List of Kinks: 510+ Types, Explained

Every kink and fetish in one place, sorted into 14 categories. Each one links to a plain-English guide with safety notes and ideas for couples.

What is a kink?

A kink is any sexual interest, practice or fantasy outside what a culture treats as conventional sex. Spanking, bondage, role-play and dominance and submission are all kinks. The word comes from "kinky", meaning bent, the opposite of "straight". Between consenting adults, having a kink is common and healthy.

Kink vs. fetish

A fetish is narrower: arousal focused on a specific object, material or body part, such as feet, latex or leather. Every fetish is a kink, but most kinks are not fetishes.

How to use this kink list

Read through the list and mark each kink Yes, Maybe or No, the same way a Yes/No/Maybe list works. Not sure where to start? Take the free 2-minute kink test to find your archetype first.

The most common kinks

  1. 1. Spanking

    The most common entry point into impact play.

  2. 2. Bondage

    Being restrained, or restraining a partner, with rope, cuffs or ties.

  3. 3. Blindfolds

    Removing sight so every other sensation gets louder.

  4. 4. Dirty talk

    Words as foreplay: praise, commands, fantasies said out loud.

  5. 5. Role-play

    Stepping into characters and scenarios together.

  6. 6. Tease and denial

    Building anticipation by delaying release.

  7. 7. Hair pulling

    A firm, controlled grip that mixes dominance and sensation.

  8. 8. Biting

    From soft nibbles to marks you can see the next day.

  9. 9. Sensory deprivation

    Blindfolds, earplugs or hoods to heighten touch.

  10. 10. Wax play

    Warm drips of low-temperature wax on skin.

  11. 11. Handcuffs

    The classic restraint, plush or metal.

  12. 12. Collars

    A symbol of a power-exchange dynamic, worn in private.

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Bondage

83 activities

Arm & leg sleeves (armbinders) Arms Arms Restraint Blindfolding Blindfolds Bondage - All day/multi day Bondage - Heavy Bondage - Light Bondage Opera Gloves Bondage Public, under clothing Bondage Restraints Bondage Sensory Deprivation Bondage With Soft Restraints Breast bondage Cages/Cells/Closets - Locked inside Chains Chastity Devices Chest Harness Cockrings Collar Locking Containment (Caging / Cells) Cotton Rope Cuffs - Leather Duration Ear plugs (sound deprivation) Full Body Full head hoods Gags - Ball Gags - Bit Gags - Cloth Gags - Inflatable Gags - Phallic Gags - Ring Gags - Rubber Gags - Tape Genital Bondage Hair Handcuffs Harnessing - Leather Harnessing - Rope Hemp Rope Immobilisation Intricate Rope / Shibari Leash Leather restraints Legs Manacles & Irons Mental Bondage Mouth bits multi-day Mummification Muzzles Nose Hooks Nose Leashes Nylon Rope Predicament Predicament Bondage Public bondage, under clothing Public bondage, visible Restraint 0-1 hour Restraint 3+ hours Restraint full day or overnight Restraint multi-day Rope body harness Rope Bondage Rope bondage - Japanese Style Rope bondage - Simple Shibari short term Sleep sacks Slings Spreader Bars Stocks (head & hands) Straight jackets Stress Positions Suspension Suspension Bondage Suspension - Horizontal Suspension - Inverted Suspension (Sex Swing) Suspension - Upright Tape Bondage Zip ties
24 Hours a Day/7 Days a Week Animal Play (pet, dog, horse, etc) Bathroom Use Control Bedroom Only Control Begging Behavior Restriction Being a sex slave Being prostituted Being used/treated as a sex toy Bimbofication Blackmail Body control Body Modification Body Pose / Position Protocol Body Weight Control Body worship Boot Blacking / shoe shining Burping Chastity Chauffeuring Chores (domestic service) Clothing Chosen Collar and Leash Collar (private) Collar (public) Collar (semi-private / events) Competition Consensual Non-consent Corsets (trained waist reduction) Crawling Cuckold Scenes Cum Eating Day to Day Control Discipline Discreet Public Play (less obvious to others) Emasculation Erotic Dance (Audience) Erotic Dance (Private) Escaping Bondage Exercise Requirements Eye Contact Restriction Face Sitting Feet / Leg Food Chosen Forced Bedwetting Forced Bi-Sexuality Forced Crossdressing Forced Exercise Forced Nudity Forced Orgasms Forced Pants Wetting Genuflecting Honorifics Humiliation Insults Isolation Journal / Blogging Duty Kneeling Loaned to Others for Service Loaned to Others for Sex Manicures Marking Master/Mistress/slave Micromanaging Micromanaging (Clothing) Micromanaging (Food) Mono/Poly Arrangement Obedience Objectification Orders Pegging Pet Play Playing together with other subs Poses (Exposure, Embarrassing, etc) Power Exchange Power exchange / Protocol Power Exchange Protocols Power Exchange Roleplay Protocols Protocols (High) Public Humiliation Punishment Dynamic pussy Put on Display Ravishment Play (Group) Ravishment Play (Rape Play) Removal of Privacy Reprimands Ritual Ritual and Ceremony Ruined Orgasms Rules Sensory deprivation Service Service Submission Serving as a candleholder Serving as Art Serving as Ashtray Serving as Furniture Serving as Toilet Serving others Sexual deprivation (long term) Sexual deprivation (short term) Sexual Humiliation Sexual Inadequacy Humiliation Slave Auctions Slave Positions Sleeping Conditions Chosen Slut Training Slutty Clothing (Private) Slutty Clothing (Public) Small Penis Humiliation Speech Restriction / Protocol Standing in corner Struggling / Resistance Subspace Exploration Symbolic Jewellery Tasks Tea Service Total Power Exchange Training Trust Building Exercises Verbal Humiliation (Private) Verbal Humiliation (Public) Watching Bathroom Activities with others with other subs/slaves with self Worship

