Sexuality
Vocabulary of practice, consent, fetish and community — described, not staged.
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Aftercare
Agreed care after a scene or an intense encounter: the physical and emotional landing when the role (or the orgasm) ends.
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BDSM
Umbrella acronym for bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism: erotic practices and roles among adults who agree what is in and what stops.
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CNC
Acronym for consensual non-consent: a scene in which refusal is part of the play, with a real agreement underneath.
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DDLG
Acronym for daddy dom / little girl: age-role play between adults, with agreed care and hierarchy.
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Edging
The practice of nearing orgasm and pulling back, repeatedly, to stretch arousal.
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ENM
Acronym for ethical non-monogamy: more than one affective or sexual bond, agreed in the open.
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JOI
Acronym for jerk-off instruction: video, audio or text in which someone tells the viewer how to masturbate.
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Pegging
A practice in which a person wearing a strap-on penetrates another, usually a cis man, by agreement.
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RACK
Acronym for risk-aware consensual kink: an ethic that admits informed risk instead of promising total safety.
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Safeword
An agreed word that stops the scene for real, above the theatre of no.
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SSC
Acronym for safe, sane, consensual: the classic ethical triad of the BDSM scene.
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Voyeurism
Arousal from looking; in the clinic, a pattern that invades someone who did not agree to be seen.