101 Kinks

[lettered]

The word "kink" is being used in the loosest sense: these things strike a chord with me, or push a button, not necessarily in a sexual way (though some of them, yeah.)

The word "fictional" is literal. These are things I enjoy reading about, or seeing on television, etc, not necessarily things I enjoy seeing or doing in RL.

I've been collecting them for a while now, again, no idea why. I have a kink for list making? It's not because I'm bored. I'm not bored not writing my IWRY fic, and not betaing the things I have to beta, and not having started my novel thing, and not hopping on that volunteer highschool kids writing thing I want to do, and that job I was going to get, and...The weirdest thing I discovered while writing it? I could go on indefinitely, infinitely. I have so many more fiction kinks it's not even funny. Oh, and some of these may be pretty freaky-deaky to you. So ya know, don't read if it's more than you're interested in.

List of 101 Fictional Kinks

1. When a character calls the love interest, "My--" and cuts himself off. Aposiopesis, I guess.
2. Eating. Especially: hungry people getting fed, and a character watching another character eat, fascinated (either in a disgusted way or a turned on way. Doesn't matter.)
3. Dirty talk. Especially someone describing explicitly what they are doing/about to do to someone.
4. The names of bones. "Ulna" is a much sexier word than "arm".
5. The nape of a man's neck.
6. Slant rhyme.
7. Wound bandaging.
8. Extreme guilt.
9. When kissing cuts off conversation.
10. Women's wide hips. The place where a narrow waist flares out into wide hips on a woman.
11. Consensual and purposeful voyeurism.
12. Subversion of control dynamics. For instance, when someone firmly in a "sub" position is domming. i.e. the bottom domming, or the one on his knees domming, or something. I'm sure there's a name for this, I just can't think of it at the moment.
13. When what a character calls another character changes depending on emotion. e.g.: If Angel calls Spike "Will" when he's feeling tender; if Spike calls Angel "Liam" when he's especially angry.
14. Punishment that doesn't involve breaking skin.
15. Titles with numbers in them.
16. Scars. Especially scars with deep emotional scars behind them, so that when another character sucks/licks/scratches/touches it, the touchee goes nuts (in a good way or bad way, doesn't matter).
17. Scenes in which characters shuffle about and each think the other doesn't care about him/her any more, until one of them finally has the courage to bring it up/ask, and the other gutters, "Ohdeargodfuckyes."
18. Sentences that have rhythm.
19. Phone sex.
20. Shadow. Especially bodies in stark shadow, a voyeur watching half shadowed, sharp shadows in black and white movies, and slanting shadows.
21. Exposure/explicit covering up of wrists, ankles, and necks.
22. Handful sized breasts.
23. The word "Daddy" in sex scenes.
24. The place between the clavicles of a woman.
25. A character reaching out to touch another character and the fingers curling in on themselves before the touch happens.
26. When male Character A is unable to handle Character B going down on him because something about it is too good.
27. Religious metaphor, references.
28. Small hand movements and gestures used as punctuation in dialogue.
29. A man making a fist in a woman's hair.
30. When the question of whether the end justifies the means is posed in an intelligent way with ambiguous gray answers.
31. Mutual masturbation.
32. Consensual nonconsensual sex. As in, a character trusts another character enough to act out a noncon scene with him/her. I like the word "no" to get used. A lot, so I like it when there are safe words. It makes me read more comfortably, elsewise I get worried and start to shred my nails.
33. Men's forearms with visible veins on the underside.
34. The word "thighs". Also, wet thighs. Parting thighs. I really like thighs.
35. Characters unable to have gentle tender sex because they feel they don't deserve it.
36. Red red lips.
37. Character A's hands settling on character B's hips, then character A jerking character B toward them. Or, instead of hips: the top front rim of the pants, or a belt.
38. Mermaids.
39. Subtle alliteration.
40. Threesomes.
41. Moresomes.
42. Touching of places that are erogenous for unusual reasons. E.g. necks for vampires, knuckles for Wolverine, Spike's wrists directly after "Damage", that sort of thing.
43. Grim stillness/complete lack of reaction in reaction to terrible news/hurtful words, when the impassiveness is really masking Great Emotion.
44. Shame.
45. When a character is attuned to scent and gets off on certain scents.
46. People who can't be touched (e.g. Rogue, Gwen) getting touched, or haven't been touched often getting touched (e.g. Sunny kissing Connor)
47. A character trying to hide he/she is turned on by something random someone is doing, so the someone will keep doing it.
48. Shirtless men holding naked babies.
49. Syllepsis.
50. Carefully handled objectification, especially of body parts rather than people. Um, for some reason, in a sex scene, "the arm" is going to do more to me than "his arm" or "her arm" or "Buffy's arm". Why? I don't know. What is this called?
51. Bottling emotions and emotional explosion, especially when the explosion doesn't involve tears, revelations, or incapacitation, but angry no-hope-anymore blow outs, e.g. Angel in "Reprise" and Connor in "Home".
52. Character titles. i.e. When Spike calls Buffy "Slayer". When Connor calls Angel "Dad".
53. Men's big hands.
54. A man shifting his weight in a chair because he's watching something that's turning him on and it's making him uncomfortable.
