Sexual slang
Sexual slang is any slang term which makes reference to sex, the sexual organs, or matters closely related to them.
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING LIST OF TERMS MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO SOME READERS.
Introduction
In the popular jargon of many civilized cultures, the use of sexual slang is a form of humor or euphemism that often creates controversy over its popular use. Sexual humor is seen in many circles as crude and unsophisticated, as well as insulting towards the subject it describes. Nevertheless, sexual humor has been popular since the earliest days of civilization, and crude humor is seen as having its own place in popular culture.
Sexual slang is often used by adolescent youths as a ritual of growing up. It is one way that youths often test the limits of tolerance in their society, both in their own families and in the community in general.
The popularity of various comedians who indulge in sexual slang, from George Carlin to Andrew Dice Clay, reflects the appeal of this form of speech. It is often seen as a form of taboo, where much of its appeal comes from the shock value of daring to speak "forbidden" words in public.
Body parts
Not gender-specific
The following terms are used for both male and female anatomy.General terms for intimate body parts
General terms for the intimate parts of the human body. These (should) apply to males and females.Perineum
The perineum is the area between the anus and genitals.
- baunch, chode, crossroad, gooch (Jackass reference), great divide, grundle, guiche, pussanus, taint/'tain't, (the) void
Posterior
Terms for the buttocks.
- ass/arse, back, backside, batty, behind, booty, bowl, bum, bung, buns, butt, can, cushions, fanny (US English; in British English it means vagina), kaboose, landing pad, moon, pooper, pooter, rear end, rump, trunk, tush
Cleavage
- buttcrack
Anus
These terms may refer to the anus or rectum.
- asshole/arsehole/a-hole, ass pipe, back passage, balloon knot, brown eye, brown starfish, bunghole, buttery cornhole, butthole, Cadbury Road, chocolate channel, chocolate factory, chocolate starfish, club fag, corn hole, exit, fart vent, Frenchman's fantasy, grandmother's mouth, Hershey's Highway, nether region, Oxo Tower, Paris, poop chute, ringpiece, rusty bullet-wound, rusty sheriff's badge, shit hole, shitter, turd squirter, wrong hole, Rusty Brown's Ring donut
Nipples
- nips, teats
Male genitals
Some terms refer to only the penis or only the testicles, and some to both. The distinction is not always clear. However, an attempt has been made to classify the terms in this manner.
Penis
Erection
Testicles
Scrotum
The scrotum holds the testicles outside of the body cavity.
- bean bag, duffle bag, family jewels, sack, scrot, sud sack, tea bag
Penis and testicles
- block and tackle, crown jewels, family jewels, frank 'n beans, lunchbox (UK: Particularly used for male athletes), meat and two veg, naughty bits (might also apply to female genitals and breasts?), package, twig and berries, wedding tackle
Female intimate parts
Terms for the female breasts and genitals.
Breasts
Female genitals
Unlike most slang terms for the breasts, terms for the female reproductive system can be somewhat vague. They may refer to the vulva, vagina, or uterus, or their constituent parts, such as the clitoris, labia, Grafenberg spot, and so forth. A very rough (incomplete) classification follows.
Vagina
Many of these actually refer to the vulva or labia (and should be reclassified).
