How Many Kinks Do You Know the Name Of?

By: Ashley Ehman
Estimated Completion Time
3 min
How Many Kinks Do You Know the Name Of?
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About This Quiz

The evolution of societal views on sex has been monumental throughout the last century.  With inventions like birth control, allowing women more power in their sexual choices, or PrEP, allowing members of the gay community to remain disease-free, there has been a growing number of people exploring in the bedroom (as well as outside it). Without the risk of pregnancy or HIV, more people are able to enjoy and experiment with sex. 

One way that both men and women alike expand their sexual adventures is through kinks! The kink community focuses on safe ways to explore sexual activities that would otherwise not be explored. Have you ever heard of asphyxiation? An asphyxiation kink is when someone gets pleasure from being choked or deprived of oxygen.  What about bondage? The act of restraining a person, sometimes through handcuffs or rope, is considered a kink. 

Whether you participate in the kink community or just happen to be a self-proclaimed kink expert, put your knowledge to the test through the questions of this quiz! Will you come out on top, as the kinkiest of them all? Or will you end up looking like an amateur? Either way, perhaps you'll gain some new ideas for your own sexual endeavors!

1 lithophilla
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Lithophilia is a kink that revolves around what object?
Rocks
Lithophilia is a kink that centers around having an attraction to rocks, and other things of that nature. Lithophilia can also expand to include gravel. This kink is not always based in sexual feelings.
Leaves
Flowers
Sticks
2 mummification
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Someone who is bound in entirety would likely be participating in what kink?
Bondage
Mummification
Having a mummification kink sounds like exactly what you think it is. This is a kink where one person is completely wrapped up in some sort of material, which may be cloth or plastic wrap.
Wrap play
Resistance play
3 odaxelagnia
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Odaxelagnia is a kink that involves what?
Scratching
Biting
Odaxelagnia is a kink that focuses on biting another person or being bitten. Depending upon the persons involved, this may or may not include drawing blood. It is a form of sadism.
Whipping
Burning

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4 pet play
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If someone gets pleasure by acting like a dog or cat, they might be participating in what kink?
Furry play
Age play
Animal roleplay
Pet play
If someone enjoys acting like a dog or cat, or any variety of domesticated animal, they may be interested in pet play. This kink can be made to feel more real by incorporating leashes, collars and food bowls into the scenario.
5 psychrophilia
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Psychrophilia is a kink that takes place in the vicinity of what?
Extreme heat
Dangerous storms
Open bodies of water
Extreme cold
A psychrophilia kink involves being turned on by extreme cold or by others being cold. People who enjoy this kink may find themselves having sex in walk-in freezers or outside during the winter months.
6 feathers
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If the thought of being tickled by feathers turns you on, you may have what kink?
Eproctophilia
Pteronphilia
A person with a pteronphilia kink likes to be tickled by feathers. The feathers are typically used on armpits, inner thighs and other areas of the body that are more likely to be sensitive to light touch.
Aquaphilia
Pyrophilia

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7 revving a vehicle
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What kink is also known as "pedal pumping"?
Accelerating
Speeding
Revving
Revving can also be described as "pedal pumping" and "pedal pushing." This kink is when someone revs an engine on a vehicle. It is usually done by a woman wearing a set of high heels.
Motor play
8 kinbaku
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Kinbaku requires what material to fulfill its kink?
Rope
Kinbaku is a type of ropework kink, so naturally, it requires rope! Kinbaku is a Japanese word that means "beauty of tight binding." This kink is more than just tying someone up in rope, and often includes elaborate patterns.
Silk
Chains
Rubber bands
9 pain
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Masochists and sadists get sexual pleasure from what shared thing?
Laughter
Pleasure
Crying
Pain
These two kink groups both focus on pain. Sadists are the ones to create the pain, while masochists are the ones to tolerate the pain inflicted. Sadists and masochists are able to both find pleasure when they work together.

