lemon

en-noun

lemon (countable and uncountable, plural lemons)

desc

→ Kashubian: lemòna (Canada, United States)

Cream Lemon
Lemon
Lemon (color)
Lemon (geometry)

Inherited from Middle English lymon, from Old French lymon (“citrus”), from Arabic لَيْمُون (laymūn) or Persian لیمون (limon), from Persian لیمو (limu), from Sanskrit निम्बू (nimbū, “lime”), ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *limaw or Munda. Likely doublet of lime.
The fandom sense is named after the erotic anime series Cream Lemon.

I'd really like to know what people think of this and whether I should carry on writing lemons or go and hide under a rock somewhere.

1997 April 18, Neko, “[Dominion][FanFic][Lemon] A Typical Night at the Station”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet):

WARNING: This story is a lemon and must be viewed with great care. If you are either under the age of 18, think graphic sex is discussing^([sic]) or you know what my writing is like you should turn away now.

2000 May 30, Ian Blakeman, “[Eva][FanFic][Lemon] A day at Misatos appartment^([sic])”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet):

This won't be a lemon simply because I can't see myself writing anything like that.

2002 November 10, Goku Girl, “[DBZ][FanFic][Yaoi] Saiya-jin no Suto-ri Ichi (part one)”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex.


alpha

From the Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha), the first letter of the Greek alphabet, from the Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, “aleph”). Doublet of alif and aleph.

And thank you. Seriously. I'll call you later.
You better. I'm feeling pretty alpha now.
Yes, you are.

(of person, object or action) Exhibiting characteristics of the alpha male/female archetype.


beta

en-noun

beta (countable and uncountable, plural betas)

From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Doublet of beth.

“I guess in your psychological language of alpha males and beta males, I would be firmly in the camp that prefers the more laid-back betas,” she took a deep breath, “like your father.”

2006, Catherine Mann, Blaze of Glory, Harlequin, published 2006, →ISBN:

“They want sexy, virile alpha males, yes? But that doesn't come with sensitive and loyal and all of that. That's a beta. A frickin' collie, Lola. […]

2010, L. A. Banks, “Dog Tired (of the Drama!)”, in Kevin J. Anderson, editor, Blood Lite II: Overbite, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 121:

She'd always had a thing for alpha males. Not that she had any intention of being bossed around, even if one had her best interests at heart. Her fascination with alphas was that they were a challenge. Betas didn't hold much of an appeal.

2010, Terry Spear, Wolf Fever, Sourcebooks Casablanca, published 2010, →ISBN, page 24:

When they ride the cock carousel in preference to the responsible betas that they find so boring, well, we guess that they pay.

2015, Stephen Jarosek, Tyrants of Matriarchy:

News of Harper-Mercer's murder spree, which killed ten, prompted speculation on neoreactionary forums that the long-awaited “beta uprising” of virginal shut-ins had begun. Not quite. But in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, a large audience of Americans finally saw the real beta uprising in the violent Nazi rally that shut the city down

2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die:

(slang, manosphere, masculism) Ellipsis of beta male, a man who is less competent or desirable than an alpha male.

beta male

Many A/B/O stories posit societies where biological imperatives divide people based on wolf pack hierarchies into sexual dominants (alphas), sexual submissives (omegas), and everyone else (betas).

2013, Kristina Busse, “Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse”, in Anne Jamison, editor, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 317:

In ASD, the beta also functions as a contrast, as Yuri is assumed to be a beta before his first heat reveals his omega status.

2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 99

Betas are usually second in command to the reigning alpha, and omegas belong to the lowest caste of the social hierarchy.

2018, Laura Campillo Arnaiz, “When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the Hannibal Fandom”, in Ashton Spacey, editor, The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction, page 119:

(fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a person of a secondary sex similar to normal humans, lacking the biological drives of alphas and omegas but generally capable of bonding and mating with either.


omega

From Middle English, from Ancient Greek ὦ μέγα (ô méga), meaning “great ω” (omega is a long vowel in Ancient Greek).

Often omegas go into heat and release pheromones that drive alphas wild.

By writing a male character as an omega, experiences of being treated as other in female-coded ways are imagined to be experienced by a character who represents the male norm.

2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 5

Sweet as Peaches on the Tongue can be defined as the typical dark A/B/O story, wherein a rich alpha gentleman (Dr. Hannibal Lecter) comes across a very young, virginal omega (Will Graham) by accident.

