A

   - Abduction: to kidnap or carry a person away by force, also used in sex play

   - Abrasions: scratching or rubbing off skin

   - Abstinence: celibacy

   - Acmegenesis: orgasm

   - Acomoclitic: preference for hairless genitals

   - Acousticophilia: arousal from sounds

   - Acrophilia: arousal from heights or high altitudes

   - Acrotomophilia: sexual preference for amputees

   - Actirasty: arousal from exposure to sun's rays

   - Acucullophallia: circumcision

   - Acupressure: pressure points on body that induce certain responses, some sexual

   - Adolescentilism: cross-dressing or playing the role of an adolescent

   - Adultery: having sex outside a marriage  

   - Agalmatophilia: arousal from statues or manikins; also called pygmalionism

   - Agenobiosis: married couple who consent to live together without sex

   - Agonophilia: person who is aroused by partner pretending to struggle

   - Agoraphilia: arousal from open spaces or having sex in public

   - Agrexophilia: arousal from others knowing you are having sex

   - Albutophilia: arousal from water

   - Algophilia: arousal from experiencing pain

   - Aliphineur: person using lotion to arouse partner

   - Alloerasty: use of nudity of another person to arouse partner

   - Allopellia: having orgasm from watching others engaging in sex

   - Allorgasmia: arousal from fantasizing about someone other than one's partner

   - Allotriorasty: arousal from partners of other nations or races

   - Alphamegamia: arousal from partner of different age group

   - Altocalciphilia: high heel fetish

   - Alvinolagnia: stomach fetish

   - Amatripsis: masturbation by rubbing labia together

   - Amaurophilia: preference for a blind or blindfolded sex partner

   - Amomaxia: sex in a parked car

   - Ambisexual: bi-sexual

   - Amelotasis: attraction to absence of limb

   - Amelotation: loss of a limb

   - Amokoscisia: arousal or sexual frenzy with desire to slash or mutilate women

   - Amphisexual: bi-sexual

   - Amychesis: act of scratching partner during sexual passion

   - Anaclitism: arousal from items used as infant

   - Analinctus: licking anus

   - Analingus: rimming or penetration of anus with tongue

   - Anasteemaphilia: attraction to taller or shorter partners

   - Androgyny: having both male & female characteristics

   - Androgynophilia: bi-sexual

   - Androidism: arousal from robots with human features

   - Andromania: nymphomania

   - Androminetophilia: arousal from female partner who dresses like male

   - Androsodomy: anal sex with a male partner

   - Anililagnia: arousal from older female sex partner

   - Anisonogamist: attraction to either older or younger partner

   - Anocratism: anal sex

   - Amomaxia: sex in parked car

   - Anomeatia: anal sex with a female partner

   - Anophelorastia: arousal from defiling or ravaging a partner

   - Anophilemia: kissing anus

   - Anoraptus: rapist who only attacks elderly women

   - Antholagnia: arousal from smelling flowers

   - Anthropomorphism: attributing human characteristics to half-human half-animal characters

   - Anthropophagolagnia: rape with cannibalism

   - Anthropophagy: cannibalism

   - Apellous: circumcision

   - Aphallatia: celibacy

   - Aphrodisiacs: drugs stimulating a sexual response

   - Apistia: adultery

   - Apotemnophilia: person who has sexual fantasies about loosing a limb

   - Arachnephilia: arousal from spiders

   - Arrhenothigmophilous: nymphomania

   - Arsometry: anal sex

   - Artificial insemination: deposit of sperm into the vagina by methods other than male penetration of the vagina

   - Asceticism: religious self-denial often including celibacy

   - Asphyxiaphilia: arousal from lack of oxygen

   - Asthenolagnia: arousal from weakness or being humiliated

   - Astyphia: impotence

   - Asynodia: celibacy particularly due to impotence

   - Auctions: public sale with item or sex slave going to highest bidder

   - Autagonistophilia: exhibitionism, arousal from exposing naked body or genitals to strangers while on stage or while being photographed

   - Autassassinophilia: arousal from orchestrating one's own death by the hands of another

   - Autoerotic Asphyxia: arousal from oxygen deprivation and sometimes risk of dying

   - Autogynephilia: arousal from crossdressing

   - Automasochism: arousal from inflicting intense sensations or pain on one's own body

   - Autoerotica: self induced arousal (i.e. fantasies or other aids)

   - Automysophilia: arousal from being dirty or defiled

   - Autonepiophilia: infantilism; arousal from dressing or being treated like infant