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10 sounding
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Someone with a sounding kink focuses on what body part?
Urethra
Sounding involves the urethra. This is when narrow tubes are inserted into someone's urethra. These tubes are typically made of metal or glass. Sounding is a variety of urethral play.
Ear canal
Fingertips
Knees
11 buried alive
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Taphephilia is what kind of kink?
Role play
Imprisonment
Taphephilia is an imprisonment kink. Someone who enjoys taphephilia is said to have a fetish for getting buried alive. An individual may go through with such an act or simply fantasize about it.
Animal play
Wax play
12 thesauromania
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Someone who partakes in a thesauromania kink collects what?
Leaves
Cups
Clothes
Thesauromania is a kink that involves collecting articles of women's clothing. This does not necessarily mean only underwear, but can expand to other categories of clothing as well.
Keys

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13 impact play
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Which of the following items is not used during impact play?
Crops
Feathers
Impact play is when a submissive is struck with various items in order to inflict pain. A feather would not be used for this purpose. Common items to use are paddles, whips and crops.
Whips
Paddles
15 crurophilia
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Crurophilia focuses on what body part?
Legs
Someone with a crurophilia kink is sexually attracted to legs. Most people who enjoy this kink find one part of the leg more alluring than others. The parts one is attracted to can include thigh, calves or knees.
Arms
Hands
Feet
16 ginger root
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Figging is a kink that uses what plant?
Cucumber
Carrot
Ginger root
Figging uses ginger root to bring a person pleasure. It is typically skinned and then inserted into an individual's urethra, vagina or anus. It is the mild burning sensation that people who enjoy this kink get off to.
Potato

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17 queening
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If someone is turned on by "queening," what is being done to them?
They are worshiping someone like they are royalty.
Someone is sitting on their face.
Queening is synonymous with facesitting. It is a kink where a woman is sitting on another person's face, while the person being sat on performs oral sex. If a man is doing the sitting, it can be called "kinging."
Their sexual partner is dressed in Victorian-style clothing.
Their partner is acting flamboyant and over-the-top.
18 trampling
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What is the name for the kink that involves having someone walk all over your body?
Trampling
Someone with a trampling kink gets sexual pleasure from having someone walk on them. The person doing the walking is typically a dominant female, who may or may not be wearing heels.
Crushing
Force play
Impaction
19 cbt
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When it comes to kinks, what does the acronym CBT stand for?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cock & Ball Torture
Within the kink community, CBT stands for Cock & Ball Torture. Recipients of CBT find themselves aroused when their testicles and/or penis is constricted or has pain inflicted upon it.
Crushing Ball Technique
Consent & Behavioral Trust

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20 ball stretching
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What is the purpose of ball stretching?
To inflict pain on the scrotum
To experience touch on the scrotum
To increase the length of the scrotum
Individuals who participate in ball stretching are looking to extend their testicles lower than they normally would be. This can be done by adding weights or other devices to the top of the scrotum, which then applies pressure, causing the testicle sack to stretch.
To squeeze the scrotum
21 sensory deprivation
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Which kink sometimes uses bondage mitts to accomplish its purpose?
Scratching
Restraint
Temperature play
Sensory deprivation
The aim of sensory deprivation is to limit the senses of an individual, typically a submissive. Bondage mitts can be used to limit a person's ability to touch. Hearing and sight are among the most common senses to take away.
22 pogonophilia
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Someone who has pogonophilia is said to be aroused by what?
Feet
Beards
Pogonophilia is when someone is sexually aroused by people with beards. The beards can be any style or length, but are typically on male individuals. Those with beards are seen as more desirable than those without them.
Pain
Old people

