По мне, так очень познаваельно. Только, как ни странно, но в этом списке всех возможных извращений я не вижу тут ничего похожего на "personification" разных неодушивлённых прдметов, типа стран.
Букв много.
List of Fan-fiction Kinks, Tropes, and Clichés
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder
• Abuse (sexual, emotional, and/or violent childhood abuse; past abusive relationships; character A's abuse drives character B into arms of character C; the wounded child as an adult archetype)
• Abduction as seduction (beloved captives)
• Accidental stimulation (proximity and friction; involuntary arousal; situations of adrenaline and reflexes)
• Adrenaline and crises (pre-, mid-, or post-crisis sex; speed-freaks or adrenaline junkies; near-death experiences; the shadow of impending death--hours, minutes, or moments; see also Situational engineering)
• Age differences (e.g., older man/younger man pairing)
• Age regression (mental and/or physical regression; childlike behavior caused by brain damage; characters met before in the past; high school AUs; time-travel)
• Aliens make them have sex (fuck or die; fertility rituals; intoxication; taking one for the team) (так вот, как можно классифицировать ту хрень, которую мы сочинили на английском)
• Alpha males (alpha/beta male pairings; alpha/alpha pairings; het alpha males)
• Amazons and strong women (warrior women; women as soldiers, law enforcement figures, or leaders; goddesses; tough, butch, or muscled women; lesbians or dykes; quasi-masculine characteristics in general, such as a boyish body type: slim, athletic, and small-breasted; forcefulness or brusqueness) (Немецкие девушки такие здоровенные)
• Amnesia
• Anal penetration with foreign objects
• Anal sex (face to face, from behind, bottom riding top; standing; bent over desk; gay or straight; girl-on-boy with strap-on; girl-on-girl with strap-on)
• Anal/butt plugs (during sex; worn under clothes in public) (вот хотелось бы увидеть где-нибудь опус на тему, когда партнёр обнаруживает эту серьгу)
• Angst (see Emotional themes)
• Animalistic behaviors and characteristics, dominant (snarling; sniffing; scent-marking or biting; other claiming acts; territoriality; predatory stalking; cuffing; forcing the partner's neck down; claws and other features)
• Animalistic behaviors and characteristics, submissive (feral characters or behavior; domesticated pet behavior such as sitting at owner's foot and cheeking their thigh; purring; licking; characters objectified as animals, e.g., ponyboys)
• Animal themes or fetishization (physical transformation, e.g., animagi or werewolves; animalistic features; hirsutism as a fetish; tentacle sex; quasi animal forms such as centaurs, merfolk, intelligent dragons; pets, wild or domesticated; familiars; men showing affection toward animals, e.g., holding kittens, or nuzzling their horses; see also Otherness)
• Anonymous sex (clubbing; glory-holes; alley sex; alien fertility rituals; one-night stands)
• Anti-heroes (sympathetic villains; villains with principles; noble demons; enemies who keep their word)
• Aphrodisiacs (see Intoxication and altered states)
• Aristocracy (aristocratic behaviors, characteristics, and/or identity; chivalry and noblesse oblige; royal blood; elegance or effeteness; dignity; royal courts or castles; imperial cultures; Greco-Roman classicism; dynastic families; gentlemen; aristocrat pairings with houseboys, stable-boys, or secretaries)
• Asphyxiation (asphyxiophilia; autoerotic asphyxiation; scarfing; choking; breath play)
• Ass-play and/or fetishization (ass lifted in the air for penetration; emphasized by harness or blue jeans; ass slapping; spreading cheeks; rimming)
• Attention (singling someone out; treating someone specially in front of others; making a point of showing respect to or interest in someone who doesn't usually receive it; observing, studying, or analyzing someone to understand them)
• AUs (alternate characterizations and situations; sex between alternates of one character or between different characters; alternates as catalysts for realization of desire; role reversal; darker mirror universe characters; mistaken identity)
• Auctions (slave or slave charity)
• Bad boys (punks, rebels; see also Rogues)
• Bad girls (dirty girls; naughty schoolgirls; femme fatales)
• Bar and club scenes (dancing, cruising, etc)
• Barebacking
• Baths and water (tubs or jacuzzis; hot springs; bath houses or steam rooms; the ocean; swimming pools; see also Washing; Shower sex)
• BDSM
• Beards or stubble
• Beauty (movie-star looks; unearthly beauty; a character who is highly desired by many others; beauty as a barrier to approachability or as a cause for comparison and insecurity)
• Begging or offering (begging or pleading for mercy, for sexual release, to be taken; a character offering himself; neediness)
• Beloved enemies
• Beloved hostages (royal, diplomatic, or business hostages; see also Abduction as seduction)
• Bestiality (see Animal themes)
• Big guy/little guy (also seme/uke)
• Big men (tall, broad, muscled; giants; Conan or Fezzik characters; see Warriors)
• Biological imperative (pon farr or mating drive; being in heat)
