Sexual Practices Encyclopedia


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

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: