(no subject)
I don't get to use this icon enough.
ANYWAY to be honest, I stole this from idgiebay who was influenced by Plurk, so... damn you Plurkers? XDXD Anyway, the whole thing is to list story and/or real-life kinks, using this entry for the whole thing. Given content, etcetc, GO BACK NOW IF YOU DON'T WANNA READ IT.
Fiction kinks are beyond the cut, like when I go in search of some good fic, or in the odd log. Not that I have a real sex life to explore actual kinks in in the first place-- *shot* Anyway not all kinks either, but whatever that's the nature of the list XDXD All entries copy-pasted in as-is from the host entry.
→Abduction as seduction (beloved captives)
→Accidental stimulation (proximity and friction; involuntary arousal; situations of adrenaline and reflexes)
→Alpha males (alpha/beta male pairings; alpha/alpha pairings; het alpha males)
→Amnesia
→Anal sex (face to face, from behind, bottom riding top; standing; bent over desk; gay or straight; girl-on-boy with strap-on; girl-on-girl with strap-on)
→Angst (see Emotional themes)
→Animalistic behaviors and characteristics, dominant (snarling; sniffing; scent-marking or biting; other claiming acts; territoriality; predatory stalking; cuffing; forcing the partner's neck down; claws and other features)
→Animal themes or fetishization (physical transformation, e.g., animagi or werewolves; animalistic features; hirsutism as a fetish; tentacle sex; quasi animal forms such as centaurs, merfolk, intelligent dragons; pets, wild or domesticated; familiars; men showing affection toward animals, e.g., holding kittens, or nuzzling their horses; see also Otherness)
→Anti-heroes (sympathetic villains; villains with principles; noble demons; enemies who keep their word)
→Aphrodisiacs (see Intoxication and altered states)
→AUs (alternate characterizations and situations; sex between alternates of one character or between different characters; alternates as catalysts for realization of desire; role reversal; darker mirror universe characters; mistaken identity)
→Auctions (slave or slave charity)
→Bad boys (punks, rebels; see also Rogues)
→Bad girls (dirty girls; naughty schoolgirls; femme fatales)
→Baths and water (tubs or jacuzzis; hot springs; bath houses or steam rooms; the ocean; swimming pools; see also Washing; Shower sex)
→BDSM
→Begging or offering (begging or pleading for mercy, for sexual release, to be taken; a character offering himself; neediness)
→Beloved enemies
→Biological imperative (pon farr or mating drive; being in heat)
→Bisexuality
→Biting (marking, nipping, chewing)
→Blindness (see Voyeurism and vision themes)
→Blood (fetishization of wounds; blood-play; blood as lube; vampirism)
→Blow-jobs (oral sex, fellatio)
→Body swap
→Bondage
→Bonds (telepathic or empathic; psychic links; mating or soul bonds)
→Bottoming
→Breath (as a caress; hitching or ragged; indrawn breath or gasps; sighs)
→Bruises and other wounds
→Claiming or establishing ownership (private or public; by gesture, word, or ritual; with sex; with a collar and leash; with scent-marking or by biting)
→Clams (i.e., characters who are stoic, terse, repressed; see also Talking and communication issues; Silence)
→Climax (e.g., described in detail)
→Closeted partner(s) (see also Orientation issues; Society)
→Clothes fetishization (of any kind, e.g., uniforms; leather gear; worn blue jeans; thigh-highs; stilettos; leather jackets; tuxedos or GQ wear; constricting or modest clothes; boxer-briefs; going commando)
→Cock bondage (cock rings; harnesses and straps; leather ropework)
→Collars (slave)
→Coming in one's pants
→Coming in or on one's partner (in ass or mouth; in hair; on body; on face, i.e., facial)
→Coming quickly (premature ejaculation or knee-jerk reflex response)
→Coming without being touched
→Confessions (revelation of love/desire; of other secrets; truth or dare games. deathbed confessions; revealing truths when feverish)
→Conflicts and challenges (war and combat in general; sieges; Die Hard scenarios; jousting; gladiatorial games; wrestling and sparring; duels of honor; bets and sports competitions; romantic rivalries; seduction viewed as a challenge; misunderstandings and fights; break-ups; traded insults; stormy relationships; family strife; personality clashes; cultural differences; philosophical disagreements)
→Cross-dressing (forced or voluntary; drag queens or transvestites; see also Gender themes)
→Crossovers (characters thrust into other universes; canon universes merged; sex between characters played by same actor)
→Crush or unrequited love
→Cuddling (see Touch)
→Cyber themes (cybersex; virtual reality scenarios; e-mail/chatroom interaction, including secret admirer scenarios; see also Techno)
