Term used to describe the experience of a trans person who is not openly trans and is choosing to pass as cisgender.
Stealth
Stealth (Transgender)
Companies and organizations that publish materials for intersex communities or addressing intersex issues.
Intersex publishers
Auditory content broadcast on the radio (analog or digital) about intersex people and intersex issues.
Intersex radio
Colloquial or informal language related to intersex identity or used by intersex people.
Intersex slang
Intersex people who are sons. Only use to describe individuals who identify as sons.
Intersex sons
Intersex people who have experienced and survived hate crimes; follow the individual's preference for "victims" or "survivors" whenever possible.
Intersex survivors of hate crimes
Intersex people who have experienced and survived rape; follow the individual's preference for "victims" or "survivors" whenever possible.
Intersex survivors of rape
Intersex people who have experienced and survived sexual abuse; follow the individual's preference for "victims" or "survivors" whenever possible.
Intersex survivors of sexual abuse
Intersex people who have experienced and survived war; follow the individual's preference for "victims" or "survivors" whenever possible.
Intersex survivors of war
Television shows featuring intersex characters or themes.
Intersex television
Works in the performance arts that focus on intersex characters or themes.
Intersex theatre
Intersex theater
Intersex people who have experienced hate crimes and may or may not have survived; follow the individual's preference for "victims" or "survivors" whenever possible.
Intersex victims of hate crimes
Intersex people who have experienced sexual abuse and may or may not have survived; follow the individual's preference for "victims" or "survivors" whenever possible.
Intersex victims of sexual abuse
Intersex people who have experienced war and may or may not have survived; follow the individual's preference for "victims" or "survivors" whenever possible.
Intersex victims of war
Intersex people’s legal rights to be informed, present, and heard within the criminal justice system after having been harmed or injured as the result of of a crime, accident, or other event.
Intersex victims' rights
Intersex wheelchair users
Written literary works for an audience of readers from 12-18 years of age, also known as young adult literature or YA; use in reference to youth literature focusing on intersex characters or themes.
Intersex YA
Intersex young adult literature
Intersex youth literature
Businesses focusing on intersex clientele and products related to intersex communities.
Intersex-focused businesses
Intersex-owned businesses
Intersex people of African descent born in Canada or intersex people born in African countries who live in or have a strong connection to Canada. Use for individuals who self-identify as Afro-Canadian.
Intersex Afro-Canadian people
Intersex Afro-Canadians
Afro-Canadian intersex people
Intersex people of African descent born in the Caribbean or intersex people born in African countries who live in or have a strong connection to the Caribbean. Only use for individuals who self-identify as Afro-Caribbean.
Afro-Caribbean intersex people
Intersex people of African descent born in European countries or intersex people born in African countries who live in or have a strong connection to Europe. Only use for individuals who self-identify as Afro-European.
Intersex Afro-Europeans
Afro-European intersex people
Intersex people of African descent born in Latin American countries or intersex people born in African countries who live in or have a strong connection to Latin America. Only use for individuals who self-identify as Afro-Latin American.
Afro-Latina intersex people
Afro-Latine intersex people
Afro-Latino intersex people
Afro-Latino/a/x intersex people
Afro-Latinx intersex people
Intersex Afro-Latin Americans
Intersex Afro-Latinas
Intersex Afro-Latine people
Intersex Afro-Latinos
Intersex Afro-Latinx people
Afro-Latin American intersex people
Intersex people who belong to two or more racial groups. Only use for people who self-identify as biracial.
Bi-racial intersex people
Intersex bi-racial people
Intersex biracial people
Biracial intersex people
A person who assumes the role of mother to an intersex person; use only for individuals who self-identify as mothers.
Mothers of intersex people
Intersex people who belong to two or more racial groups. Only use for people who self-identify as multiracial.
Intersex multi-racial people
Intersex multiracial people
Multi-racial intersex people
Multiracial intersex people
People who are part of the Native peoples of the continental United States and Canada (excluding Inuit people) and self-identity as intersex. Use more specific terms when available.
American Indian intersex people
Intersex American Indians
Intersex Native Americans
Native American intersex people
Bookshops that sell materials intended for use by intersex people or addressing topics related to intersex experiences.
Intersex bookshops
Characters in creative works who are intersex.
Intersex characters
Spaces in which people from intersex communities meet for social, education, recreational, or organizing activities.
Intersex community centers
Cultural experiences shared by members of intersex communities or products of intersex culture (e.g., art and media created by and for intersex people, activism focused on intersex issues, slang commonly used in intersex communities, etc.).
Intersex culture
Daughters who identify as intersex. Only use for people who identify as daughters.
Intersex daughters
Intersex atheists
Intersex Christians
Intersex people who are ordained for religious duties, particularly in the Christian Church.
Intersex clergy
Intersex Muslims
Intersex people who are members of polytheistic religions or other religions outside of the dominant culture that typically incorporate nature worship and/or the sacred feminine, such as Wicca, Druidry, Heathenry, etc. Use to describe intersex people who self-identify as Pagan.
