Punterlink's Guide to Sexual Terminology |
A guide to some of the terms and phrases used in the escorting industry.
Sexual Terms (A-M) |
Meanings |
69 | Simultaneous fellatio and cunnilingus |
A | Anal sex |
A-Levels | Anal sex |
Abstinence | Refraining from all sexual activity |
Abstinence Only Curricula | Sexuality education programs that advocate sexual abstinence before marriage. They do not provide information about contraception, safer sex, or sexual orientation |
AC/DC | Bisexual. |
Active | The aggressive sexual partner |
Agate | A small penis |
Age of Consent | The age at which one is considered old enough to decide to have sexual intercourse |
Age of Majority | The age at which one becomes a legal adult |
Age play | Role playing involving pretending to be a child and often wearing children's clothing. Adult babies |
AIDS | (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) A set of conditions associated with the last stages of HIV disease |
Algolagnia | Another word for sadomasochism (SM) Algolagnia is when pain is transformed into sexual pleasure |
Alternative sexuality | A sexual orientation with a few variations that differ from vaginal intercourse when a monogamous heterosexual relationship has been established |
Alternative lifestyle | Sexual preference that is very different from the "norm," making it necessary and/or desirable. If the alternative sexuality is less common than the norm it will push the individual to reach an accepted subculture |
Alveoli | Sacs inside the breast that produce milk |
Androgens | Certain hormones that stimulate male sexual development and secondary male sex characteristics. They are most abundantly produced in the testicles of men but are also produced in small amounts in women's ovaries. The most common androgen is testosterone |
Androgynous / Androgyny | One who is / the quality of simultaneously exhibiting "masculine" and "feminine" characteristics. Androgyny: A person psychologically ntermediate between male and female; or a person who rejects a specifically male or female gender role |
Animal play | When one or both partners pretend to be an animal (Ex: dog, horse) in a role play |
Anal/Anal intercourse | Using the rectum for Sexual Intercourse |
Anilingus | Kissing and penetration of the anus by tongue |
Anorgasmia | The inability to have an orgasm. |
Anus | The opening of the rectum |
Aphrodisiac | A substance that is supposed to increase sexual desire |
Areola | The dark area surrounding the nipples of women and men |
Around the world | Kissing the entire body before sex |
Asexual | Absence of sexual feeling |
Auto-eroticism | Masturbation |
Auto-fellatio | Performing fellation on ones own penis |
Auto-sadism | An act whereby one inflicts pain on oneself |
AW0 | Anal without a condom |
Back scuttle | Perform anal intercourse |
Bag | The scrotum |
Back yard | The buttocks |
Balanitis | An inflammation of the glands and foreskin of the penis that can be caused by infections (including sexually transmitted infections) irritations, drugs, or other factors. |
Ball | A wild sex activity |
Balls | The testicles |
Banana | The penis |
Bare-assed | Nude |
Bareback | Sex Without a condom |
Barrier | Methods of Birth Control Contraceptives that block sperm from entering the uterus. These are the condom, vaginal pouch, diaphragm, cervical cap, and spermicide. |
Bartholin's Glands | Glands in the labia menorah on each side of the opening to the vagina that provide lubrication during sexual excitement. |
Basket | The bulge of male sex organ in clothing |
Basket shopping | Observing the male organ through clothing |
Berdache | French term for younger partners in male homosexual relationships |
Chastity Belt | Garment meant to ensure fidelity in women in the absence of their husbands. Others were designed to prevent masturbation and nocturnal emissions in men and boys. |
Cheat | To be unfaithful to one's sex partner |
Chemical Castration | The use of Depo-Provera to decrease sexual desire and arousal. |
Cherry | One who is still a virgin |
CIM | Come in mouth |
Circumcision | Surgical removal of the foreskin |
Chlamydia | A common sexually transmitted organism that can cause sterility in women and men. |
Clap | Gonorrhoea or other venereal disease (std) |
Climacteric | The time of change that leads to menopause. The physiological midlife changes for women and men |
Climax | To achieve the high point of sex activity |
Clit | The clitoris |
Clitoral Hood | A small flap of skin that covers and protects the clitoris. |
Clitoris | A small erectile organ located in the forward area of the wife's vulva. Stimulation of the clitoris during foreplay and sexual intercourse can enhance the wife chances of an orgasm |
Closet | The confining state of being secretive about one's homosexuality |
Closet queen | A male homosexual who hides his desires for men |
Closeted | Hiding one's sexuality or gender predilection from others or the public. Closet case. |
Code word(s) | Word or words that are used in personal ads to unnotice sexual proclivities mostly unacceptable in society. Ex: French or Greek culture, clean, discipline, strict, leather, etc. |
COF | Cum On Face. |
Cohabitation | Living together in a sexual relationship. |
Coitus | Sexual intercourse |
Coitus in ano | Anal intercourse |