   - Autopederasty: person inserting their own penis into their anus

   - Autophagy: self-cannibalism or eating own flesh

   - Autosadism: infliction of pain or injury on oneself

   - Avisodomy: breaking neck of bird while penetrating it for sex

   - Axillism: penis penetrating an arm pit

B

   - Ball dancing: bell dancing; self flagellation by hanging fruit from hooks in skin

   - Bardajes: young gay male lover

   - Barosmia: arousal from smell

   - Basoexia: arousal from kissing

   - Bath house: commercial baths, some of which allow sex on premises

   - Bed of Nails: lying on a bed of nails for sensory enhancement

   - Bee stings: the use of bees, such as to sting genitals

   - Bell dancing: self-flagellation with bells or other ornaments hanging the skin

   - Belonephilia: arousal from use of needles

   - Bestiality: zoophilia; sex with animals

   - Bestialsadism: cruelty or mutilation of animals

   - Bi-Sexuality: people with sexual attraction for both sexes

   - Biastophilia: those preferring to violently rape their victims

   - Bigynist: sex between one male and two females

   - Bihari surgery: cutting ligament above penis to make it appear longer

   - Bindings: wrapping feet or genitals with string or lace

   - Bivirist: sex between one female and two males

   - Blastolagnia: person aroused by young females

   - Blindfolding: covering the eyes

   - Blood Sports: sex games which involve blood

   - Borderline self-mutilator: automasochism

   - Body Painting: temporary designs drawn on body

   - Body Worship: sex game where partner is made to adore another's body

   - Bondage: physical or mental restriction of partner

   - Bordellos: houses of prostitution

   - Bottom: passive partner who experiences stimuli during sex games, masochist, slave, submissive

   - Botulinonia: using a sausage as a dildo

   - Bouginonia: female masturbation from the use of objects such as dildos that stretch open the vagina

   - Brachioprotic eroticism: a deep form of fisting where the arm enters the anus

   - Bradycubia: slow movement during penetration Branding: burning patterns or initials into flesh

   - Buggery: anal sex

   - Bundling: partners sleeping together clothed and without sex

   - Bushie Mall: agoraphilia; sex in an open area

   - Butt plugs: anal inserts used for masturbation

C

   - Candaulism: spouse who watches partner having sex with someone else

   - Caning: whipping that uses a switch or cane to discipline partner

   - Capnolagnia: arousal from watching others smoke

   - Castration: removal of the scrotum, testicles, ovaries, or penis

   - Cat Fighting: women fighting without rules and often tearing off each other's clothing

   - Catamites: young gay male lovers

   - Cataphilist: male submitting to female

   - Catatasis: stretching of the penis

   - Catheters: insertion of plastic tube into urethra

   - Catheterophilia: arousal from use of catheters

   - Celibacy: abstinence from sex

   - Chaperon: person who escorts a young couple to ensure they don't engage in sex

   - Charms: objects used to bring good luck and ward off evil  

   - Chastity: sexual abstinence

   - Chastity Belts: leather or metal belts used to prevent genital penetration

   - Chemise Cagoule: long heavy night shirt with hole for penis

   - Chezolagnia: masturbating while defecating

   - Chipil: Couvade syndrome

   - Choreophilia: dancing to orgasmic release

   - Chrematistophilia: person aroused by having to pay for sex or having sex partner steal from them (see also harpaxophilia)

   - Chronophilia: arousal from passage of time; arousal from older partner

   - Chubby Chasers: people who are aroused by obesity in partner

   - Cicatrization: scarring

   - Circumcision: the removal of foreskin on genitals

   - Clamps: metal, plastic, or wood fasteners used on nipples or genitals

   - Claustrophilia: arousal from being confined in small space

   - Clitoridectomy: surgical removal of the clitoris

   - Clitorilingus: licking a clitoris

   - Clitoromania: nymphomania

   - Cock Rings: rings placed around the base of the male genitals to maintain erections

   - Cocktails: drinking of body secretions from a glass

   - Coitobalnism: sex in a bathtub

   - Coitolimia: tremendous sexual drive

   - Coitophobia: fear of sexual intercourse

   - Coitus: sexual penetration with orgasm

   - Coitus analis: anal sex

   - Coitus à Cheval: couple having sex on the back of an animal or one acting out role of horse

   - Coitus a Mammilla: penetration of penis between breasts

   - Coitus à Unda: sex or sex games in water

   - Coitus Intrafermoris: penetration between legs

   - Coitus reservatus: birth control method where male withdraws penis before ejaculation

   - Colobosis: mutilation or castration of penis

   - Condoms: latex or animal intestine used as shield to guard against skin-to-skin contact with partner's genitals

