Porn Slang Terms, Explained
40 Slang Terms You’re Likely to Find on XXX Websites, Explained
40 Slang Terms You’re Likely to Find on XXX Websites, Explained
Like sex and dating, porn has its own language.
Of course, the reality of the internet means most porn caters to English-speaking viewers, but even English-language porn titles, descriptions and dialogue often make use of terms that may be unclear to the uninitiated.
For instance, a seasoned porn viewer may read a porn title like “Free-Use Amateur Busty BBW Milf Makes Ahegao Face While Receiving Money Shot From BBC (POV)” and understand every word of it; while someone who doesn’t have much porn (or English-speaking) experience may find it downright incomprehensible.
In order to help you understand the porn slang terms you encounter when surfing for adult content, here’s a handy list of common words, initialisms and phrases you might encounter on the tube sites:
Ahegao
Porn / Move
An ahegao face is a facial expression where a female performer goes cross-eyed while leaving her mouth hanging open to signify that she’s experiencing extreme physical pleasure. Though this originated in Japanese hentai and manga porn, it’s since become adopted in Western, live-action porn as well.
Amateur
Porn / Genre
Amateur porn refers to explicit video clips filmed by people who aren’t paid, professional porn actors. However, the distinction between amateur and professional porn has blurred in the 21st century as popular porn ‘tube’ sites allow ‘amateurs’ to monetize their video clips, thus essentially making them paid performers. Still, amateur porn often features low- or no-budget settings and lighting and minimal video editing, as opposed to professionally shot and edited porn put out by studios.
ASMR
aka whisper porn
Porn / Genre
ASMR stands for auto-synchronous meridian response. It’s a phenomenon where certain audio triggers, such as whispering and soft noises captured very close to a microphone, can cause subtle pleasurable sensations for some people. Much ASMR content online is not pornographic, but some adult performers incorporate ASMR techniques into their JOI videos, for example.
ATM
aka A2M
Porn / Move
ATM is short for “ass to mouth,” a porn move where a performer goes directly from engaging in unprotected anal sex to oral sex, without the penis being cleaned off in the interim.
B/G & G/G
Porn / Genre
B/G & G/G are short for boy/girl and girl/girl, common descriptors in ‘straight’ porn for scenes that show a male and female performer versus scenes that show two women together.
BBC
Porn / Performer
Not to be confused with the British Broadcasting Corporation, in a porn context, BBC is short for “big, black cock,” a term that plays on the stereotype that Black men have larger penises. BWC is sometimes used to describe a “big white cock,” however this term is less common.
BBW
Porn / Performer
Despite sharing two letters with BBC, BBW only uses one of them — ”big.” BBW is short for “big, beautiful woman,” used to describe amateur or professional female porn performers who are curvier than the typically thin mainstream adult actresses.
Bukkake
Porn / Move
Another porn concept that comes from Japan, bukkake refers to porn scenes where multiple men ejaculate onto a woman (typically aiming for her face) at the same time. It’s a more complex and extreme version of the traditional facial scene.
Busty
Porn / Performer
“Busty” means big-breasted or buxom — referring to a female performer with noticeably large breasts.
CBT
Porn / Move
CBT is short for cock-and-ball torture, a BDSM practice where a Dom uses various methods to torture a sub’s penis and testicles.
CEI
Porn / Genre
CEI stands for “cum-eating instructions.” It’s a sub-genre of JOI porn where the performer instructs the viewer to eat his own cum after climaxing, playing into Dom/sub tropes.
CFNM
Porn / Genre
CFNM stands for “clothed female, naked (or nude) male”; such scenes often play on tropes of male humiliation.
Creampie
Porn / Move
Whereas 20th-century porn focused on showing the ejaculation occurring, much of contemporary porn is more interested in the creampie — when the ejaculation happens inside the vagina and is shown to leak out. This is easier to fake, but apparently more erotic. Some videos use variations of ‘creampie’ such as ‘throatpie’ or ‘asspie’ for ejaculating in other orifices.
DP
Porn / Move
DP stands for “double penetration.” This is often two male performers penetrating a woman with both anal and vaginal sex at the same time, but occasionally could mean two penises entering one orifice at the same time.
Facial
Porn / Move
A facial is a classic porn move where the male performer ejaculates on his scene partner’s face, typically as the climax of a scene.
FFM & MMF
Porn / Move
FFM and MMF are abbreviations used to describe threesomes — ’female, female, male,’ or ‘male, male, female.’
Footjob
Porn / Move
A footjob is a sex act where a porn performer’s penis is stimulated, typically with an up-and-down motion akin to a handjob, by a scene partner’s feet. Sometimes these are limited to foot-fetish videos, and sometimes they’re included in otherwise ‘mainstream’ content.
Free Use
Porn / Genre
“Free use” is a relatively recent porn trend where some performers play characters who are ‘free’ to be used as sex objects, consenting to all manner of touching and stimulation at all times. These scenes often show characters being penetrated while engaging in normal household tasks or activities.