- axe wound, baby ATM, baby cave, baby chute, bearded clam, beaver, box, bread-box, bushy plate, camel toe, camel toe pie, cave, cha cha (South Park reference), clam, cock holster, cock warmer, cockpit, cooch, coochie/coochy, cookie, coot, cooter, cooz/cooze/coozie, crab-hole, cream wringer, cuint (Irish), cunny, cunt, cus (Hebrew), fanny (British English; in US English it means the posterior), fetus cannon, foo foo valve, front bottom, fun hole, fun hump, furburger, furry cup, gap, gash, golden doughnut, goody bag, goody gash, grease quiver, gummy smile, hair pie, hairy grail, hatchet wound, honey pot, hurrah hump, jenny, kuku, love socket, meat pocket, minge, moose knuckle, muff, muffin, nooky (when spelled "nookie" it means coitus), old oily, piffers, pink taco, poon, poontang, punani, pussy, queef hole, rat trap, right hole, rug, sausage wallet, scar, slippery slot, slit, snapper, snatch, sperm bank, sperm purse, stinky pinky, sugar walls, tuna, tuna cave, twat, tweety/tweety bird, velvet, vertical smile, whisker biscuit, winky, wizard's sleeve, yoni
Hymen
- cherry
Vulva
- camel toe, pink taco
Clitoris
- button, clit, knob, love button, man in the boat
Labia
- beef curtains, bologna draperies, meat curtains, meat flaps, piss fenders, piss flaps, vertical lips
Grafenberg spot
- Dr. G's idea, G-spot, G zone, sweet spot
Uterus
- oven (usually in phrase "a bun on the oven", but can be used separately)
Activities
"Rounding the bases"
Rounding the bases is a group of slang terms dealing with sexual activities, borrowing terms from baseball. There are often variant definitions, but most criteria are similar.- First base - kissing, especially "French" kissing
- Second base - fondling or groping, especially of the breasts or genitals
- Third base - depending on the speaker, either full nudity or a non-intercourse orgasm (especially when resulting from oral sex)
- Home run (or "hitting it out of the park", etc.; sometimes "fourth base") - sexual intercourse
Kissing
Terms for (ordinary, usually face-to-face) kissing — not including oral sex.- bagging off, lip-lock (in a), making out, parking (1950s slang), pashing, smooching, snog, snogging, sparking, sucking face, swapping spit, tapping off, tonsil-hockey, tonsil-tennis
Foreplay
Foreplay usually includes forms of stimulation leading up to, but not including, intercourse. The terms below refer to foreplay in general. See other sections for specific types of foreplay, such as masturbation or oral sex.- feel up, get it on, make out, necking, old-school stimulation, petting, reaching second base (of three bases plus "home plate"), touch up
Sexual intercourse
Terms for sexual intercourse may refer to vaginal intercourse (coitus) or anal intercourse.
Vaginal intercourse (coitus)
Anal intercourse
Oral sex
Oral sex involves the stimulation of the sexual organs (or anus) of one person by the mouth (tongue, etc.) of another. Many terms for oral sex simply consist of the words eat, bite, blow, suck, chew, or a similar verb, followed by a noun suggesting genitalia. Others are more original.
General terms for oral sex
Cunnilingus
Cunnilingus is oral stimulation of the clitoris or vulva.
- beaver munching, beaver sucking, carpet or rug munching, chewing box, clit licking, cunt munching, cunt sucking, deep sea diving, drinking from the furry cup, eating from the bushy plate, eating out of the bread box, G-spot tickling, lick out, muff diving, mustache ride, pearl diving, pussy licking, slit licking, soup tasting, tipping the velvet, tongue in the cave, wet-velveting
Fellatio
Fellatio is oral stimulation of the penis.- blowing, blowjob (giving/getting a), butched in (performing oral sex in exchange for favors; prison slang), candy making, deep throating, the flag salute, head (giving/getting), knob gobbling, Lewinsky-style, milking (also applies to masturbation), rod swallowing, shine, slobbing the knob, slurping the bishop, smoking/greasing the pole, suck(ing) off, sucking cock, swallowing, teabagging (sucking of the scrotum), tonsil exam, washing the Big Ben, waxing the lance
Mutual oral sex
The following terms refer to simultaneous, or mutual, oral sex.- genital sucking contest/GSC, sixty-nine (69), soixante-neuf (French for 69)
Anilingus
Anilingus is oral stimulation of the anus.- 87, Asian, ass gobbling, ass/arse licking, black kiss, chewing bud, chocolate binge, crap tickling, Frenchman's/Armenian's delight, hit it (prison slang), new French kiss, rim job, rimming, shit binge, tossing (the) salad
Masturbation
There are many terms for masturbation, the manual stimulation of one's genitals. Some of the more common follow.
Male masturbation
Female masturbation
Mutual masturbation
Mutual masturbation involves each sexual partner manually stimulating the other partner's (or partners') genitals.
- circle jerk, jacking and jilling off
Sexual stimulation
Dildos
A dildo is an artificial penis.- doctor's helper, fantasy cock, monster, penis substitute
Fetishes and other
Technically, a sexual fetish involves sexual attraction to an inanimate object. However, common usage also refers to sexual activities outside of the so-called "norm" (sex involving urination or defecation, for example). Many of the terms below refer to "fetishes" in the latter sense.Warning: The descriptions in this section can be rather unpleasant.