2018, Laura Campillo Arnaiz, “When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the Hannibal Fandom”, in Ashton Spacey, editor, The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction, page 126:

(fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a person of a submissive secondary sex driven by biology, magic, or other means to bond with an alpha, with males of this type often being able to get pregnant.


heat

heat (countable and uncountable, plural heats)

From Middle English hete, from Old English hǣtu, from Proto-West Germanic *haitī, from Proto-Germanic *haitį̄ (“heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *keHy- (“heat; hot”). Cognate with Scots hete (“heat”), North Frisian hiet (“heat”), Old High German heizī (“heat”). Related also to Dutch hitte (“heat”), German Hitze (“heat”), Swedish hetta (“heat”), Icelandic hiti (“heat”).

op hitte

Some stories engage in dub-con scenarios where one or both partners are out of their minds with heat lust and lose all reasoning and inhibitions.

2013, Kristina Busse, “Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse”, in Anne Jamison, editor, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 321:

When Yuri goes into his first heat, it is not only an uncomfortable and traumatic physical experience, it is also an identity crisis: this is the moment realizes that he is an omega, and not a beta as he had previously assumed.

2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 40

Hannibal's first kiss and his alpha saliva trigger Will's heat, […]

2018, Laura Campillo Arnaiz, “When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the Hannibal Fandom”, in Ashton Spacey, editor, The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction, page 127:

(uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate; oestrus.

(countable, fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.


knot

From Middle English knotte, from Old English cnotta, from Proto-West Germanic *knottō, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (“knot”); probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”).
See also Old High German knoto (German Knoten, Dutch knot, Low German Knütte; also Old Norse knútr > Danish knude, Swedish knut, Norwegian knute, Faroese knútur, Icelandic hnútur; also Latin nōdus and its Romance descendants. Doublet of knout, node, and nodus.
* (unit of speed): From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every ¹⁄₁₂₀ of a mile.

In the early stages of reentry, due to the extremely-rarefied air at these altitudes, the space shuttle flew at only one to a few knots equivalent airspeed, even when its actual speed was many thousands of knots.

(aviation) A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.


smut

en-noun

smut (countable and uncountable, plural smuts)

From Middle English smutten (“to defile, debase”), related to German Schmutz (“filth, dirt, smut”) and schmutzen (“to make dirty, stain”). Doublet of schmutz.
Compare also Old English smitta (“smear; blot; mark; stain; pollution”), Old English besmītan (“to besmut; defile; dirty; pollute; contaminate”).

cog

He does not stand upon decency […] but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room.

1711 June 5 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, May 25, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 39; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

(uncountable) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.


present

en-verb

present (third-person singular simple present presents, present participle presenting, simple past and past participle presented)

presents (present singular third-person)
presenting (participle present)
presented (participle past)
presented (past)

From Middle English presenten, from Old French presenter, from Latin praesentāre (“to show”), from praesent-, praesens, present participle of praeesse (“be in front of”).

Sherlock’s gender performance itself remains unchanged, with the exception of the hormonal changes he goes through after presenting as an omega.

2018, Ninna Ilias, "Reimagining Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Gender Performativity", thesis submitted to Radboud University, page 59

People “present” their secondary genders during puberty, so girls and boys are raised without knowing if they will be alphas, betas, or omegas.

2019, Tessa Baron, "Just Go Find Yourself a Nice Alpha: Gender and Consent in Supernatural Fandom's Alpha/Beta/Omega Universe", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 17

Deans kräftige Statur und Größe kommen eher dem stereotypischen Körperbau eines Alphas nahe als dem eines Omegas, was die große Enttäuschung seines Vaters verursachte, der erwartete, dass er als Alpha präsentiert.

2020, Goldmann, Julia Elena, “Wie schreibt man Haus... Mpreg Fan Fiction und Konzepte von Körpern, Geschlecht und Familie [How to Write House… Mpreg Fan Fiction and Concepts of Bodies, Gender and Family]”, in Hausbacher, Eva, Herbst, Liesa, Ostwald, Julia, Thiele, Martina, editors, geschlecht_transkulturell: Aktuelle Forschungsperspektiven [gender_transcultural: current research perspectives], 1st edition, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 262:

Dean’s strong build and height come closer to the stereotypical build of an Alpha than to an Omega, which caused the huge disappointment for his father, who expected him to present as an Alpha.

(fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, to have one's secondary sex (alpha, omega, or beta) become apparent, typically at puberty.


hentai

en-noun

hentai (countable and uncountable, plural hentai or hentais)

→ Cebuano: hentai

→ Finnish: hentai

→ French: hentai

→ German: Hentai

→ Indonesian: hentai

→ Italian: hentai

→ Japanese: ヘンタイ (hentai)

→ Korean: 헨타이 (hentai)

→ Polish: hentai

→ Portuguese: hentai

→ Russian: хентай (xentaj)

→ Spanish: hentai

→ Swedish: hentai

→ Tagalog: hentai

→ Ukrainian: хента́й (xentáj)

Pseudo-Japonism, derived from 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”), short for 変態性欲者(へんたいせいよくしゃ) (hentai seiyoku-sha, literally “person with abnormal sexual desires”).

ja-r

へんたい せいよく-しゃ

There was a hentai video that I saw / I told you about the night that we first made love

2019, “Hentai”, in Cry, performed by Cigarettes After Sex:

X defines adult content as […]
This definition also applies to "AI-generated, photographic or animated content such as cartoons, hentai or anime".