• Bisexuality
• Biting (marking, nipping, chewing)
• Blindness (see Voyeurism and vision themes)
• Blood (fetishization of wounds; blood-play; blood as lube; vampirism)
• Blow-jobs (oral sex, fellatio)
• Body fetishes not listed elsewhere (ears, muscular arms, breasts, bald heads, collarbones, cheekbones, bare feet or chest, etc; fatness, plumpness, softness; skin, e.g., weathered, tanned, soft)
• Body modification (geek-to-jock makeovers; physical enhancements such as wetwear; alien transformations; scarification and piercing; forced feminization or castration; see also Otherness)
• Body-painting or inkbrushing on someone's skin
• Body swap
• Bodyguard scenarios (See also Protectiveness)
• Bondage
• Bonds (telepathic or empathic; psychic links; mating or soul bonds)
• Bottoming
• Boys (pretty boys; bishounen/bishonen; boyish types; pocket-sized cuties; puppies; Persian Boy characters; houseboys or stable-boys; toyboys)
• Branding (erotic or non-erotic)
• Breath (as a caress; hitching or ragged; indrawn breath or gasps; sighs)
• Brothels
• Bruises and other wounds
• Bukkake
• Canon (canon elements/canonicity heightens characterization or scenario)
• Castration (full or partial; castratos/eunuchs)
• Catalysts (e.g., character A shows interest in character B, which makes character C realize how hot B is; or other catalytic events bringing about such an epiphany)
• Celibacy (e.g., someone's celibacy as a challenge to seduction)
• Charisma (see Powers of attraction)
• Chastity devices
• Childish characters (brats; little princesses)
• Childlike characteristics (innocence and simplicity; trustingness; truth-speaking, playfulness; boyishness and mischievousness; wounded child characters; orphans)
• Children (i.e., as their presence reflects on a character, e.g., tough men gently holding babies; men who are/aren't good with kids; devoted single dads; Ripley characters/scenarios; pregnancy)
• Cinderella stories (rescuing someone from servitude or cruel family; going from rags to riches; Pretty Woman scenarios; fairy-tale romances in general)
• Claiming or establishing ownership (private or public; by gesture, word, or ritual; with sex; with a collar and leash; with scent-marking or by biting)
• Clams (i.e., characters who are stoic, terse, repressed; see also Talking and communication issues; Silence)
• Climax (e.g., described in detail)
• Closeted partner(s) (see also Orientation issues; Society)
• Clothes fetishization (of any kind, e.g., uniforms; leather gear; worn blue jeans; thigh-highs; stilettos; leather jackets; tuxedos or GQ wear; constricting or modest clothes; boxer-briefs; going commando)
• Clumsiness (awkwardness; overeagerness; during sex or in general)
• Cock and/or ball fetishization (uncircumcised cocks; large cocks; heavy balls; durable erection; deep dicking; very hard/rigid erection; trouser bulges)
• Cock and/or ball torture (whipping, stretching, catheters, etc)
• Cock bondage (cock rings; harnesses and straps; leather ropework)
• Cock worship
• Collars (slave)
• Come-marking (letting it dry visibly on the skin)
• Coming in one's pants
• Coming in or on one's partner (in ass or mouth; in hair; on body; on face, i.e., facial)
• Coming out of the closet (see also Gayness; Orientation issues; Witnesses)
• Coming quickly (premature ejaculation or knee-jerk reflex response)
• Coming without being touched
• Competence
• Conditioning (taming or breaking a character; training; brainwashing; Stockholm syndrome)
• Condoms
• Confessions (revelation of love/desire; of other secrets; truth or dare games. deathbed confessions; revealing truths when feverish)
• Conflicts and challenges (war and combat in general; sieges; Die Hard scenarios; jousting; gladiatorial games; wrestling and sparring; duels of honor; bets and sports competitions; romantic rivalries; seduction viewed as a challenge; misunderstandings and fights; break-ups; traded insults; stormy relationships; family strife; personality clashes; cultural differences; philosophical disagreements)
• Courtesans or geishas
• Courting and dating (courtship rituals; dating; blind dates; personal ads; traditional gestures such as flowers and chocolates; unusual gestures designed to win someone's attention; showing off or displaying prowess; rivals seeking a character's favor; see also Seduction)
• Cross-dressing (forced or voluntary; drag queens or transvestites; see also Gender themes)
• Crossovers (characters thrust into other universes; canon universes merged; sex between characters played by same actor)
• Crush or unrequited love
• Crying, sobbing (erotic and non-erotic)
• Cuddling (see Touch)
• Cunnilingus
• Cyber themes (cybersex; virtual reality scenarios; e-mail/chatroom interaction, including secret admirer scenarios; see also Techno)
• Daddy themes (fetishization and role-play; difficult father-son relationships; sugar daddies; paternalism in general)
• Damsel in distress scenarios (danger and rescue; damsel character need not be female)
• Dancing
• Dating (see Courting and dating)
• Death (fatal illnesses; heroic death; character death in general; survivor guilt and grief; ghosts and haunting; vampires; Thanatos as the personification of death; Thanatos as the death wish; death orgasms; gothic aesthetics; immortality or aging as it relates to death; reincarnation)