Intersex Pagans
Intersex people who are members of the Protestant Church.
Intersex Protestants
Asexual atheists
Asexual Christians
Asexual people who are ordained for religious duties, particularly in the Christian Church.
Asexual clergy
Asexual Muslims
Asexual people who are members of polytheistic religions or other religions outside of the dominant culture that typically incorporate nature worship and/or the sacred feminine, such as Wicca, Druidry, Heathenry, etc. Use to describe asexual people who self-identify as Pagan.
Asexual Pagans
Asexual people who are members of the Protestant Church.
Asexual Protestants
Asexual practitioners of Wicca or other Pagan religions who self-identify as witches.
Asexual Wiccans
Asexual witches
Asexual people who are members of the Roman Catholic Church.
Asexual Roman Catholics
Intersex people who are members of the Roman Catholic Church.
Intersex Roman Catholics
Asexual Buddhists
Intersex Buddhists
Women who take a dominant role in BDSM activities; use for dominatrices who identify as asexual.
Asexual dominatrices
Asexual women who are part of the BDSM scene and assume the mistress role in sexual relationships with a mistress/slave dynamic.
Asexual mistresses
Non-binary people whose brains process, learn, and/or behave differently from what is considered typical by society. Some of these neurological differences can present as learning disabilities, medical disorders, and other conditions.
Neurodivergent non-binary people
Non-binary neurodivergent people
Non-binary people with significant or total loss of vision.
Blind non-binary people
Nonbinary blind people
Non-binary blind people
Non-binary people who have long-term health conditions that require continued medical attention and/or significantly impact or limit daily life; some but not all people with chronic illnesses consider themselves disabled.
Chronically ill non-binary people
Non-binary people with chronic illnesses
Nonbinary wheelchair users
Non-binary wheelchair users
A form of bondage that involves wrapping the body with bandages, plastic wrap, or other materials.
Mummification (Erotic)
Modification of the body, such as tattooing, piercing, branding, or cutting.
Body modification
Use of rope to tie and restrain the body for sensual or erotic play.
Japanese rope bondage
Kinbaku
Shibari
Rope bondage
Social clubs and other types of membership organizations in the leather, kink, and related communities.
Kink clubs
SM clubs
Leather and kink clubs
A type of jacket used to restrain the upper body.
Strait-jacket
Straitjacket
The hollow area underneath the upper arm where the shoulder connects, known to be ticklish and/or sexually stimulative.
Axilla
Armpits
Independent, small-circulation publications usually reproduced via photocopier; use for zines created by trans people and/or focusing on trans identities, issues, or culture.
Trans zines
Transgender zines
Independent, small-circulation publications usually reproduced via photocopier; use for zines created by aromantic people and/or focusing on aromantic identity, issues, or culture.
Aromantic zines
Independent, small-circulation publications usually reproduced via photocopier; use for zines created by asexual people and/or focusing on asexual identity, issues, or culture.
Asexual zines
Independent, small-circulation publications usually reproduced via photocopier; use for zines created by non-binary people and/or focusing on non-binary identities, issues, or culture.
Nonbinary zines
Non-binary zines
Independent, small-circulation publications usually reproduced via photocopier; use for zines created by Two-Spirit people and/or focusing on Two-Spirit identities, issues, or culture.
2S zines
Two Spirit zines
Two Spirited zines
Two-Spirited zines
Two-Spirit zines
Independent, small-circulation publications usually reproduced via photocopier; use for zines created by queer people and/or focusing on queer identity, issues, or cultures.
Queer zines
Independent, small-circulation publications usually reproduced via photocopier; use for zines created by lesbians and/or focusing on lesbian identity, issues, or culture.
Lesbian zines
Independent, small-circulation publications usually reproduced via photocopier; use for zines created by gay people and/or focusing on gay identity, issues, or culture.
Gay zines
Music expressing a LGBTQ+ sensibility, produced within the larger country genre since the 1930s.
LGBTQ+ country music
Films with significant characters who appear in drag. Not to be confused with films where a principal actor plays a character who identifies as a gender other than what the actor identifies as.
Drag in cinema
Drag in movies
Drag in film
Operas created by lesbian directors, depicting lesbian individuals, or that are regarded as important within lesbian culture.
Lesbian operas
A person who subscribes to lesbian feminism, an ideology that encourages women to focus their efforts, activities, and relationships toward other women rather than men, often advocating for lesbianism as the logical result of feminism. Use when resources are about lesbian feminists or when an individual identifies as such.
Lesbian feminists
A person who subscribes to the political and philosophical movement that views feminism and concerns for the environment as inherently related. Use when resources are about eco-feminists or when an individual identifies as such.
Ecofeminsts
Eco-feminists
A person who was part of or subscribes to beliefs developed during a period of feminist political activity beginning in the early 1990s that embraced diversity and individualism in women and sought to redefine what it meant to be a feminist. The third-wave is characterized by the emergence of new feminist movements and theories such as intersectionality, sex positivity, ecofeminism, transfeminism, and postmodern feminism. Use when resources are about third-wave feminists or when an individual identifies as such.