2024 June 5, “Porn now officially allowed on X with safeguards for those under 18”, in Channel News Asia:

A work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art.

hentai

a work of anime that contains sexual art (esp. manga or anime)


hentai

From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”).

hentai (a work of anime or manga — Japanese cartoon art, respectively animated and static — that contains pornography)


rut

en-noun

rut (countable and uncountable, plural ruts)

From Middle English rutte (noun) and rutten (verb), from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rugītus, from rugīre (“to roar”).

der

Proximity to an omega in heat can sometimes cause alphas go into rut, an aggressive need for sexual intercourse usually triggered by the scent of an omega in heat.

2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega?: Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 36

All the characters in this story pressure Dean to help Castiel through his rut, and clearly consider Dean’s resistance to be immature and an overreaction.

2019, Tessa Barone, "Just Go Find Yourself a Nice Alpha: Gender and Consent in Supernatural Fandom's Alpha/Beta/Omega Universe", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 34

Early in Wicked Game, Steve goes into his first-ever rut.

2019, Chris van der Vegt, "The Second Genders: Utopia and Dystopia in Stranger Things Omegaverse Fanfiction", thesis submitted to Utrecht University, page 23

(fandom slang, countable, uncountable) In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.


erotica

en-noun

erotica (countable and uncountable, plural eroticas)

From neuter plural of Latin eroticus (“amatory”), from Ancient Greek ἐρωτικός (erōtikós). By surface analysis, erotic + -ica.

There's a fine line between erotica and pornography.

In fact, eighteenth-century British erotica has been the subject of unremitting attention for the last two decades.

2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 114:

(uncountable) Erotic literature, art, decoration, or other such work.


slick

From Middle English slicke, slike, slyke, from Old English slīc (“sleek, smooth; crafty, cunning, slick”), from Proto-Germanic *slīkaz (“sleek, smooth”),
from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”). Akin to Dutch sluik, dialectal Dutch sleek (“even, smooth”), Old Norse slíkr (“sleek, smooth”), Old English slician (“to make sleek, smooth, or glossy”).

cog

I spent two fucking days locked up in that hotel room, miserable and hating myself and drenched in my own slick!

2017, "Tessa on Ice", quoted in Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega?: Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 41

For his ruts, Castiel orders slick from a single donor, who is, unbeknownst to him, Dean, who lives at the Roadhouse and is in contact with many of his colleagues and rescuees.

2019, Tessa Barone, "Just Go Find Yourself a Nice Alpha: Gender and Consent in Supernatural Fandom's Alpha/Beta/Omega Universe", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 32

She observed another parallel to menstruation, namely the abundance of 'slick' that Omegas produce when they go into heat, which mainly functions as an anal lubricant.

(fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, the copious, lubricating bodily fluid produced by an omega in heat.


bodice ripper

/ˈbɒdɪs ˌɹɪpə/

/ˈbɑdɪs ˌɹɪpɚ/

From the fact that the female protagonists in such novels would often have their bodices (blouses or corsets) removed with some force before sexual activity commenced.

My aunt would bring a stack of torrid bodice rippers with her to the beach, and would unfailingly blush if disturbed in her reading.

Publishers call them hot historicals as opposed to either the virginal variety Barbara Cartland writes or to the bodice rippers "because that's usually what happens to the heroines," Price explained.

1978 February 8, Charitey Simmons, “Dizzying passion ruffles the pages of the ‘hot’ historical novel”, in Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill.: Tribune Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, section 2, page 4:

The name "bodice ripper" was derived from the frequent rapes and sexual assaults that the heroines experienced. "Bodice-ripper" heroines were portrayed to be stronger and more active characters than gothic heroines. Editors of category romances, noting the popularity of the "bodice rippers," have borrowed the longer lengths, the overt sexuality and the assertive heroine from these romances.

1984, Margaret Ann Jensen, “Rivals and Writers”, in Love’s $weet Return: The Harlequin Story, Bowling Green, Oh.: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, →ISBN, page 66:

Soon bodice-rippers, the gothics, the "romance" novel advanced from paperback to hardback, from supermarket racks to book club selections.