• Deep-throating
• Delayed gratification
• Depilation (waxing, shaving)
• Dildos (dildo gags; harnesses; strap-ons; ritual phalluses)
• Disabilities or infirmities (limp; damaged or missing limb; chronic pain; deafness; stutters)
• Discipline or punishment
• Discomfort during sex (rough edge of a table as counterpoint to pleasure; cold stone versus hot flesh; position is uncomfortable at first but then becomes perfect; penetration is painful, then pleasurable)
• Disorders (phobias; neuroses; obsessive-compulsive disorder; see also Insanity; Emotional themes)
• Docking
• Domesticity (moving in together; nesting; shopping; building a family or meeting the family; getting a cat or dog; kidfic)
• Dominance and submission (See also Submission; Servitude; Master and slave, etc)
• Double penetration (anal, vaginal, or oral)
• Drugs (recreational drug use; Viagra; self-destructive addictions; addiction as a by-product of pain management; alcoholism and sobriety)
• Dystopias (apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic worlds; alien invasions; pandemics; computers take over; settings in Hell, or earth becomes Hell)
• Ejaculate, come (heavy loads; pre-ejaculate slickness; messy orgasms• Emotional themes, emo-kink (angst; wallows; darkfic; emotional damage; psychological trauma; tragic pasts; broken characters; guilt and shame; mental instability; sadness and grief; abandonment or fear of same; characters who can't go home again; fear in general; nightmares; loneliness; broken-heartedness; failure; insecurity; self-hatred; self-mutilation such as secret cutting; suicide; see also Insanity)
• Endearments (see Names))
• Enemas (да, это клизма… Собственно видела такое на англоязычном кинке по Хеталии, но там было куда интереснее, потому что клизма была с водкой, к слову об отношениях России и Литвы...)
• Enemies working together
• Ensembles (elite teams of explorers, spies, law enforcement figures, etc; sentai; military squadrons; skilled teams operating like clockwork, such as when pulling off a heist; bands of rebels; families; surrogate families; outcasts, e.g., freaks and geeks; carnival troupes; motley characters thrown together by fate; alternatives to society e.g., Robin Hood and his Merry Men, Peter Pan and the Lost Boys; see also Witnesses)
• Erotic torture
• Exhibitionism
• Exoticism (fetishization of Far Eastern culture and aesthetics, which may be adapted and generalized for fictional worlds; e.g., harems and harem culture; veils; silk clothes; Turkish baths; pleasure pavilions; royal courts; lush gardens; island paradises; opium dens; casbahs and bazaars; tents; imperial royal figures such as sheikhs or sultans; köçek troupes; court figures such as dancers and storytellers; floor pillows; furs or skins as rugs or bedding; feasts; tapestries; Persian rugs; oil lamps; wild animals as pets; opulence, decadence, and sensuality in general)
• Exposure (with or without eroticism; feeling physically exposed, such as with legs open; a woman's shirt being opened to expose her breasts; characters being forced to undress in public; someone opening a door on people having sex)
• Face-fucking (blow-job)
• Face-sitting (straddling for blow-job or cunnilingus)
• Fake rake (a man falsely rumored to be promiscuous, who isn't; romance novel term)
• Falling (falling from grace; going bad; turning to the Dark Side; Faustian deals; succumbing to temptation or addiction; degradation and descent in general)
• Fantasies (shared or solitary; role-playing)
• Feminine terms used for males (e.g., calling a man a bitch, calling his ass a pussy; using condescending endearments such as honey or precious)
• Femmes (effeminacy)
• Fetishes for objects not listed elsewhere (shoes, cigarettes, lipstick, coffee cups, eyeglasses, motorcycles, canes, etc)
• Finger-fucking (as preparation, foreplay, accompaniment, or main act)
• First times (first time between two individuals; losing virginity/cherry; first time doing a particular act; first time with a particular gender)
• Fish out of water characters/scenarios
• Fisting (anal or vaginal)
• Flirting (conscious or unconscious; with glances or touches; banter)
• Food (feeding one's partner; romantic dinners; food as foreplay or flirting; food used during sex, such as whipped cream or chocolate)
• Forbidden pleasures (love affairs or trysts; in general, wanting someone or something that's expressly forbidden)
• Forced feminization (see also Gender themes)
• Forced orgasm
• Foreplay
• Friction or frottage (naked or clothed; masturbatory or with partner; cocks rubbing together; tribadism; intercrural sex; someone rubbing off on sheets while giving head or being fucked; itchiness and scratching; chafing clothes; friction while on horseback or riding a motorcycle; accidental contact)
• Friendship and affection (gestures of friendship; epic friendships a la Gilgamesh/Enkidu or Alexander/Hephaistion; friendship as pre-slash)
• Friendship sex or buddy-sex (fuck buddies)
• Fucking machines
• Fuck or die
• Future fic (огромные роботы?)
