Hentai Genres Explained
This page lists the hentai and adult-media genre terms covered in hentai-pedia's English edition, with short definitions and links to the full articles. It also gathers the fetish and kink terms that most often overlap with genre labels in adult media. Jump to a section below, or browse the full A–Z index.
Hentai Media
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"Girlfriend formation" voice drama
A girlfriend-formation voice drama is a doujin-audio sub-category completing the arc from unrequited…
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Action Eroge
Action eroge is the adult-game category built on real-time action gameplay, with the doujin scene pr…
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Adult Anime (Broad-Sense Animated Erotica)
Adult anime is the Japanese category of animated works centred on sexual content. Surveys the 1980s …
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Adult digital comics and novels (Japan)
Adult digital books are the Japanese category for explicit manga, novels, and photo books distribute…
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Adult Game (Broad-Sense Adult Video Game)
Adult game is the broad-sense category of video games centred on sexual content. Distinguishes the i…
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Adult Magazines (Japan)
Adult magazines (seijin zasshi, ero-hon) are the postwar Japanese periodicals built around sexual co…
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Adult-oriented figures
Adult-oriented figures are collectible 1/4 to 1/7 scale figurines of bishōjo characters with high ex…
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Adultery scenario (J-AV genre)
Adultery scenario is the Japanese AV scenario class centred on the married-woman extramarital relati…
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AI-Generated Erotica
AI-generated erotica is sexual imagery produced by text-to-image diffusion models from 2022 onward. …
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Android / Gynoid Erotica
Android and gynoid erotica is the adult genre taking artificial humans as its subject. Perfect form,…
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AV comeback release (J-AV industry)
AV comeback is the Japanese industry term for the return-from-retirement release of an AV performer,…
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AV Debut Work
AV debut work is the Japanese adult-video term for a performer first commercial release. Surveys pro…
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AV Label Culture
AV label culture is the Japanese AV industry practice of branding internal production lines as label…
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Binaural audio (recording technique)
Binaural audio is a spatial recording technique using twin microphones at ear positions or a dummy h…
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Bishoujo Game (Japanese Dating Sim)
Bishoujo game is the Japanese genre of games centred on the romantic pursuit of female characters. S…
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BL (Boys' Love)
Boys' Love (BL) is the Japanese genre of male-male romance authored and read by women. Distinct from…
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Boyfriend Roleplay Audio
Boyfriend roleplay audio is a Japanese women-oriented doujin-audio sub-genre in which male voice act…
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Breaking-and-Submission Arc (Wakarase-ochi)
Wakarase-ochi is a fictional doujin genre linking wakarase (humbling an arrogant target) and mesu-oc…
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Business-Trip Genre (Shucchou-mono)
The business-trip genre is an AV situation type centred on sexual contact at the destination hotel o…
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CG Collection (CG-shu)
CG-shu is a Japanese doujin work format compiling dozens of digital illustrations with brief caption…
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Chikan-Themed Train Media (Fictional Adult Genre)
Chikan-themed train media is a Japanese AV genre depicting staged train scenarios. The article disti…
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Classroom-setting genre (J-adult fiction)
The classroom-setting genre is a Japanese adult-fiction type centred on the school classroom as stag…
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Close-Contact Audio
Close-contact audio reconstructs an embrace from rustling fabric, breathing, and close whispers. An …
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Cohabitation scenario (J-AV / hentai genre)
Cohabitation scenario is the Japanese adult-content category for works set in the daily life of a co…
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Comiket (Comic Market)
Comiket is the world's largest doujinshi convention, held twice annually in Tokyo. Surveys the 1975 …
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Company-Employee AV (Shain-mono)
Shain-mono is the lineage of project AV framed as an AV maker's own staff appearing on camera, the e…
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Compilation Edition (Soushuuhen)
The compilation edition is an AV package format that re-edits highlight scenes from already-released…
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Coupling (CP)
Coupling (CP) is the concept in yaoi and BL culture of designating which character is paired with wh…
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Cuddle Audio (Soine Voice)
Cuddle audio is a strand of doujin audio in which a performer lying beside the listener at bedtime s…
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Dakimakura
A dakimakura is a 150-160 cm body pillow sold in Japanese otaku culture with a printed cover depicti…
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Dakimakura cover
A dakimakura cover is a 150-160 cm pillowcase printed with a life-size character on each side. An in…
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Deepfake (Synthetic Media)
Deepfake refers to deep-learning-generated synthetic media impersonating real persons. Surveys the 2…
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Demon-Queen / Evil-Spirit Erotic Content
Demon-queen and evil-spirit erotic content is the Japanese adult-fiction genre of female demons and …
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Demon-Summoning Erotic Content
Demon-summoning erotic content is a Japanese supernatural-fiction adult genre. The protagonist summo…
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DLsite
DLsite is Japan's largest indie-content download platform, operated by Eisys since 1996. Covers the …
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Documentary-style AV (J-AV genre)
Documentary-style AV is the post-2000 J-AV genre staging the recruiting and shooting process itself …
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Doujin audio (Japanese independent audio works)
Doujin audio is the Japanese category for self-published audio works: situational voice, voice drama…
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Doujin game (Japanese self-published video games)
Doujin game is the Japanese category for self-published video games produced outside commercial publ…
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Doujin video (independent adult video)
Doujin video is the Japanese category for adult video produced independently of the commercial AV in…
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Doujinshi
Doujinshi is the Japanese term for self-published, fan-edited print works. Institutionalised by the …
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Ear-Cleaning Audio
Ear-cleaning audio records the cleaning of the ear with a pick or swab, binaurally capturing scrapin…
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Ear-Licking Audio
Ear-licking audio is the doujin-audio strand recording the licking and contact sounds of the ear in …
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Ecchi (Japanese Softcore Erotic Genre)
Ecchi is Japanese slang, from the letter H in hentai, for anything sexy or lewd. In English fandom i…
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Electric massager torment (J-AV subgenre)
Denma-zeme is the J-AV staging style in which an industrial electric massager is held against a rest…
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Ero ASMR
Ero ASMR is the Japanese adult audio genre applying binaural ASMR techniques to consensual erotic co…
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Ero guro
Ero guro is the Japanese genre fusing erotic and grotesque imagery in fiction. Rooted in the 1920s-3…
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Eroge
Eroge is the Japanese category for adult-themed computer games: early-1980s PC origins, late-1990s v…
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Eroge music culture (J-adult game soundtracks)
Eroge music culture is the body of soundtracks, theme songs, and composer practice for Japanese adul…
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Eroge voice actress culture (J-adult game industry)
Eroge voice actress culture is the working culture of female voice actresses in Japanese adult PC ga…
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Eromanga
Eromanga is the Japanese category for adult-oriented manga: 1970s sanryū-gekiga origins, the 1980s b…