→Delayed gratification
→Discipline or punishment
→Discomfort during sex (rough edge of a table as counterpoint to pleasure; cold stone versus hot flesh; position is uncomfortable at first but then becomes perfect; penetration is painful, then pleasurable)
→Dominance and submission (See also Submission; Servitude; Master and slave, etc)
→Double penetration (anal, vaginal, or oral)
→Ejaculate, come (heavy loads; pre-ejaculate slickness; messy orgasms)
→Emotional themes, emo-kink (angst; wallows; darkfic; emotional damage; psychological trauma; tragic pasts; broken characters; guilt and shame; mental instability; sadness and grief; abandonment or fear of same; characters who can't go home again; fear in general; nightmares; loneliness; broken-heartedness; failure; insecurity; self-hatred; self-mutilation such as secret cutting; suicide; see also Insanity)
→Enemies working together
→Exposure (with or without eroticism; feeling physically exposed, such as with legs open; a woman's shirt being opened to expose her breasts; characters being forced to undress in public; someone opening a door on people having sex)
→Falling (falling from grace; going bad; turning to the Dark Side; Faustian deals; succumbing to temptation or addiction; degradation and descent in general)
→Fantasies (shared or solitary; role-playing)
→First times (first time between two individuals; losing virginity/cherry; first time doing a particular act; first time with a particular gender)
→Food (feeding one's partner; romantic dinners; food as foreplay or flirting; food used during sex, such as whipped cream or chocolate)
→Forbidden pleasures (love affairs or trysts; in general, wanting someone or something that's expressly forbidden)
→Forced feminization (see also Gender themes)
→Forced orgasm
→Foreplay
→Friendship and affection (gestures of friendship; epic friendships a la Gilgamesh/Enkidu or Alexander/Hephaistion; friendship as pre-slash)
→Friendship sex or buddy-sex (fuck buddies)
→Gags (ball-gags, scarves, mouth bits, etc)
→Gender themes (gender confusion; sex changes; genderfucks; hermaphrodites; cross-dressing or other forms of genderbending; drag queens and transvestites; androgyny; forced feminization; butch/femme; tomboys)
→Gentleness (tenderness; kindness; concern; gentle natures; characters who display sensitivity to fearful children, animals, the weak, etc; gentle responses at unexpected moments)
→Good boys (law enforcement figures; gentlemen; characters who prompt a desire to corrupt or provoke them, or to get them dirty; priests; prim schoolteachers; angels; nice guys; virtue and nobility in general)
→Hand-jobs
→Happiness (startled joy; passionate gratitude; ecstasy; comfort; happy endings)
→Heroic gestures (nobility; self-sacrifice; risking self to save someone's life; Gift of the Magi scenarios; taking the partner's place for torture; trading sexual favors to guards to procure food or medicine for partner; heroic deaths)
→Historical and period settings
→Hot spots (a special spot that make someone crazy when stimulated, such as the vampire spot on the neck, the backs of the knees, the inner arms, navel, or earlobes)
→Humor as a mask (characters who hide pain behind humor)
→Hurt/comfort (emotional and/or physical, including torture of all kinds and degrees, and any form of caretaking)
→Immobilization and/or helplessness
→Imprisonment, erotic (cages, cells, closets, coffins, etc)
→Intelligence (quick wit; street smarts; Machiavellian cleverness; Sherlock Holmesian deductive powers; geniuses; experts; criminal masterminds; see also Special powers and skills; Geeks and nebbishes)
→Intimacy
→Jewelry (decorative and/or symbolic; wedding rings; earrings; slave bracelets; piercings)
→Journeys (odysseys and quests; time-travel; being lost and trying to get home; road trips; pioneering and exploration, including space travel)
→Kissing, necking
→Lesbians or dykes (includes lesbianism as erotica for men)
→Loss of control (emotional, physical, situational, erotic, etc)
→Love and passion (falling in love; love at first sight; one true love; eternal love; unconditional love; star-crossed lovers; tempestuous passions)
→Love/hate relationship
→Magical themes (love spells; magical characters or creatures; magical lands or settings; predictions; curses; possession; fairytales; magical girls; see also Special powers and skills)
→Massage
→Master and slave (erotic or romantic slavery, or otherwise; see Power issues)
→Masturbation (solitary or as performance)
→Messiness and markers of arousal (mussed hair; flushed cheeks; swollen mouth; displaying bite marks or hickeys; clothes in disarray; sprawling; come-spattered skin)
→Multiple orgasms (See also Sexual appetite or excess)
→Multiple partners (sequential/serial sexual encounters; orgies, gang-bangs, or group sex; puppy-pile cuddling; see also Sexual appetite or excess)
→Music (singing; playing an instrument such as guitar or piano; composers; rock stars or bands; groupies; song lyrics)
→Names and address (endearments: sweetheart, honey, mine; nicknames: chief, kid, sport; terms that assert power: boy, cunt; insulting terms that may hide some affection: monkey-boy, Your Worshipfulness, you big furry oaf; using someone's name as a sign of intimacy; using only formal modes of address: Sir, Major)
→Neck fetishization (nape of the neck, throat, hickeys, etc)
→Nipple play or torture
→Noise (screaming or yelling during sex; whimpering or sobbing; purring, growling; slurping or moaning enthusiastically during blow-jobs)
→Non-consensual or semi-consensual sex (sexual extortion; bribery; reluctant or ambivalent partner; bondage and struggle; no means yes; other consent issues)
→Orgasm denial
→Original characters (i.e., pairing someone with an OMC or OFC)
→Otherness and outsiders (alien identity or transformation; mutants; demons and angels; hermaphrodites; eccentrics; elves and other magical beings; exoticism; half-human hybrids, e.g., the offspring of humans with demons, vampires, aliens, elves; racial difference in general; clones; twins; see also Secret identity; Special powers; Exoticism)
→Penance or reform (bad boy turns good; evil seeks to change; performing acts of atonement or restitution; self-mortification; martyrdom; selflessness; apologies or apology sex)
→Physical imperfections (scars or burns; acne pits; heaviness; outsized features such as ears or nose; jolie-laide/ugly-beautiful characters)
→Physical responses (face or ears burning; little hairs lifting on the scalp or neck; gut tightening; pulse quickening or missing a beat; lashes fluttering or lids growing heavy; mouth coming open; dick or pussy throbbing)
→Pillow biting
→Playing hard to get
→Possessiveness or jealousy
→Power issues (inequities in beauty, rank, or class; power games; BDSM; power reversals; sheikhs, sultans, princes, and other royal figures; teacher/student pairings; magical powers; abuse of power; blackmail; romantic slavery; liege/lord pairings; issues of respect; sexual scenarios such as a dominant character giving his partner to others to use, or a character kneeling beneath a desk and blowing someone who's on the phone)
→Prizes (characters who are eroticized as prizes or spoils of war)
→Protectiveness (physically or verbally defending someone; caretaking in general; big guy/little guy pairings; bodyguard scenarios; mysterious benefactors or protectors)
→Public displays of affection, PDAs
→Pushy bottom
→Rape (single assailant; gang rape; partner rape)
→Rape recovery
→Restraint (pinning someone down; pushing someone's arm up behind their back during sex; covering or clasping someone's hands to prevent movement)
→Restraints (handcuffs, leather ties, chains, etc)
→Restraints, full-body (stocks; suspension harnesses; fisting slings; rape racks)
→Reversal of role or fortune (loss of love, power, rank, etc; hunter becomes prey, master becomes slave; a strong character is made weak; role-reversal games; Flowers for Algernon scenario)
→Rogues (outlaws, highwaymen, mercenaries, pirates, gangsters, hitmen, etc; black sheep and royal bastards; Han Solo characters; tricksters; see also Violent and dark natures and Rough behavior)
→Romance (see Love and passion; Courting; Seduction)
→Ropework (intricate/artistic erotic bondage)
→Rough sex (quick and dirty sex; hate or grudge sex; angry sex; fighting/wrestling; jackhammer fucking; sex with no or little lube)
→Sadism or sadomasochism
→Sandwich sexual position or chain fuck (threesome)
→Seduction (one-on-one; two-on-one; verbal or physical; intense erotic courtship or teasing; see also Courting)
→Sensory overload or enhancement
→Sex change (gender swap; forced feminization; see also Gender themes)
→Sex in public or semi-public places
→Sex in vehicles (cars, taxis, limos; planes or space shuttles; motorcycles; carnival rides)
→Sex is interrupted
→Sex on, against, or under furniture
→Sex outdoors/outside (in a field; in a rainstorm; with snow falling; on the beach; in a graveyard; in an alley)
→Sex slaves or mates (concubines, catamites, etc)
→Sex standing up (including against a wall)
→Sex with clothes still on or partly on
→Sexual appetite or excess (hypersexuality, i.e., high sex drive; sex addiction or compulsive behavior; short/no refractory period; multiple orgasms; multiple partners; indiscriminate sex or sluttishness)
→Sexual discovery (of one's orientation; of new kinds of pleasure; of one's partner)
