List of pornographic sub-genres

The following are common sub-genres of [...]. This list may not be comprehensive, as there are many genres of [...]. Pornographic films may include elements of more than one genre.

The two main distinctions of [...] are between softcore and hardcore [...].

  • Softcore [...] GeneRally depicts [...] or partially clothed women in alluring poses, but does not show [...] activity, including [...] penetration.
  • Hardcore [...] depicts graphic [...] acts. Most of the genres in this list are of hardcore [...].

By physical characteristics of participants

Age

  • Mature [...] features performers who are in their 40s and 50s and in some cases over 60.
  • MILF [...], which stands for Mothers I'd Like to [...], features older women in fantasy scenarios with younger men.
  • Teen [...], also known as barely legal [...] depicts performers from legal age to early 20s and emphasizes themes such as youth, inexperience, innocence, or curiosity. Teen [...] often caters to ephebophiles. There is considerable overlap between teen [...] and Lolita [...] and some overlap with tiny tits [...].

Body features

  • Big Beautiful Women (BBW) [...] features overweight or obese women.
  • Big-breast [...], also called big-boob or big-bust [...] features women with large breasts. Some viewers prefer performers with breast implants, others prefer women who have naturally large breasts.
  • Big butt [...] features women with large buttocks. This genre eroticizes the buttocks and anus, and often overlaps with anal [...].
  • Hairy [...] involves conspicuous amounts of body and/or pubic hair. Because of the increased trend toward total depilation in contemporary [...], the presence of any pubic hair at all on a model, even when groomed, is sometimes considered as making the model "hairy".
  • Leg [...] has an extreme emphasis on women's legs and feet.
  • Tiny tits [...] features women with very small breasts. These women are often portrayed as teenagers. There is some overlap between tiny tits pornograhy, teen [...], and Lolita [...].

Race

Race-oriented [...] does not always feature performers who are actually of the race listed in The Title. Performers are sometimes billed as being of a certain race, if their facial features, body shape, or skin color fit a publicly accepted idea of what people of that race look like. Some performers are billed as being of one race, and then of another, depending on the film.

  • Asian [...] features performers who are (or Appear to be) Asian.
  • Ebony or black [...] features performers who are (or appear to be) black.
  • Interracial [...] usually features [...] between people of different racial backgrounds, but is more associated with pairing black and white actors and actresses.
  • Indian [...] features performers who are (or appear to be) Indian.
  • Latina/Latin [...] features female performers who are (or appear to be) from Latin America or Latin Europe. Most are of Spanish, Portuguese, Native American or Mestiza descent.
  • Middle Eastern [...] centers around the taboo of unveiling women from Islamic countries.

Subculture

  • Alt [...] features performers with tattoos, piercings, unusually coloured hair, or who have a goth or punk rock appearance.

[...]

Bondage/[...]

  • Bondage [...] features performers tied up or constrained in various ways.
  • [...] [...] depicts a wide range of related activities.
  • Rough [...] [...] is similar to [...] featuring sadomasochism, and typically features a Top who humiliates and/or degrades a Bottom while being physically violent towards them. Typically featured are hitting, choking, name-calling and hair-pulling.
  • [...] [...] features performers simulating [...]. [...] itself is a crime in most countries.
  • Spanking [...] involves spanking, generally of the buttocks, with the hand or with other objects.
  • Wired [...] involves the use of electrical shocks and stimuli.

Bodily functions

  • Menstrual or "red rhapsody" [...] features [...] activities involving women who are menstruating, with a focus on the menstrual blood.
  • Scat or "brown" [...] features defecation, manipulation of feces, or consumption of feces, in reality or fantasy.
  • Watersports [...] features [...] activities involving urine, such as "golden showers".
  • Emetophilia [...] involving vomiting and gagging.

Other [...]

