: an edge play category involving real knives or blades, or just the suggestion of them. Breaking skin during play like this carries genuine risk.

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Lactation: this fetish centers on lactating breasts — milk production specifically. Plenty of women enjoy the sensation of nipple suckling, and their partners enjoy the breastfeeding dynamic itself. Some fetishists actively encourage lactation that wouldn't otherwise happen because the milk itself is the draw (lactophilia), while others enjoy the breastfeeding act without any milk involved. How to breastfeed your man.

Latex/rubber: latex, rubber, PVC, and similar materials have a glossy look that catches the eye and photographs beautifully. Plenty of retailers specialize in latex gear and clothing if this appeals to you.

Lesbophilia: men with this kink find lesbian sex especially appealing, sometimes to the point of imagining themselves as women in girl-on-girl scenarios. These 14 lesbian sex positions offer some inspiration.

Lingerie: a kink for lingerie itself — buying it, wearing it, sometimes even across genders it wasn't designed for.

Lithophilia: a fetish for rocks, stones, or gravel, which can exist in non-sexual forms too.

We're roughly halfway through the full kink list now!

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Macro Fetish: an attraction to giant partners — this can mean plus-sized in reality, or giants within fantasy role play and fiction.

Macrogenitalism: a fetish for unusually large genitals, not limited to penises.

Maiesiophilia: sexual attraction to pregnancy or childbirth.

Maschalagnia: a fetish focused on armpits — kissing, licking, smelling — sometimes including penetration of the armpit for stimulation.

Masochism: finding enjoyment in pain, punishment, or torture. Someone with this trait is a masochist, usually (though not always) leaning submissive, and sometimes balanced by an accompanying pleasure kink.

Go deeper: How to explore sadism and masochism.

Mechanophilia: sexual attraction to machines, distinct from other fetishes that focus narrowly on robots. It can also involve the desire to have sex in or on a machine — a car, motorcycle, plane, and so on.

Medical play: role play built around medical scenarios, tools (scalpels, needles, speculums), and uniforms. It often involves a "doctor" examining — and sometimes taking advantage of — a "patient." Play piercing frequently shows up here too. Any play that breaks the skin carries infection risk.

Menophilia: a fixation on menstrual blood. People with this kink don't just tolerate period sex — they may actively prefer it, oral sex included.

Merinthophilia: the fetish for bondage. See also vincilagnia elsewhere on this list.

Mess fetish (hygrophilia): if you'd rather avoid the wet spot entirely, this one probably isn't for you. Mess fetishists enjoy the fluids created during sex — using them as lube, drinking them, "painting" a partner's body, or passing them back and forth orally (snowballing).

Micro fetish: the flip side of macro fetish — enjoying a partner who's much smaller, or being the smaller partner yourself, sometimes paired with enjoying the sensation of being "crushed."

Military: often paired with a broader uniform fetish.

Mixophilia: a kink for watching yourself have sex, whether through recordings or mirrors.

Morphophilia: attraction to bodies or body parts that deviate from the norm — amputees, people of short stature, or other physical differences.

Mummification: near-total or complete restraint that eliminates almost all movement. A vacuum bed or plastic wrap can achieve this, though it's risky if airflow gets blocked. Extreme temperatures can also come into play, making hydration essential for doing it safely.

Muscles: a fetish for well-defined or large muscles, with muscle worship as one variation.

Mysophilia: attraction to dirt or soiled items, particularly things dirtied by bodily fluids during sex — used underwear being a classic example.

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Narratophilia: a kink for telling and hearing dirty stories, or weaving dirty talk into sex generally.

Nasolingus: a fetish for sucking on someone's nose.

Nasophilia: fetish for noses.

Necrophilia: attraction to human corpses.

Necrozoophilia: attraction to deceased animals.

Needle play: playing with needles, which can involve breaking skin or temporary piercings. Needles can also be used simply for scratching sensations.

Nonconsensual: a "kink" for sex without consent — rape. Any nonconsensual sexual activity is a form of sexual assault, is illegal, traumatizing, and dangerous.

Nullification: fixation on removing a body part entirely — extremely dangerous territory.

Nullo: an extreme fetish involving genital removal. In real practice, it's exceptionally dangerous and can be fatal.

Nyctophilia: attraction to the night, or to darkness more generally. Scotophilia carries the same meaning.

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Objectophilia (Objectum Sexuality): also called fetishism in a technical sense — arousal from, and sexual activity with, an inanimate object like a shoe.