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Erotic fiction (ero-shōsetsu)
Ero-shōsetsu is the broad Japanese category for prose fiction with sexual-content focus, spanning pr…
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Erotic RPG
Erotic RPG is the collective term for adult games built on turn-based combat, growth, and exploratio…
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Fantasy setting (J-eroge and adult game genre)
Fantasy setting is the Japanese adult-content category for works in a high-fantasy world of swords, …
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FANZA
FANZA is the Japanese adult-content platform DMM.com rebranded from DMM.R18 in August 2018. It hosts…
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Female-Oriented Doujin
Female-oriented doujin is the collective term for doujinshi, audio, and games made with women as the…
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Female-teacher genre (J-adult fiction)
The female-teacher genre is a Japanese adult-fiction situation type placing a fictional adult woman …
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Fighting-game erotic fan art
Fighting-game erotic fan art is the Japanese adult doujin field centred on the female characters of …
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Flight Attendant Genre (Stewardess Theme)
Flight attendant genre is a Japanese AV category featuring airline cabin crew in uniform. Covers cos…
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Four-Hour Package
The four-hour package is an AV product format selling around 240 minutes of running time as its main…
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Girlfriend Roleplay Audio (J-ASMR)
Girlfriend roleplay audio is a Japanese male-targeted genre in which a voice actress plays the girlf…
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Gravure (Japanese idol photo genre)
Gravure is the Japanese magazine genre of large-format idol and model photography, the central genre…
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Gravure AV (J-AV with gravure-idol or gravure-style production)
Gravure AV is the Japanese AV category covering both performers who entered AV from gravure-idol car…
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Hana to Hebi (Flower and Snake)
Hana to Hebi (Flower and Snake) is Dan Oniroku's 1962 SM novel and its many film adaptations, the fo…
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Haramase-mono (impregnation genre)
Haramase-mono is the Japanese fictional genre that makes impregnating a female character the subject…
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Harem genre (Japanese fictional configuration)
Harem is the Japanese narrative configuration in which a single fictional protagonist is surrounded …
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Heartbeat Voice (Shinon Voice)
Heartbeat voice is a strand of doujin audio thematising the heartbeat and breathing recorded against…
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Hentai 3D
Hentai 3D is Japanese-style adult work built from 3D computer models rather than hand-drawn art, mad…
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Hentai Anime
Hentai anime is the narrative animated form of Japanese adult animation, marked by longer arcs, epis…
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Hentai ASMR
Hentai ASMR is the audio-only branch of Japanese adult media, built on binaural recording and situat…
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Hentai Cosplay
Hentai cosplay is sexualised costume play tied to anime, manga, and game characters, spanning live-a…
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Hentai Doujin
Hentai doujin is the self-published, fan-circulated branch of Japanese sexual comics, sold at Comic …
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Hentai Game
Hentai game is the umbrella term for Japanese adult video games, dominated by visual novels but cove…
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Hentai Manga
Hentai manga is the print and digital form of explicitly sexual Japanese comics, spanning fifty year…
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Hentai Uncensored
Uncensored hentai is Japanese adult anime, manga, and games shown without the mosaic required under …
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Hentai Video
Hentai video is the animated form of Japanese adult moving image, distinct from live-action AV. Born…
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Idol-producer theme (J-adult media)
The idol-producer theme is a Japanese adult-fiction situation genre depicting scenarios between ente…
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Illustration collection (doujin art book)
An illustration collection is an adult art-book format gathering a single artist's illustrations, di…
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Interview-Themed AV (Mensetsu-mono)
Interview-themed AV is a Japanese adult-video sub-genre that re-enacts the casting or pre-shoot inte…
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Isekai genre (Japanese fantasy/adult setting)
Isekai is the Japanese genre in which a modern protagonist is reincarnated into a sword-and-magic wo…
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Japanese Adult Video (AV)
Adult Video (AV) is the Japanese category of adult video productions that emerged in 1981 with the h…
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Kannō-shōsetsu (Japanese commercial erotic fiction)
Kannō-shōsetsu is the Japanese literary-commercial-paperback erotic fiction sub-genre, distinct from…
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Kichiku-kei (brutal-abuse genre)
Kichiku-kei is a Japanese adult-fiction genre foregrounding violent, antisocial, non-consensual depi…
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Kikaku AV (planning-format AV)
Kikaku AV is the mass-produced Japanese AV line that puts a planning concept, not an individual actr…
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Ladies' comics (redikomi)
Ladies' comics (redikomi) are Japanese adult women's manga for housewives aged 30 and over, born in …
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Live-action eroge
Live-action eroge are adult computer games using filmed footage or photographs as material. They flo…
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Love doll
A love doll is a life-size human-figure doll for sexual or companion use. Silicone and TPE with inte…
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Lucky sukebe (accidental fanservice)
Lucky sukebe is the Japanese manga and anime device in which a protagonist, by accident and against …
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Machi-Nanpa (Street Pickup AV)
Machi-nanpa is the Japanese AV planning genre built on the staged street pickup of supposedly ordina…
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Magic Mirror Gou
Magic Mirror Gou is a Soft On Demand AV series (1996–) built around a converted RV with a one-way mi…
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Mahou-mono (Magic-Themed Genre)
Mahou-mono is the adult genre placing magic and the supernatural at the core of its worldbuilding. I…
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Majime-Mono (Earnest Genre)
Majime-mono is the Japanese trade label for adult works built on emotional depth and developing rela…
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Married-woman scenario (J-AV genre)
Married-woman scenario is the Japanese AV category centred on married female protagonists in fiction…
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Namamono (Real-Person Fanwork)
Namamono is the colloquial term for fanwork based on real people such as celebrities and idols. Cove…
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Nanpa-Mono (Pickup Genre)
Nanpa-mono is the Japanese AV genre using the setup of approaching ordinary pedestrians and leading …
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Netoge-Mono (Online-Game Romance)
Netoge-mono is the situation genre for adult works where a relationship begins from an online game e…
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Newlywed Theme (Shinkon)
The newlywed theme places a couple just after the wedding at the centre, a pure-love subcategory han…
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Nijisousaku (Derivative Fanwork)
Nijisousaku is the umbrella term for derivative creation borrowing the settings and characters of an…
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Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Roman Porno is the adult theatrical film series Nikkatsu produced from 1971 to 1988. Covers the prod…
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Nukige
Nukige is the Japanese eroge sub-genre that prioritises explicit erotic content over narrative depth…
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Onahole
Onahole is a Japanese-English coinage (onanie + hole) for male masturbators with sculpted silicone o…
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Onasapo
Onasapo is the Japanese audio sub-genre in which a voice performer guides the listener's masturbatio…
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Otome game
Otome game is the Japanese genre of female-oriented romance simulations, with a female lead choosing…