   - Constrictions: bondage using rows of strings

   - Compulsive cruising: compulsive search for sex partners

   - Computer sex: the use of computers for sex games, communication, and erotic photography

   - Commasculation: homosexuality

   - Concubinage: use of female slaves as sex partners; living with sex partner without being married

   - Confessions: Admitting a sin; in some cases to arouse potential partner

   - Coprography: writing obscene words or phrases, usually in public toilets

   - Coprolagnia: arousal from feces

   - Coprolalia: arousal from using obscene language or writing

   - Coprophagy: the consumption of feces

   - Coprophilia: arousal from playing with feces, also called scat

   - Coproscopist: arousal from watching a person defecate

   - Corephallism: anal sex with young girl

   - Corsetting: body modification or oxygen restriction from using corsets

   - Corvus: fellatio

   - Costumes: the use of costumes in sexual fantasy play

   - Courtesans: the mistress of a king or nobleman

   - Courtship: the period before marriage where a person tries to entice the other into a commitment

   - Couvade: custom where male mimics child birth or is confined at time of wife's delivery

   - Couvade syndrome: a male who experiences symptoms of pregnancy in sympathy for wife

   - Cratolagnia: arousal from strength of partner

   - Cross dressing: a person who wears the apparel of the opposite sex

   - Crurofact: leg fetish

   - Cryptoscopophilia: desire to see behavior of others in privacy of their home, not necessarily sexual

   - Cuckoldry: a man whose wife has sex or becomes impregnated by a man other than himself

   - Cunnilalia: to talk about female genitals

   - Cunnilingus: oral sex on a woman

   - Cupping: drawing blood to the surface of skin by placing heated glass jars onto the skin

   - Cutting: cicatrization, or scarring of skin for sexual purposes

   - Cyesolagnia: pregnant woman fetish

   - Cymbalism: lesbianism

   - Cynophilia: arousal from sex with dogs

   - Cyprieunia: sex with a prostitute

D

   - D'Eon, Chevalier: French cross-dresser from whom the term "Eonism" is derived

   - Dacnolagnomania: lust murder

   - Dacrylagnia: arousal from seeing tears in the eyes of a partner

   - Dacryphilia: person who is aroused by seeing their partner cry

   - Dame de voyage: dolls designed for genital penetration, often used by sailors

   - Danse du ventre: erotic or fertility dancing; belly dance

   - Dating services: agencies arranging for strangers to meet each other, usually for a fee

   - Day belts: chastity device used for short day excursions

   - De Clerambault's syndrome: erotomania Defecolagnia: arousal from defecation

   - Defilement: arousal from partner or self becoming dirty or wet

   - Deliberate self-harm syndrome: automasochism

   - Dendrophilia: arousal from tree or fertility worship of them

   - Depilation: shaving, waxing, or other type of hair removal

   - Dermagraphism: marks left on the skin of a partner by biting, scratching or sucking

   - Dermaphilia: doraphilia; sexual stimulus from skin

   - Deviance: paraphilia; practice that deviates from the majority of society

   - Dildos and Plugs: instruments used for genital penetration

   - Dippoldism: sexual arousal from abusing children

   - Discipline: punishment and control of a partner in sex play

   - Diseases (STD or VD): sexually transmitted diseases, also calledvenereal diseases

   - Divertissement: paraphilia

   - Docking: slipping one partner's foreskin over the glans penis of another

   - Dogging: couples who engage in sex in their car while others watch from outside

   - Doleros: algophilia; arousal from pain

   - Dominance/Submission: power exchange between partners

   - Doraphilia: arousal from animal fur, leather, or skin

   - Douches: rinsing out the anus or vagina with liquids

   - Dowry: sum of money or goods paid to parents of future husband or wife

   - Drag queens: gay men who dress in female attire

   - Dungeons: rooms that are decorated for SM play

   - Dysfunctions: physical disorders relating to sex

   - Dysmorphophilia: arousal from deformed or physically impaired partners

E

   - Ecdemolagnia: arousal from traveling or being away from home

   - Ecdyosis: arousal from removing clothes in front of others

   - Ecorchement: flagellation

   - Ecouteurism: listening to others having sex without consent

   - Ederacinism: to tear out sex organs by the roots as in a frenzy or to punish oneself for sexual cravings