1993, William O’Rourke, “Catholics Coming of Age”, in Signs of the Literary Times: Essays, Reviews, Profiles 1970–1992, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 48:

This book is the last stage of a long and varied journey that began with the first UK screening of The Piano. Never having been an ardent fan of conventional ‘bodice rippers’ or nostalgic fossilisations of a past we never had, I was surprised by my reaction to the costumes.

1997, Stella Bruzzi, “Introduction: Clothing and Cinema”, in Undressing Cinema: Clothing and Identity in the Movies, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2009, →ISBN, page xiii:

Indeed, Travis had been a model as a college student, working his way through John Jay Criminal College, posing for the bodice-ripper covers of romantic novels.

1999 January, Joanna Elm, chapter 17, in Delusion (A Tor Book), mass market edition, New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 136:

These novels became known as "bodice rippers" because they were much more sexually explicit than earlier romances had been. Instead of experiencing a delicious kiss or a mystical wedding night at the end of the story, heroines in the bodice rippers were regularly ravished by the hero. Some feminist critics objected to these books as a romanticization of rape, but readers identified strongly with the heroine's powerlessness as a woman in a rigidly patriarchal society. Unlike the sweet virgins of earlier romances, the heroines of the bodice rippers were notoriously feisty.

1999, Paulette Richards, “Literary Contexts”, in Kathleen Gregory Klein, editor, Terry McMillan: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers), Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 23:

Grazia [Deledda] discovered early that a short story appeared in the last pages of each magazine; these tales were of a decidedly Romantic bent, much like today's supermarket bodice-rippers.

2006, Jan Kozma, “Translator’s Introduction”, in Marianna Sirca, translated by Jan Kozma, Grazia Deledda, Madison, Teaneck, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, →ISBN, page 9:

[M]y mother chased her dream of becoming a character in one of those frontier romance novels—buckskin bodice rippers, she called them—that she so adored.

2015, Seamus McGraw, “Sundance”, in Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change, Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 5:

They stubbornly hung on to the idea that Outlander was a Harlequinesque bodiceripper that would only appeal to middle-age bored housewives.

2016 February 26, Beth Wesson, “Selling Outlander to the Masses … Or Selling Out?”, in My Outlander Blog, archived from the original on 2018-03-05:

(informal) A romantic novel, usually in a historical setting, with frank depictions of sexual activity, especially one in which the female protagonist is seduced; (by extension) a film, television programme, etc., featuring such activity.

Nackenbeißer

sexually explicit romantic novel, usually in a historical setting


bonkbuster

However, there would certainly be no Insatiable without Jilly Cooper. The bonkbusters of the 80s were responsible for my sentimental sex education. Like millions of readers, I fell in love with every aspect of the universe Cooper created.

2021 March 31, Daisy Buchanan, “The return of the bonkbuster: how horny heroines are starting a new sexual revolution”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(colloquial, chiefly UK) A popular novel involving frequent explicit sexual encounters, normally in a contemporary setting.


bara

Short for barazoku, from Japanese 薔薇族 (barazoku, literally “rose tribe”), the name of Japan's first modern gay men's magazine, named after a post-World War II term for gay men.

bor

(Internet slang) A genre of homoerotic media, usually manga and often pornographic, made by gay men for gay men in Japan.


mpreg

(fandom slang) Abbreviation of male pregnancy.


yaoi

en-noun

yaoi (countable and uncountable, plural yaoi or yaois)

From Japanese やおい (yaoi), a blend of 山(やま)無(な)し (yama nashi, “no climax”) + 落(お)ち無(な)し (ochi nashi, “no point”) + 意味(いみ)無(な)し (imi nashi, “no meaning”), originally mocking those who criticised early yaoi works for being too focused on sex scenes instead of storylines.

ja-blend

(pornography, anime, manga) A form of hentai involving two or more males in a gay relationship.

ইয়াওই

(anime, manga) A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or sexual relationship between two or more men.


yuri

Borrowed from Japanese 百合(ゆり) (yuri, “lily”), by analogy to 薔薇(バラ) (bara, “rose”), indicating love. See Yuri (genre) § “Terminology and etymology” at Wikipedia.

(slang) A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or sexual relationship between two or more women.

Yuri (genre)
Yuri (genre)#Terminology and etymology

ガールズラブ (gāruzu rabu, literally “girls' love”)

가르즈라부 (gareujeurabu, literally “girls' love”)


PWP

en-noun

PWP (countable and uncountable, plural PWPs)

(fandom slang) Initialism of porn without plot. A piece of erotic fanfiction with little regard to characterization or plot. (also "Plot? What plot?")


homoerotica

Pet Shop Boys are actually the late-'80s equivalent of Soft Cell, a synth-pop duo from England with a penchant for dance beats and homoerotica-infused lyrics.