→Sexual experience or expertise (high number of partners; wide variety of sexual experience; demonstrating experience by taking the lead in sex or teaching one's partner)
→Sexual frustration (orgasm denial or being unable to come; blue balls; enforced abstinence; self-denial; inability of two people to touch)
→Sexual hang-ups
→Sexual movements (back arching; hips lifting; thrusting back; writhing, jerking, bucking; clenching; grinding or rocking; trembling or shivering; hooking legs around shoulders; pressing someone's legs back toward the bed; riding someone's fingers)
→Shower sex
→Silence (slave silence; silence as an erotic element in sex; trying to be silent during semi-public sex; going nonverbal or speechless with arousal; traumatic mutism; selective mutism; sign language; gestures used to convey feelings rather than words; see also Clams)
→Simultaneous orgasm
→Slavery (see Master and slave)
→Sleep and bedding themes (sharing a bed by necessity, such as in a hotel with only one room left; sharing a sleeping bag for warmth; sex while drowsy or sleeping; sex as a sleep aid; autonomic arousal from proximity; morning wake-up sex, falling asleep against someone's shoulder; watching someone sleep; dreams; nightmares; dream lovers, e.g., succubi; exotic or romantic beds, e.g., canopied; furs as bedding; silk sheets)
→Slow and/or prolonged sex
→Smarm (intense friendship with physical closeness but no actual sex)
→Smiles or laughing
→Snark
→Spooning
→Submission (obedience; submissive behaviors such as boot kissing, crawling, keeping one's eyes lowered, or kneeling for master; believing in cultural dictates of submissive behavior; abasement in general)
→Techno (technophilic themes; artificial humans; character is copied or downloaded into mechanical host body; other ghost in the machine scenarios; androids and cyborgs as sexual partners; wetwear enhancements; cyberpunk aesthetic; VR or Matrix scenarios; see also Otherness)
→Telepathy (see also Bonds and mental abilities; Special powers and skills)
→Temperamental personalities (driven or obsessed; hot-tempered or testy; moody; misanthropic or bitter; abrasive)
→Tentacle sex
→Threesomes (M/F/M, M/M/M, etc)
→Top/bottom pairings (also seme/uke)
→Topping
→Topping from the bottom
→Touching (stroking and caressing; cuddling or nuzzling; huddling for warmth; hugging; holding hands in public; touching as UST; brief brushes of contact either deliberate or accidental; PDAs; thighs brushing under a table; comic physical entanglements; someone gripping a wounded character's hand)
→Toys and devices (sex toys of all kinds; feathers, ice cubes, hot wax, etc)
→Tragic flaws
→Trapped or stranded together (on another world; on a desert island; in a cave-in; in a cabin during a snowstorm; in an elevator)
→Trust and vows (promises are kept or broken; loyalty or betrayal; absolute trust or doubt; fidelity or infidelity; blindfolds or bondage as trust symbols; commitment or fear of commitment; acts of devotion; marriage vows; unconditional love; blood brothers and oaths; showing trust/faith in someone's abilities)
→Undressing (undressing in front of someone for the first time; one character undressing another; fumbling clumsily to get undressed; stripteases)
→Urgency for sex (begging to suck cock; desperate to fuck; greedy bottom)
→UST (unresolved sexual tension)
→Vaginal/female genital fetishization (wet, tight; virginal; aching/stiff clit; wide lips; multi-orgasmic)
→Vaginal penetration (e.g., deep dicking)
→Virgins or inexperienced partners
→Voice fetishization (cracking or broken; husky, low, throaty; purring; accents; whispering close to someone's ear)
→Voyeurism and vision themes (character A secretly watches B and C have sex; character A is forced to watch B and C have sex; character A watches character B perform/masturbate; viewing one's beloved in general; taking pictures or video; eye contact, especially as flirting; establishing authority with a look; closing eyes as a trust gesture; character A feeling that character B truly sees him, when no one else does; the quality of light, e.g., characters lit by moonlight or candlelight, or gilded by the setting sun; being in the dark; temporary or permanent blindness; gazes as objectification)
→Vulnerability
→Well-fucked (being fucked out; fuck-dazed; sated and sleepy; wrecked; softened and debauched)
→Wet dreams or erotic dreams
→Wish-fulfillment
→Wings (wingfic)
ANYWAY to be honest, I stole this from idgiebay who was influenced by Plurk, so... damn you Plurkers? XDXD Anyway, the whole thing is to list story and/or real-life kinks, using this entry for the whole thing. Given content, etcetc, GO BACK NOW IF YOU DON'T WANNA READ IT.