Futa
aka Futanari
Porn / Genre
Futa porn is often animated (2D or 3D) but sometimes recreated visually using practical effects in live action porn — it refers to futanari, a Japanese term for a woman with a penis. In futa porn, the women aren’t seen as ‘trans’ but rather cis women with (typically unrealistically large) penises.
Gangbang
Porn / Genre
A gangbang is a group sex scenario where multiple male performers penetrate or have sex with one person at the same time.
Golden Shower
Porn / Move
A golden shower refers to a porn performer being urinated on.
Gonzo
Porn / Genre
Gonzo porn is an older slang term for amateur porn, typically using a handheld camera (from before smartphones existed) as opposed to traditional porn shooting set-ups. Given its association with low-budget productions, it has also come to suggest ‘raw’ and unscripted action, rather than the more ‘polished’ vibe of studio productions.
Hentai
Porn / Genre
Hentai is the term for Japanese animated porn. Like JAV, it often explores tropes found less often in Western porn, such as monster sex or tentacle sex.
Hotwife, Cuck(old) & Bull
Porn / Performer
These terms come from the hotwife and cuckoldry subculture, and describe the three participants in a basic cucking scene — the cuck (weak, sexually ineffectual man), the hotwife (his sexually demanding wife) and the bull (another man, typically strong and virile, who joins them and fucks the woman in front of her husband).
Interracial
Porn / Genre
Though interracial could describe porn featuring two or more performers not of the same race, it’s most commonly used as a descriptor for porn that features Black male performers having sex with white female ones, as this is seen as a particularly taboo and thus erotic pairing.
JAV
Porn / Genre
Acronym for “Japanese adult video.” Not to be confused with hentai, which is animated, JAV porn is live-action. Because of censorship rules in Japan around porn production, JAV content typically features so-called “mosaic” blurring for both penises and vaginas. JAV porn also often engages in themes and scenes that are not traditional in Western porn, such as sex scenes staged on crowded trains.
JOI
Porn / Genre
Acronym for “jerk-off instructions.” JOI is a relatively recent genre in porn where (typically amateur) female performers address the (presumed male) viewer and encourage him in his masturbation, eventually building to a climax. Sometimes JOI videos are filmed using ASMR techniques, or include CEI or other Dominant/submissive tropes or types of role-play.
MILF
Porn / Performer
Acronym for “mother I’d like (to) fuck,” MILF is a way to describe conventionally attractive older women — however the term is sometimes applied to women who are still in their late 20s acting in mother-figure roles.
Money Shot
aka cum shot
Porn / Move
The money shot is the climactic ejaculation shot that shows the male performer’s orgasm and his semen landing on his co-star(s). So named because 20th-century pornographers sensed that showing the orgasm was necessary in order for the film to make money.
PAWG
Porn / Performer
Acronym for “phat-ass white girl,” PAWG denotes a white female porn performer with a big butt. Similar to BBC, this term grows from the perception that Black women have larger-than-average butts; in this case, it’s to showcase when a white woman’s curvy rear end is worthy of praise.
POV
Porn / Genre
Acronym for “point of view,” POV denotes porn that’s shot from one performer’s point of view, typically the male performer. This porn allows the viewer to easily imagine that they are in the role of the male porn star as any co-stars will make eye-contact directly with the camera, rather than with the actor himself. POV porn is often the default for VR (virtual reality) porn.
Railed
Porn / Move
Getting railed, or railing someone, is engaging in intense penetrative sex, whether anal or vaginal.
Reverse Gangbang
Porn / Genre
A scene where a male performer has sex with three or more women at once, in a gender ‘reversal’ of the straight gangbang situation where three or more men have sex with one woman.
Rimming
Porn / Move
Rimming is short for rimjob — a slang term for anilingus, or stimulating the anus with one’s tongue, aka eating ass.
Spinner
Porn / Performer
A spinner is a young, skinny female porn star, so named because of their apparent ability to easily spin around on her co-star’s dick. Spinner porn often tries to accentuate how small/lightweight she is compared to her male co-star, by having him easily pick her up, or having her fit inside a suitcase or other small space.
Spitroast
Porn / Move
Spitroasting is a form of threesome where a porn performer is engaged in oral sex and penetrative sex at the same time. Sometimes also called an Eiffel Tower, the receiving person is placed between the two penetrating partners; with a penis entering them at each ‘end’ they may somewhat resemble an animal being cooked or roasted on a spit over a fire.
Stuck
Porn / Genre
Stuck porn is a relatively recent porn trend that features performers seemingly getting stuck in spaces around the house, such as under a bed or table, or in a washing machine. A male performer then, when asked to help free them, has penetrative sex with them first while they are unable to move.
Tittyfuck
Porn / Move
A sex act where one performer’s penis is stimulated by another performer’s breasts. Typically a buxom female porn star will envelop her male co-star’s dick between her breasts and rub them up and down to create a handjob-like effect — without directly using her hands.
Tgirl
Porn / Performer
A porn performer who’s a trans woman. Other terms like shemale and tr*nny are sometimes used, but are considered disrespectful.
Watersports
Porn / Genre
While a golden shower describes a specific act, “watersports” is used to describe the concept of piss play generally.
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