1988 December 18, Christopher Wittke, “Why I Loved Marc Almond From The Minute I First Read About Him”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 23, page 11:

His most radical legacy is having seduced a heterosexual public with soft-core homoerotica.

2007 March 11, Horacio Silva, “Muscle Man”, in New York Times:


autoerotica

Needless to say, the guy paid dearly for his little experiment in autoerotica, and probably will never experience the joy of a jump rope in quite the same way.

2000, Wendy Northcutt, The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action, volume 1, page 272:

I couldn't even fathom what sort of sci-fi themed autoerotica might be on display for the perverted and sexually repressed masses that this sort of event obviously attracts.

2011, Bryan Young, Lost at the Con, page 80:


noncon

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Coordinate term: dubcon

(chiefly fandom slang) Erotica featuring non-consensual sexual situations such as rape, mind control, or somnophilia.


dubcon

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Clipping of dubious consent, modelled after noncon.

Coordinate term: noncon

(chiefly fandom slang) Erotica featuring sexual relations where the presence of sexual consent is unclear.


eroge

Borrowed from Japanese エロゲー (erogē), a portmanteau of エロチックゲーム (erochikku gēmu), from English erotic game.


mommy porn

Now, as she turned the page of her book, a “mommy porn” title on every national bestseller list, she sneaked a peek at her in-flight neighbor's face.

2012, Emily Ryan-Davis, Tangled & Bound, Ellora's Cave Publishing, published 2012, →ISBN:

The sadomasochistic antics in EL James's 'mommy porn' book Fifty Shades of Grey have made it a phenomenon, despite the appalling writing.

2012 April 13, Laura Barnett, “Mommy porn?: Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James: review”, in The Telegraph:

Countless newspapers across the country reported on this “mommy porn” trend, since the majority of its audience seemed to be suburban housewives.

2013, Nicole Cammorata, Words You Should Know 2013: The 201 Words from Science, Politics, Technology, and Pop Culture That Will Change Your Life This Year, Adams Media, published 2013, →ISBN, page 101:

(informal, neologism) A genre of mainstream erotic literature that primarily appeals to the sensibilities of mothers and housewives.


kink meme

Kink memes are generally hosted on the blogging platforms Dreamwidth or LiveJournal, which have comment structures that allow for specific requests to be put up and responded to in a linked manner.

2018, Rukmini Pande, Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race, page 166:

Noticeably, most of these kinkmeme prompts revolve around Sherlock and John's sexual/romantic relationship in one form or another.

2019, Christiana Gregoriou, "The Fandom Is Afoot: BBC Sherlock and Its Fanfiction at Play", in Retold Resold Transformed: Crime Fiction in the Global Era (Christiana Gregoriou, David Platten, & Gigliola Sulis), unnumbered page

It was originally published in late 2010 in response to a request on the Supernatural kinkmeme.

2021, Milena Popova, Dubcon: Fanfiction, Power, and Sexual Consent, page 45:

(fandom slang) An online space in which requests for fan fiction (generally involving a specific kink) are posted and fulfilled anonymously.


rapefic

rapefic (countable and uncountable, plural rapefics)

Okay, maybe it's me, but I find *all* rapefic utterly repugnant.

1998 June 10, Daska K, “Re: Looking for a story I swore I read!!”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

People want to do slash? Fine. They want to write rapefic? Fine. Everybody can post what they like.

2000 January 22, Alice in Wonderland [username], “Re: Scully Kink Series Presents: Please Pass the Fish - WARNING, Known Hate-Monger”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

I inspired it? How? Because I write slash? I don't write slash like this. I don't write rapefic.

2004 March 3, Jane Davitt, “Re: Feeding The Fish (Some Jane Inspired Slash Fun) NC, femslash, F/D”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet):

(uncountable, fandom slang) Such fan fiction collectively.


smutfic

smutfic (countable and uncountable, plural smutfics)

So, don't fret. There is always subtext to be found if you believe there is.And, if you get tired of just imagining it, read some smutfic. I bet you'll find some tasty pairings there.

1998 January 15, BabylonC [username], “Re: [OT] B:tVS & subtext”, in alt.tv.xena-subtext (Usenet):

Oh, thanks. Now I have to go take a cold shower. Or at least write some Xander smutfic.

1999 August 23, Shadowy Moon [username], “Re: If there's one thing you'd change about the Buffy show,what would it be?”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

Yes, when it is NC-17 smutfic involving Mulder and Scully... and practically every other member of the cast.