55. Pet names.
56. The pet name "baby".
57. A character acting dom because they feel they don't deserve the luxury of subbing, i.e. giving in and letting go, trusting someone else enough to take care of them.
58. Sex that is described in a way that isn't sexy. I think this is very delicate. You could end up using the phrase "crotch fur" which admittedly isn't sexy, but um, isn't a kink of mine, either. 'Cause kinda ew? I just mean all the words and metaphors and allusions in a sex scene don't have to be something sensual. It can be awkward and even kind of tasteless, the way our bodies can sometimes be. As long as you don't go to the place of cream of cum, 'cause while I'm sure that's a kink for some, um, it ain't mine. I bet there's a term for this, too.
59. Deep gravelly male and female voices.
60. Warmth. A cold character getting warmed up, vampire getting turned on by living flesh, so on.
61. The word "fuck".
62. When two characters meet, and one of them knows who the other is, but the other is surprised, all with the feel of destiny. e.g. When Connor arrives and says, "Hi Dad". Or in "Gladiator", when Emperor Joaquinn Phoenix decides to meet Russel Crowe and doesn't know he's the general he tried to kill.
63. Petting.
64. A man's forehead pressed against a woman's abdomen or navel for solace.
65. Male characters with an aspect of animal/beast/demon in them.
66. A character trying to convince another character not to love him/her by showing the ugliest part of themselves. e.g. Angel on the hill in "Amends" trying to convince Buffy he deserves to die.
67. The attitude of prayer.
68. A piece written in the POV of Character A who is unknowingly turning Character B on, but in such a way that we the reader know that character B is turned on and going crazy with lust, but Character A remains oblivious and confused. Poor Character A. Poor Character B!
69. Good metaphors.
70. Men's hairy chests and arms.
71. Happy father and daughter bonding nonkinky friendship. Happy father and son bonding nonkinky friendship.
72. Kinky baddirtywrong father/daughter. Kinky baddirtywrong father/son.
73. Sex that isn't perfect. Orgasms that aren't mindblowing or earthshattering. Bodies that don't feel like coming home, and kisses that aren't the best thing the character has ever experienced in his/her entire life.
74. Extreme self loathing.
75. A character unable to stop punching something due to emotional pain directed at something else. E.g. Angel in "Dear Boy", Faith in "Release".
76. Masks.
77. When a character represses expression of sexual pleasure because of some event in the past has convinced them that such expression is Bad, and another character has to disabuse him/her of that notion.
78. Mirror sex.
79. Sex in front of a camera.
80. Consensual security camera sex voyeurism. WHAT?
81. Narrator stating the occupation/relation of character in a sex scene. Um. There was a post on metafandom about how you should use "him/her" or the person's name in a relationship fic or sex scene, instead of trying to identify people by other markers, such as "his brother" or "his friend". I happen to like "his brother". I also happen to like "the vampire." I also happen to like "the policewoman", even though the fact that she's a policewoman should have no bearing in a sex scene. Oh, and I'm explicitly talking about sex scenes here. I don't think it's good writing, necessarily. Unless you make it work. I wonder what this kink is called. I've seen enough bad!fic that use it exhaustively, so it must turn more than me on. I think it must have something to do with objectification, too.
82. When a character has full and complete knowledge of how fucked up the world and life is and decides to love it anyway.
83. Sweat.
84. When characters can't say "I love you."
85. Stories with horses, wolves, or big cats. Also, eagles. Sometimes big dogs. Especially when they're loyal friends, or symbolic . . . symbols.
86. Unknowing incest. E.g. Luke/Leia before they know. I think I like the resulting guilt factor?
87. Women's hair turning white. Especially due to something supernatural. E.g. Willow. Or Rogue. Or Lissar, the woman in my icon. But also graying/whitening hair due to aging is sexy. In both women and men.
88. References/metaphors involving fairytales, folklore, legends, and myth.
89. Real, honest to goodness lube for anal sex. I.e. no salad dressing or peanutbutter.
90. References/metaphors involving history.
91. Smoking. Let me explain this one. I guess because I find it more difficult for myself to understand and accept than some of the ones where it's obvious I don't want it to be me or someone I love in that situation. I hate to see people smoking in real life. It's unhealthy. And I dislike being around it. I think it smells bad and it gives me a headache. But I still think Audrey Hepburn looks cool with a long cigarette holder between her fingers. I still think that one picture of Christopher Plummer holding a cigarette is hot. I like that Wolverine and Starbuck chomp cigars, and Spike is sexy smoking. And nothing wins over Angel in "Redefinition".
92. Magical realism.
93. Insect metaphors.
94. Big damn heroes.
95. Sex in which orgasm isn't even achieved because someone's a control freak and can't let go enough to do so. It's not so much that I find this so very sexy as I find it angsty.
96. Angst.
97. Reading glasses.
98. When a character is unaware of how he/she relates to another character. E.g. Luke and Leia and Darth Vader. Or Connor in most of "Origin".
99. Empathy as a superpower.
100. Ocean/sea/water metaphors, references. Also, fish.
101. Women's long thick tumbling hair. Said hair getting finger combed, brushed, styled, braided etc by a loved one.

