Kink (sexual)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article is about sexuality and sexuality related concepts. For other uses, see Kink (disambiguation). In human sexuality, kinkiness and kinky (adjective) are terms used to refer to a playful usage of sexual concepts in an accentuated, and unambiguously expressive form.[clarification needed][citation needed] In current usage, the term kink has often come to refer to a range of objective and objectifying sexualistic practices ranging in degree from the playful to the paraphilic.[citation needed] These include spanking, bondage, dominance and submission, sadomasochism (BDSM), cuckoldry and sexual fetishism. Kink sexual practices go beyond what are considered conventional sexual practices as a means of heightening the intimacy between sexual partners. Some draw a distinction between kink and fetishism, defining the former as enhancing partner intimacy, and the latter as replacing it.[1] Because of its relation to "normal" sexual boundaries, which themselves vary by time and place, the definition of what is and is not kink varies widely as well. Practitioners are sometimes considered to be perverts by "outsiders".