• Gags (ball-gags, scarves, mouth bits, etc)
• Gayness (self-identification as gay; gay pride; queer culture; homophobia; see also Orientation issues)
• Geeks and nebbishes (Peter Parker or Clark Kent characters; computer geeks; lab rats; nerds; intellectuals; personal secretaries; beta males; sidekicks; men in glasses; oddballs and eccentrics)
• Geek/jock pairings
• Gender themes (gender confusion; sex changes; genderfucks; hermaphrodites; cross-dressing or other forms of genderbending; drag queens and transvestites; androgyny; forced feminization; butch/femme; tomboys)
• Gentleness (tenderness; kindness; concern; gentle natures; characters who display sensitivity to fearful children, animals, the weak, etc; gentle responses at unexpected moments)
• Getaways (romantic weekends; tropical vacations; ski chalets)
• Girls (dancing girls; cat-girls; schoolgirls; bishoujo; magical girls; cheerleaders; see also Bad Girls; Good girls)
• Going native (see also Primitivism)
• Golden showers
• Good boys (law enforcement figures; gentlemen; characters who prompt a desire to corrupt or provoke them, or to get them dirty; priests; prim schoolteachers; angels; nice guys; virtue and nobility in general)
• Good girls (nice girls; daddy's girls; schoolmarms; nuns)
• Grunge (dirty and sweaty, needing a shower; actual mud/dirt elements in a sex scene)
• Guns and gun-play (guns as fetish objects; gun-battles as flirting or foreplay; guns used for sexual penetration; games of Russian Roulette; see also Military fetishization)
• Hair or fur fetishization (buzz-cuts; long hair; hair-grabbing during blow-jobs; coming in someone's hair; pubic hair; hairy chests; underarm hair; hair all over e.g., Wookies, werewolves, yeti, etc; see also Animal themes and fetishization)
• Hand fetishization (big strong hands; steady hands; rough knuckles; calluses; fists clenching in sheets)
• Hand-jobs
• Happiness (startled joy; passionate gratitude; ecstasy; comfort; happy endings)
• Harems or seraglios
• Healing or comfort sex (post-rape or abuse; affirming life in the midst of death; captives turning to one another for comfort; one character soothing another who is deeply upset or fearful)
• Heat (hot lazy summer days; steamrooms; sweat-slick skin; tempers rising with the heat; urgent fucking a la Body Heat)
• Hero/sidekick pairings
• Heroes (knights and champions; superheroes; samurai or ronin; super-soldiers; ordinary characters becoming heroes and characters overcoming fear with bravery; rebel/underground heroes; saviors and liberators; avengers; see also Heroic gestures; Good boys)
• Heroic gestures (nobility; self-sacrifice; risking self to save someone's life; Gift of the Magi scenarios; taking the partner's place for torture; trading sexual favors to guards to procure food or medicine for partner; heroic deaths)
• Historical and period settings
• Homosocial environments (i.e., all-male or all-female, such as prisons or harems)
• Hot spots (a special spot that make someone crazy when stimulated, such as the vampire spot on the neck, the backs of the knees, the inner arms, navel, or earlobes)
• Human furniture
• Humiliation (erotic or non-erotic)
• Humor (funny banter, screwball comedy, etc)
• Humor as a mask (characters who hide pain behind humor)
• Hurt/comfort (emotional and/or physical, including torture of all kinds and degrees, and any form of caretaking)
• Ice princesses, snow queens (cold characters who may or may not succumb to melting; need not be female)
• Immobilization and/or helplessness
• Impotence
• Imprisonment, erotic (cages, cells, closets, coffins, etc)
• Imprisonment, other (see Prison scenarios)
• Incest (including brother/sister complex)
• Insanity (involuntary or false committal; characters appearing insane when their beliefs or fears are real; sedation and restraints; asylums; dementia; therapy)
• Intelligence (quick wit; street smarts; Machiavellian cleverness; Sherlock Holmesian deductive powers; geniuses; experts; criminal masterminds; see also Special powers and skills; Geeks and nebbishes)
• Intercrural or interfemoral sex (i.e., thrusting cock between partner's thighs)
• Intimacy (Ладно, а всё вышеперечисленное чем было?..)