Oculolinctus: desire to lick eyeballs.

Oculophilia: fixation on eyes.

Odaxelagnia: kink for biting or being bitten, which may or may not draw blood.

Odontophilia: a general fetish for teeth — biting, licking, or even the idea of their removal.

Olfactophilia: attraction to smells, particularly strong body odors. Osmolagnia specifically refers to sweat or gaseous emissions.

Omorashi: the Japanese term for a fetish tied to having a full bladder and wetting oneself, often shortened to "omo."

Orgasm denial: play involving withholding, limiting, ruining, or delaying someone's orgasm.

Otherness: attraction to someone perceived as foreign or "other," aliens included. See xenophilia and exoticism.

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Pantyhose fetish: arousal from pantyhose — watching someone put them on, wear them, sometimes tear them — though the item alone can be arousing even unworn. Some have preferences for specific styles, like visible seams.

Parthenophilia: a fetish for virginal partners.

Partialism: fixation on a specific body part rather than the whole person — eyes, faces, forearms, and feet are common, but really any part can qualify.

Pecattiphilia: fetish for sinning or breaking religious rules.

Pediophilia: fetish for dolls, sex dolls in particular.

Penis Humiliation: a kink involving insulting a man's penis — its size, look, or performance. There's a whole range of ways people get off on humiliation, insulting, and degradation.

Peodeiktophilia: exposing one's penis to others (flashing).

Pet play: any kink involving acting as a domesticated pet — cats and dogs are especially popular, often complete with leashes, collars, and food or water dishes.

Phalloorchoalgolagnia: arousal from pain directed at male genitals. See also cock and ball torture (CBT).

Phallophilia: fixation on large penises.

Phobophilia: arousal tied to fear, which can extend to hatred as well.

Phygephilia: a fetish for being on the run as a fugitive.

Pictophilia: fetish for watching porn, often focused on the same performer repeatedly.

Play piercing (Piquerism, Picquerism): temporary piercing done for decoration and for the sensation of the skin breaking.

Plushophilia: fetish or paraphilia for stuffed animals, sometimes narrowed specifically to teddy bears, and often overlapping with the furry community. Entire online communities are built around it.

Pony play: a kink for acting as a pony, or as a pony's handler. "Ponies" might wear blinders, bits, bridles, or fake ears and hooves, and are "trained" by their handlers — sometimes even performing manual tasks.

Psychrophilia: arousal from being cold, or watching someone else be cold — sex in freezers, meat lockers, or around ice can scratch this itch. In unrelated scientific contexts, a psychrophile is an organism that thrives in extreme cold, like at the poles or deep ocean.

Pregnancy: this goes beyond simply appreciating a pregnant glow — some people are drawn intensely to a pregnant woman's body. It's common enough to have multiple names, including preggophilia and maieusophoria. Your own partner might be surprised how turned on he gets when you're pregnant, and shifting hormones might have you wanting more sex too.

Psychrocism: fetish for being cold, having sex with a cold partner, or using cold objects — ice cubes, chilled dildos — during sex.

Pteronphilia: kink for being tickled specifically with feathers.

Pubephilia: fixation on pubic hair, a subject that's shown up plenty in literature and art.

Pygmalionism: sexual fixation on human-like figures, especially ones you've made yourself — sometimes leading to arousal involving statues or mannequins.

Pygophilia: partialism directed at butts — looking, touching, playing.

Pyrolagnia: arousal from watching or starting fires. Playing with fire is genuinely risky, and at least one academic study has examined it [13].

Pyrophilia: a broader fascination with fire. Setting fires or using flame during sex is dangerous, though massage candles are safe thanks to their low melting point, and fire cupping is generally considered safe too.

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Quirofilia: fetish for hands. Some fixate on specific parts — fingers, nails — or prefer particular sizes and shapes. Others enjoy watching hands perform actions, sexual or otherwise, like washing dishes.

More: 14 masturbation tips for better orgasms.

Quiet sex: heightened arousal from having sex that stays silent, perhaps because someone might overhear. Gags can play into this.

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Rape fantasy: a fetish built around acting out a pretend assault (a form of consensual nonconsent), which can appeal to either the "victim" or the "perpetrator." Arousal tied to the idea of rape specifically is called raptophilia. Discover other common sexual fantasies.

Revving: a kink for watching someone rev an engine, especially in heels — also known as "pedal pushing" or "pedal pumping." Plenty of explicit and non-explicit content online features women barefoot or in heels working the gas pedal, sometimes referred to as "gas pedal honeys."