Fiction kinks are beyond the cut, like when I go in search of some good fic, or in the odd log. Not that I have a real sex life to explore actual kinks in in the first place-- *shot* Anyway not all kinks either, but whatever that's the nature of the list XDXD All entries copy-pasted in as-is from the host entry.
→Abduction as seduction (beloved captives)
→Accidental stimulation (proximity and friction; involuntary arousal; situations of adrenaline and reflexes)
→Alpha males (alpha/beta male pairings; alpha/alpha pairings; het alpha males)
→Amnesia
→Anal sex (face to face, from behind, bottom riding top; standing; bent over desk; gay or straight; girl-on-boy with strap-on; girl-on-girl with strap-on)
→Angst (see Emotional themes)
→Animalistic behaviors and characteristics, dominant (snarling; sniffing; scent-marking or biting; other claiming acts; territoriality; predatory stalking; cuffing; forcing the partner's neck down; claws and other features)
→Animal themes or fetishization (physical transformation, e.g., animagi or werewolves; animalistic features; hirsutism as a fetish; tentacle sex; quasi animal forms such as centaurs, merfolk, intelligent dragons; pets, wild or domesticated; familiars; men showing affection toward animals, e.g., holding kittens, or nuzzling their horses; see also Otherness)
→Anti-heroes (sympathetic villains; villains with principles; noble demons; enemies who keep their word)
→Aphrodisiacs (see Intoxication and altered states)
→AUs (alternate characterizations and situations; sex between alternates of one character or between different characters; alternates as catalysts for realization of desire; role reversal; darker mirror universe characters; mistaken identity)
→Auctions (slave or slave charity)
→Bad boys (punks, rebels; see also Rogues)
→Bad girls (dirty girls; naughty schoolgirls; femme fatales)
→Baths and water (tubs or jacuzzis; hot springs; bath houses or steam rooms; the ocean; swimming pools; see also Washing; Shower sex)
→BDSM
→Begging or offering (begging or pleading for mercy, for sexual release, to be taken; a character offering himself; neediness)
→Beloved enemies
→Biological imperative (pon farr or mating drive; being in heat)
→Bisexuality
→Biting (marking, nipping, chewing)
→Blindness (see Voyeurism and vision themes)
→Blood (fetishization of wounds; blood-play; blood as lube; vampirism)
→Blow-jobs (oral sex, fellatio)
→Body swap
→Bondage
→Bonds (telepathic or empathic; psychic links; mating or soul bonds)
→Bottoming
→Breath (as a caress; hitching or ragged; indrawn breath or gasps; sighs)
→Bruises and other wounds
→Claiming or establishing ownership (private or public; by gesture, word, or ritual; with sex; with a collar and leash; with scent-marking or by biting)
→Clams (i.e., characters who are stoic, terse, repressed; see also Talking and communication issues; Silence)
→Climax (e.g., described in detail)
→Closeted partner(s) (see also Orientation issues; Society)
→Clothes fetishization (of any kind, e.g., uniforms; leather gear; worn blue jeans; thigh-highs; stilettos; leather jackets; tuxedos or GQ wear; constricting or modest clothes; boxer-briefs; going commando)
→Cock bondage (cock rings; harnesses and straps; leather ropework)
→Collars (slave)
→Coming in one's pants
→Coming in or on one's partner (in ass or mouth; in hair; on body; on face, i.e., facial)
→Coming quickly (premature ejaculation or knee-jerk reflex response)
→Coming without being touched
→Confessions (revelation of love/desire; of other secrets; truth or dare games. deathbed confessions; revealing truths when feverish)
→Conflicts and challenges (war and combat in general; sieges; Die Hard scenarios; jousting; gladiatorial games; wrestling and sparring; duels of honor; bets and sports competitions; romantic rivalries; seduction viewed as a challenge; misunderstandings and fights; break-ups; traded insults; stormy relationships; family strife; personality clashes; cultural differences; philosophical disagreements)
→Cross-dressing (forced or voluntary; drag queens or transvestites; see also Gender themes)
→Crossovers (characters thrust into other universes; canon universes merged; sex between characters played by same actor)
→Crush or unrequited love
→Cuddling (see Touch)
→Cyber themes (cybersex; virtual reality scenarios; e-mail/chatroom interaction, including secret admirer scenarios; see also Techno)
→Delayed gratification
→Discipline or punishment
→Discomfort during sex (rough edge of a table as counterpoint to pleasure; cold stone versus hot flesh; position is uncomfortable at first but then becomes perfect; penetration is painful, then pleasurable)