2002 February 5, Aubrey, “Re: there aren't enough posts poll”, in alt.music.placebo (Usenet):


shoujo ai

Two connected etymologies. Either interpreted as a loan translation of Japanese 少女愛 (shōjo ai), or a specialized neologism created in analogy to shounen ai (少年愛; shōnen ai) using Japanese vocabulary.

(neologism, anime, manga) Anime and manga that explore emotional, but largely platonic, homoerotic relationships between women.

(slang) A genre of manga, anime, or hentai featuring lesbian sex and romance; yuri.


pseudoincest

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(Moore explains, for instance, that in 2015, pseudoincest porn was a popular genre.)

2016, Shira Tarrant, The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know, page 37:

The very week my sock puppet author frenemy Lexi Wood released her stepdaddy/stepdaughter novella Dance for Daddy, Salome, Amazon started banning “pseudoincest” erotica.

2017, Giselle Renard, How to Fail Miserably at Writing, unnumbered page:

Pornography or erotica focused on sexual situations between nonconsanguineous relatives.


ladyporn

Half the women in the country are getting all hot and bothered over this ladyporn book, Fifty Shades of Grey, and the British establishment offers little more than a Frankie Howerdstyle “ooh err missus!”

Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century.

2015, Elana Levine (ed.), University of Illinois, title

The "Dr. Phil rape tweet" saga having finally petered out, some desperate web writer, likely digging for click bait on a slow news day, unearthed a once-obscure sub-genre of self-published ladyporn over at Amazon.com.

2015, Kathy Shaidle, Confessions of a Failed Slut, Thought Catalog, published 2014, →ISBN:

(informal) Erotic literature written by and/or intended to appeal to women.


Treksmut

In fact, I think one of the main reasons people write and read Treksmut (tm), is that the show very rarely shows these extremely attractive and appealing characters in romantic situations or settings, except for one-episode flings, which are usually conveniently forgotten by the next show, although this is refreshingly rare on DS9 and Voyager.

1997 May 5, Joanne Collins, “Re: TrekSmut, PWPs and Emotional Subtexts (Long and involved)”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

Has anyone had any problems storing Treksmut on a Tripod homepage?

1998 April 7, Deanna, “OT: Tripod and Treksmut?”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

Also: I'm twenty-one now! So I can read Treksmut anywhere!! :-)

2002 June 4, saavaant [username], “OT: My personal pages, and my birthday!!”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):

(fandom slang) Sexually-explicit fan fiction based on the Star Trek television series and films.


hetsmut

I think most slash is better than most hetsmut, but that's just me.

2002 June 26, Atalanta Pendragonne [username], “Re: OT Anne Rice newsgroup”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

I love McCoy hetsmut but sometimes I have trouble finding pairings to latch onto.

2003 November 14, Farfalla [username], “Re: NEW2U TOS "Blue-eyed Satyrs" Mc/Saa [NC-17] Trek hetsmut”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):

You're making me want to see hetsmut between these two. Damn you!

2006, Kirby Crow, quoted in Eden Lackner, Barbara Lynn Lucas, & Robin Anne Reid, "Cunning Linguists: The Bisexual Erotics of Words/Silence/Flesh", in Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays (eds. Karen Hellekson & Kristina Busse), McFarland & Company (2006), page 203

(fandom slang) Sexually explicit fan fiction involving opposite-sex characters.


cybererotica

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Erotic or pornographic material in cyberspace or on the Internet.


A/B/O

Many A/B/O stories posit societies where biological imperatives divide people based on wolf pack hierarchies into sexual dominants (alphas), sexual submissives (omegas), and everyone else (betas).

2013, Kristina Busse, "Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse", in Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World (ed. Anne Jamison), page 317

It also harnesses the a/b/o trope to increase the stakes of intimacy and trust in the context of sexual encounters, and to intensify descriptions of desire and sexual pleasure.

2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 103

What is interesting is how A/B/O stories explore these sexual scripts, and how the characters in them negotiate the disjunctures between the dominant scripts and their desires in their own lives and interpersonal relationships, […]

2018, Milena Popova, "‘Dogfuck rapeworld’: Omegaverse fanfiction as a critical tool in analyzing the impact of social power structures on intimate relationships and sexual consent", Porn Studies

(fandom slang) Synonym of omegaverse (“subgenre of erotic speculative fiction”)


omegaverse

What omegaverse fanfiction does is to construct imaginary bodies and societies based on premises drawn from the discourses that surround sex and gender, and imagine what situations would arise if those premises were embodied and experienced by a familiar pop-cultural figure.

2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 102

It may be worth considering if dark Omegaverse slash fiction, with its descriptions of excruciatingly detailed and shocking sexual fantasies, is a reflection of the social reality both fan fiction authors and readers have experienced within an unequal and discriminatory patriarchal society.

