BDSM
BDSM practices or dynamics are meaningfully depicted as part of the work's sexual or erotic content.
On the shelf: 8 guides
Kink & Spice
Kink & Spice, defined.
Heat tells you how explicit and how frequent. Kink & Spice tells you which erotic practices and consent framings are on the page. Pacing, genre, and relationship structure keep their own lanes.
B2 entries
Blood play
Blood or intentional bleeding is incorporated into sexual or erotic activity.
On the shelf guide: Den of Vipers, There Are No Saints
D2 entries
Degradation
Debasing, demeaning, objectifying, or insulting language or treatment is intentionally incorporated into sexual or erotic activity.
On the shelf guide: God of Malice, Lords of Pain, Losers: Part I
Dub-con
Sexual activity occurs under circumstances where consent is compromised, pressured, manipulated, clouded, or deliberately ambiguous.
On the shelf: 11 guides
From Marginalia: A Ranking of Ways to be Claimed Without Consent in Fiction, What is Dubcon (and What is Non-Con)?, What Is Dark Romance? A Proper Definition for a Genre That Refuses to Be Contained, How to Tag Dark, Taboo, Dubcon, and Non-Con on Your Own Shelf (Without Guessing), Dark, Taboo, Dubcon, Non-Con: A Vocabulary That Actually Means Something
H1 entry
Humiliation Play
Embarrassment, exposure, shame, awkwardness, or deliberate humiliation is incorporated into sexual or erotic activity.
On the shelf guide: Lords of Pain, Losers: Part I
I1 entry
Impact Play
Striking the body is intentionally incorporated into sexual or erotic activity for sensation, pain, control, or arousal.
On the shelf guide: God of Pain, Losers: Part I
K1 entry
Knife play
A knife or blade is intentionally incorporated into sexual or erotic activity.
On the shelf guide: Den of Vipers, Lights Out, There Are No Saints
P1 entry
Power Exchange
Control, authority, obedience, or submission is deliberately structured as part of a sexual or kink dynamic.
On the shelf: 12 guides
S1 entry
Somnophilia
Sexual or erotic activity involves a sleeping or sleep-adjacent participant.
On the shelf guide: Haunting Adeline, Hunting Adeline, The Ritual
V1 entry
Voyeurism
Watching another person's sexual, intimate, or exposed activity is intentionally part of the erotic content.
On the shelf guide: Haunting Adeline, Lights Out
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