Third wave feminists
Third-wave feminists
A person who is part of or subscribes to beliefs developed as part of a movement by and for trans woman who view the liberation of trans women as essential to the liberation of all women. Use when resources are about transfeminists or when an individual identifies as such.
Transfeminists
A person who subscribes to a perspective within feminism that calls for a radical reordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts. Distinct from and not to be confused with trans-exclusionary radical feminists. Use for resources about radical feminists or for individuals who identify as such, unless trans-exclusionary radical feminists is a more appropriate term.
Radical feminists
A positive feeling connected to queer community, activism, and/or culture that counters the impact of living in a discriminatory society. Note that queer is used as an umbrella term for the LGBTQ+ community within this phrase.
Queer joy
Bisexual people who are part of the BDSM scene and assume the dominant role in sexual relationships with a dominant/submissive dynamic.
Bisexual masters
Bisexual dominants
A sex toy designed to be inserted into the anus for sexual stimulation or pleasure. Butt plugs tend to be shorter than dildos and have a flared base that prevents them from being lost in the rectum.
Anal dilators
Anal inserts
Anal plugs
Buttplugs
Butt plugs
Period of women's rights activism in the 19th and early 20th centuries that was primarily focused on legal rights such as women's right to vote.
First wave feminism
First-wave feminism
Gay men who are part of the BDSM scene and assume the dominant role in sexual relationships with a master/slave dynamic.
Gay dominants
Queer people who are part of the BDSM scene and assume the dominant role in sexual relationships with a dominant/submissive dynamic.
Queer masters
Queer dominants
Transgender people who are part of the BDSM scene and assume the dominant role in sexual relationships with a dominant/submissive dynamic.
Transgender masters
Transgender dominants
Newspapers, magazines, or other publishing outlets aimed at intersex audiences and/or operated by intersex people.
Intersex press
Ongoing connections (romantic, sexual, or platonic) between two or more intersex people.
Intersex relationships
Partnerships in which both people are intersex.
Intersex couples
Asexual people (typically men) who are part of the BDSM scene and assume the dominant role in sexual relationships with a master/slave dynamic.
Asexual dominants
Autistic demisexual people
Demisexual autistic people
Autistic megasexual people
Megasexual autistic people
Autistic aromantic people
Aromantic autistic people
Autistic greyromantic people
Greyromantic autistic people
Demisexual people with significant or total loss of vision.
Blind demisexual people
Demisexual blind people
Megasexual people with significant or total loss of vision.
Blind megasexual people
Megasexual blind people
Aromantic people with significant or total loss of vision.
Blind aromantic people
Aromantic blind people
Greyromantic people with significant or total loss of vision.
Blind greyromantic people
Greyromantic blind people
Non-binary people with significant or total hearing loss who may or may not consider themselves d/Deaf.
Hearing impaired non-binary people
HoH Non-binary people
Non-binary HoH people
Non-binary hearing impaired people
Nonbinary hard of hearing people
Non-binary hard of hearing people
Non-binary people with significant or total hearing loss. Some but not all Deaf people prefer to capitalize Deaf in recognition of the cultural and linguistic identity they share with other Deaf people.
Deaf non-binary people
Nonbinary Deaf people
Non-binary Deaf people
Demisexual people who have long-term health conditions that require continued medical attention and/or significantly impact or limit daily life; some but not all people with chronic illnesses consider themselves disabled.
Chronically ill demisexual people
Demisexual people with chronic illnesses
Megasexual people who have long-term health conditions that require continued medical attention and/or significantly impact or limit daily life; some but not all people with chronic illnesses consider themselves disabled.
Chronically ill megasexual people
Megasexual people with chronic illnesses
Aromantic people who have long-term health conditions that require continued medical attention and/or significantly impact or limit daily life; some but not all people with chronic illnesses consider themselves disabled.
Chronically ill aromantic people
Aromantic people with chronic illnesses
Greyromantic people who have long-term health conditions that require continued medical attention and/or significantly impact or limit daily life; some but not all people with chronic illnesses consider themselves disabled.
Chronically ill greyromantic people
Greyromantic people with chronic illnesses
Demisexual wheelchair users
Megasexual wheelchair users
Aromantic wheelchair users
Greyromantic people who use wheelchairs.
Greyromantic wheelchair users
A competitive, social, or erotic activity involving two or more people engaging in grappling with each other trying throw or force the other(s) to the ground.
Wrestling
A device used to apply an electrical charge to the body.
Violet wands
A sexual aid or accessory that is placed over and around genitalia. The device creates a suction that engorges and enlarges genitalia.
Clitoral pump
Nipple pump
Penis pump
Suckers
Vacuum pumps
Consensual exchange of power between two or more people as a feature of their relationship that is practiced at all times.
