List of Japanese sex terms

This is a list of Japanese [...] terms.

A

• Ashikoki (足扱き) (footjob): using the feet to manipulate a [...] partner's penis. The feet are often clad in pantyhose, cotton socks or even high heels. The pleasure is said to be as much psychological as physical.

B

• Bukkake (打っ掛け, ブッカケ): usually in group [...], ejaculating onto the body or face of a [...] partner. The United States Department of Justice has defined Bukkake in a criminal complaint as: a genre of adult movies that includes depictions of many adult males ejaculating on a single female.

C

• Chikan (痴漢): molester; Chikankoui (痴漢行為): public groping
• Cosplay, Kosupure (コスプレ): Costume Play

E

• Ecchi (エッチ): a wasei-eigo of the English letter H used as abbreviation for "hentai" (perversion), to mean "naughty" or "dirty", as in "H anime", (pornographic anime) "H game" (pornographic computer games) or "H suru" (meaning "to have [...]"). Through the popularity of anime, this meaning has become known to fans in the West. H is normally pronounced as "eichi" in Japanese, but when used with these [...] connotations, it is often pronounced as "etchi". It is sometimes used by English speakers to refer to anime or manga containing sexually suggestive content (such as skimpy clothing, partial or full nudity).

• Enjo kosai (援助交際): compensated dating (lit: assisted company), usually a euphemism for teen prostitution.

F

• Futanari (二形、ふたなり): Hermaphrodites (lit: "double form")
• Fuzoku (風俗): A word which originally just meant "culture", it now also refers to "[...] culture" and specifically to soaplands, image clubs, pink salons and so on.

G

• Gokkun (ゴックン): A Japanese onomatope for swallowing. Gokkun movies usually feature a girl who after performing oral [...] to one or several men plays with the spent sperm before swallowing it; these girls are called Gokkun Girls.

• : Japanese models who often pose in bikinis and other provocative clothing for photo spreads in magazines aimed largely at men.

H

• Hadaka (裸) is the Japanese word for [...]. It commonly refers to various fetishes in anime, manga, and Japanese culture for models who are [...] except for a single item, such as an apron, a pair of socks, or ribbons.

• Hentai (変態): literally, "depraved" or "abnormal"; typically used (outside of Japan) to refer to [...] in anime or manga.

I

• Image club (イメージクラブ, imējikurabu or イメクラ, imekura): a type of brothel in which females dress in various types of clothing (race queen dresses, schoolgirl uniforms, etc.) and perform [...] favors according to several different fixed courses or "menus"—see Cosplay.

K

• Karada (体 "body"): A bondage technique involving the tying of an intricate structure of rope around the body in a complex web-like fashion, used in Shibari.

L

• Lolicon, Rorikon (ロリコン, a contraction of "Lolita complex"): a [...] for underage girls.

N

• No-pan kissa (ノーパン喫茶, literally "no-panties cafe") cafes where the waitresses wear short skirts with no underwear.
• Nyotaimori (Japanese: 女体盛り, "female body presentation"), often referred to as "body sushi", is the practice of eating sashimi or sushi from the body of a woman, typically [...].

O

• Omorashi (オモラシ、お漏らし): a [...] subculture in which participants experience arousal from having a full bladder or a [...] attraction to someone else experiencing the discomfort of a full bladder.

P

• panchira(パンチラ): upskirts or panty viewing. According to sociologist Soichi Inoue, the interest dates back to the 1920s when Japanese women first adopted western-style undergarments, but "panchira culture" became more overt in the 1960s.

• , or : A type of brothel specializing in oral [...]. It has been reported that pink salons are among the most demanding places to work in the Japanese [...] industry, with workers serving up to 50 customers per day, but the pink salons also function as gateways to more lucrative work in soaplands.

S

• Seme (攻め): top.
• Shibari (しばり): bondage.
• Shinju (真珠): breast bondage.
• Shotacon (ショタコン) (from "Shotaru complex"): [...] for underage boys.
• Shudo (衆道 shudō or shūdō): the Japanese tradition of age-structured homosexuality prevalent in samurai society from the medieval period until the end of the 19th century.

• : a type of ukiyo-e, usually executed in woodblock print format or, more rarely, as painted scrolls, which depict [...] situations.

• Soapland (ソープランド): a type of brothel where men can be bathed by and can bathe with female prostitutes.
• Sumata (素股, literally: "real crotch"): a non-penetrative male-female "dry" [...] act popular in Japanese brothels.

T

• Tamakeri (玉蹴り, lit. ball kicking): A [...] that involves men being kicked in the testicles.

• Tekoki（手コキ）(handjob): The same as ashikoki, but with hands instead of feet.

• Telekura（テレクラ, a contraction of "telephone club"): telephone-based dating services that often serve as fronts for prostitution. Advertised through flyers (ピンクちらし pinku chirashi　) and stickers (ピンクビラ pinku bira ("pink leaflets")) throughout Tokyo, the clubs are used to arrange meetings, generally between young women and older men.

• Tentacle [...]: a concept found in some horror hentai titles, where various tentacled creatures (usually fictional monsters) [...] or otherwise penetrate women (or, less commonly, men). Much of the genre also consists of humiliation and bondage fetishes, since the victim typically is restrained by the appendages.

U

• Uke (受け): bottom; receiver; abbreviation of ukemi.
• Urabon (裏本): an illegal book containing uncensored [...] photos.
• Ushiro Takatekote (後ろ高手小手): the basic or foundational kinbaku form of binding the arms and breasts, in which the arms are bound behind (ushiro) the back in a box arm position.

W

• Wakamezake (わかめ酒), also called wakame sake and seaweed sake: A [...] act involving drinking alcohol from a woman's body.

Y

• Yaoi (やおい, from ヤマなし、オチなし、意味なし: "yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi"—"no climax, no punch line, no meaning"): A sub-set of ero (erotica)/hentai, sexually explicit comics (and doujinshi) about the love between males.
• Yuri (百合, lit: lily): female/female homosexual comic or anime.

Z

• Zenra (全裸) literally translated as "completely [...]", a genre of [...] in which the subjects are usually groups of women participating in everyday tasks that they might otherwise perform clothed.

Further reading

• Bornoff, Nicholas. Pink Samurai: Love, Marriage, and [...] in Contemporary Japan. New York: Pocket Books, 1991. ISBN 0671742655.

• Constantine, Peter. Japan's [...] Trade: A Journey Through Japan's [...] Subcultures. Tokyo: Yenbooks, 1993. ISBN 4900737003.

• De Mente, Boye Lafayette. [...] and the Japanese: The Sensual Side of Japan. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 2006. ISBN 0804838267.

External links

• Dictionary of Japan [...]
• Hentai dictionary: Japanese perversions, fetishes and AV slang
• Glossary of Terms at J-List (commercial site)
• Ohayo Sanspo - Sankei Sports Newspaper: [...] information from Japan: a site on fuzoku, including glossaries of fuzoku genres, fuzoku technical terms, and Japanese [...] terms.