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Outdoor Genre (Yagai-mono)
The outdoor genre stages sexual activity in open-air locations such as forests, parks and beaches, u…
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Parasocial streaming culture (gachikoi haishin)
Gachikoi streaming is the Japanese parasocial-romance audience around live-streaming platforms, exte…
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Partner Swapping (Swinging)
Swapping is the adult-media category in which couples exchange partners for sexual activity. Defined…
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Photobook (Shashinshu)
A shashinshu is a bound book of photographs built around one subject, covering postwar Japanese fema…
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Pixiv and Adult Doujin
The adult-content culture on Pixiv, the Japanese illustration platform. Through R-18 tags, modesty r…
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Priest/Nun Theme (Shisei-mono)
The priest/nun theme is an adult-fiction genre placing Christian clergy roles at the centre, using c…
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Private-tutor genre (J-adult fiction)
The private-tutor genre is a Japanese adult-fiction situation type with a fictional adult tutor visi…
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Pure-love genre (junai-kei)
Junai-kei is the Japanese adult-fiction genre fusing consensual romance with sexual depiction so bot…
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Receptionist Genre (Uketsuke)
The receptionist genre is an AV situation type centred on the female reception staff of a company en…
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Retirement Work (AV Final Appearance)
A retirement work is the final film an AV actress releases on leaving the industry. It carries an an…
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Reverse-rape roleplay audio (fictional female-dominant doujin voice)
Reverse-rape audio is the Japanese doujin-voice category for fictional roleplay where a female chara…
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Rookie Office Worker (Shinjin OL)
The rookie office-worker genre is an AV situation type placing a newly hired female employee at the …
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Ryona
Ryona is the Japanese subculture genre depicting fictional female characters taking damage in fictio…
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Ryoujoku-Mono (Non-Consensual Genre)
Ryoujoku-mono is a fictional AV and doujin genre using non-consensual acts as a device, with no affi…
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Ryouri-Mono (Cooking-Setting Genre)
Ryouri-mono is the collective term for adult works set in the kitchen and at the table, drawing sexu…
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Sacrificial-victim genre (J-hentai)
The sacrificial-victim genre is a Japanese adult-fantasy type depicting a fictional human offered to…
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Saikai-Mono (Reunion Genre)
Saikai-mono is the collective term for adult works taking a reunion with a parted lover as the start…
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Saimin-Mono (Hypnosis Genre)
Saimin-mono is a fictional AV and doujin genre premised on controlling a target through hypnosis, jo…
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School-Trip Genre (Shuugakuryokou-mono)
The school-trip genre is adult fiction set during overnight school events, with all characters set a…
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Secretary scenario (J-AV genre)
Secretary scenario is the Japanese AV configuration centred on the personal secretary of an executiv…
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Seikotsu-in Mono (Osteopathy / Massage Clinic Genre)
Seikotsu-in mono is the term for adult works set in osteopathy and massage clinics. A situation genr…
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Sekai-kei Adult Content
Sekai-kei adult content is adult fiction whose structure ties the protagonist-heroine bond directly …
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Shunga
Shunga is the Edo-period genre of erotic ukiyo-e prints. A major branch produced by almost all leadi…
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Shussan-mono (Childbirth-Themed Genre)
Shussan-mono is an adult-work genre depicting childbirth itself as the climax, compressing pregnancy…
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Situation Voice (Shichu-boe)
Situation voice is the term for audio works that proceed as a pseudo-dialogue between performer and …
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Slice-of-Life Erotica
Slice-of-life erotica depicts sexuality as an extension of everyday domestic life among lovers, spou…
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Solo vs. Project AV Classification
The solo-versus-project classification divides AV works by the lead actress's contract type and prod…
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Spanking
Spanking is the BDSM impact-play category of striking the buttocks with the palm or implements. In J…
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Sports Trainer Theme (J-AV)
The sports trainer theme covers adult works built on the relation between a physical instructor and …
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Sports-Setting Adult Content
Sports-setting adult content is adult fiction built on sports and club settings, combining costume s…
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Tentacle-mono (tentacle-genre adult media)
Tentacle-mono is the Japanese adult-media genre of works depicting tentacle-bearing fictional creatu…
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The Naked Director
The Naked Director is a Netflix original Japanese drama from 2019. Based on AV director Toru Muranis…
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Time-Stop Series (Japanese AV Genre)
The time-stop series is a Japanese adult video genre built on a time-freezing premise, established b…
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TL Manga (Teen's Love)
TL (Teen's Love) is a romance manga genre with sexual depiction aimed at women in their twenties, re…
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Training-camp scenario (J-AV / hentai genre)
Training camp is the Japanese adult-content category for works set in club, society, or workplace re…
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Training/development eroge
Training eroge is the Japanese adult-simulation type that makes the gradual change of a character's …
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TSF (Gender-Transformation Genre)
TSF is the Japanese fiction genre in which a character's body sex is transformed by an in-story devi…
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Vampire erotica genre (J-adult media)
Vampire erotica is a Japanese adult genre on vampire characters, layering the bite at the neck, bloo…
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Visual novel
Visual novel is the Japanese-origin game genre combining text, character sprites, backgrounds, music…
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Voyeurism-Themed Fiction
Voyeurism-themed fiction is the adult genre built on peeping and hidden observation. The one-directi…
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VR adult content
VR adult content covers HMD-delivered sexual material in two forms: live-action stereoscopic video (…
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VTubers and Erotic Content
The umbrella term for R-18 fan creation themed on VTubers, spreading into the doujin field from 2017…
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Whisper Voice
Whisper voice is a strand of doujin audio foregrounding close-range whispering at the ear. With bina…
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Women-oriented AV
Women-oriented AV is the category of Japanese adult video designed for a female viewer, foregroundin…
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Workplace Genre (Shokuba-mono)
The workplace genre is adult fiction staged in companies and offices, using occupational role relati…
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Yaoi
Yaoi is the Japanese fan-comic tradition of female-authored male-male romantic fiction, from late-19…
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Yuri
Yuri is the Japanese narrative genre of romantic and erotic relationships between women. Distinct fr…
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Fetish & Kink
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After-Bath Fetish
An after-bath fetish is the attraction to a partner just out of the bath: flushed skin, wet hair, a …
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Ahegao
Ahegao is a stylised facial expression in adult manga, doujinshi and anime denoting climax: rolled e…
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Airhead-character moe (tennen)
Tennen moe is the attraction to the airhead character who unwittingly shows slow comprehension and d…
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Anal plug (butt plug)
Anal plug or butt plug is the cone-or-onion-shaped adult-toy designed for anal insertion and retenti…
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Angel-character moe (tenshi)