24/7 (Power Exchange)
Kept
Total power exchange
Any practice of revering another’s physical body, usually in a sexual context.
Body worship
A area or room designated for kink and sexual activities.
Dungeons
Play spaces
The act of roleplaying as an equine, sometimes with someone acting as a trainer, handler or pet owner, for fun or erotic enjoyment.
Pony play
The phenomenon in which lesbians displace violence or oppression onto other lesbians, often by acting on internalized lesbophobic beliefs (i.e., negative perceptions of and intolerance toward lesbians and lesbianism) adopted as a result of being raised or socialized within a lesbophobic environment or culture.
Lateral lesbophobia
This term is often used to describe lateral homophobia carried out by LGBTQ+ people in general. Lateral homophobia refers to the phenomenon in which gay men displace violence or oppression onto other gay men, often by acting on internalized homophobic beliefs (i.e., negative perceptions of and intolerance toward gay men and homosexuality) adopted as a result of being raised or socialized within a homophobic environment or culture.
Lateral homophobia
The phenomenon in which bisexual people displace violence or oppression onto other bisexual people, often by acting on internalized biphobic beliefs (i.e., negative perceptions of and intolerance toward bisexual people and bisexuality) adopted as a result of being raised or socialized within a biphobic environment or culture.
Lateral biphobia
The phenomenon in which transgender people displace violence or oppression onto other transgender people, often by acting on internalized transphobic beliefs (i.e., negative perceptions of and intolerance toward transgender people and trans identities) adopted as a result of being raised or socialized within transphobic environment or culture.
Lateral transphobia
The phenomenon in which queer people displace violence or oppression onto other queer people, often by acting on internalized queerphobic beliefs (i.e., negative perceptions of and intolerance toward queer people and queer identity) adopted as a result of being raised or socialized within a queerphobic environment or culture.
Lateral queerphobia
The phenomenon in which intersex people displace violence or oppression onto other intersex people, often by acting on internalized intersexphobic beliefs (i.e., negative perceptions of and intolerance toward intersex people and intersex variations) adopted as a result of being raised or socialized within a intersexphobic environment or culture.
Lateral interphobia
Lateral intersexphobia
In the leather and kink communities, an individual who cleans and conditions someone’s leather boots, shoes or garments.
Bootblacks
An annual event in leather and kink communities where contestants compete for a title. Contestants are judged on qualities including their stage presence, appearance, charisma, and ability to be a leader and activist in the community for the length of their title year.
Leather contests
Leather pageants
Titleholders
Title contests
A type of reclining seat suspended from a stand or ceiling, typically used to position the body for sexual activity.
Sex slings
Slings
Swings
Sex swings
Expulsion of fluid from the urethra during orgasm. Not commonly used for penile ejaculation.
Cervical mucus
Fejac
Female ejaculation
Gush
Squirt
Squirting
Striking the body with a cane as a form of impact play.
Caning
A period of debates beginning in the 1970s between different schools and factions of feminist thought concerning sexual freedom, sex work, pornography, kink and sadomasochism, sex toys, butch/femme, and trans identities.
Porn wars
Sex wars
Feminist Sex Wars
Use to describe cultural experiences shared by members of furry communities or products of furry culture (e.g., art and media created by and for furries, activism focused on furry issues, slang commonly used in furry communities, etc.).
Furry culture
BDSM activities and kinks that are considered to have an increased level of risk or taboo, or which are challenging to the participants for subjective reasons, for example due to a personal fear or boundary.
Edgeplay
Taboo play
Edge play
The depiction of ejaculation, especially onto another person, especially in the context of pornography.
Cash shot
Money shot
Cum shot
A sexual act involving multiple people ejaculating on one person, typically on the face.
Bukkake
The act or fantasy of engaging in sex with the intent to contract HIV/AIDS.
Bugchasing
A body encasing or bag, often leather, used for sensory deprivation or during kink or sexual play.
Body bags (Erotic)
Applying cigar or cigarette ash to someone's mouth or body.
Ash play
Ashing
A device designed to hold something firmly together or to otherwise fasten down on something (such as the nipples) for the purposes of gratification.
Clamp devices
Clamps (Erotic)
A fastener usually used to hang up clothes for drying, here used as a sex toy.
Clothes pegs
Clothespins (Erotic)
The position or activity of tying a person’s wrists and ankles together behind their back.
Hogtie restraining
Hogtie
Independent, small-circulation publications usually reproduced via photocopier; use for zines created by intersex people and/or focusing on intersex identity, issues, or culture.
Intersex zines
A person who subscribes to a transphobic and transantagonistic ideology that rejects trans and gender diverse identities and rights, and believes that recognition of these identities and rights constitutes discrimination and oppression towards cisgender women. Though originally considered a fringe offshoot of feminism, trans-exclusionary radical feminist groups have formed alliances with right-wing, far-right extremists, and anti-feminist organizations in order to spread misinformation and further anti-trans sentiment and legislation. Use when resources are about trans-exclusionary radical feminists or when an individual identifies as such.