   - Ejaculatio praecox: premature ejaculation

   - Electric Shock: using electric shock for sensory enhancement

   - Electrophilia: arousal from electrical stimulus

   - Electrolysis: an electrical method of removing hair

   - Elopement: hasty and clandestine marriage without consent of family members

   - Emetophilia: Roman shower; arousal from vomit

   - Endytolagnia: arousal only from partners who are clothed

   - Endytophilia: arousal only from partners who are clothed

   - Enema: the insertion and expulsion of fluids into the anus

   - Enema cocktail: drinking purged contents of enema

   - Entomocism: the use of insects

   - Entomophilia: arousal from insects or using, them in sex play

   - Eonism: crossdressing

   - Eopareunia: engaging in sex while young

   - Ephebophilia: attraction to adolescent sex partner

   - Episioclisia: suturing of the labia majora; infibulation

   - Eproctolagniac: person aroused by flatulence

   - Eproctophilia: arousal from flatulence

   - Erotica: sexual literature and photos

   - Erotographomania: arousal from writing love poems or letters 

   - Erotomania: people who develop an unreasonable love of a stranger or person not interested in them

   - Erotophobia: fear of sexual love

   - Erotophonophilia: lust murder

   - Essayeurs: men who were hired by bordellos to become sexual with women so that timid clients would follow their lead

   - Eugenics: belief that only the fittest should impregnate women

   - Eunuchs: castrated men

   - Executions: a legal death sentence, some people become aroused by watching executions

   - Exhibitionism: exposing body to inappropriate and nonconsenting people for arousal

   - Exmuliebrate: castration

   - Exophilia: neophilia; fetish for the unusual or bizarre

F

   - Fainting: passing out or losing consciousness

   - Famulus: slaves, family

   - Fantasy: mental image or illusion, sometimes sexual Fantasy Play: acting out sexual fantasies

   - Felching: sucking semen out of vagina or anus; or inserting animals into anus or vagina

   - Fellatio: oral sex on a male

   - Female impersonators: men who dress in women's clothing, often for pay

   - Fetishes: an object that replaces people as primary object of love

   - Fibula: bar that runs through foreskin of male and attaches to semi-circle device, used by Romans to prevent intercourse

   - Ficaro: bordello

   - Fisting: inserting a fist or hand into the vagina or anus

   - Flagellation: striking a person with an object

   - Flatulence: passing gas from bowels

   - Flatuphilia: arousal from having partner pass gas

   - Flirting: pretending to have affection for another person

   - Floating hog ranches: boats used to transport prostitutes to the Western U.S. and from which they conducted business in route

   - Florentine girdle: chastity belt

   - Flower boats: Chinese boats used for prostitution

   - Foot binding: the wrapping of feet, done by Chinese and others

   - Foot fetish: podophilia

   - Formicophilia: zoophilia; sex play with ants (see also Entomophilia)

   - Fornicatory Dolls: plastic blow up, rubber, or mechanical dolls used for penetration

   - Fratrilagnia: arousal from having sex with one's brother

   - Frottage: rubbing body against partner or object for arousal

   - Furor uterinus: nymphomania

   - Furtling: the use of fingers underneath cut-outs in genital areas of photos for arousal

G

   - Galateism: agalmatophilia; sexual attraction to statues

   - Gamahucheur: cunnilingus

   - Gamophobia: fear of marriage

   - Gang Bangs: sex with a series of waiting partners

   - Gay: person who prefers same sex lover

   - Geishas: Japanese women used as social companions

   - Gemellus: testicles

   - Gendermap: "A developmental representation or template synchronously in the mind and brain depicting the details of one's G-I/R. It includes the lovemap but is larger, insofar as it incorporates whatever is gender coded vocationally, educationally, recreationally, sartorially, and legally as well as in matters of etiquette, grooming, body language, and vocal intonation." (John Money)

   - Genitals: sex organs of either male or female (penis, testicles, scrotum, clitoris, vagina, G-spot, cervix, etc.)

   - Gendoloma: the use of sexual fantasies to hasten orgasm

   - Genofact: genital fetish

   - Genuphallation: insertion of penis between the knees of a partner

   - Gerontophilia: attraction to a partner whose age is that of different generation

   - Girdle of Venus: chastity belt

   - Glory holes: a hole in a partition that allows a person on the other side to engage in sexual activity

   - Goddess Worship: a toilet scene using Witchcraft rituals

   - Godemiche: dildo in the shape of a penis with scrotum used for masturbation

   - Golden enemas and Douches: urine deposited into anus or vagina

   - Golden showers: urinating onto a partner's body

   - Gomphipothic: arousal by the sight of teeth

   - Gonads: testicles

   - Graophilia: arousal from older female partner

   - Graffiti: drawing or inscription on public walls, sometimes sexual; coprography

   - Graphelagnia: arousal from photographs of nudity or sex

   - Green bower: motels or establishments that catered to short-term rentals of rooms by couples to be used for sex

   - Gregomulcia: arousal from being fondled in a crowd

   - Groping: feeling of unknown or unidentified person in boxes, suits, etc.