Angel-character moe is the attraction to angel and fallen-angel characters. White wings, the halo, t…
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Ankle fetish
Ankle fetish is the body-part-kink category for sexual or aesthetic interest in the ankle's narrow c…
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Apron fetish
Apron fetish is the Japanese-language costume-kink category for sexual interest in women wearing apr…
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Armpit fetish (waki)
Armpit fetish (waki) is the international body-fetish for sexual interest in the armpit. Recognised …
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Asexual
Asexual names a sexual orientation in which a person experiences little or no sexual attraction towa…
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Ashi-fetish (foot fetish)
Ashi-fetish is the Japanese category for foot-and-leg fetish. One of the most widely-documented body…
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ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response)
ASMR is the popular name for a tingling sensation triggered by specific acoustic and visual stimuli.…
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Bachiboko
Bachiboko is a 2010s-onward Japanese internet slang term naming a genre of intense, physically vigor…
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Bakajoshi (Airhead Girl Archetype)
Bakajoshi is the Japanese adult-manga and doujinshi character archetype for a naive, sexually inexpe…
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Bandage kink (houtai)
Houtai is the Japanese category for the bandage kink. Anchored on the dual symbolic register of band…
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Batou (verbal humiliation play)
Batou is the Japanese SM-vocabulary term for consensual verbal-humiliation roleplay. Sits within SSC…
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BDSM
BDSM acronymises Bondage, Discipline, Dominance, Submission, Sadism and Masochism. Coined on early-1…
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Belly bulge (hara-kobu)
Belly bulge is the eromanga convention of drawing the insertion as a visible bulge through the abdom…
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Bikini fetish
Bikini fetish is the costume-kink for the two-piece female swimsuit with chest top and hip bottom. O…
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Biyaku (aphrodisiac)
Biyaku is the Japanese term for aphrodisiac. Modern pharmacology rejects most folk-aphrodisiac claim…
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Blazer School Uniform
Blazer school uniform is the post-1980s Japanese schoolgirl uniform style of jacket plus pleated ski…
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Bloomers (Japanese school PE shorts)
Bloomers (Japanese sense) are the female school PE shorts worn 1960s-1990s. Now phased out from scho…
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Blushing kink (akagao)
Akagao is the Japanese kink for involuntary facial flushing produced by shame or arousal. Cultural a…
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Bob-hair fetish
Bob-hair fetish is sustained sexual interest in the bob-cut hairstyle. 1920s Western modern-woman sy…
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Bodikon (Body-Conscious Fashion)
Bodikon is the Japanese loan-abbreviation of body-conscious: skin-tight fashion that defined late-19…
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Body Possession (Hyoui)
Body-possession theme is a supernatural-fiction Japanese genre where one consciousness transfers int…
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Boots fetish
Boots fetish is sustained sexual interest in women wearing boots, especially knee-high leather varie…
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Boshi Soukan (Mother-Son Theme in Fictional Adult Media)
Boshi soukan is the Japanese term for the mother-son theme in fictional adult media. Frames the genr…
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Boyish (anime character type)
Boyish is the Japanese moe-attribute archetype for female characters with short hair, masculine-code…
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Brassiere (bra)
Brassiere or bra is the upper-body undergarment that supports and covers the breasts. Modern form es…
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Bunny girl (Playboy bunny)
Bunny girl is the costume-kink centred on the Playboy Bunny uniform (1960s US): high-leg leotard, fi…
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Business Suit Fetish
Suit fetish in the Japanese-specific form centres on the women's business suit (tailored jacket, tig…
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Caretaking Fetish
A caretaking fetish is the attraction to the act of tending the sick, injured, or drunk, or to being…
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Casual-speech fetish (tameguchi)
Tameguchi fetish is the attraction to being addressed in casual speech by someone who should sociall…
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CBT (Cock and Ball Torture)
CBT (cock and ball torture) is a branch of BDSM applying stimulation, pressure, and restraint to the…
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Chakuero (clothed-erotic genre)
Chakuero is the Japanese non-nude erotic video and photo genre. Performers stay clothed in swimwear,…
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Chakui (clothed sex)
Chakui is the Japanese kink-aesthetic for sexual activity in which one or both partners remain cloth…
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Chastity device (teisoutai)
A chastity device physically restricts the wearer's genital contact, masturbation, and intercourse. …
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Cheek kink (hoo)
Hoo is the Japanese category for the cheek-kink. Two principal sub-registers: the soft-fullness-of-c…
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Cheerleader fetish
Cheerleader fetish is the costume-kink for women in cheer-uniform: cropped top, pleated mini-skirt, …
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Cheongsam / qipao fetish
Cheongsam / qipao fetish is the costume-kink for the body-hugging Chinese dress with mandarin collar…
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Chijo
Chijo is the Japanese genre label for sexually assertive women in adult media. Coined as the antonym…
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Chijoka (Becoming a Lustful Woman)
Chijoka is the Japanese hentai narrative type in which a chaste, sexually disinterested character tr…
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Childhood-Friend Scenario
Osananajimi-shichu is a relationship taste in which an opposite-sex friend from early childhood turn…
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Choker fetish
Choker fetish is the kink-aesthetic centred on chokers, narrow neck-bands worn close to the throat. …
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Chōkyō (training)
Chōkyō is the Japanese SM-narrative subgenre and consensual-practice category for sustained training…
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Clavicle Fetish (Sakotsu Fetish)
Clavicle fetish is aesthetic and sexual attraction to the shape, hollow, and line of the collarbone.…
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Corset
The corset is a women's body-shaping undergarment that compresses the torso from below the bust to t…
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Cosplay
Cosplay is a Japanese coinage from costume play. It names both the fan-cultural practice of dressing…
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Dark Elf (Fantasy Character Archetype)
The dark elf is a fantasy archetype with pointed ears and dark or tanned skin. In Japanese anime, er…
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Debu Otoko (Fat Bastard / Ugly Bastard)
Debu otoko is the Japanese adult-manga and doujinshi character archetype for the obese middle-aged m…
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Demisexual
Demisexual names a sexual orientation in which sexual attraction arises only after a strong emotiona…
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Demon Girl Moe (Akuma Chara)
Akuma chara moe is the Japanese otaku archetype for attraction to demon, succubus, and devil-themed …
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Denim fetish
Denim fetish is sustained sexual interest in women wearing denim or jeans. Centred on the hard fabri…
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Denma (wand massager)
Denma is the Japanese AV-industry term for the wand-style household massager repurposed as a vibrato…
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Desire to Be Restrained (Shibarareru)
The desire to be restrained is the bottom-side longing in rope-bondage SM: arousal at having one's b…
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Dialect Fetish (Hougen)
Dialect fetish is the aesthetic and erotic preference in Japanese fan culture for regional dialects …
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Dōgan fetish (baby-faced adult)
Dōgan fetish is the kink for adult women whose faces appear strikingly younger than their actual age…
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Dosukebe (Super-Lewd Character Type)