Gender critical feminists
TERFs
Trans-exclusionary feminist
Trans-exclusionary radical feminists
Musicals created by gay directors, depicting gay men, or that are regarded as important within gay culture.
Homosexual musicals
Gay musicals
Musicals created by bisexual directors, depicting bisexual individuals, or that are regarded as important within bisexual culture.
Bisexual musicals
Musicals created by transgender directors, depicting transgender individuals, or that are regarded as important within transgender culture.
Transgender musicals
Musicals created by asexual directors, depicting asexual individuals, or that are regarded as important within asexual culture.
Asexual musicals
Musicals created by intersex directors, depicting intersex individuals, or that are regarded as important within intersex culture.
Intersex musicals
Operas created by queer directors, depicting queer individuals, or that are regarded as important within queer culture.
Queer operas
Operas created by Two-Spirit directors, depicting Two-Spirit individuals, or that are regarded as important within Two-Spirit culture.
2S operas
Two Spirit operas
Two Spirited operas
Two-Spirited operas
Two-Spirit operas
A person who subscribes to a form of feminism that developed in response to the failures of mainstream feminist and civil rights efforts to acknowledge the ways white supremacy and the patriarchy interact to inform the particular experiences of Black women. Use when resources are about Black feminists or when an individual identifies as such.
Afro feminists
Afro-feminists
Black feminists
A person who was part of a period of women's rights activism in the 19th and early 20th centuries that was primarily focused on legal rights such as women's right to vote. Use when resources are about first-wave feminists.
First-wave feminists
A person who was part of or subscribes to beliefs developed during a period of feminist political activity (also referred to as women’s liberation) beginning in the early 1960s that critiqued male-dominated institutions and cultural practices in society. Use when resources are about second-wave feminists or when an individual identifies as such.
Second wave feminists
Second-wave feminists
A person who subscribes to womanism, an ideology that grew out of the perceived indifference of the feminist movement towards the needs of Black women, who are often excluded from the categories of "female" and "femininity" as understood by white feminists. At the core of womanism is the idea that mainstream feminism is a movement led by white women to serve white women's goals, which can be indifferent or even oppositional to the needs of Black women. Use for resources about womanists or when an individual identifies as such.
Womanists
A subgenre of fantasy fiction featuring magic and supernatural creatures in contemporary urban settings; use for urban fantasy focusing on gay male characters or themes.
Gay urban fantasy fiction
A subgenre of fantasy fiction featuring magic and supernatural creatures in contemporary urban settings; use for urban fantasy focusing on lesbian characters or themes.
Lesbian urban fantasy fiction
A subgenre of fantasy fiction featuring magic and supernatural creatures in contemporary urban settings; use for urban fantasy focusing on bisexual characters or themes.
Bisexual urban fantasy fiction
A subgenre of fantasy fiction featuring magic and supernatural creatures in contemporary urban settings; use for urban fantasy focusing on queer characters or themes.
Queer urban fantasy fiction
A subgenre of fantasy fiction featuring magic and supernatural creatures in contemporary urban settings; use for urban fantasy focusing on transgender characters or themes.
Transgender urban fantasy fiction
A subgenre of fantasy fiction featuring magic and supernatural creatures in contemporary urban settings; use for urban fantasy focusing on asexual characters or themes.
Asexual urban fantasy fiction
A subgenre of fantasy fiction featuring magic and supernatural creatures in contemporary urban settings; use for urban fantasy focusing on aromantic characters or themes.
Aromantic urban fantasy fiction
A subgenre of fantasy fiction featuring magic and supernatural creatures in contemporary urban settings; use for urban fantasy focusing on megasexual characters or themes.
Megasexual urban fantasy fiction
A subgenre of fantasy fiction featuring magic and supernatural creatures in contemporary urban settings; use for urban fantasy focusing on Two-Spirit characters or themes.
Two-Spirit urban fantasy fiction
2S urban fantasy fiction
Two Spirit urban fantasy fiction
Two Spirited urban fantasy fiction
Two-Spirited urban fantasy fiction
A subgenre of fantasy fiction featuring magic and supernatural creatures in contemporary urban settings; use for urban fantasy focusing on demisexual characters or themes.
Demisexual urban fantasy fiction
A subgenre of fantasy fiction featuring magic and supernatural creatures in contemporary urban settings; use for urban fantasy focusing on intersex characters or themes.
Intersex urban fantasy fiction
A subgenre of fantasy fiction featuring magic and supernatural creatures in contemporary urban settings; use for urban fantasy focusing on non-binary characters or themes.
Non-binary urban fantasy fiction
Nonbinary urban fantasy fiction
A subgenre of fantasy fiction featuring magic and supernatural creatures in contemporary urban settings; use for urban fantasy focusing on greyromantic characters or themes.
Greyromantic urban fantasy fiction
Lesbians who are part of the BDSM scene and assume the dominant role in sexual relationships with a dominant/submissive dynamic.