Comments

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

Wow. We completely share a brain. Possibly, you should be afraid.

Although I have to say, you might be giving badfic writers too much credit by assuming what they write turns them on. Mostly, I think they just copy what they see other badfic writers doing, because they tend to flock together. So, someone uses "crotch fur" or "the policewoman", and the rest of them simply assume it's the way things are done.

[samsom.livejournal.com]

Um, wow. Lots of kinks in there, and we share a few.

Notably -

#2. I am absolutely seduced by descriptions of food and eating and people visibly enjoying what they are eating. The same for seeing this on a TV screen. It's one of the reasons I love Something's Got To Give - the eating scenes are yummy.

#91. I get it. Spike smoking and that scene in Redefinition are, um, the definition of sex walking to me. In the first Charlie's Angels movie, I found the character of the Thin Man to be sort of oddly attractive, because of he way he smoked his cigarette, like he was enjoying a seven course meal.

#75. Oh yeah, fizzles my brain. I could watch Angel punch that wall over and over again, loving that something emotional was making him lose control that badly. Makes the bottom of my stomach drop out.

[femmenerd.livejournal.com]

Um, I love you.

And we apparently have almost THE EXACT SAME KINKS. I feel that I should pull out some quotes because some of the specifics are bizarre but there are too many and I believe that you know me well enough that this burden of "proof" is unnecessary.

Except for the fact that I do not give a damn about mermaids. And I rarely get off on epithets. And I think I like Spike, Jared Padalecki and girlsex more than you do. :P

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

This is fairly fascinating. We share some, but not as many as I expected, especially considering how wholely I adore your writing. Maybe that's because my #1 overrides-everything-else kink is -- good writing.

I got halfway through and then had to go start my own list and then come back and finish reading yours. It's incredibly fun. I'm having no trouble coming up with all sorts of stuff I've never really identified kinks before, such as "women in mesh tank tops with nothing underneath" and "people perched on the crosstrees of frigates." Hee.

[romanyg.livejournal.com]

OMG, your list is just so *freaking* huge. *loves*

12. I believe this is called "topping from the bottom". Angel does this frequently. Okay, maybe not *frequently*, but you know, he tops from the bottom whenever he's on it.

49. You made me look this up. I iz dum.

91. I have a *huge* smoking kink. Apparently, we're not the only ones. There are a few yahoo groups and at least one lj comm that have this kink too. I also have a drunk!kink and stoned!kink, especially with characters who don't normally indulge.

96. A million times yes. YES, ZOMG! Er, sorry, had a moment.

100. Fish? Like getting jiggity at the fish market on top of a open crate of sea bass or just in the Dadaist sense?

You are brilliant.

[m-phoenix.livejournal.com]

12. Subversion of control dynamics. For instance, when someone firmly in a "sub" position is domming. i.e. the bottom domming, or the one on his knees domming, or something. I'm sure there's a name for this, I just can't think of it at the moment.

So very hot.


16. Scars. Especially scars with deep emotional scars behind them, so that when another character sucks/licks/scratches/touches it, the touchee goes nuts (in a good way or bad way, doesn't matter).

Oh, dear God yes, me too.

27. Religious metaphor, references.

Add a whole other level when handled well.

51. Bottling emotions and emotional explosion, especially when the explosion doesn't involve tears, revelations, or incapacitation, but angry no-hope-anymore blow outs, e.g. Angel in "Reprise" and Connor in "Home".