2018, Laura Campillo Arnaiz, “When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the Hannibal Fandom”, in Ashton Spacey, editor, The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction, page 125:

(fandom slang) A subgenre of erotic speculative fiction set in this fictional universe.


bodice-ripping

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bodice-ripping (comparative more bodice-ripping, superlative most bodice-ripping)

more bodice-ripping (comparative)
most bodice-ripping (superlative)

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There was, nearly always, ecstasy at the moment of entry. Jesus. What a cheap, bodice-ripping insult of a word.

1997, Joanna M. Glass, If We are Women, page 33:

If you're going to be selling workshops on how to write a winning romance novel to romance writers' groups, you know every would-be bodice-ripping author in five states.

2006, Entrepreneur Press, Start Your Own Seminar Production Business, page 48:

His realist twenty-first century marital rape pays literal homage to the bodice-ripping violence of popular historical romances: He backhanded her again, much harder, and threw her backwards across the bed.

2010, Gay Lynch, Apocryphal and Literary Influences on Galway Diasporic History:

Polselli seemed to have been deeply a›ected by the British Hammer vampire movies, for his two early productions are steeped in nice-looking atmospheric sets and cast with busty, bodice-ripping actresses.

2015, Louis Paul, Italian Horror Film Directors, page 304:


clopfic

‘Shipping’ (imagined romantic entanglements between characters) and ‘clop-fic’ (erotic narratives) are two common genres in the fan fiction of the Brony community.

2013, Venetia Laura Delano Robertson, “Of ponies and men: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and the Brony fandom”, in International Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 17, number 1:

For example, some members of the MLP: FiM fandom create fan works that sexualize the ponies, such as clopfic fanfiction and fanart.

2018, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Fractured Fandoms: Contentious Communication in Fan Communities, page 46:

Pony fanfiction is common, with “clop-fic” delving into erotic tales.

2018 April, Dale Peeples, Jennifer Yen, Paul Weigle, “Geeks, Fandoms, and Social Engagement”, in Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Clincs, volume 27, number 2, page 264:

(My Little Pony fandom slang) Erotic fanfiction based on My Little Pony.


mating bite

Differences in courtship behavior among higher taxa include use of the spurs by male pythons and boas, mating bites by some colubrids, […]

1997, Harry W. Greene, Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature, page 127:

Most of the wounds inflicted by these mating bites heal fairly quickly, but sometimes they can be quite severe.

Females bearing mating bites are seen from early May to early August, with the majority seen in May.

2017, Jose I. Castro, The Sharks of North America, page 436:

(zoology) A bite performed during copulation in certain species.

“When the mating bites are exchanged, the two souls link. Then the werewolf can live as long as his vampire mate.”

2017, Cynthia Eden, Forbidden Bite, unnumbered page:

Once mated with another character, characters have the option of performing the “mating bite,” which irreversibly bonds the lovers to one another.

2019, Tessa Barone, "Just Go Find Yourself a Nice Alpha: Gender and Consent in Supernatural Fandom's Alpha/Beta/Omega Universe", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 10

He sucked a hickey along the side of Ash's throat, right where his mating bite would soon go.

2021, Marcy Jacks, Mating for Convenience, page 36:

(fiction) In speculative erotica, a bite given by one person to another to form a permanent bond, typically leaving a scar or mark.


mating mark

The male crab observed in this study did not have mating marks prior to picking up the female.

1966, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, volume 23, numbers 7-2, page 1323:

Dependable indicators of female mating activity have been revealed, but mating activity of males has only been indirectly inferred through examination of so-called “mating marks”, presumably created during the premating embrace between a male and female.

2006, Justin C. Ainsworth, "An evaluation of the use of mating marks as an indicator of mating success in male Dungeness crabs", thesis submitted to Humboldt State University, page iii

Observations of female White Sharks with relatively recent mating marks are rare in CC [Central California].

2012, Michael L. Domeier, Global Perspectives on the Biology and Life History of the White Shark, page 165:

(zoology, rare) A lasting mark or wound sustained during copulation in certain species.

Especially not after seeing a mating mark on Wilder's shoulder.

2017, Rosa Swan, My Mate's Mark, unnumbered page:

As romance novels often end with a marriage, ABO fics will often end with the mating mark.

He wore no mating mark on his neck, but he often referred to us as his “pack.”

2019, Kallie Traylor, Divided We Fall, unnumbered page:

(fiction) In speculative erotica, a scar or mark on a person's body signifying their permanent bond to another, typically the result of a bite.


claiming mark

But all I could do, all I wanted to do, was hold her tight against my chest and breathe in the scent of our union and the blood trickling from her new claiming mark.