Fetishes

19 activities

Boot worship Cock worship Corsets Cross dressing Diapers Feet Foot worship Gas Masks High heels (wearing) High heel worship Leather clothing Leather (wearing) Lingerie (wearing) Masks Pussy worship Rubber/latex clothing (wearing) Slutty clothing Spandex clothing Underwear

Humiliation

18 activities

Forced dressing Forced feminization Forced homosexuality Forced servitude Humiliation in private Humiliation in public Lecturing for misbehaviors Objectification (art, furniture...) Public exposure Sexy clothing (private) Sexy clothing (public) Shaving (body hair) Shaving head hair Shaving or depilation of body hair Spitting Standing in corner (punishment) Verbal humiliation Washing mouth out with soap
Anal Beads / Balls Anal Hook Anal Plugs Animal Tail Anal Plugs Ball Crushers Bells Belts Breast whipping Canes Caning - English Caning - Sensation Cat-O-Nine-Tails Claws Clothespins Clubs Crops Dildos Dragon Tails E-Stim Kits Face Slapping Feathers / Ticklers Floggers Genital Weights Guns Knives Labia Clamps Leather straps Mirrors Nipple Clamps – Adjustable Nipple Clamps – Clover Nipple toys Nipple Weights Paddles Pussy kicking Pussy punching Pussy spanking Pussy whipping Riding crops Scratching with nails Scrotum Parachutes / Stretchers Single Tail Whips Slappers / Straps Spanking Spanking - Hairbrush Spanking - Hand Spanking - Leather slappers Spanking - Over The Knee Spanking - Wooden paddles Strap-On Harnesses Strapping - Full body beating Stroking (lightly) Urethral Sounds Vaginal Hook Vibrators - Insertable Vibrators – Wands Violet Wands Wartenberg Pinwheels Whipping - Belt Whipping - Cat o' 9 tails Whipping - Flogger Whipping - Single tail

Marking

4 activities

Scarification (cutting, making scars) Tattoo/Branding as Sign of Ownership Tattooing (inking) Temporary (Pen or Lipstick)

Non-monogamy

7 activities

Fantasy gang rape Group play - Multiple men "gang bang" Group play - Multiple women & men Group play - Orgy Shared (given to another only temp) Swapping (with one other couple) Swinging (multiple couples)

Role Play

23 activities

Age play (not pedophilia) Animal roleplay Fantasy abandonment Fear play Gang bang Human puppy-dog play Infantilism (baby play) Initiation rites Interrogation Kidnapping Medical scenes Name change Other roleplaying Pony play Prison scenes Prostitution fantasy Psych ward play Rape Religious scenes Role Playing Light Schoolroom scenes Switching roles (Top/bottom) Total Power Exchange (TPE)

Sado-Masochism

38 activities

Abrasion Bastinado (feet torture) Biting Branding Breast torture w/pins-clips, etc. Breath Play Bruising Choking Choking – Arterial Choking – Windpipe Cupping / Suction Cutting Dilation – Anal Dilation – Vaginal Electric Play Enemas Fire Play Gagging Gagging During Oral Gagging (fingers or similar means) Genital Torture Hair Pulling Hot Wax Play Ice / Cold Play Knife Play (non-cutting) Nipple Torture Piercing Pinching Punching / Beating Pussy/cunt slapping / whipping Scratching Sexual Asphyxiation Smothering Tickling Trampling Verbal Abuse Water Torture Wrestling