Lesbian masters
Lesbian dominants
A broad term including all communities of people interested in kinks and fetishes, including or overlapping with certain subcultures such as the leather community and rubber and latex communities.
Kink community
Communities of people with an interest in rubber or latex materials for fashion and kink.
Rubber subculture
Rubber and latex community
Period of feminist political activity (also referred to as women’s liberation) beginning in the early 1960s that critiqued male-dominated institutions and cultural practices in society.
Second wave feminism
Second-wave feminism
Organizing and activism focused on increasing awareness and acceptance of kinks, fetishes, sadomasochism, leather and related subcultures, closely associated with LGBTQ+ activism and the sex-positive feminist movement.
Leather and kink activism
A type of bondage device consisting of a wooden or metal bar with cuffs at either end that are used to keep an individual's arms or legs apart.
Spreader bar
Demisexual people whose brains process, learn, and/or behave differently from what is considered typical by society. Some of these neurological differences can present as learning disabilities, medical disorders, and other conditions.
Neurodivergent demisexual people
Demisexual neurodivergent people
Megasexual people whose brains process, learn, and/or behave differently from what is considered typical by society. Some of these neurological differences can present as learning disabilities, medical disorders, and other conditions.
Neurodivergent megasexual people
Megasexual neurodivergent people
Aromantic people whose brains process, learn, and/or behave differently from what is considered typical by society. Some of these neurological differences can present as learning disabilities, medical disorders, and other conditions.
Neurodivergent aromantic people
Aromantic neurodivergent people
Greyromantic people whose brains process, learn, and/or behave differently from what is considered typical by society. Some of these neurological differences can present as learning disabilities, medical disorders, and other conditions.
Neurodivergent greyromantic people
Greyromantic neurodivergent people
Demisexual people with significant or total hearing loss who may or may not consider themselves d/Deaf.
Demisexual HoH people
Demisexual hearing impaired people
Hearing impaired demisexual people
HoH Demisexual people
Demisexual hard of hearing people
Megasexual people with significant or total hearing loss who may or may not consider themselves d/Deaf.
Hearing impaired megasexual people
HoH Megasexual people
Megasexual HoH people
Megasexual hearing impaired people
Megasexual hard of hearing people
Aromantic people who are hard of hearing.
Aromantic HoH people
Aromantic hearing impaired people
Hearing impaired aromantic people
HoH Aromantic people
Aromantic hard of hearing people
Greyromantic people with significant or total hearing loss who may or may not consider themselves d/Deaf.
Greyromantic hearing impaired people
Greyromantic HoH people
Hearing impaired greyromantic people
HoH Greyromantic people
Greyromantic hard of hearing people
Demisexual people with significant or total hearing loss. Some but not all Deaf people prefer to capitalize Deaf in recognition of the cultural and linguistic identity they share with other Deaf people.
Deaf demisexual people
Demisexual Deaf people
Deaf megasexual people
Megasexual Deaf people
Aromantic people with significant or total hearing loss. Some but not all Deaf people prefer to capitalize Deaf in recognition of the cultural and linguistic identity they share with other Deaf people.
Deaf aromantic people
Aromantic Deaf people
Deaf greyromantic people
Greyromantic Deaf people
Aromantic people who are attending college.
Aromantic college students
Asexual people who are attending college.
Asexual college students
Bisexual people who are attending college.
Bisexual college students
Demisexual people who are attending college.
Demisexual college students
Gay college students
Greyromantic people who are attending college.
Greyromantic college students
Intersex people who are attending college.
Intersex college students
Lesbian college students
Megasexual people who are attending college.
Megasexual college students
Non-binary people who are attending college.
Nonbinary college students
Non-binary college students
Queer college students
Transgender people who are attending college.
Transgender college students
Two-Spirit people who are attending college.
2S college students
Two Spirit college students
Two Spirited college students
Two-Spirited college students
Two-Spirit college students
Consensual use of whips, floggers, or similar impact play tools on the body.
Whipping
Eroticization of leather, especially leather garments and accessories associated with the leather and kink communities.
Leather fetish
Erotic roleplay and kink activities involving medical tools, settings, uniforms, and procedures.
Medical play
Striking a body with a paddle as a form of impact play.
Paddling
Temporary piercing of a body, usually for aesthetic, erotic, or sexual purposes.
Needle play
Play piercing
Piercing play
Leather and kink conventions typically take place annually at a hotel, resort, or other venue. They usually include parties, performances, title contests, vendors, play spaces, and classes and workshops on kink, sex, relationships, activism, and related topics.
Leather and kink conventions
The use of knives or blades during kink or erotic play.
Cutting
Knife play
People who participate in leather communities and identify as leatherboy.
Leatherboys
People who participate in leather communities and identify as leathergirls.
Leathergirls
An article of clothing with a pouch to support the genitalia, typically worn by athletes, or for aesthetic or sexual gratification.