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23 gut flopping
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People who use their abdominal fat to slap or crush others are participating in what kink?
Gut flopping
Gut flopping is a kink that involves someone with a large amount of fat around the midsection lifting up their stomach and then dropping it on their partner. If done correctly, a smacking noise should be the result.
Fat crushing
Weight play
Stomach Impact
24 nyotaimori
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In an episode of "Sex and the City," Samantha is seen covering her naked body in sushi. What kink is she partaking in?
Oculolinctus
Nyotaimori
Samantha was participating in nyotaimori, which can mean feminine body arrangement. This kink revolves around eating sushi off a female's naked form. Nyotaimori can also be called "body sushi."
Kinbaku
Shibari
25 cake farts
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Which kink wasn't established until 2008?
Figging
Cake farts
The cake farts kink was not defined until a video of it happening was released in 2008. As the name implies, cake farts are just that: someone stands over a cake and farts into the frosting.
Snowballing
Bareback

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26 pompoir
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What body part is used to bring pleasure to another in the pompoir kink?
Hand
Mouth
Vagina
Pompoir is when a woman uses her vaginal muscles to stimulate a penis. This is not just penetrative sex, as the only movement taking place is the contracting and release of the vaginal muscles.
Feet
27 autopederasty
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Autopederasty involves a man sticking his penis into what?
A balloon
His own anus
Autopederasty is a kink where a man is able to put his penis into his own anus. As one might guess, a man has to have an abnormally long penis to make this happen. For the average man, this is impossible.
A fan
His own mouth
28 snowballing
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When one person passes a mouth full of semen from their mouth to another's, this is called what?
Snowballing
Passing an individual's ejaculate from one mouth to another is called snowballing. The idea here is that as it is passed from person to person, the saliva in each mouth will contribute to the size of the semen, leaving the last person with a large glob to swallow.
Spit play
Salivation
Watersports

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29 felching
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Felching involves sucking semen from which body part?
Ear
Belly button
Anus
Felching is when semen is placed into the anus, by ejaculation or other means, and then removed orally by sucking it out. It seems to be most common among men who have intercourse with other men.
Mouth
30 bukkake
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What is needed for a successful bukkake?
Rope
A group of men
A bukkake is when a group of men masturbate over and then finish on a single woman. There can be as few as two men or more than one hundred participants. The idea is to cover the female's body entirely in semen.
Ball gags
Handcuffs
31 oculolinctus
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Oculolinctus is a kink that involves licking which body part?
Ears
Eyes
Oculolinctus is when someone is aroused by licking another's eyeball or having their own eyeball licked. It is also called "worming." There are reports of oculolinctus causing conjunctivitis and other eye injuries.
Nose
Teeth

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32 tin foil
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Which material is not associated with a kink?
PVC
Wool
Tin foil
Tin foil is not among the common materials to involve in a kink. Most material-based kinks revolve around spandex, nylon, fur, latex, wool, silk, and rubber. Some people go so far as to have entire bodysuits made out of their favorite material.
Latex
33 erotic cupping
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Which kink focuses on creating suction on the skin?
Nuru massage
Erotic cupping
Originally used as an ancient Chinese medicinal technique, cupping focuses on creating suction on the human body through use of cups, bowls and bells. The suction itself can cause arousal, but the sexual gratification usually comes from the sensitivity caused by drawing blood to the surface of the skin.
Flagellation
Scrotal inflation
34 pegging
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When a male is penetrated by a strap-on dildo worn by a female, this is called what?
Rimming
Pegging
Pegging is when a female wears a strap-on dildo and then has intercourse with her male partner by penetrating his anus. It is traditionally seen as a kink shared between heterosexual pairs, but can also be found in the lesbian community.
Cuckolding
Kitten play

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35 flogging
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Flogging is an example of what type of play category?
Restraint play
Medical play
Sensation play
Impact play
Flogging is a type of impact play. Other kinks within this category include spanking, flagellation, whipping, caning and paddling. Impact play is categorized by being aroused by a force of impact caused by a hand or other tool.
14 autofellatio
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Autofellatio is a kink where a man does what?
Gives himself a hand job
Orgasms without a single touch
Can get erect on command
Gives himself a blow job
Autofellatio is when a man performs fellatio on himself. This means a guy is giving himself a blowjob. Flexibility is an important trait to have to make this possible, and yoga is said to make autofellatio easier to obtain.
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