2019, Nora Ash, Ragnarök Rising, unnumbered page:

He knew that I enjoyed discipline as much as I enjoyed feeling the nip of his teeth over the claiming mark.

2020, L. V. Lane, Omega Awakening, unnumbered page:

Once I give her my claiming mark, Roderick can't do anything to me.

2021, Vivian Murdoch, Dark Revolution, unnumbered page:


claiming bite

“The neck, the chest, I've heard of men with claiming bites on their ass or thighs.”

2015, Ellis Leigh, Claiming Their Forever, unnumbered page:

In the full glow of the moon, I could just make out the dark bruise of my claiming bite on her neck.

2017, Steffanie Holmes, Wedding the Wolf, unnumbered page:

They wore matching wedding bands instead of claiming bites.

2021, Tanya Chris, Omega Revealed, unnumbered page:


monster porn

A subgenre of erotic speculative fiction involving sexual encounters between humans and monstrous or fantastical creatures.


bodice-rippery

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She says that her first novel was born out of a profound love of medieval history, but I fear that what she really loves is historical romance, fantasy, and bodice-rippery.

1990 May, Peter T. Garratt, “Ys OK”, in Interzone, page 66:

A tale of skulduggery, bodice rippery, and shoot-’em-up action unfolds, complete with help from a luscious mistress of disguise who could have stepped right out of a James Bond novel.

2016, The Chemist review, Kirkus Reviews, 15 November 2016, page 188

While the genre has generally distanced itself from bodice-rippery, romance authors do continue to play with the look or feel or meaning of non-consensual sex and what’s sometimes called “dubious consent” or “dub-con” sex.

2020, Hannah McCann, Catherine M. Roach, “Sex and sexuality”, in Jayashree Kamblé, Eric Murphy Selinger, Hsu-Ming Teo, editors, The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction, page 422:

(informal) The archetypical content of bodice rippers; violent or aggressive sex in romance fiction.


kinkfic

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What kink-fic does, in parallel with BDSM real world practices, is to explicitly enact sexual and emotional power dynamics.

2004 December, Jenny Alexander, “A Vampire is Being Beaten: DeSade Through the Looking Glass in Buffy and Angel”, in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, number 15, unnumbered page:

Similarly, the heteronormative sexual identities ascribed to the action heroine in her official texts is confounded in queer fan-fic in general, and in kink-fic specifically.

2011, Jeffrey A. Brown, Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture, page 205:

Our findings show that there is a continued and highly active interest in kinkfic among fanfic authors working from the selected canons […]

2014, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, Malin Isaksson, Fanged Fan Fiction: Variations on Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries, page 144:

(fandom slang) Fan fiction featuring kink (particularly BDSM) content.


nukige

Borrowed from Japanese 抜(ぬ)きゲー (nukigē), a combination of 抜(ぬ)く (nuku, “to jerk off”, literally “to extract”) and ゲー (gē), a shortening of ゲーム (gēmu, “game”), itself from English game.

ja-r

Eroge is a hugely popular genre of visual novel both from established producers and fan circles, and can be further divided into smaller categories such as nukige (抜きゲ) or ‘jack-off game’, referring to a game that is intended to provide easy access to sex scenes or other erotic material to facilitate masturbation.

2016, Matthew R. Bird, "Eustia of the Tarnished Wings: The Visual Novel in Translation", thesis submitted to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, page 17

As well as the effect of loosening content restrictions, the key point here is that Japanese videogame regulation is fractured by platform multiplicity. Small publishers producing games such as dating sims, visual novels, and ‘nukige’ (masturbation games) cohere to self-regulate, and more serious sexual content is confined to the PC market, dominated by adult consumers.

2019, Catherine Driscoll & Liam Grealy, "In the name of the nation: Media classification, globalisation, and exceptionalism", International Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 22, Issue 3, May 2009 (link)

Unlike nukige, visual novels that focus primarily on sexual interactions between characters, the focus of eroge is on the story, including more romantic or emotional relationships.

2022, William Schrage, "Hiding Hobbies and Saving Social Lives: About the Representation of Otaku Struggles in Ore no imōto ga konnani kawaii wake ga nai", Mechademia, Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2022

(video games) A Japanese visual novel genre featuring sexually explicit content for the sole purpose of masturbation or sexual gratification.


speculative erotica

Speculative fiction
speculative fiction#English

(fiction) Speculative fiction with erotic themes.


ヘンタイ

Borrowed from English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”), short for 変態性欲者(へんたいせいよくしゃ) (hentai seiyoku-sha, literally “person with abnormal sexual desires”).

へんたい せいよく-しゃ

hentai (work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art)