→Dominance and submission (See also Submission; Servitude; Master and slave, etc)
→Double penetration (anal, vaginal, or oral)
→Ejaculate, come (heavy loads; pre-ejaculate slickness; messy orgasms)
→Emotional themes, emo-kink (angst; wallows; darkfic; emotional damage; psychological trauma; tragic pasts; broken characters; guilt and shame; mental instability; sadness and grief; abandonment or fear of same; characters who can't go home again; fear in general; nightmares; loneliness; broken-heartedness; failure; insecurity; self-hatred; self-mutilation such as secret cutting; suicide; see also Insanity)
→Enemies working together
→Exposure (with or without eroticism; feeling physically exposed, such as with legs open; a woman's shirt being opened to expose her breasts; characters being forced to undress in public; someone opening a door on people having sex)
→Falling (falling from grace; going bad; turning to the Dark Side; Faustian deals; succumbing to temptation or addiction; degradation and descent in general)
→Fantasies (shared or solitary; role-playing)
→First times (first time between two individuals; losing virginity/cherry; first time doing a particular act; first time with a particular gender)
→Food (feeding one's partner; romantic dinners; food as foreplay or flirting; food used during sex, such as whipped cream or chocolate)
→Forbidden pleasures (love affairs or trysts; in general, wanting someone or something that's expressly forbidden)
→Forced feminization (see also Gender themes)
→Forced orgasm
→Foreplay
→Friendship and affection (gestures of friendship; epic friendships a la Gilgamesh/Enkidu or Alexander/Hephaistion; friendship as pre-slash)
→Friendship sex or buddy-sex (fuck buddies)
→Gags (ball-gags, scarves, mouth bits, etc)
→Gender themes (gender confusion; sex changes; genderfucks; hermaphrodites; cross-dressing or other forms of genderbending; drag queens and transvestites; androgyny; forced feminization; butch/femme; tomboys)
→Gentleness (tenderness; kindness; concern; gentle natures; characters who display sensitivity to fearful children, animals, the weak, etc; gentle responses at unexpected moments)
→Good boys (law enforcement figures; gentlemen; characters who prompt a desire to corrupt or provoke them, or to get them dirty; priests; prim schoolteachers; angels; nice guys; virtue and nobility in general)
→Hand-jobs
→Happiness (startled joy; passionate gratitude; ecstasy; comfort; happy endings)
→Heroic gestures (nobility; self-sacrifice; risking self to save someone's life; Gift of the Magi scenarios; taking the partner's place for torture; trading sexual favors to guards to procure food or medicine for partner; heroic deaths)
→Historical and period settings
→Hot spots (a special spot that make someone crazy when stimulated, such as the vampire spot on the neck, the backs of the knees, the inner arms, navel, or earlobes)
→Humor as a mask (characters who hide pain behind humor)
→Hurt/comfort (emotional and/or physical, including torture of all kinds and degrees, and any form of caretaking)
→Immobilization and/or helplessness
→Imprisonment, erotic (cages, cells, closets, coffins, etc)
→Intelligence (quick wit; street smarts; Machiavellian cleverness; Sherlock Holmesian deductive powers; geniuses; experts; criminal masterminds; see also Special powers and skills; Geeks and nebbishes)
→Intimacy
→Jewelry (decorative and/or symbolic; wedding rings; earrings; slave bracelets; piercings)
→Journeys (odysseys and quests; time-travel; being lost and trying to get home; road trips; pioneering and exploration, including space travel)
→Kissing, necking
→Lesbians or dykes (includes lesbianism as erotica for men)
→Loss of control (emotional, physical, situational, erotic, etc)
→Love and passion (falling in love; love at first sight; one true love; eternal love; unconditional love; star-crossed lovers; tempestuous passions)
→Love/hate relationship
→Magical themes (love spells; magical characters or creatures; magical lands or settings; predictions; curses; possession; fairytales; magical girls; see also Special powers and skills)
→Massage
→Master and slave (erotic or romantic slavery, or otherwise; see Power issues)
→Masturbation (solitary or as performance)
→Messiness and markers of arousal (mussed hair; flushed cheeks; swollen mouth; displaying bite marks or hickeys; clothes in disarray; sprawling; come-spattered skin)
→Multiple orgasms (See also Sexual appetite or excess)
→Multiple partners (sequential/serial sexual encounters; orgies, gang-bangs, or group sex; puppy-pile cuddling; see also Sexual appetite or excess)
→Music (singing; playing an instrument such as guitar or piano; composers; rock stars or bands; groupies; song lyrics)
→Names and address (endearments: sweetheart, honey, mine; nicknames: chief, kid, sport; terms that assert power: boy, cunt; insulting terms that may hide some affection: monkey-boy, Your Worshipfulness, you big furry oaf; using someone's name as a sign of intimacy; using only formal modes of address: Sir, Major)
→Neck fetishization (nape of the neck, throat, hickeys, etc)
→Nipple play or torture
→Noise (screaming or yelling during sex; whimpering or sobbing; purring, growling; slurping or moaning enthusiastically during blow-jobs)
→Non-consensual or semi-consensual sex (sexual extortion; bribery; reluctant or ambivalent partner; bondage and struggle; no means yes; other consent issues)
→Orgasm denial
→Original characters (i.e., pairing someone with an OMC or OFC)
→Otherness and outsiders (alien identity or transformation; mutants; demons and angels; hermaphrodites; eccentrics; elves and other magical beings; exoticism; half-human hybrids, e.g., the offspring of humans with demons, vampires, aliens, elves; racial difference in general; clones; twins; see also Secret identity; Special powers; Exoticism)
→Penance or reform (bad boy turns good; evil seeks to change; performing acts of atonement or restitution; self-mortification; martyrdom; selflessness; apologies or apology sex)
→Physical imperfections (scars or burns; acne pits; heaviness; outsized features such as ears or nose; jolie-laide/ugly-beautiful characters)
→Physical responses (face or ears burning; little hairs lifting on the scalp or neck; gut tightening; pulse quickening or missing a beat; lashes fluttering or lids growing heavy; mouth coming open; dick or pussy throbbing)
→Pillow biting
→Playing hard to get
→Possessiveness or jealousy
→Power issues (inequities in beauty, rank, or class; power games; BDSM; power reversals; sheikhs, sultans, princes, and other royal figures; teacher/student pairings; magical powers; abuse of power; blackmail; romantic slavery; liege/lord pairings; issues of respect; sexual scenarios such as a dominant character giving his partner to others to use, or a character kneeling beneath a desk and blowing someone who's on the phone)
→Prizes (characters who are eroticized as prizes or spoils of war)
→Protectiveness (physically or verbally defending someone; caretaking in general; big guy/little guy pairings; bodyguard scenarios; mysterious benefactors or protectors)
→Public displays of affection, PDAs
→Pushy bottom
→Rape (single assailant; gang rape; partner rape)
→Rape recovery
→Restraint (pinning someone down; pushing someone's arm up behind their back during sex; covering or clasping someone's hands to prevent movement)
→Restraints (handcuffs, leather ties, chains, etc)
→Restraints, full-body (stocks; suspension harnesses; fisting slings; rape racks)
→Reversal of role or fortune (loss of love, power, rank, etc; hunter becomes prey, master becomes slave; a strong character is made weak; role-reversal games; Flowers for Algernon scenario)
→Rogues (outlaws, highwaymen, mercenaries, pirates, gangsters, hitmen, etc; black sheep and royal bastards; Han Solo characters; tricksters; see also Violent and dark natures and Rough behavior)
→Romance (see Love and passion; Courting; Seduction)
→Ropework (intricate/artistic erotic bondage)
→Rough sex (quick and dirty sex; hate or grudge sex; angry sex; fighting/wrestling; jackhammer fucking; sex with no or little lube)
→Sadism or sadomasochism
→Sandwich sexual position or chain fuck (threesome)
→Seduction (one-on-one; two-on-one; verbal or physical; intense erotic courtship or teasing; see also Courting)
→Sensory overload or enhancement
→Sex change (gender swap; forced feminization; see also Gender themes)
→Sex in public or semi-public places
→Sex in vehicles (cars, taxis, limos; planes or space shuttles; motorcycles; carnival rides)
→Sex is interrupted
→Sex on, against, or under furniture
→Sex outdoors/outside (in a field; in a rainstorm; with snow falling; on the beach; in a graveyard; in an alley)
→Sex slaves or mates (concubines, catamites, etc)
→Sex standing up (including against a wall)
→Sex with clothes still on or partly on
→Sexual appetite or excess (hypersexuality, i.e., high sex drive; sex addiction or compulsive behavior; short/no refractory period; multiple orgasms; multiple partners; indiscriminate sex or sluttishness)