Retifism: fetish for shoes and footwear, also known as altocalciphilia.

Rhabdophilia: a fetish for receiving physical beatings, like flogging or whipping.

Robotism: an unusual attraction to androids, gynoids, or cyborgs.

Ropework: a kink for rope-based bondage. Shibari — more accurately "Kinbaku" — is a well-known Japanese-inspired style worth adding to your list.

Rimming: a kink for giving or receiving rim jobs.

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Sadism: enjoying the act of inflicting pain, often tied to a dominant role. Sadists and masochists frequently pair up to meet each other's needs.

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Savantophilia: a fetish for people with cognitive impairments or delays.

Scar fetish: attraction to scars from surgery or injury, often tied to associations with risk-taking or masculinity. Plenty of romance novels lean on this trope.

Scatophilia: a fetish for fecal matter, also called coprophilia — one of the most taboo entries here.

Sensation play: a lighter kink involving exchanging different sensations across the skin — soft, hard, bumpy, smooth, hot, cold. Pain isn't necessarily involved, though it can be layered in during lighter BDSM play.

Sensory deprivation: any play that removes access to one of the five senses — blindfolds for sight, gloves for touch, earmuffs for hearing. How to explore your sensory deprivation kink.

Siderodromophilia: fetish for trains, or for sex on a train specifically.

Slime fetish: a kink for slime and slimy textures — tentacles are a classic example in popular media, and this overlaps closely with mess fetish.

Sneezing Fetish: arousal from watching someone else sneeze, usually while nude. Sneezing triggers a bodily response with some similarity to orgasm, and this kink sometimes pairs with tickling or forced-urination interests.

Snuff: a fantasy fetish centered on killing or being killed, often regarded as more urban legend than reality. Obviously extremely dangerous and illegal if ever attempted for real.

Somnophilia: a fetish for sexual partners who are asleep — a rare one [14]. Some enjoy the "sleeping princess" trope specifically. In practice, partners need to give prior consent for any activity that happens while asleep, since a sleeping person can't consent in the moment — though definitions of this kink vary.

Sounding: inserting thin tubes, typically glass or metal, into the urethra — one of the more common forms of urethral play [15]. Kinksters often use medical-grade sounds, and this can be part of medical play more broadly. It carries risk, particularly if an object breaks off internally or isn't properly sanitized, but that hasn't stopped it from being a popular fetish.

Spanking: a relatively "mainstream" kink plenty of people have tried firsthand. A firm hand can serve as both punishment and enticement within power-exchange dynamics, including domestic discipline relationships and schoolgirl role play. Some people enjoy it casually without feeling especially kinky, while for others it gets pretty intense.

Read: Erotic Spanking: The What, Why & How

Spectrophilia: attraction to ghosts, spirits, or similar figures — a surprising one to see on a kink list.

Stigmatophilia: fetish for piercings, and sometimes tattoos. See also body modification fetish.

Stockings: a commonly fetishized item — some love all styles, others prefer specifics, like lace tops, garter attachments, or a visible back seam.

Strap-on: a fetish centered specifically on strap-on use, which can enable anal, oral, or vaginal penetration. Anal penetration of a male partner with a strap-on is pegging — check out 17 wild pegging positions for ideas.

Stygiophilia: arousal from thoughts of hell or eternal damnation.

Stuffing: eating to the point of physical discomfort or pain.

Suspension: being suspended off the ground, or suspending a partner, using ropes, harnesses, or other rigging.

Symphorphilia: fetish for watching car accidents or other traumatic events.

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Taphephilia: fetish for being buried alive, which can connect to an imprisonment kink.

Teasing (Tantalolagnia): finding sexual gratification in teasing — whether prolonged sexual buildup or playful insults and ribbing.

Technophilia: a fetish for technology broadly — robots, AI, sex machines. This includes kinks around cybernetic enhancements, and sometimes even a fixation on amputation as a concept.

Teleiophilia: an erotic preference for people between physical maturity and middle age, first described in 2000 by Ray Blanchard and Howard Barbaree [16].

Telephonicophilia: fetish for phone sex and dirty talk over the phone.

Tentacle fetish: attraction to tentacles, often explored through animated erotica and tentacle-shaped dildos.

Teratophilia: attraction to people with bodily differences or deformities — an umbrella term covering several others on this list, including stigmatophilia, morphophilia, and acrotomophilia. It can also describe attraction to "actual" monsters.