Oh, or Faith bottling everything until she beats the crap out of Wesley's shower. Love it.

We do seem to share a lot of the same fictional kinks, so many I'd need to respond to most of your list. For myself I would also add:

Table sex. Er, characters having sex on or over tables, not having sex with tables because THAT WOULD BE WRONG.

Characers struggling to control their homicidal tendencies around the object of their affection/hatred, especially in a Faith/Buffy context.

Characters who believe they are unforgivable being forgiven.

Betrayal, especially if you're not expecting it and it comes as a gut punch.

Slayer dreams.

Multiple universes/realities and what happens when they start to rub up against each other.

Characters with a slim grip on their own sanity trying to hang on.

Wow. This is turning into my own fictional kink post. Shutting up now.

[rainkatt.livejournal.com]

Wow. I thought maybe I'd find a few things in this list that applied to me, not 75% of it. At least.

13. GAH. If Angel calls Spike "Will," I'm a gooey mess. Every time. Even if the fic otherwise sucks. hee.

"The vampire" gets me every time. I think it's because of the reminder, right there, that this isn't a human. But I'm not sure. I have to go think about that...

Never "baby." I hate that, and it usually pulls me right out of the story.

Mermaids? ... ?

Thanks for posting this. And making me look up "syllepsis."

:-)

[crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com]

And nothing wins over Angel in "Redefinition". Oh, God yeah.

I also seem to share most of a brain with you. Stop doing that!

Also, can I call you today, because I have B/A questions and I'm more coherent vocally. (Act like you know that to be true.)

[lostakasha.livejournal.com]

It's getting so crowded in this hive brain, dammit. Shove over, you guys.

It's actually easier to note what in your list doesn't do it for me: the use of the word 'daddy'.

How frightening is it that there's only one thing that :::didn't::: make me go guh???

Plus, add to these:

...chair sex (specifically, TJ straddling DB in an armless ladderback chair, face-to-face)

...Rosary beads as cock bindings

...use of latin or galeige during sex (prayer gets an extra kink hit)

...treasure trail worship

...the term "shove over" as a sexual directive

...kissing the curve between the top of the thigh and curve of the ass (m/m especially)

...self-prepping

...the prayer-like use of the word "don't"

And of course, every single one of these kinks involves some incvarantion of the body of DB. The "don't?" That's Booth. All over. Yeah, that's one of my newest kinks: the straightest guy in straightonia desperate for an ass-reaming, and desperate to hide it. Yup. Yup. Yup.

C'mon, you know it would make that damn show better.

[minim_calibre]

Word on: 5, 7, 10, 16 (OMFGYES), 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 35, 39, 42 (in my word tied to 16 like OTP), 43, 51, 58, 61, 64 (ohhellyes), 73 (Yesyesyes), 74, 75, 84, 89, 90, 96, 97

Phew!

That's a lot of word there.

(My list would add to that: sex against walls, sex against countertops, sex/attraction by proxy, where the people getting it on are both thinking of, sometimes with full knowledge that they're both thinking of, a third party. If it requires complex Venn diagrams to explain, that's even better. Oh, and bonus points if the proxy sex involves #16 and #64. Also, one character tasting his/herself on the other character. That never gets old.)

[terilyn4.livejournal.com]

once again, I marvel at your brain... only you could come up with 101 kinks :D

Sent here by minim_calibre

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

#43: A number of old slash fans call these people (okay, men) clams.
#51: See above, and: "clameurysm." Hee.

Great list!

[embitca.livejournal.com]

33. Men's forearms with visible veins on the underside.
Dude! I've fucked guys who are totally ugly just because they had either great arms or hands with vascularity that makes me so fucking hot I could DIE.

And a lot of your other kinks are my kinks too.
I'm not crazy about intergenerational incest (unless it is Justin Timberlake and his momma), but sibling incest totally kills me DED.

Also, I like pretty guys who have the shit beaten out of them. (see icon)

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

I have too many thoughts about this. But the one that's stuck out most in the last 10 minutes is:

Kind of funny that among all those sex-related kinks (some more than others, sure, but most are at the very least romance-elated) Nº 69 is for 'good metaphors'.

My mind is a scary place?

[cordelianne.livejournal.com]

Wow! I am so impressed by your list. There are many that I agree with, especially 1, 6, 18, 28, 39, 56, 61, 69, 84 and 92. I really love when language is used well. It's neat to get thrills from a good alliteration or rhythm in a story. *g*

[seraphcelene]

Oh, hells bells. I so was NOT going to respond to this because there's like a million comments already and I know once upon a time you asked if lots of comments deter one from commenting, and the answer is yes.

