Conventional Sex: Mainstream Practices, Pleasure, and Consent
Conventional sex means sexual activity considered familiar or mainstream within a culture or relationship, though its exact meaning varies.
Dominant Partner: BDSM Authority, Boundaries, and Consent
Dominant partner describes someone who takes an agreed leadership or authority role in BDSM or greater influence within a relationship.
Dominant: BDSM Authority, Power Exchange, and Consent
Dominant describes a person who consensually takes an authority or leadership role in BDSM, power exchange, or an agreed intimate relationship.
Vanilla Sex: Conventional Intimacy, Pleasure, and Consent
Vanilla sex is an informal term for sexual activity considered conventional, familiar, or non-kinky within a culture or relationship.
Sexual Fantasy: Erotic Imagination, Desire, Meaning, and Consent
Sexual fantasy is an imagined erotic thought, scene, role, person, sensation, or activity that may involve curiosity, desire, pleasure, or arousal.
Healthy Erotic Desire: Pleasure, Respect, Boundaries, and Consent
Healthy erotic desire is sexual or sensual wanting experienced and expressed with self-awareness, safety, mutual respect, boundaries, and consent.
Sexual Aversion: Fear, Disgust, Avoidance, and Intimacy
Sexual aversion is a strong feeling of fear, discomfort, disgust, anxiety, or avoidance related to sexual thoughts, touch, situations, or activity.
Feel: Emotion, Sensation, Attraction, and Sexual Awareness
Feel means to experience an emotion, bodily sensation, attraction, desire, impression, or awareness, or to touch something in order to sense it.
Trust: Honesty, Reliability, Intimacy, and Consent
Trust is confidence in another person’s honesty, reliability, and respect and may support emotional safety, intimacy, communication, and cooperation.
Partnership: Cooperation, Commitment, Equality, and Consent
Partnership is a relationship based on cooperation, shared responsibility, mutual support, or commitment and may be personal, romantic, sexual, legal, or professional.