   - Group Sex: sex with more than one partner or in close proximity of others

   - Groupies: erotomania; people who are devoted to or who follow celebrities

   - Gymnocryptosis: females talking about sex life of husbands

   - Gymnophilia: arousal from nudity

   - Gynandromorphous: hermaphrodite

   - Gynecaeum: area where Greeks kept wives at home and separated from other men

   - Gynecomania: compulsive desire for female sex partners

   - Gynecozygous: lesbians

   - Gynelophilous: arousal from pubic hair

   - Gynelophism: scalping hair on pubic area, usually done by lust murders

   - Gynemimesis: male-to-female cross dressing

   - Gynemimetophilia: person aroused by a male impersonating a female

   - Gynephonia: effeminate voice

   - Gynonudomanic: compulsion to rip clothes off others

   - -gyny: female or having female organs

H

   - Handkerchief Codes: color codes to identify sexual preferences

   - Haptosis: non-consensual sexual touching

   - Harem: area where Arabs kept wives at home and separated from others

   - Harem effect: lesbianism Harlotry: prostitution

   - Harmatophobia: fear of sexual incompetence or making a mistake

   - Harmatophilia: arousal from sexual incompetence or mistakes, usually in female partner

   - Harnesses: body harnesses used in suspension or penis restriction

   - Harpaxophilia: arousal from being robbed or burglarized

   - Hebephilia: men aroused by teenage boys Hedonism: act of indulging in pleasure

   - Hedonophilia: sexual arousal from engaging in pleasurable activity

   - Hedralingus: licking anus

   - Hemerotism: daydreaming or fantasizing about sex or nudity

   - Hemotigolagnia: arousal from bloody sanitary pads

   - Hermaphrodite: person who has both part female and male genitalia

   - Hetaerae: the highest class Greek prostitute or female companion

   - Heterophilia: arousal from members of the opposite sex

   - Heterosexualism: arousal from members of the opposite sex

   - Hierophilia: arousal from sacred objects 

   - Hirsutophilia: arousal from armpit hair

   - Hodophilia: arousal from traveling

   - Homilophilia: sexual arousal from hearing or giving sermons

   - Homoeroticism: sexual arousal from person of same sex

   - Homophilia: sexual arousal from person of same sex

   - Homophobia: fear of same gender sex partner

   - Homosexuality: arousal by partners of the same sex

   - Hot Wax: sex game where hot wax is melted onto partner

   - Humiliation: degrading partner to establish sexual power

   - Hybristophilia: love of someone who has committed an outrage

   - Hygrophilia: arousal from body fluids or moisture

   - Hymenoclasis: surgical defloration of virgin

   - Hymenorrhaphy: suturing of the hymen; infibulation

   - Hymenorrhexis: defloration of hymen

   - Hyperphilia: compulsive desire for sex

   - Hyphephilia: arousal from touching skin, hair, leather, fur or fabric

   - Hypnosis: act that induces a level of sleep

I

   - Iantronudia: arousal from exposing oneself to a physician, usually by faking an ailment

   - -iasis: pathological condition

   - Iconolagny: arousal from pictures or statues of nude people

   - Idiosyncrat: compulsive desire for sex 

   - ldrophrodisia: arousal from the odor of perspiration, especially from the genitals

   - Impotence: the inability to achieve enough tumescence to penetrate a partner with one's penis

   - Incest: sex with close family member

   - Incubus: a spirit who was thought to lie on top of women and have sex while they slept

   - Infanticide: the practice of killing a newborn child

   - Infantilism: cross-dressing as a young child for sex play

   - Infibulation: closing penis/vagina with suture or ring

   - Inflatable dolls: plastic dolls that are designed for genital penetration

   - Inspectionism: voyeurism

   - Insufflation: blowing air into a body cavity

   - Intergenerational: sex between partners with 20+ years age difference

   - Interrogation: to ask questions, sometimes under duress

   - Inunction: anointing or rubbing person with oil or lather

   - Invert: arousal from person of same sex

   - Invirility: impotence

   - Ipserotic: Narcissism

   - Irrumation: fellatio

   - Ischolagny: avoidance of women to prevent arousal

   - -ism: act or abnormal condition classified by prefix (i.e., transvestism)

   - -ist: person expert in field or adherent of prefix (i.e., sadist)

   - Iterandria: arousal from person of same sex

J

   - Jack gagger: a husband that procures men to pay for sex with his wife