BUT! Then I started to read the list, and well ... hells bells!

2. Great food scenes are Hard to come by. But I agree that they are fascinating. One that sticks in my mind is from a book with a blue cover about a woman going slowly mad and damned if I can remember the title right now!! Crap. It's on the tip of my tongue. Anyway, it involves a can of soup. Oh, I remember -- The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway. And also? Every food scene in Jennifer Crusie's Bet Me.
3. I find this one totally interesting because it's such a squee moment for me.
4. Yay!! Tibia!
5. Can I tell you how MUCH I love that spot. When a guy bends his head down to look at something and maybe he got his hair cut two weeks ago and the hair is coming in all soft and ... *sigh*
9. I love that in movies. When someone just swoops in and ... *sigh*
10. YAY! And the small of the back.
11. Dude!
15. Can I ask what kind of numbers? Number numbers or word numbers? Sequel numbers or just part of the title?
18. Yeah, baby!
21. I am very interested to know what exactly gets you about this one?
23. Eek. :)
24. You know that's an awesome spot and I LOVE when someone touches it. With affection.
25. & 26. Pretty much, Holy Roly Poly Yes!
27. Always the bestest.
33. You're so me right, now. I love forearms better than napes and possibly better than that hairless spot right beneath a guy's butt cheek, just where it becomes thigh. *double sigh*
46. Amen.
47. LOL!
48. Oh, hell, yes! That totally gets my heart thumping.
53. Please see 33.
54. See 48.
55. Ha! I love pet names and using pet names and I had to break myself of the habit of handing them out because someone once told me it might not be of the good. Like my love of physical contact. Dude. So, miss that.
59. Yikes. I once knew a boy in junior high who had such a deep voice that I could feel it my chest when he spoke.
61. The word "fuck".
63. Oh, Joy and Yay! Also see 55.
65. I should probably stop responding because so many of these are hell yeahs!
70. I love guys. Love their size, love their weight, love the differences between me and them. But I don't like hair. Totally don't.
84. But so long as it ain't "Ditto".
85. You're taking me back to junior high again, seriously.
89. ...
94. Big damn heroes.
96. Angst.
101. *sigh*

[my_daroga]

Ack... ugh... other sounds of general incoherence...

I think my kink is you listing your kinks. Too many to recount and say, "fo' sizzle, you too?", so here's one;

17. Scenes in which characters shuffle about and each think the other doesn't care about him/her any more, until one of them finally has the courage to bring it up/ask, and the other gutters, "Ohdeargodfuckyes."

Ahh.... we are perfect to write our intended collaborative thingy, someday...

[sluggirl.livejournal.com]

Oh man. So you don't know me, but I got linked from... somewhere. I dunno. I have too many tabs open. Anyway, this list is, like, really good. Like, there's only a couple things on it that don't do anything for me. So... feel like reccing me something(s) super sexy? When you get the chance.

[grapefruitzzz.livejournal.com]

Damn, that's a hot list! I just imagined some of my favourite characters in those situations and raised a whole crop of bunnies.

[gothic-veils.livejournal.com]

I found this via Metafandom and it's incredibly interesting, and also inspiring (since I recently signed up to smut_69 and am currently low on ideas).

I write smut with Silas from the Da Vinci Code and having gone through the list have found I've used numbers 7, 8, 16, 27, 32, 44, 53, 55, 67, 73, 74, 77. (so far) nice to know these are things people are into.

I'd say more more I'm sick and my mind is melted so I'll shut up.

*memories*

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

Here via mlyn. Awesome list! I don't see him in your interests, but #48 makes me wonder if you're a fan of Sean Bean...

[zibbycomix.livejournal.com]

I hope that this doesn't sound weird, but I liked reading your list. Or maybe I should say that I found it interesting.
I would say- I really like magic realism, references to fairytales/folktales/legends/myths, angst, mermaids, pirates (I know that you didn't mention that one), and reading glasses!
And you know, I think that you're right that there is something so endearing about a character who feels like they don't deserve to be loved. Oh, and when characters don't know that they love each other! Awwwww!
I do like what I read to have happy endings, but I also like reading about all the ways that characters misunderstand each other. I think it makes them more human.

[literaryvice432.livejournal.com]

50. Carefully handled objectification, especially of body parts rather than people. Um, for some reason, in a sex scene, "the arm" is going to do more to me than "his arm" or "her arm" or "Buffy's arm". Why? I don't know. What is this called?

You could describe it as synecdoche if the pronoun is attached (ie her arm or his arm) as the part is used to represent the whole but when you abandon the pronoun and view the arm as a separate entity representing the person then it becomes something closer to metonymy.