Coitus interruptus | Withdrawal of the penis prior to ejaculation |
Cold | Unresponsive to sexual relations |
Colposcope | A viewing instrument with a bright light and magnifying lens that is used to examine the vagina and cervix. |
Come out | To acknowledge one's homosexuality, either to oneself or to others; most often a public declaration of being lesbian or gay. |
Completion | Orgasm. For example, OWO to completion means until you cum |
Comparison | Warm happy feelings experienced when noticing ones loved ones enjoying loving relationships with others. The opposite of jealousy |
Conception | The moment when the pre-embryo attaches to the lining of the uterus and pregnancy begins; term also used to describe the fertilization of the egg with a man’s sperm |
Condom | A sheath of thin rubber, plastic, or animal tissue that is worn on the penis during sexual intercourse. It is an over-the-counter, reversible barrier method of birth control, and it also provides protection against the most serious sexually transmitted infections. |
Consensual | An agreement made by parties for certain type of behaviour or activities. When the consent is informed and there is a reasonable knowledge of possible risks is called true consent. |
Continence | To refrain from sexual activity |
Contraceptive | The prevention of pregnancy; birth control. |
Corpus Cavernosa | Two strips of tissue that lie on each side of the urethra in the penis. During sexual excitement, they fill with blood to create an erection. |
Corpus Spongiosum | The tissue that surrounds the urethra inside the penis and is responsible, like the corpus cavernosa, for an erection; also the type of tissue that forms the glands of the clitoris and the penis. |
Corona | Rim of flesh which forms the base of the head of penis |
Cowgirl | A position for sexual intercourse - the man on his back, the woman sitting on top. |
Cowper's Glands | The glands beneath the prostate gland that are attached to the urethra. They produce a substance that makes seminal fluid sticky. |
Covered | With a condom |
CP | Corporal punishment. You used to be able to get this in return for stealing things, but it doesn't work that way any more |
Crabs | Lice which infect the pubic area of the body |
Cremaster Reflex | An automatic response to stimulation (for example, cold temperature or touching the inside f the thigh) in which the cremaster muscle pulls the scrotum and testes closer to the body |
Creampie | Ejaculation in the vagina (or anus) without a condom |
Cross dresser | A person who occasionally dresses in the clothing of the opposite sex for sexual or emotional pleasure, or both. The most commonly-used term, having replaced transvestite. May be male or female, hetero- or homosexual, bi- or solo sexual, and may partially or wholly cross-dress |
Cross-dressing | The practice of dressing in clothes traditionally assigned to the opposite gender; also called transvestitism or drag |
Cryptorchidism | The condition in which one or both of the testicles do not descend from the lower abdomen before puberty |
Cum | Semen |
Cum facial | Same as facial |
Cunnilingus | Stimulation of the woman’s genital area, especially the clitoris, with the partner's lips and tongue |
CWM | CyberWhoreMonger. A punter who uses the Internet in connection with his paid-sex activities. This is mainly an American term, and contrasts with CyberCourtesan |
Date Rape | Coerced sexual intercourse during a dating relationship |
Delayed Ejaculation | Commonly used term for inhibited orgasm in men |
Depo-Provera® | A progestin that is injected into the buttock or arm every 12 weeks to prevent pregnancy. It is a reversible method of birth control available only by prescription |
Diaphragm | A soft rubber dome intended to fit securely over the cervix. Used with contraceptive cream or jelly, the diaphragm is a reversible barrier method of birth control available only by prescription |
Dirt | Sex slave members who's checks bounce |
Discipline | The other part of Bondage (B&D) that could also mean punishment or a structured training of a submissive. |
Doggie style | A position for sexual intercourse - the woman on her knees, the man entering from behind |
Dominance | dominance and submission, D/S, D&S Used for erotic enhancement, one partner uses consensual empowerment for the other partner. In SM, dominance and submission are the psychological and emotional underpinnings. |
Dominant, Dom, Domme, Domina, Dominatrix | The person that in a consensual exchange of power is in charge. If the person is a male is called dominant or Dom; if is a female is called a Domme, Domina or Dominatrix |
Don Juanism | The desire by a man to have sex very frequently with many different partners. |
Dose | Gonorrhoea or other venereal disease (std) |
Douche | A spray of water or solution of medication into the vagina. |
DP | Double penetration, one penis in the vagina, another in the anus |
Drag queen | Male who dresses in female clothing |
Dry fuck | Moving against one another, clothed to simulate intercourse |
Dyad | A sexual love relationship consisting of two primary partners |
Dyke | A lesbian |
Dyspareunia | Painful intercourse for women that may be caused by hormonal imbalances, especially those that happen after menopause. |