Thesauromania: a kink for collecting women's clothing, sometimes narrowed to specific items like underwear.

Tickling (Knismolagnia, Knismo, Titillagnia): tickling can function as teasing, but for some it's a standalone kink. People into it may enjoy surrendering control, or fighting to hold onto it. Tickling to the point of losing bladder control is one variation, and tickle torture involves tickling someone while they're restrained.

Trampling fetish: a fetish for stepping on someone, or being stepped on.

Transformation fetish: a niche kink centered on transforming into another person or even a non-human creature, common in hentai and some written erotica.

Trichophilia: hair fetish. Tips and techniques for pulling your partner's hair.

Troilism: fetish for threesomes, which can include a kink for watching your partner with someone else.

Tripsolagnophilia: massage fetish. Even without an outright fetish for it, sensual massage is relaxing and makes great foreplay!

Related: Erotic Massage 101 – Sensual Massage Techniques

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Underwear fetish: fascination with underwear, typically women's. Men with this kink might collect, wear, or smell it.

Uniforms: plenty of women find a man in uniform appealing, though not every couple brings that into the bedroom. Those who do may well have a uniform fetish. Uniforms can signal authority (military, police, firefighter) or help you step into a role (student, waitress, Playboy bunny), and a well-fitted one shows off the body nicely. If your job comes with a uniform, you're already set — otherwise, costume shops and uniform-inspired lingerie fill the gap.

Ursusagalmatophilia: kink for teddy bears, or for dressing as one.

Urtication: using nettle plants to sting a partner's skin.

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Vaccinophilia: vaccination fetish. See also medical play and belonephilia.

Vicarphilia: enjoying sexual vicariousness — getting turned on by hearing about other people's sexual experiences.

Vincilagnia: a kink for being bound and at another person's mercy, a bondage subtype.

Vomit Fetish (Emetophilia): sexual fixation on vomit, as an act or substance.

Vore/Vorarephilia: fantasy desire to be eaten alive, or to eat someone alive. This would be extremely dangerous and illegal in reality, so it stays purely fantasy for nearly everyone who has it — you'll find tons of related art and fiction in online communities.

Voyeurism: a kink for watching others while nude or during sexual activity. Voyeurs and exhibitionists tend to pair up well. Non-consensual voyeurism can be illegal. Ecouteurism is a related kink for listening in on sex without permission, also called scopophilia.

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Watersports (urophilia): a fairly well-known kink, also called golden showers, involving urine play — being urinated on or urinating on a partner. A specific variant, wetting, involves urinating in one's own clothing or underwear.

Wax play: incorporating wax into sex. Massage candles are relatively safe thanks to their low melting point, but other waxes may run hotter and pose more risk — as does the open flame used to melt them.

Weapon fetish: arousal tied to weapons, a theme that shows up in some erotic media.

Wet and messy (WAM) fetish: arousal from being soiled by substances beyond bodily fluids, also called sploshing — food is a common example.

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Xenophilia: attraction to people or things perceived as exotic.

Xylophilia: fetish for wood, sometimes described more broadly as an attraction to nature itself.

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Yogic Sexuality: a framework for sexuality that emphasizes sexual energy and its ties to spirituality or the divine.

Yeastiality: sexual activity involving bread, warm dough especially — possibly more myth than widespread practice. Introducing yeast to the genitals risks an infection.

Yiffing: sex involving stuffed animals or furry play.

Last letter of our kink list coming up!

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Zelophilia: arousal tied to jealousy, whether your own or someone else's jealousy over you. Cuckold fantasies are a well-known example, where a man knows about — and sometimes watches — his partner with someone else. Tips for exploring the cuckold kink.

Zentai: wearing skintight suits and grinding against others in similar suits.

Zoophilia: dressing as an animal for sex, or feeling romantically drawn to animals.

Zoosexual: sexual attraction to animals. See bestiality.

Zwischenstufe: intense attachment to people, places, or situations in flux — particularly ones that feel fluid or undefined.

That wraps up our kink list, for now! There are countless sexual fetishes out there, and plenty of people carry more than one.

Did anything here catch your eye? You might be a little kinkier than you thought.

Most of the time, a kink or fetish is simply fun to explore. But some can be disturbing, dangerous, or illegal to act on, and if yours falls into that category — or starts disrupting your life rather than just spicing it up — it's worth seeking professional support.

Notice we left something off this list of top kinks and fetishes? Let us know in the comments below. We'd love to hear your favorites, and how it goes if you try something new from this list!

February 5, 2026