→Sexual discovery (of one's orientation; of new kinds of pleasure; of one's partner)
→Sexual experience or expertise (high number of partners; wide variety of sexual experience; demonstrating experience by taking the lead in sex or teaching one's partner)
→Sexual frustration (orgasm denial or being unable to come; blue balls; enforced abstinence; self-denial; inability of two people to touch)
→Sexual hang-ups
→Sexual movements (back arching; hips lifting; thrusting back; writhing, jerking, bucking; clenching; grinding or rocking; trembling or shivering; hooking legs around shoulders; pressing someone's legs back toward the bed; riding someone's fingers)
→Shower sex
→Silence (slave silence; silence as an erotic element in sex; trying to be silent during semi-public sex; going nonverbal or speechless with arousal; traumatic mutism; selective mutism; sign language; gestures used to convey feelings rather than words; see also Clams)
→Simultaneous orgasm
→Slavery (see Master and slave)
→Sleep and bedding themes (sharing a bed by necessity, such as in a hotel with only one room left; sharing a sleeping bag for warmth; sex while drowsy or sleeping; sex as a sleep aid; autonomic arousal from proximity; morning wake-up sex, falling asleep against someone's shoulder; watching someone sleep; dreams; nightmares; dream lovers, e.g., succubi; exotic or romantic beds, e.g., canopied; furs as bedding; silk sheets)
→Slow and/or prolonged sex
→Smarm (intense friendship with physical closeness but no actual sex)
→Smiles or laughing
→Snark
→Spooning
→Submission (obedience; submissive behaviors such as boot kissing, crawling, keeping one's eyes lowered, or kneeling for master; believing in cultural dictates of submissive behavior; abasement in general)
→Techno (technophilic themes; artificial humans; character is copied or downloaded into mechanical host body; other ghost in the machine scenarios; androids and cyborgs as sexual partners; wetwear enhancements; cyberpunk aesthetic; VR or Matrix scenarios; see also Otherness)
→Telepathy (see also Bonds and mental abilities; Special powers and skills)
→Temperamental personalities (driven or obsessed; hot-tempered or testy; moody; misanthropic or bitter; abrasive)
→Tentacle sex
→Threesomes (M/F/M, M/M/M, etc)
→Top/bottom pairings (also seme/uke)
→Topping
→Topping from the bottom
→Touching (stroking and caressing; cuddling or nuzzling; huddling for warmth; hugging; holding hands in public; touching as UST; brief brushes of contact either deliberate or accidental; PDAs; thighs brushing under a table; comic physical entanglements; someone gripping a wounded character's hand)
→Toys and devices (sex toys of all kinds; feathers, ice cubes, hot wax, etc)
→Tragic flaws
→Trapped or stranded together (on another world; on a desert island; in a cave-in; in a cabin during a snowstorm; in an elevator)
→Trust and vows (promises are kept or broken; loyalty or betrayal; absolute trust or doubt; fidelity or infidelity; blindfolds or bondage as trust symbols; commitment or fear of commitment; acts of devotion; marriage vows; unconditional love; blood brothers and oaths; showing trust/faith in someone's abilities)
→Undressing (undressing in front of someone for the first time; one character undressing another; fumbling clumsily to get undressed; stripteases)
→Urgency for sex (begging to suck cock; desperate to fuck; greedy bottom)
→UST (unresolved sexual tension)
→Vaginal/female genital fetishization (wet, tight; virginal; aching/stiff clit; wide lips; multi-orgasmic)
→Vaginal penetration (e.g., deep dicking)
→Virgins or inexperienced partners
→Voice fetishization (cracking or broken; husky, low, throaty; purring; accents; whispering close to someone's ear)
→Voyeurism and vision themes (character A secretly watches B and C have sex; character A is forced to watch B and C have sex; character A watches character B perform/masturbate; viewing one's beloved in general; taking pictures or video; eye contact, especially as flirting; establishing authority with a look; closing eyes as a trust gesture; character A feeling that character B truly sees him, when no one else does; the quality of light, e.g., characters lit by moonlight or candlelight, or gilded by the setting sun; being in the dark; temporary or permanent blindness; gazes as objectification)
→Vulnerability
→Well-fucked (being fucked out; fuck-dazed; sated and sleepy; wrecked; softened and debauched)
→Wet dreams or erotic dreams
→Wish-fulfillment
→Wings (wingfic)