- big sexy - touching all sides of one of female's thighs with either part of penis
- blumpkin - oral sex when received on the toilet
- Cleveland steamer - act of defecating on female's chest, then ejaculating on the feces
- coffeegrinder - act of crushing dried feces on victim's forehead with penis
- Dirty Sanchez moustache - act of "double-thumbing" one's own anus and wiping the soil under one's own nose, utilizing an outward rotation of the wrists
- fecal Japan - act of defecating a fountain of liquid feces into the air while inverted, thus permitting the feces to fall upon the face; originally an immensely popular Internet image named Tub Girl
- felching - sucking semen out of another's orifices
- fifi - artificial vagina used for masturbation (prison slang)
- golden showers - act of urinating upon one another for sexual pleasure
- hot carl - placing plastic wrap over a victim's face and defecating on it
- teabagging - dipping testicles into another's mouth
- thighfucking - act of rubbing penis against inside of female's thighs like a vagina
- watersports - act of urinating upon one another for sexual pleasure
Physiological processes
Menstruation
Menstruation is commonly known as a "period". Some of the terms below refer to a girl's first period, called menarche.- Eve's curse, Eve's gift, flying Baker, flying a Baker flag (U. S. Military Marine/Navy term), friend, having one's period, j'ai mes ours (I've got my bears), les anglais ont débarqué (the Redcoats have landed), ma tante Rose a débarqué (Aunt Rosie's arrived), on the blob, on the rag, sick, that time of the month, the circus is in town, the curse
Pregnancy
- bun in the oven, duck in the oven (un polichinelle dans le tiroir), in the family way, knocked up, preggers, prego (used as an adjective or noun in reference to the impregnated mother), stewing a swift pie, up the duff
Orgasm
- climax, cumming/coming, filling up at the ejaculation station, gasm, la petite morte (the little death), shooting
Ejaculation and semen
These terms refer to the act of ejaculation (independent of the particular sexual activity involved) and ejaculate (the substance, usually just called semen).- Armenian mayonaise, baby batter, baby gravy, baby seed, cream, cum/come, donut glaze, embryonic warrior, faggot cologne, Frenchman's delight, Frenchman's favorite dressing, gentleman's relish, goo, hot man mustard, jism, jizz, load, love juice, love piss, love sauce, man chowder, man cream, man fat, man fluid, man juice, man mayo, man milk, man 'naise, number 3 ("number 1" refers to urination, "number 2" refers to defecation), protein shake, randy guy fuel, seed, skeet, spew, spooge, splooge, spunk, squirt, Tijuana toothpaste
Nocturnal emission
A nocturnal emission involves ejaculation during sleep.- wet dream
Venereal disease
Venereal diseases are also known as sexually-transmitted diseases, or STDs, since they are contracted primarily through sexual activity. The term is typically used to refer to (usually) non-fatal diseases such as gonorrhea and syphilis, as opposed to AIDS. However, the terms below refer to all forms of STDs.
- a dose (to catch), blickey(s) (prison slang), (the) clap, crabs, crotch rot, (the) French disease, knacker cracker, knob rot, Miss Siff, monster (prison slang), ninja (prison slang), package (prison slang), pox, shit (prison slang), sour cream, went up in that fire (prison slang)
People
Homosexual
For slang terms describing gay and lesbian people, see the List of sexual slurs.
Prostitute
A prostitute is a person who engages in sexual activity in exchange for money. However, not all terms listed below fit that description exactly.
General terms for prostitute
Male prostitute
Female prostitute
Paraphilias
Paraphilias include forms of sexual attraction and sexual activity outside the so-called "norm". This section, however, is confined to activities which are almost universally considered taboo or criminal in human societies.
Incest
Incest involves sexual relations between close family members.
- forbidden love, keeping it in the family, relative sex
Pedophilia
Pedophilia commonly refers to sexual attraction to, or sexual activity with, a child (usually prepubescent).- bad man in the nursery, Chester (the Molester) (prison slang), chicken hawk, child catcher, cho mo (prison slang), diaper sniper (prison slang), dirty old man, drug charge (prison slang), early bird, forbidden fruit, Gary Glitter's best friend, impatient father, kiddie fiddler, kiddie fondler, meth charge/mething (prison slang), Michael, nonce, pedo, playground spotter, premature cherry picker, R. Kelly, Santa Claus's little helper, short eyes, spring chicken
External links
- Amatory Thesaurus
- Sex Dictionary - mostly non-slang terms; some slang also
- Urban Dictionary - all types of slang