  • Bukkake [...] involves a performer, usually female, onto whom many men ejaculate.
  • Clothed female, [...] male [...] features [...] men and clothed women; typically, the women humiliate and abuse the men or perform fellatio and/or handjobs on the men. (This is often abbreviated to CFNM.) The reverse of this, in which [...] women interact with clothed men, is called CMNF (Clothed male, [...] female).
  • Creampie [...] features ejaculation inside the vagina or anus, instead of external ejaculation.
  • Crush [...] features objects being crushed by an actress or actor, who generally plays an overtly dominant role. See also Hard crush.
  • Cum swapping [...] involves performers trading semen between their mouths.
  • Foot [...] [...] features heavy emphasis on the feet of the participants, either in combination with kissing and genital [...] or in the context of acts such as trampling or crush fetishism.
  • Diaper [...] involves performers pretending to be infants, often with an adult performer acting in the role of an adult caretaker.
  • Incest [...] features [...] between actors who portray a familial relationship. Incest itself is largely taboo, and is a crime in many countries.
  • Lolita [...] (also known as lollipop) features women who are 18 years old or slightly older, who pretend to be underage teen girls. The [...] centers around this fantasy portrayal. Lolita [...] that features actual teenage girls under the age of 18 is illegal in most countries and treated as child [...]. Lolita [...] caters to ephebophiles.
  • Preggo [...] features pregnant performers and may include lactation as a [...].
  • Rubber [...] involves rubber, latex, and similar materials.
  • Saliva [...] involves salivation and saliva.
  • Squirt [...] involves women ejaculating.
  • Bestiality [...] involves the [...] attraction of humans to animals.
  • Wetlook [...] involves clothed wet persons

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual

Men with men

  • Gay [...] is usually male homosexual [...], sometimes featuring actors that identify as straight (i.e. Gay-for-pay). Acts depicted typically include oral and anal [...].
  • Bareback [...] features performers who are not wearing condoms.
  • Bear [...] features large hairy men.
  • Twink [...] features young-looking performers.

Women with women

  • Lesbian or girl-girl [...] features women engaged in [...] together, but is typically aimed at a male audience. Women who perform in lesbian [...] are often not lesbian or bisexual. See also Gay-for-pay.
  • Lesbian [...] made for women is usually made by women, and usually features women who identify as lesbian or bisexual. Lesbian [...] typically features a wider range of appearances and body types than is typical of mainstream [...]. Particularly, some [...] in this genre features butch women, who are almost never seen in mainstream [...].

Men and women

  • Bisexual [...] features one woman and two men who all perform [...] acts on each other. The [...] is geared towards men; hence the word "bisexual" describes the men rather than the woman.
  • Threesome [...] features one man and two women who all perform [...] acts on each other. It is geared towards heterosexual men, who would most typically define a threesome as such.

Transsexual people

  • FTM [...] features performers who were born female and who medically transitioned to male. Buck Angel is the best-known example of this genre.
  • Transsexual [...] features performers who were born male and who medically transitioned to female. They are most often featured with male co-stars, but sometimes are featured with other transsexuals or cisgendered women. Common phrases used to refer to these performers are "chicks with dicks" or "she-male", although these are generally considered pejorative among transwomen and in the queer community.

Reality

Reality [...] refers to real or faked 'amateur' encounters. This category also includes pornographic home movies. Related genres include:

  • Amateur [...] was originally produced by amateurs. There is now also professionally made [...] designed to appear as if it were amateur.
  • Celebrity [...] tapes are amateur or professionally-made recordings of [...] acts, as performed by a celebrity and their partner(s). These typically are leaked to the public via the Internet, without the celebrity's consent. A celebrity may allow such a recording to surface willingly, as part of a publicity stunt.
  • Exhibitionist [...] features performers, usually female, displaying their breasts or genitals in public. It also includes depictions of [...] in public. The Girls Gone Wild series is one example.
  • Gonzo [...] involves a first-person cameraman/performer perspective.
  • Upskirt and Downblouse [...] features staged filming up women's skirts or down their blouses while in public. Actual upskirt or downblouse shots may violate privacy laws.
  • Voyeur [...] involves staged shots that appear to spy or peep on a woman who is unaware she is being viewed or filmed while dressing or showering. Actual spying may violate privacy or trespassing laws.