• Intoxication and altered states (aphrodisiacs; drugs or alcohol; sex pollen/spores; substances or devices that create arousal, affection, or dependency; speaking or showing the truth while intoxicated; visionary states)
• Jewelry (decorative and/or symbolic; wedding rings; earrings; slave bracelets; piercings)
• Journeys (odysseys and quests; time-travel; being lost and trying to get home; road trips; pioneering and exploration, including space travel)
• Kissing, necking
• Knives and knife-play
• Lady and the Tramp pairings (see also Rough behavior; Rogues)
• Lesbians or dykes (includes lesbianism as erotica for men)
• Loss of control (emotional, physical, situational, erotic, etc)
• Love and passion (falling in love; love at first sight; one true love; eternal love; unconditional love; star-crossed lovers; tempestuous passions)
• Love/hate relationship
• Magical themes (love spells; magical characters or creatures; magical lands or settings; predictions; curses; possession; fairytales; magical girls; see also Special powers and skills)
• Make-overs
• Make-up and/or nail polish on men (see also Gender themes)
• Make-up sex or reunions
• Menservants
• Marriage (of arrangement, convenience, or necessity; accidental marriage; group marriage; traditional marriage or partnership ceremony)
• Masks
• Masochism
• Masquerade (a character pretends to be someone else, or something he's not, e.g., a nebbishy nerd must convince goons he's a ruthless arms dealer or assassin; a cop goes undercover in prison; a spy infiltrates an agency; a good guy pretends to be his AU evil twin; Cyrano scenarios)
• Massage
• Master and slave (erotic or romantic slavery, or otherwise; see Power issues)
• Masturbation (solitary or as performance)
• Medical scenarios and fetishization
• Messiness and markers of arousal (mussed hair; flushed cheeks; swollen mouth; displaying bite marks or hickeys; clothes in disarray; sprawling; come-spattered skin)
• Military fetishization (competence; guns, knives, and other weapons; uniforms, dog-tags, thigh-holsters, etc; authority; soldiers and rebels; paramilitary figures such as cops; brothers in arms as a romantic concept)
• Mindfuck, mindgames
• Mirrors
• Mistaken for gay (character A concludes that character B is gay based on spurious evidence, e.g., overhearing and misinterpreting a conversation; may also believe that character has a crush on him; or an ensemble believes two characters are gay and together; other similar scenarios)
• Misunderstood (i.e., he's not really ____, he's just misunderstood)
• MPREG (male pregnancy)
• Multiple orgasms (See also Sexual appetite or excess)
• Multiple partners (sequential/serial sexual encounters; orgies, gang-bangs, or group sex; puppy-pile cuddling; see also Sexual appetite or excess)
• Mummification and/or sensory deprivation
• Muscled bodies
• Music (singing; playing an instrument such as guitar or piano; composers; rock stars or bands; groupies; song lyrics)
• Names and address (endearments: sweetheart, honey, mine; nicknames: chief, kid, sport; terms that assert power: boy, cunt; insulting terms that may hide some affection: monkey-boy, Your Worshipfulness, you big furry oaf; using someone's name as a sign of intimacy; using only formal modes of address: Sir, Major)
• Nautical themes and fetishization (ships and the sea; rum, sodomy, and the lash; cabin boys; navy/pirate conflicts; colonialism; desert islands and buried treasure)
• Neck fetishization (nape of the neck, throat, hickeys, etc)
• Nipple play or torture
• Noise (screaming or yelling during sex; whimpering or sobbing; purring, growling; slurping or moaning enthusiastically during blow-jobs)
• Non-consensual or semi-consensual sex (sexual extortion; bribery; reluctant or ambivalent partner; bondage and struggle; no means yes; other consent issues)
• Oral fixation or fetishization (lips, tongue, or whole mouth; french-kissing; licking; oral displays using food or beer bottles; smoking cigarettes, cigars, or pipes; biting or chewing one's lip(s))
• Orgasm denial
• Orientation issues (confusion; discovery and coming out; self-hatred; two-beer queers; homosexual panic)
• Original characters (i.e., pairing someone with an OMC or OFC)
• Otherness and outsiders (alien identity or transformation; mutants; demons and angels; hermaphrodites; eccentrics; elves and other magical beings; exoticism; half-human hybrids, e.g., the offspring of humans with demons, vampires, aliens, elves; racial difference in general; clones; twins; see also Secret identity; Special powers; Exoticism)
• Pain (with or without pleasure/endorphins)
• Pampering (spoiling someone rotten with gifts or money; physical pampering such as massage and grooming; giving someone a novel or unexpected degree of emotional or sexual care; catering to someone's every whim, e.g., someone who is in the hospital; harems as settings for pampering)
• Paraphilias not listed elsewhere
• Patience (e.g., showing patience toward a character who is brain-damaged or who is struggling bitterly with being recently crippled; or to a character prone to irrational fear or outbursts; patience with children; see also Gentleness)
• Penance or reform (bad boy turns good; evil seeks to change; performing acts of atonement or restitution; self-mortification; martyrdom; selflessness; apologies or apology sex)
• Physical imperfections (scars or burns; acne pits; heaviness; outsized features such as ears or nose; jolie-laide/ugly-beautiful characters)
• Physical responses (face or ears burning; little hairs lifting on the scalp or neck; gut tightening; pulse quickening or missing a beat; lashes fluttering or lids growing heavy; mouth coming open; dick or pussy throbbing)
• Pillow biting
• Playing hard to get
• Ponies (human ponies)
• Pornography (magazines and videos; character was previously a porn star or fluffer)
• Possession (by alien entity, spirits, or another person)
• Possessiveness or jealousy
• Power issues (inequities in beauty, rank, or class; power games; BDSM; power reversals; sheikhs, sultans, princes, and other royal figures; teacher/student pairings; magical powers; abuse of power; blackmail; romantic slavery; liege/lord pairings; issues of respect; sexual scenarios such as a dominant character giving his partner to others to use, or a character kneeling beneath a desk and blowing someone who's on the phone)
• Power issues, sociopolitical (colonialism; alien invasion or rule; institutionalized slavery; totalitarian states and rebellion; powerful secret societies, e.g., the Illuminati or Watcher-style organizations)
• Powers of attraction (characters such as sirens and Veelas; vampiric thrall; pheromones; magnetic and charismatic characters in general)
• Predator/prey pairings
• Preferential treatment (e.g., making a point of showing respect towards someone when no one else does; showing a soft side only to them)
• Pretending to be gay (cops or spies going undercover; a charade to deflect unwanted attention from a stranger; a ruse to avoid ritual marriage to aliens)
• Primitivism (dropping technologically advanced characters into exotic/primitive settings; medieval societies either magical or non-magical; nomadic and desert cultures; warrior cultures; jungle tribes; the noble savage; Androcles/lion pairings; the social intimacies of tribes/camps; bacchanals; culture clash/shock; unusual practices/rituals, e.g., feats of skill and strength or marriage as treaty; schizo-tech cultures, as when a seemingly feudal pre-industrial society has high-tech elements; see also Roughnecks; Animal themes and fetishization; Animalistic behaviors or characteristics; Exoticism)
• Prison scenarios (prison rape and/or protection; cruel guards; punishment; hard labor; deprivation; prisoners of war; camps and barracks; false imprisonment)
• Prizes (characters who are eroticized as prizes or spoils of war)
• Prostate pleasure
• Prostitutes (call-girls and hookers; rent boys and hustlers; escorts; paying one's way through school with sideline hooking; juvenile past on the streets)
• Protectiveness (physically or verbally defending someone; caretaking in general; big guy/little guy pairings; bodyguard scenarios; mysterious benefactors or protectors)
• Public displays of affection, PDAs
• Pushy bottom
• Rape (single assailant; gang rape; partner rape)
• Rape recovery
• Religion (sin; faith and lack of faith; priests, monks, nuns, etc; shamans; biblical characters; angels and demons; gods and goddesses; saints; monastic or convent culture)
• Rescue (danger and rescue in general, e.g., abductions)
• Restraint (pinning someone down; pushing someone's arm up behind their back during sex; covering or clasping someone's hands to prevent movement)
• Restraints (handcuffs, leather ties, chains, etc)
• Restraints, full-body (stocks; suspension harnesses; fisting slings; rape racks)
• Reversal of role or fortune (loss of love, power, rank, etc; hunter becomes prey, master becomes slave; a strong character is made weak; role-reversal games; Flowers for Algernon scenario)
• Rimming or tongue-fucking
• Rogues (outlaws, highwaymen, mercenaries, pirates, gangsters, hitmen, etc; black sheep and royal bastards; Han Solo characters; tricksters; see also Violent and dark natures and Rough behavior)
• Romance (see Love and passion; Courting; Seduction)
• Ropework (intricate/artistic erotic bondage)
• Roughnecks (cowboys; Tarzan figures; relatedly rough characteristics and behavior, such as scruffiness, rudeness, crude language, uncouth habits, etc; see also Lady and the Tramp pairings; Primitivism; Rogues)
• Rough sex (quick and dirty sex; hate or grudge sex; angry sex; fighting/wrestling; jackhammer fucking; sex with no or little lube)
• Sadism or sadomasochism
• Sandwich sexual position or chain fuck (threesome)
• Scars or scarification
• Scent as an erotic element
• Schmoop
• School themes and fetishization (boarding schools; dojos; scholarly gowns and uniforms; sailor fuku; prep school chic; teacher/student pairings; donnish or professorial characters; prefects/head boys; caning; schoolboy hijinks or sexual discovery; military academies; tutoring and teaching in general; see also Conditioning)
• Secret admirers
• Secret identity (superheroes, slayers, immortals, mutants, etc; disguised gender; spies)
• Secrets, other (dark or criminal past; double lives; previous marriage and/or children; unspoken feelings)
• Seduction (one-on-one; two-on-one; verbal or physical; intense erotic courtship or teasing; see also Courting)
• Sensory overload or enhancement
• Sex change (gender swap; forced feminization; see also Gender themes)
• Sex in public or semi-public places
• Sex in vehicles (cars, taxis, limos; planes or space shuttles; motorcycles; carnival rides)
• Sex is interrupted
• Sex on, against, or under furniture
• Sex on horseback
• Sex outdoors/outside (in a field; in a rainstorm; with snow falling; on the beach; in a graveyard; in an alley)
• Sex slaves or mates (concubines, catamites, etc)
• Sex standing up (including against a wall)
• Sex with aliens (xenophilia)
• Sex with clothes still on or partly on
• Sexual appetite or excess (hypersexuality, i.e., high sex drive; sex addiction or compulsive behavior; short/no refractory period; multiple orgasms; multiple partners; indiscriminate sex or sluttishness)
• Sexual discovery (of one's orientation; of new kinds of pleasure; of one's partner)
• Sexual experience or expertise (high number of partners; wide variety of sexual experience; demonstrating experience by taking the lead in sex or teaching one's partner)
• Sexual frustration (orgasm denial or being unable to come; blue balls; enforced abstinence; self-denial; inability of two people to touch)
• Sexual hang-ups
• Sexual movements (back arching; hips lifting; thrusting back; writhing, jerking, bucking; clenching; grinding or rocking; trembling or shivering; hooking legs around shoulders; pressing someone's legs back toward the bed; riding someone's fingers)
• Sharing (sharing a beer bottle, joint, or bucket of popcorn; loaning someone clothes; a character letting someone stay in their home; sharing confidences; sharing a woman)
• Shower sex
• Shyness (embarrassment; blushing or stammering; body shyness or dysmorphic disorder; cultural modesty)
• Silence (slave silence; silence as an erotic element in sex; trying to be silent during semi-public sex; going nonverbal or speechless with arousal; traumatic mutism; selective mutism; sign language; gestures used to convey feelings rather than words; see also Clams)
• Simultaneous orgasm
• Situational engineering (the conscious or unconscious manufacture of events that give an emotional or sexual pay-off which can't be otherwise achieved; in particular, perilous situations; for example, character A puts himself in danger in order to receive fussy attention from character B; pay-off can be simply seeing someone, or hurt/comfort touching, intimacy, adrenaline sex, etc)
• Situational homosexuality
• Sixty-nine (69)
• Size queens
• Slavery (see Master and slave)
• Sleep and bedding themes (sharing a bed by necessity, such as in a hotel with only one room left; sharing a sleeping bag for warmth; sex while drowsy or sleeping; sex as a sleep aid; autonomic arousal from proximity; morning wake-up sex, falling asleep against someone's shoulder; watching someone sleep; dreams; nightmares; dream lovers, e.g., succubi; exotic or romantic beds, e.g., canopied; furs as bedding; silk sheets)
• Slow and/or prolonged sex
• Smarm (intense friendship with physical closeness but no actual sex)
• Smiles or laughing
• Snark
• Society (social mores and morality; laws; institutional regulations such as Don't Ask Don't Tell; elaborate rituals or ceremonies; social events such as feasts and parties; decorum; formal or deferential modes of address; see also Witnesses)
• Spanking (over the knee or lap, etc)
• Special powers and skills (superhero powers; magical powers; telekinesis; shapeshifting; hyperdeveloped senses; combat expertise; sharpshooting; eidetic memory; computer hacking skills; thief skills; temporary gifts of power from drugs, alien devices, etc, repercussions of which could include delusions of godhood, dangerous physical or mental overload, and so on)
• Spooning
• Sports themes and fetishization (sports rivalries; uniforms and jock-straps; wrestling and sweaty exertion in general; locker-room or shower scenes; team gang-bangs; swimmer/surfer body types; pool and billiards games)
• Straight or straight-acting partner(s)
• Straight-guy sexual scenarios (comparing dick size; lending a helping hand; circle jerks; watching het porn together, with or without masturbation; practicing dancing, kissing, or romantic conversation in preparation for one character having a date with a woman)
• Striking with implements (whips, belts, riding crops, canes, paddles, etc)
• Striptease
• Submission (obedience; submissive behaviors such as boot kissing, crawling, keeping one's eyes lowered, or kneeling for master; believing in cultural dictates of submissive behavior; abasement in general)
• Surprises
• Swallowing (come)
• Swords and sword-play
• Talking and communication issues (dirty talk or verbal seduction; sweet talking; reciting poetry; talking someone to orgasm; talking during sex; pillow talk; phone sex; speech becoming broken as one is aroused or upset; being inarticulate or articulate; aphasia; talking fast; miscommunication and misunderstandings in general; lack of a shared language; see also Silence; Clams; Voice fetishization)
• Taste as an erotic element