Jockstraps
A broad feminist movement, usually compared against the anti-sex or anti-pornography feminist movement, that supports sexual liberation, sex workers, pornography, and freedom of sexual and gender expression.
Sex-positive movement
Sex-positive feminism
High heel fetish
Expelling spit, usually onto a person’s body or into their mouth.
Spitting (Sex)
A kink activity involving application of pain, intense sensation, or constriction to the genitals.
CBT
Cock and ball torture
Pussy torture
Genital torture
A garment covering the hand and used in kink or erotic play.
Gloves (Erotic)
Controlling or restricting the ability to breathe in order to achieve heightened pleasure or stimulation.
Breath control play
Breath play
Breathplay
Suffocation
Breath control
Tickling is the act of touching a part of a body in a way that causes involuntary twitching movements and/or laughter.
Knismolagnia
Knismophilia
Tickle torture
Tickling
Consensual impact play using a flogger, i.e. a multi-tailed whip, usually made of leather.
Flogging
Aretifism
Foot fetishism
Foot kink
Foot partialism
Podophilia
Retifitism
Foot fetish
The use of a device (called a douche or enema) to introduce a stream of liquid into either the rectum or vagina. Can be used for sexual or erotic purposes.
Douching
A practice of dressing and acting like a living doll (through makeup, dressing, etc.) for aesthetic or sexual gratification.
Rubber dolling
Dollification
A kink activity where intense sensation, pain, or constriction is applied to the nipples.
Nip torture
Nipple torture
A gender-inclusive term for any sexual activity involving the the upper area of the torso, including fondling/groping, kissing, licking, rubbing, pinching, or squeezing/constricting.
Chest play
A type of consensual BDSM play involving the mock capture, bondage, struggle, and intimidation of one or more sexual partners.
Consensual kidnapping
Abduction play
Opposition to various practices or fantasies involving sadomasochism or power exchange.
Antisadomasochism
Anti-sadomasochism
Accessories or devices used to restrict or confine the genitalia.
Chastity belt
Cock cage
Chastity devices
A variety of practices where someone in a dominant role sets rules for someone in a submissive role that they are expected to obey and the dominant administers punishments, corrections, or rewards.
Discipline
A transphobic and transantagonistic ideology that rejects trans and gender diverse identities and rights, and believes that recognition of these identities and rights constitutes discrimination and oppression towards cisgender women. Though originally considered a fringe offshoot of feminism, trans-exclusionary radical feminist groups have formed alliances with right-wing, far-right extremists, and anti-feminist organizations in order to spread misinformation and further anti-trans sentiment and legislation.
Gender critical feminism
TERF ideology
Trans-exclusionary feminism
Trans-exclusionary radical feminism
The act of roleplaying as people of different ages, usually as children, for fun or erotic enjoyment.
ABDL
Ageplay
Infantilism
Age play
Coprolagnia
Coprophilia
Extrementophilia
Fecalphilia
Fecophilia
Poop fetish
Poop fetishism
Poop kink
Scat fetish
Scat fetishism
Scat kink
Scat
Scatophilia
Scat play
Application of liquid wax to the body for erotic or sensual play.
Wax play
Any practice of revering muscles, usually in a sexual context.
Muscle worship
A type of sensual or sexual play in which ice or similar cold substances are applied to the body.
Ice play
Any of various forms of sexual play which involve the application of electricity.
Electrical play
Naturally occurring fluids produced by the human body.
Feces
Milk
Snot
Sweat
Urine
Vomit
Body fluids
Absorbent material wrapped around a person’s butt and between their legs to absorb urine and feces; typically used in ageplay.
Diapers (Erotic)
Psychological or physical humiliation performed in order to produce erotic excitement or sexual arousal.
Erotic humiliation
Humiliation
The use of hypnosis in a sexual or erotic context.
Mind control
Erotic hypnosis
The physical or psychological control of one's own or a partner’s orgasm.
Edging
Forced orgasm
Orgasm denial
Orgasm control
Refraining from sexual arousal, orgasm, or sex as an act of submission, method of erotic discipline, or for personal satisfaction.
Chastity play
Use of blood for erotic or sensual pleasure.
Blood play
An item or device used to prevent speech, usually by blocking or filling the mouth. Often used in some forms of bondage play.
Ball gags
Gags
The use of balloons for fashion, sexual arousal or erotic play.
Looner
Balloon kink
Inflation of the body, parts of the body, clothing, or inflatable objects with air or other substances for sexual arousal or erotic play.
Inflatables
Inflation (Erotic)
Insertion of rods into the urethra, usually for erotic stimulation.
Sounding (Sex)
Any of various restraint devices designed to secure an individual’s wrists or ankles in bondage play.
Cuff restraints
Cuffs
A gender-inclusive term for the upper area of the torso, can be used if the person has breasts or not.
Chest
A kink activity where intense sensation, pain, or constriction is applied to the breasts.
Boob torture
Tit torture
Breast torture
A form of temperature play that involves using cigars, usually applied to the skin.