Early Ejaculation | Ejaculation occurring before a man wants it to occur. |
Eat | To perform oral intercourse |
Ectopic Pregnancy | A life-threatening pregnancy that develops outside the uterus, often in a fallopian tube. |
Effeminate | Descriptive of a male who acts in a feminine manner |
Egg | The reproductive cell in women; the largest cell in the human body. |
Ejaculation | Discharge from the penis during sexual climax |
Ejaculatory Inevitability | The moment during sexual excitement when a man cannot stop his ejaculation. The prostate begins contracting and pulsing out seminal fluid. |
Emergency Contraception | The use of oral contraceptives or IUDs to prevent pregnancy after unprotected intercourse |
Emergency Hormonal Contraception | The use of oral contraceptives to prevent pregnancy after unprotected intercourse. |
Enema | An instrument or injecting fluid into the anus to flush the lower intestines. In SM scenes enemas are used for humiliation, for preparation for other activities (fisting or anal sex) and/or for pleasure. |
Epididymis | The tube in which sperm mature. It is tightly coiled on top of and behind each testis. The plural of Epididymis is epididymides. |
Epididymitis | An inflammation of the Epididymis |
Erectile Dysfunction | The inability to become erect or maintain an erection with a partner. |
Erection | The sexual aroused state cause by a rush of blood into the veins and capillaries of the penis, coupled with a valve action which prevents its release, and further aided by the contraction of certain surface muscles on the penis, all of which combine to keep it in a hard and extended configuration until the stimuli is taken away or ejaculation occurs |
Erogenous Zone | Any area of the body very sensitive to sensual touch. |
Erotic | That which is sexually arousing. |
Erotica | Sexually arousing imagery that is not considered pornographic, obscene, or offensive to the average person. |
Erotophilia | Appreciation of the erotic |
Erotophobia | Fear and anxiety about the erotic. |
Erotic restraint | When movement is restricted for erotic play. It is also referred to the devices used |
Escort | A person who sells companionship and may offer Sex |
Estrogen | A hormone commonly made in a woman's ovaries. Estrogens major effects are seen during puberty, menstruation, and pregnancy |
Eunuch | A male who has had his testicles removed |
Exhibitionism | A paraphilia in which sexual arousal becomes dependent on exposing the sex organs to those who will be surprised. |
Exhibitionist | A person who derives sexual gratification by displaying his body to others |
Facial | This is where you spunk over her face |
Faeces | Solid waste that leaves the body through the anus. |
Fake Orgasm | The pretence of having reached climax in order to end sex play or please a partner. |
Family jewels | The testicles |
Fanny | Same as pussy, cunny, quim, etc. (This definition is provided for the benefit of Americans, who generally have a very strange idea of what a fanny is.) |
Fellatio | To kiss, nibble, lick or cock-sucking |
Female Circumcision | The practice of removing a girl's clitoral hood, clitoris, and/or the labia; often called female genital mutilation. This is practiced in some African, Near Eastern, and Southeast Asian cultures. |
Female Impersonator (FI) | A male who, on specific occasions, cross dresses and employs stereotypical feminine dialog, voice, and mannerisms for the entertainment of other people. |
Feminine | The "gender role" assigned to "females". |
Fetish | Excessive or irrational devotion to some activity, a sexual interest in an object or a part of the body which someone is interested in to an extreme degree of worship with excessive devotion |
Fetishistic Transvestite | A Transvestite who consistently eroticizes Cross Dressing. May also eroticize fantasies of gender/sex change. |
Fifth wheel | A heterosexual in a homosexual group |
Fisting | The art of inserting the whole hand inside the vagina or anus |
Flagellation | Whipping or beating to sexual orgasm |
Foot fetish/ Foot worship | Sexual obsession toward feet or shoes |
F->M | Female to male. Used to specify the direction of a sex or gender role change. |
Foreplay | Physical and sexual stimulation (kissing, touching, stroking, and massaging) that often happens in the excitement stage of sexual response; often occurs before intercourse, but can lead to orgasm without intercourse. |
Foreskin | A retractable tube of skin that covers and protects the glands of the penis. |
FOC | Free of harge |
FR | Field report, a written report of an experience with a prostitute by a client |
French | French sex. Another term for fellatio. TO PERFORM ORAL INTERCOURSE |
French kissing | Deep kissing, tongue kissing. |
FS | Sometimes means full sex, but sometimes means full service |
FTM | female to male, as in cross-dressing or a transsexual |
Full house | Having more than one venereal disease (std) at the same time |
Full service | Bit vague, but generally means full sex and fellatio |
Full sex | Vaginal intercourse |
Full strip | Should mean that she takes all her clothes off - but beware that she may have a different idea of the meaning. |
FWO | French without [a condom]. Same as OWO or BBBJ. |
Sexual Terms (Cont.) |
Sexual terms from G through to M |
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