Dosukebe is the Japanese otaku character archetype for a perpetually horny, sexually forward female …
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Droopy-eyes fetish (tareme)
Tareme fetish is the pull felt toward downturned eyes whose outer corners slope down. It reads as ge…
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Eating-Sound Fetish (Shokuji-Oto Fetish)
Eating-sound fetish is attraction to the chewing, swallowing, and oral sounds people make while eati…
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Eye kink (me-fetish)
Me-fetish covers preference for the eye region as a sexual-aesthetic focus, split between an eye-sha…
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Female-initiated seduction (uridashi-kei)
Uridashi-kei is the character type and kink in which a woman actively sells her sexual appeal, seduc…
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Fetishism
Fetishism binds strong, persistent sexual arousal to a specific object, body part, material, or situ…
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Freckles Fetish (Sobakasu Fetish)
Freckles fetish is attraction to the freckles scattered across the cheeks and nose. Tied to a natura…
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Fundoshi
Fundoshi is the Japanese traditional loincloth: a long fabric strip wound around the hips. Once stan…
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Futomomo (thigh fetish)
Futomomo-fetish is the Japanese aesthetic for thighs as an independent erotic body-region. Combines …
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Gag play (sarugutsuwa)
Gag play uses an object in the mouth to restrict speech as a BDSM practice. Anchored on the visible-…
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Gakuen-mono (School-Setting Genre)
Gakuen-mono is the Japanese narrative category for stories set inside schools and academies. Its adu…
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Gangimari (Drugged-Face Expression)
Gangimari is the Japanese adult-manga and doujinshi visual sign-set for the face of a character whos…
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Gap Moe (Gyappu Moe)
Gap moe is the Japanese otaku term for sexual or romantic attraction to characters who reveal a side…
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Garter belt
Garter belt is a strap-and-clip undergarment for holding thigh-high stockings in place. Made functio…
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Genius-character moe (tensai)
Tensai moe is the attraction to the genius or prodigy character. The standard design pairs outstandi…
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Gibo (mother-in-law / stepmother kink)
Gibo is the Japanese kinship-term for mother-in-law or stepmother. Adult-content uses gibo for ficti…
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Gishi (stepsister / sister-in-law kink)
Gishi is the Japanese kinship-term for elder stepsister or elder sister-in-law. Adult-fiction frames…
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Gothic Lolita
Gothic Lolita is a Japanese fashion style fusing Victorian girls' dress with black gothic taste. Bor…
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Gym uniform (Japanese school PE attire)
The gym uniform is the athletic dress of Japanese school PE classes. In adult media it names the kin…
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Haiboku (Defeat-Themed Genre)
Haiboku is the Japanese adult-doujinshi narrative type in which a defeated battle-heroine becomes th…
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Hair kink (kami fetish / trichophilia)
Kami fetish (trichophilia) is the kink for hair as the principal arousal object: length, colour, tex…
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Hand fetish (te-fetish)
Hand fetish is attraction to a woman's hands, palms, and fingertips. The hand is the body's most exp…
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Haraguro Moe (Two-Faced Character Appeal)
Haraguro moe is the Japanese otaku archetype for attraction to characters whose surface presentation…
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Hard Pounding (Gan-tsuki / Geki-pisu)
Gan-tsuki is the Japanese adult-video industry term for sustained, high-speed, deep penetration as t…
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Hazukashi Play (Embarrassment Play)
Hazukashi play deliberately produces shame in the receiving partner and makes that emotion itself th…
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Heat (Omegaverse)
Heat is the cyclical reproductive phase in omegaverse (ABO) fiction that drives omega characters int…
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Height Difference Fetish
Height difference fetish is sexual or aesthetic attraction to a large height gap between partners, a…
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High heel
High heel is, in adult contexts, women's high-heeled footwear as a core clothing-fetishism element. …
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Hikikomori Character Moe
Hikikomori character moe is the Japanese preference for characters who avoid society and stay in the…
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Hime-dorei (princess-slave fantasy)
Hime-dorei is the Japanese fictional kink-narrative subgenre depicting captive high-born female char…
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Hizaura (back-of-knee fetish)
Hizaura-fetish is the niche aesthetic-and-erotic interest in the back of the knee. The popliteal fos…
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Ikemen Worship
Ikemen worship is the Japanese cultural preference for conventionally attractive men, central to BL …
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Inkya-kei (Introverted-Character Type)
Inkya-kei is the Japanese youth-slang archetype category for introverted, withdrawn, otaku-coded cha…
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Inmon (lewd crest)
Inmon is the Japanese hentai convention of fictional magical sigils on a character's lower abdomen, …
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Inran (Lewd Character Type)
Inran is an old Sino-Japanese word for a sexually assertive person, re-articulated in modern subcult…
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Iribitari (Lodger Cuckolding)
Iribitari is a cuckolding narrative type in which a third party lingers long-term in a household, er…
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Ishukan
Ishukan is the Japanese fictional genre depicting sexual encounters between humans and non-human bei…
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Jawline Fetish
Jawline fetish is a Japanese fan-culture term for sexual or aesthetic attraction to the contour of t…
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Joi (Female Doctor)
Joi is the female-doctor attribute: a mature woman bearing white coat, stethoscope, and exam room to…
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Kankin (Confinement)
Kankin names a confinement-themed fiction genre and time-limited, consensual restraint play under SM…
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Kasshoku (tan-skin kink)
Kasshoku is the Japanese aesthetic-fetish for tanned, sun-browned, or cosmetically-tanned skin. Anch…
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Keigo Fetish (Polite-Speech Kink)
Keigo fetish is attraction to a partner who keeps polite, formal speech. The appeal turns on a gap o…
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Kemono
Kemono is the Japanese subculture of anthropomorphic-animal characters and their fan community. Para…
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Kemonomimi (beast-ear character)
Kemonomimi is the moe character archetype of humanoid figures with animal ears and tail. Distinct fr…
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Kichiku-zeme (intense fictional kink)
Kichiku-zeme is the Japanese fictional sub-genre of intense torment-and-restraint scenes inside cons…
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Kimeseku (Chemsex)
Kimeseku is Japanese slang for sex under stimulant drugs. Known in English as chemsex, it became a s…
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Kimomen (Ugly Bastard)
Kimomen is Japanese slang for an adult male character whose looks are coded as repellent. A fixed ty…
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Kimono
Kimono is the generic name for Japanese traditional dress. In fetish-aesthetics it functions as the …
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Kinbaku
Kinbaku is the Japanese tradition of erotic rope-tying. Distantly descended from Edo-period torimewa…
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Kinpatsu (blonde-hair attraction)
Kinpatsu is the Japanese vocabulary for attraction to blonde hair. The register names foreign-imager…
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Knee-high socks (kink)
Knee-highs are over-the-knee socks ending mid-thigh, central to Japanese costume kink. The skin-band…
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Koshu Benjo (Public Toilet, Derogatory Metaphor)
Koshu benjo (public toilet) is a derogatory metaphor likening to a sanitary facility a woman who all…
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Koukai Play (Public Play)
Koukai play is consensual sexual or SM practice performed before an audience, set in SM bars, dedica…
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Kousoku (restraint / bondage)
Kousoku is the Japanese vocabulary for restraint and bondage, covering both the physical technique a…
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Kubi Fetish (Neck Fetish)
Kubi fetish is attraction to the neck, nape, and throat-line. Its pull comes from a part poised betw…
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Kunni-uke (preference for receiving cunnilingus)
Kunni-uke names the receiver-side desire in cunnilingus: the structural pleasure of being orally ser…
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Kuro Gyaru (Black Gyaru)
Kuro gyaru is the gyaru type that darkens the skin by tanning or makeup, and the taste for it. From …
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Kusuguri (tickling)
Kusuguri is the Japanese term for tickling. Tickle-play as a kink operates within consent-and-safety…
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Kuudere
Kuudere is a character archetype who stays cool and expressionless but shows affection (dere) only t…
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Kyodaika (Giantess)
Kyodaika is the Japanese genre of dramatically enlarged figures. In adult media it overlaps with the…
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Kyōei-mizugi (competitive swimsuit fetish)
Kyōei-mizugi is the Japanese kink configuration around women's competitive racing swimwear: high-leg…
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Kyoudai Soukan (Sibling Incest Genre)
Kyoudai soukan is a fiction type depicting siblings as objects of sexual desire. An adults-only, fic…
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Latex fetish (latex_kink)
Latex fetish is the kink-aesthetic for thin latex-rubber garments worn against the skin, with gloss,…
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Laughter fetish (waraikata)
Waraikata fetish is the pull felt toward a person's way of laughing, laugh-voice, and smile. The pit…
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Leotard
Leotard names the close-fitting one-piece worn in gymnastics, ballet, and dance, and the taste bindi…
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Lingerie
Lingerie is the decorative-and-erotic underwear category in contemporary fashion. The French-loan st…
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Long-hair kink
Long-hair kink covers preference for hair below the shoulder, often waist-length. Read across cultur…
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M-onna (submissive female, Japanese context)
M-onna is the Japanese term for a female in the submissive role of an SM relationship. Anchored in t…
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M-otoko (submissive male, Japanese context)
M-otoko is the Japanese term for a male in the submissive role of an SM relationship. Operates withi…
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M-Seikan (Female-Led Pleasure Service)
M-seikan is a Japanese sex-service category where female staff give male customers soft SM play and …
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Maid (kink and costume)
Maid names, in Japanese subculture, a costume-and-roleplay archetype based on Victorian household-se…
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Majo Fetish (Witch Fetish)
Majo fetish is attraction to witch and magical-girl characters, ranging from the classical pointed-h…
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Masochism
Masochism binds sexual pleasure to pain, humiliation, and being dominated. Coined in 1886 by Krafft-…
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Massage Play
Massage play is a staging mode disguising a practitioner-client relation as sexual contact. Set in m…
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Megane-joshi (bespectacled adult woman)
Megane-joshi is the Japanese kink for bespectacled adult women in professional contexts: office work…
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Meganekko (glasses-girl)
Meganekko is the Japanese moe-attribute category for spectacled female characters. It combines the v…
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Meiku Fetish (Makeup Fetish)
Meiku fetish is attraction to applying or fixing makeup, or to the made-up face itself. Its targets …
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Mekakushi (blindfold play)
Mekakushi covers consensual blindfold play within BDSM: visual deprivation sharpens the other senses…
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Menhera (Emotionally Unstable Archetype)
Menhera is slang for an emotionally unstable, dependent, self-harming personality, or a character at…
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Mesu-gao (female-aroused face)
Mesu-gao is the broader Japanese eromanga facial-expression category for the public-rational-mask dr…
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Mesu-ochi (Falling into Female Submission)
Mesu-ochi is a narrative type in which a character, through sexual submission, redefines the self as…
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Mesuiki (Glans-Focused)
Mesuiki kitō-zeme is a Japanese kink in which a man reaches a non-ejaculatory orgasm — mesuiki — thr…
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Miko (Shrine Maiden)
Miko are the female attendants at Shintō shrines, traditionally wearing a white robe and red hakama.…
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Mimi Fetish (Ear Fetish)
Mimi fetish is attraction to the shape, skin, and sound-relation of the ear. It blends visual apprec…
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Mind Break (Hentai Tag and Narrative Type)
Mind break is an English hentai tag for stories in which overwhelming pleasure dissolves an adult ch…
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Mind Control (Brainwashing Genre)
Mind control (sennou) is the fictional adult-media genre depicting step-by-step rewriting of a chara…
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Mitsuyu (Excessive Wetness)
Mitsuyu is the eromanga and doujinshi convention of drawing exaggerated volumes of arousal fluid, pa…
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Mole Fetish (Hokuro)
Mole fetish is the Japanese fan-culture preference for moles on the skin as a sexual or aesthetic fo…
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Monolid kink (hitoe-mabuta)
Hitoe-mabuta is the Japanese category for the monolid or hooded-eye kink. Anchored on the appreciati…
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Mucchiri (Soft-Voluptuous Body)
Mucchiri is the taste for a body neither too slim nor truly heavy: a moderate volume with softness, …
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Naked apron (hadaka apron)
Naked apron (hadaka apron) is the costume aesthetic of a woman wearing nothing but an apron. Establi…
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Namida-zeme (tear play)
Namida-zeme is the Japanese SM sub-genre and consensual practice that takes the eliciting of tears a…
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Nampa (Street Pickup)
Nampa is calling out to a stranger of the opposite sex in public to develop a relationship. This art…
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Navel fetish
Navel fetish is persistent sexual interest in the navel as a body-fetish category. The kink targets …
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Ne-back (prone-position rear-entry)
Ne-back is the Japanese AV vocabulary for prone-position rear-entry: the receiving partner lies flat…
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Negao kink (sleeping face fetish)
Negao kink names attraction to a partner's sleeping face: the unguarded expression that intimate co-…
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Neko (Bottom Role)
Neko is Japanese slang for the receptive, feminine-coded partner in same-sex relationships, especial…
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Nemurihime-play (Sleeping Beauty roleplay)
Nemurihime-play is pre-negotiated consensual roleplay in which one partner performs sleep. Strictly …
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Netorare (NTR)
Netorare (NTR, 寝取られ) is the Japanese narrative genre in which an exclusive partner is taken by a thi…
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Netorase (consensual cuckolding)
Netorase names the consensual-active variant of the netorare narrative: one partner arranges or enco…
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Netori (perspective-shifted netorare)
Netori is the Japanese narrative-perspective category in which fictional infidelity is told from the…
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Ningyo-moe (Mermaid Attraction)
Ningyo-moe is the attraction to mermaid-type characters with a human upper body and a fish lower bod…
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Ningyou-play (doll roleplay)
Ningyou-play is the consensual roleplay in which one partner performs the role of a doll: suspended …
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Ninshin (pregnancy kink / impregnation narrative)
Ninshin covers the Japanese kink configuration around pregnancy, splitting into haramase (impregnati…
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Nioi-fetish (smell fetish)
Nioi-fetish names attraction to body odours, natural scents, and scent-impregnated objects. The kink…
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Nobura (braless)
Nobura is the Japanese aesthetic for the braless state under clothing. The shape and movement of the…
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Nonke (Straight Man)
Nonke is Japanese gay-culture slang for a heterosexual man. From a contraction meaning 'no inclinati…
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Nopan (going commando, Japanese sense)
Nopan is the Japanese term for not wearing underwear. Used in private erotic contexts and in 1980s s…
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Nun (Shudoujo / Sister)
The nun (Japanese shudoujo, called sister) is a vowed woman of a Christian order. This covers her re…
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Nun (Sister) Fetish
Sister moe (nun fetish) is the Japanese subcultural taste for nun characters in habit and veil. A co…
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Nurse
Nurse names the healthcare worker and, in Japanese subculture, a roleplay taste built on the white u…
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Oho-goe (Oho Voice)
Oho-goe (oho voice) is a voice-acting style in which a refined female character, immersed in pleasur…
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Ojiichan (Older-Man Genre)
Ojiichan is a Japanese endearment for an elderly man, and in adult media a genre sign for the age-ga…
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Ojousama Character (Wealthy Heiress Archetype)
The ojousama character is a heiress archetype with polite speech, refined manners, and a gap from co…
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Older-woman preference (toshiue)
Toshiue-kei is the preference for female characters set older than the protagonist. It covers older-…
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One-Piece Swimsuit
One-piece swimsuit fetishism is the taste for the single-piece women's swimsuit and the figure it pr…
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Onee-chan Attribute
Onee-chan attribute is a relationship taste centred on addressing a woman as 'onee-chan' (big sister…
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Onee-san Attribute
Onee-san attribute is a character type for a woman a few years older, whose core appeal is care-taki…
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Onii-chan Attribute
Onii-chan attribute is a relationship taste centred on addressing a man as 'onii-chan' (big brother)…
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Onsen Play (Hot-Spring Scenarios)
Onsen play is the Japanese adult-video situation genre staged at hot-spring inns and open-air baths.…
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Otouto-kei (Younger-Brother Type)
Otouto-kei is the taste for a male character type marked by being younger, doting, and receptive, wi…
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Oyakodon (Mother-Daughter Threesome Trope)
Oyakodon, named after the chicken-and-egg rice bowl, is Japanese slang and an adult-fiction trope in…
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Pale Skin Fetish
Pale skin fetish is a strong sexual or aesthetic attraction to white, translucent skin: its colour, …
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Panchira
Panchira is the Japanese term for a brief glimpse of underwear from beneath a skirt. A stock visual …
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Pansexual
Pansexual describes attraction independent of gender. The article covers the term's roots in 1990s q…
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Pansuto (Pantyhose)
Pansuto is the Japanese contraction of panty-stocking. Atsugi launched the domestic version in 1968,…
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Paraphilia
Paraphilia is the contemporary clinical term for atypical sexual interest. DSM-5 distinguishes a par…
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Pet play
Pet play is the BDSM practice in which one consenting adult plays an animal role and the other plays…
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Piercing Fetish
A piercing fetish is the arousal at piercings worn on the body, especially nipple and genital pierci…
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Plain-Appearance Preference (Busu-kei)
Plain-appearance preference is the Japanese aesthetic preference for partners outside commercial bea…
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Police Officer Fetish (Keikan Fetish)
A police-officer fetish is strong sexual attraction to the uniformed officer, especially the policew…
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Polyamory
Polyamory is the practice of multiple simultaneous romantic relationships with informed consent of a…
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Ponytail (kink)
Ponytail is the hairstyle of gathered hair tied at the back or top of the head, and the correspondin…
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Pornography Addiction
Pornography addiction names a state where compulsive pornography use impairs daily life, relationshi…
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Praise-Kink Moe (Home-Jozu)
Praise-kink moe is the Japanese preference for characters skilled at giving compliments, intersectin…
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Princess Character (Hime-Kyara)
Princess character is the Japanese moe-attribute category for royal maidens in fantasy or imagined-k…
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Reading Fetish (Dokusho Fechi)
Reading fetish is the Japanese term for sexual or aesthetic attraction to the sight of a person abso…
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Refined-restraint eros (tashinami)
Tashinami-kei is the kink for the quiet sensuality of a composed adult woman. It desires the lapse a…
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Renzoku-ikasare (continuous forced-orgasm narrative)
Renzoku-ikasare is the Japanese AV-and-eromanga convention of continuous forced-orgasm scenes. Origi…
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Role Play (Sexual Roleplay)
Sexual role play is consensual character or scenario performance by adult partners. Covers job-role …
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Rolled-sleeves fetish (udemakuri)
Udemakuri fetish is the pull felt toward rolling up sleeves, or toward the rolled-sleeve forearm its…
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Rope Bondage Fundamentals (Shibari Basics)
Foundational shibari knot and safety knowledge: takate-kote, kikkou, chou-shibari, rope selection, n…
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Roshutsu (Exhibitionism)
Roshutsu is the taste linking undressing and exposure to arousal, and a fictional genre name, strict…
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Rotor
Rotor is the Japanese industry term for a small egg-shaped or capsule vibrator. Established in the 1…
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Rubber Fetish
Rubber fetish covers heavyweight rubber clothing as erotic interest. Originating in 20th-century Bri…
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Sabasaba Moe (Cool-Girl Archetype)
Sabasaba moe is attraction to women with a frank, unclingy temperament: the ease of a male friend pa…
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Sailor Seifuku
Sailor seifuku is the Japanese girls'-school uniform descended from British Royal Navy sailor design…
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Saimin (Hypnosis Genre)
Saimin is the Japanese fictional hypnosis genre in eromanga, eroge, and audio. Framed as a fantasy g…
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Sanpakugan Moe (Three-White-Eye)
Sanpakugan moe is attraction to the eye shape with a small iris and white on three sides, the three-…
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Scar / wound fetish (kizu)
Kizu-fetish is the aesthetic interest in scars and wound-marks on fictional characters. Sub-divides …
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School Swimsuit (Sukumizu) Fetish
Sukumizu is the Japanese cosplay-and-fetish category for the school-issue swimsuit, depicted on fict…
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School-Nurse-Office Scenario (Hokenshitsu)
School-nurse-office scenario is a Japanese adult-content situation set in the school infirmary. Anch…
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See-Through Fetish (Sukesuke Fetish)
See-through fetish is attraction to sheer material, thin fabric, and clothing made translucent by wa…
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Seifuku (Uniform Costume)
Seifuku is Japanese for uniform. As an adult fetish category it covers adult-performer roleplay in o…
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Seijun-kei (Pure / Innocent Archetype)
Seijun-kei is a female character type built from signs of innocence: a modest personality, prim atti…
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Seitenkan (Gender Transformation Genre)
Seitenkan is the fictional genre in which a protagonist's sex is physically swapped, central to adul…
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Senpai-Kohai Dynamic
The senpai-kohai dynamic is a relationship kink that turns the vertical hierarchy of clubs, schools,…