Specific [...] acts

Anal

  • Anal [...] features primarily male-male scenes and sometimes male-female anal [...] scenes.
  • [...] to mouth [...] shows the transfer of a performer's penis or object from another performer's anus to their mouth in a single shot.
  • Gape shots in [...] feature scenes of anal [...] with a focus on the recipient's anus "gaping".
  • Pegging [...] features a woman penetrating a man with a strap-on dildo.
  • Rimjob [...] centers around analingus.

Other [...] acts

  • Cum-shot [...] features a collection of ejaculation scenes.
  • Double penetration [...] depicts simultaneous anal and vaginal penetration of one woman.
  • Fisting [...] features the insertion of an entire hand into a performer's vagina or anus.
  • Gang bang [...] usually depicts numerous men having [...] with one woman, or one man. A scene where many women have [...] with one submissive man is referred to as a "reverse gang-bang".
  • Oral [...] [...] usually features a person performing fellatio, it occasionally features cunnilingus.
  • Solo [...] features performers masturbating.

Other categories

Computer-generated, interactive, and animated

  • Hentai is a catch-all term for various forms of Japanese [...], including H-manga, H-anime and H-computer games. The term hentai is never used in this context in Japanese. The meaning of hentai is "perversion", "abnormality", or "metamorphosis". Yaoi is pornographic anime or manga that features gay males. Yuri is the lesbian equivalent.
  • Interactive [...], available in CD-ROM and DVD format, allows the viewer to select the particular acts performed at any one time, sometimes with the camera Providing a first person view.
  • Poser [...] or Renderotica is [...] made using 3D computer graphics, usually with the 3D art program Poser, made to represent people in various [...] acts.

Miscellaneous

General

  • Classics are pornographic films from the 1970s and sometimes 1980s.
  • Compilations are a collection of short pornographic scenes, usually themed to a particular [...] such as anal or cum-shots.
  • Full-feature pornographic films are typically about two hours long, and usually have a plot.
  • Independent [...] is [...] produced by filmmakers unconnected to the major [...] studios in a given country. It is often mislabled "amateur [...]", though the producers and actors are often professional pornographic filmmakers and actors.
  • Japanese adult video or JAV is [...] produced in Japan for domestic consumption, though it has a large international audience as well. JAV has a number of features that place it in a unique genre when compared to [...] produced in other countries. Notably, because of Japanese obscenity laws, most Japanese [...] videos and photographs include a "mosaic" that blocks the view of the performers genitalia. ("Uncensored" JAV is also produced, though illegally.) JAV has a diverse array of subgenres, many of which are the same as the subgenres in general [...], however, there are also [...] and costume genres that are largely unique to the JAV milieu.
  • Vintage erotica is generally pre-1970s [...], especially early twentieth-century black and white photographs and stag films.
  • Extreme [...] is a term introduced by the UK Government, describing a classification of adult [...] that will be illegal to possess under new laws.

Usually illegal

  • Child [...] is [...] involving children, or teenagers and minors usually under the age of consent (although in some countries such as the UK, the definition of child [...] includes subjects over the age of consent). This genre often documents the [...] abuse of children, and both creation and possession of child [...] are illegal almost everywhere. Age limits differ between countries. In many countries simulated photographs ("pseudo-photographs") or lifelike edited images representing child [...] are illegal.
    • Lolicon [...] is hentai featuring drawn or animated images of female children or characters that appear to be children. Shotacon is the equivalent which depicts male children. These two genres are illegal in some areas.
  • Hard crush [...] features the actual [...] of small animals and the act itself is generally illegal under cruelty to animals laws.
  • Snuff [...] involves the death of one of the participants, consenting or otherwise. The existence of such content in commercially available [...] is widely considered an urban legend. In some areas, there are laws stating it is not legally possible to consent to be killed, and elsewhere it may still be legally dubious (see Armin Meiwes).

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