Cigar play
A type of consensual play involving mock coercion, intimidation, force, or struggle of one or more partners.
CNC
Consensual nonconsent
Rape play
Consent play
The unjust or prejudicial treatment of individuals or communities due to their kinks and/or kinky sexual practices; may include adverse legal judgment and/or the denial of legal rights, employment, and housing.
Anti-kink discrimination
A hood used as a head covering or restraint, for kink, erotic play or fashion.
Bondage hoods
Hoods (Erotic)
Masks worn as a fetish fashion accessory or for sensual or sexual play.
Masks (Erotic)
Any kind of sexual play that involves anal stimulation.
Assplay
Anal play
Use of urine and urination for sexual or erotic pleasure.
Clothes wetting
Golden showers
Omorashi
Piss play
Pissing sex
Undinism
Urolagnia
Urophilia
Water sports
Watersports
Urine play
The person who takes on the position of submission or service in a power exchange relationship or during kink activities.
LGBTQ+ S-type
LGBTQ+ Slaves
LGBTQ+ Subs
LGBTQ+ submissives
Breast fetish
Any of various fetishes regarding a specific part of the body.
Body part fetish
Body part fetishism
Partialism
Partialisms
Body part fetishes
The use of fire or flame in a sexual or erotic context.
Fire play
Eroticization of boots through wearing and incorporating into sexual play.
Boot kink
Boot fetish
Psychological games or roleplay performed in order to produce erotic excitement or sexual arousal.
Mind play
The act of roleplaying as an animal or animal character, sometimes with someone acting as a trainer, handler or pet owner, for fun or erotic enjoyment.
Pet play
Animal roleplay
The act of roleplaying as a canine, sometimes with someone acting as a trainer, handler or pet owner, for fun or erotic enjoyment.
Leatherpups
Pup play
Films or theatrical productions in which singing and/or dancing are essential elements. Use for musicals created by LGBTQ+ directors, depicting LGBTQ+ people, or that are regarded as important within LGBTQ+ culture.
Musicals (LGBTQ)
LGBTQ+ musicals
Eroticization of rubber, latex, and related materials.
Rubber and latex sex
Rubber sex
Rubbersex
Rubber and latex fetish
Any of various forms of sensual or sexual play in which objects and substances are used to stimulate the body with heat or cold.
Temperature play
People who participate in or identify with leather communities.
Leather people
Eroticization of shoes such as high heels and boots.
Shoe kink
Shoe fetish
Any sexual activity involving the breasts, including fondling/groping, kissing, licking, rubbing, pinching, or squeezing/constricting.
Breast play
Disabled demisexual people
Demisexual disabled people
Disabled megasexual people
Megasexual disabled people
Disabled aromantic people
Aromantic disabled people
Disabled greyromantic people
Greyromantic disabled people
An activity where a person is struck repeatedly, with or without an implement, for erotic play.
Beating
Cropping
Impact play
Uniform fetish
The phenomenon in which someone in a marginalized group displaces violence or oppression onto other members of their own group, often by acting on internalized oppressive beliefs (i.e., negative perceptions of and intolerance toward any marginalized identities they hold) adopted as a result of being raised or socialized within an oppressive environment or culture.
Lateral violence
Lateral oppression
A mask traditionally used to protect the wearer from inhaling airborne pollutants and toxic gases and used in kink or erotic play.
Gas masks (Erotic)
People who participate in kink and/or power exchange relationships.
BDSMers
Fetishists
Kinksters
Sadomasochists
Kinky people
Eroticization of pain and intense sensation.
Algolagnia
S&M
Sexual Torture
Sadomasochism
The person who takes on the position of authority or power in a power exchange relationship or kink activity.
LGBTQ+ D-types
LGBTQ+ Doms
LGBTQ+ masters
Masters (LGBTQ)
LGBTQ+ dominants
Fashion, clothing, and accessories associated with LGBTQ+ subcultures and expression.
LGBTQ+ fashion
Consensual exchange of power between two or more people as a feature of their relationship or during erotic activity.
D & S
D and S
D&s
D/s
Dom and sub
Dom-sub
Dominance and submission
Domination and submission
M/s
Master/slave lifestyle
Master/slave
Submission and dominance
Submission and domination
Power exchange
Items used during kink play or worn as fashionable accessories to indicate participation in the kink or leather communities.
Bondage gear
Bondagewear
Fetishwear
Leather gear
Kink accessories
A subgenre of fantasy fiction featuring magic and supernatural creatures in contemporary urban settings; use for urban fantasy focusing on LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
LGBTQ+ urban fantasy fiction
Alumni groups or associations whose membership is specifically comprised of LGBTQ+ former students of the same university, college, or school
LGBTQ+ alumni associations
LGBTQ+ alumni groups
LGBTQ+ people who are attending college.
LGBT college students
LGBTQ+ college students
Sexual or erotic acts, objects, and situations that are considered to be unusual within a given society.
BDSM
Fetish
Fetishism
Kink
Kinks and fetishes