Sensation Play

1 activities

Sensory Play
Auctioned for charity Bathroom use control (permission) Chauffeuring (driving) Chores (domestic service/housework) Chosen clothing for Chosen food for Contract slave Daily diary Erotic dancing Exercise - Forced/required Following orders Gor Slave Training (positions) Harems (serving with other subs) Hypnotism Learned postures Mantra and meditation Pedicures & foot massages Personality modification Restrictive rules on behaviour Rituals Serving as a maid Serving other Doms (supervised only) Speech restrictions (when, what, to whom) Uniform (wearing) Washroom restrictions Wearing symbolic jewelry Weight control

Sexual Practices

76 activities

69 Position Anal beads Anal play Anal plugs - Large Anal plugs - Medium Anal Plugs - Public (Under Clothes) Anal plugs - Small Anal sex Breast fucking Breast Sex Catheterization Cumming on Partner Deepthroating Dildos - Anal Dildos - Oral Dildos - Vaginal Dirty Talk Double penetration (anal and vaginal) Double Penetration – Human Double penetration (oral and anal) Double Penetration – Toys Fantasy rape play Fellatio/Cunnilingus Fingering / Hand-jobs Fisting - Anal Fisting - Vaginal Forced masturbation French kissing (with tongue) Genital sex Genital Stroking / Rubbing Group Sex Hand jobs Kissing mouth (on lips) Kissing on body Licking (body) Massage Massage Sensual Masturbation being watched Oral/anal play (rimming) Oral Sex Orgasm control Orgasm denial Outdoor sex Petting / Stroking Hair Phone sex (with others) Phone sex (with partner) Prostrate stimulation Rimming Rimming / Anal Licking Sex Machines – Handheld Sex Machines – Stationary Sex Toys Sexual Body Fluids – Consuming Sexual Body Fluids – on body Sexual deprivation Sounding Speculums Spitting – external Spitting - In mouth Squirting Strap-on-dildos (penetrated by) Strap-on-dildos (sucking on) Strap-on-dildos (wearing) Tantric sex Tease and Denial Teasing Threesome - All same Sex Threesome - M, F, F Threesome - M, M, F Triple penetration Triple Penetration – Toys Vaginal Sex Vaginal Toys Vibrator - Anal Vibrator - External genital Vibrator - Internal genital
Examinations Exhibitionism (friends) Exhibitionism (strangers) Forced nudity (around others) Forced nudity (private) Modeling for erotic photos Outdoor scenes Video (recordings of you) Video (watching others) Voyeurism (watching others) Voyeurism (your Dom w/others)

Kink list FAQ

What is a kink?
A kink is any sexual interest, practice or fantasy that sits outside what a culture treats as conventional sex. Spanking, bondage, role-play and dominance and submission are all kinks. The word comes from "kinky", meaning bent or curled, the opposite of "straight". Having a kink is common and, between consenting adults, healthy.
What is the difference between a kink and a fetish?
A kink is a broad interest in unconventional sex. A fetish is narrower: arousal focused on a specific object, material or body part, such as feet, latex or leather, sometimes to the point that it is needed for arousal. Every fetish is a kink, but most kinks are not fetishes.
How many types of kinks are there?
There is no fixed number, because kinks are as varied as people. This list covers 510+ kinks and fetishes organised into 14 categories, from bondage and impact play to role-play, humiliation and non-monogamy. Each one links to a plain-English guide with safety notes.
What are the most common kinks?
Surveys of sexual fantasies, such as the research behind Justin Lehmiller's book Tell Me What You Want, consistently find bondage, spanking, dominance and submission, role-play and sex with multiple partners among the most common themes. Many people have at least one kink without ever calling it that.
How do I find out what my kinks are?
Go through a list like this one and rate each kink Yes, Maybe or No. Your Yeses and Maybes are your kinks. For a faster start, take the free 2-minute kink test to find your kink archetype, then rate the full checklist and compare it privately with your partner.
Is it normal to have kinks?
Yes. Kinky interests are widespread, and research has not found kink between consenting adults to be a sign of trauma or mental illness. What matters is consent, communication and safety: negotiate limits, agree a safeword, and plan aftercare.

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