• Tattoos (decorative, symbolic, or slave; barcodes)
• Teasing or tickling
• Techno (technophilic themes; artificial humans; character is copied or downloaded into mechanical host body; other ghost in the machine scenarios; androids and cyborgs as sexual partners; wetwear enhancements; cyberpunk aesthetic; VR or Matrix scenarios; see also Otherness)
• Telepathy (see also Bonds and mental abilities; Special powers and skills)
• Temperamental personalities (driven or obsessed; hot-tempered or testy; moody; misanthropic or bitter; abrasive)
• Tentacle sex
• Threesomes (M/F/M, M/M/M, etc)
• Top/bottom pairings (also seme/uke)
• Topping
• Topping from the bottom
• Touching (stroking and caressing; cuddling or nuzzling; huddling for warmth; hugging; holding hands in public; touching as UST; brief brushes of contact either deliberate or accidental; PDAs; thighs brushing under a table; comic physical entanglements; someone gripping a wounded character's hand)
• Toughness (machismo or hyper-masculinity; physical stamina; a hard surface covering an inner softie; resolve; survival skills; teeth-gritting acts such as pulling an arrow out of one's own thigh, etc; see also Rough behavior; Bad boys, etc)
• Toys and devices (sex toys of all kinds; feathers, ice cubes, hot wax, etc)
• Tragic flaws
• Trapped or stranded together (on another world; on a desert island; in a cave-in; in a cabin during a snowstorm; in an elevator)
• Triangles (love triangles)
• Triangulation of desire (two men express their desire for each other through a female intermediary; sexual rivalry for a woman is actually homoerotic interest)
• Trust and vows (promises are kept or broken; loyalty or betrayal; absolute trust or doubt; fidelity or infidelity; blindfolds or bondage as trust symbols; commitment or fear of commitment; acts of devotion; marriage vows; unconditional love; blood brothers and oaths; showing trust/faith in someone's abilities)
• Underage partner or chan (adolescent)
• Underdogs
• Undressing (undressing in front of someone for the first time; one character undressing another; fumbling clumsily to get undressed; stripteases)
• Urgency for sex (begging to suck cock; desperate to fuck; greedy bottom)
• UST (unresolved sexual tension)
• Vaginal/female genital fetishization (wet, tight; virginal; aching/stiff clit; wide lips; multi-orgasmic)
• Vaginal penetration (e.g., deep dicking)
• Vaginal penetration with foreign objects
• Vampires
• Violence (see Conflict; Death)
• Violent feelings (hatred; murderous rage; need for revenge)
• Violent and dark natures (sadists; assassins and murderers; sociopaths who make twisted, scary displays of affection, conflating love and violence; criminals and villains in general; characters who are ruthless, merciless, casually vengeful; soulless demons or vampires; monsters in general)
• Virgins or inexperienced partners
• Voice fetishization (cracking or broken; husky, low, throaty; purring; accents; whispering close to someone's ear)
• Voyeurism and vision themes (character A secretly watches B and C have sex; character A is forced to watch B and C have sex; character A watches character B perform/masturbate; viewing one's beloved in general; taking pictures or video; eye contact, especially as flirting; establishing authority with a look; closing eyes as a trust gesture; character A feeling that character B truly sees him, when no one else does; the quality of light, e.g., characters lit by moonlight or candlelight, or gilded by the setting sun; being in the dark; temporary or permanent blindness; gazes as objectification)
• Vulnerability
• Warriors (see Heroes; Amazons and strong women; Toughness; Primitivism; Rogues; Military fetishization)
• Washing (washing one's partner, body or hair; bubble baths; shower scenes; slave service in bath; cleaning/cleansing someone who's been raped, degraded, or who is injured)
• Weapon fetishization (gun fu; trademark weaponry: Lara Croft's dual pistols, Duncan's katana; exotic weapons: war fans, whips; embedded: Wolverine's claws; magical/symbolic: Sting, Excalibur, Narsil; sentient or empathic; hiding a multitude of weapons on one's body; concealment in general: derringer in garter, boot knife; see other individual listings; Military fetishization)
• Well-fucked (being fucked out; fuck-dazed; sated and sleepy; wrecked; softened and debauched)
• Western scenarios and fetishization (cowboy gear; campfire and trail scenes; horses; gunslingers, lawmen, card sharps, etc; train robberies and bank hold-ups; posses; saloon brawls)
• Wet dreams or erotic dreams
• Wish-fulfillment
• Wings (wingfic)
• Witnesses (families, friends, or others watch the development of a relationship; play matchmaker or serve as confidants; think the characters are involved when they're really not; constitute the public eye; disapprove, gossip, give advice; are the audience for a coming out drama; are witnesses to such things as flirting, public arousal, public sex)
• Woke up gay
• Worry (one character worrying anxiously about another; going crazy with worry)
• Writing (love letters or notes; secret admirers; e-mail and chat; wills; poetry; storytelling; tracing words or figures on skin, or writing, as with an inkbrush)