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Sexual Addiction (Sei Izon)
Sexual addiction is a state in which pursuit of sexual behaviour becomes hard to control and harms o…
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Sexual Dimorphism Fetish (Dansa Fechi)
Dansa fetish is the Japanese umbrella term for sexual attraction to physical sex differences: hand s…
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Shame-focused voyeurism (jitto-miru / shūchi-shikan)
Shūchi-shikan is the Japanese category for the unwilling-gaze kink. Distinct from exhibitionism: the…
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Shimapan
Shimapan is the Japanese fan-cultural term for striped underwear: white field with two or three past…
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Shiropan (White Panties)
Shiropan is the taste for, and representational sign of, plain white panties: its tie to innocence, …
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Shitabakushi (tongue-out fetish)
Shitabakushi is the Japanese kink-aesthetic of tongue-out facial expression. Distinct from ahegao cl…
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Shokushu (Tentacle)
Shokushu is the Japanese word for tentacle and a hentai genre in which non-human creatures bind huma…
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Short hair (kink)
Short hair is the female hairstyle cut to ear-level or above, and the corresponding fetish register.…
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Shorts Fetish
Shorts fetish is attraction to women in short-hemmed pants that expose the thigh: denim shorts, hot …
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Shukan (POV Filming)
Shukan is an AV filming technique placing the camera near the male performer's viewpoint. The Japane…
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Sisters Threesome (Ane-Imouto Don)
Ane-imouto-don is the Japanese adult-manga and doujinshi narrative type in which one man enters a se…
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SM (Japanese SM Culture)
SM is the Japanese postwar tradition of sadomasochistic practice. Distinct from but in dialogue with…
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SM Collar
The SM collar is a neck device that makes a dominant-submissive relationship visible in SM play. Mad…
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Sports Bra
The sports bra is a cupless compression garment that limits breast movement in exercise, and the tas…
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Step-Parent Theme (Giri no Oya-kei)
Giri no oya-kei is the Japanese adult-fiction category for step-parent and in-law relationships used…
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Stocking Fetish
Stocking fetish is the costume-fetish category centred on women's hosiery: the visual translucency, …
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Sukatoro (scatology kink)
Sukatoro is the Japanese category for scatological-themed adult content. Operates almost entirely in…
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Sweater Fetish
Sweater fetish is the costume-fetish category for women in knitted sweaters and knitwear. The 2017 v…
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Tachi (active role in same-sex relationships)
Tachi is Japanese slang for the active, masculine partner in same-sex relationships, especially lesb…
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Tandere character type
Tandere is a quiet, expressionless, slow-to-react character type harbouring strong affection within.…
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Taninbou (the rival's cock in NTR)
Taninbou is NTR-genre slang for the penis of a man other than the protagonist. A device for comparis…
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Tattoo Fetish
Tattoo fetish is sexual or aesthetic attraction to tattooed bodies. The Japanese case is shaped by t…
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Thong (T-Back)
The thong (Japanese T-back) is women's underwear or swimwear leaving the buttocks uncovered with a t…
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Tights Fetish
Tights fetish is the focused interest in opaque hosiery covering the full leg. It runs parallel to p…
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Transfer-student moe (tenkousei)
Transfer-student moe is the attraction to the newly-enrolled student character. The newcomer's isola…
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Tsume Fetish (Nail Fetish)
Tsume fetish, nail fetish, is the general term for a taste that makes a woman's nails, fingertips, a…
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Tsundere
Tsundere is a Japanese character archetype alternating between cold (tsun) and affectionate (dere) m…
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Twins Moe (Futago Moe)
Futago moe is the Japanese otaku archetype for attraction to twin characters and the pleasures of id…
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Twintails
Twintails is the Japanese anime-and-manga hairstyle binding hair into two tails. Distinct from Weste…
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Underwear Fetish (Shitagi Fetish)
Underwear fetish is arousal at women's underwear itself, or the figure wearing it: bras, panties, li…
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Upper Arm Fetish
An upper arm fetish is the attraction to the female upper arm: its soft texture, the pale skin glimp…
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Upturned-eyes fetish (tsurime)
Tsurime fetish is the pull felt toward upturned eyes whose outer corners slope up. It reads as stron…
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Vibrator
Vibrator is the general category of vibration-based sex toys, ranging from the 19th-century medical …
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Voice fetish (koe)
Voice fetish is the aesthetic and erotic interest in particular voice qualities, registers, and voca…
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Wakarase (breaking pride through dominance)
Wakarase is the kink and genre centred on subjugating an arrogant opponent, pride and all. Competiti…
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Wax Play (Rousoku Play)
Wax play (Japanese rousoku play) drips molten wax onto a consenting partner's skin for thermal stimu…
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Wedding Dress Kink
Wedding dress kink is the focused interest in the white bridal dress as an erotic surface, drawing o…
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Whipping Training (Muchi-Uchi Choukyou)
Whipping training names the SM-play class using leather whips and riding crops, foregrounding the bo…
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White coat kink (hakui)
Hakui is the Japanese category for the white-coat uniform worn by doctors, scientists, pharmacists, …
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Wooden Horse (Sankaku Mokuba)
The sankaku mokuba (triangle wooden horse) is an SM apparatus from a torture device with a triangula…
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Yagai (Outdoor Sex)
Yagai is the Japanese term for outdoor sexual activity, treated as both a kink category and an AV st…
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Yandere
Yandere is a Japanese character archetype: a love interest whose affection is so intense it crosses …
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Yankee character moe
Yankee character moe is attraction to delinquent and ex-yankee character types in Japanese fiction, …
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Yarakashi (accidental-mishap genre)
Yarakashi is a Japanese 2D genre in which a female character triggers a sexual situation through acc…
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Yarichin (man-whore slang)
Yarichin is Japanese slang for a young man who frequently pursues casual sex with many women. Both i…
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Yariman (Slang Character Type)
Yariman is a Japanese derogatory slang term for a sexually active woman. In adult fiction it has bee…
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Yoga pants fetish
Yoga pants fetish is attraction to high-stretch synthetic pants that cling to the lower body, such a…
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Youkya (extrovert-type attraction)
Youkya-kei is attraction to bright, sociable 'sunny-personality' figures who are loud and physically…
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Younger-girl preference (toshishita)
Toshishita-kei is the preference for female characters set younger than the protagonist. It covers l…
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Yukata
Yukata is the Japanese single-layer cotton summer kimono, descended from the Heian-period yukatabira…
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Zenra (Full Nudity)
Zenra is the state of wearing no clothing at all. This entry covers etymology, the cultural history …
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Zentai
Zentai is the Japanese category for head-to-toe stretch-fabric suits covering face, hair, and finger…
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415 genre and kink terms are listed above (149 hentai-media, 266 fetish/kink). Looking for the Edo-period position catalogue instead? See the Forty-Eight Hands hub ▸.