There’s a lot of porn on the worldwide interwebs. But not all porn is the same. What do all these genres, that are used to categorize porn, mean? Below we explain it in an illustrated overview.
Alt porn | This is a genre in which the porn stars have tattoos and piercings, but also could be goths or skinheads. | ![]() |
Amateur | The viewer is getting tired of the polished images of faking ladies with fake boobs. That’s why movies of real people are getting popular. Usually private home made movies, created in a bedroom. More and more recordings from ‘the industry’, that are made as if they are amateur images. | ![]() |
Anal | All forms of sex with the anus in the leading role. | ![]() |
Art porn | A form of artistic porn and erotic art. | ![]() |
ATM (Ass to Mouth) | When oral sex comes after anal sex. | ![]() |
Avant-porn | Porn with the aesthetics of avant garde films | ![]() |
BBW | Sex with women that are a size plus (Big Beautiful Women) | ![]() |
BDSM | BDSM is short for Bondage, Domination and Sado Masochism. It is an umbrella term for all kinds of movies that may include bondage, domination, submissiveness, sadism, masochism, pain, power exchange, and other kinks. | ![]() |
Beach | Films that were shot on the beach. | ![]() |
Bear | Hairy men play the leading role in these movies, as a sub genre of gay porn. | ![]() |
Bestialitity | Sex with animals. Usually women with dogs, horses, donkeys, but sometimes even snakes or squids. Illegal in most countries. | ![]() |
Big breasts | This seems pretty straightforward. Aren’t all porn movies filled with these? Maybe. But if a porn movie is tagged as ‘big breast’ expect these boobs to be big, bigger, biggest… | ![]() |
Big Butt | Movies with women that are the proud owners of a big behind. | ![]() |
Bisexual | Oddly enough these movies often depict trios with two bisexual men and a woman. Movies with two bisexual women and a man are so mainstream that they are just called threesomes or groupsex. | ![]() |
Blowjobs | Oral sex performed at a man. | ![]() |
Bukkake | A genre comming from Japan, in which a large group of men ejaculate over the face of a woman, often until her face is covered in a thick layer of sperm. There are also films with reversed bukkake: women squirt over the face of a men. | ![]() |
Cameltoe | Usually photos of women wearing tight trousers, so you can actually see their vulva. It looks like a camel toe, hence the name. | ![]() |
Cartoons | Cartoon movies or comic books with pornographic characteristics. | ![]() |
Celebrities | Most likely you will find movies of lookalikes of well known people that are making a porn. Also Photoshopped pictures of a porn scene with the heads of famous people editted in. In some rare cases you will actually find sex tapes of famous people. Well known are the sex tapes of Pamela Anderson. | ![]() |
CFNM | Clothed Female, Naked Male, or, ladies with their clothes on that satisfy and humiliate a man (against his will). Also movies of women at a bachelors party that have fun with a male prostitute (gigolo). | ![]() |
Cheerleader | Porn with girls dressed as teen cheerleader. | ![]() |
Child porn | Illegal, as it should be. Objectionable, because minors are forced to have sex. | ![]() |
Cream Pie and felching | Cream pie is when a man cums inside of the vagina or anus and the woman shows how the sperm leaks out. Felching is when someone licks or drinks the sperm from someone else’s vagina or anus. Also in gay variants. | ![]() |
Cuckold | Cuckoldry is a sub genre of BDSM. A cuckold is a man who is humiliated by watching how his wife has sex with someone else. | ![]() |
Cum swapping | Cum swapping is when two people play with sperm. Usually women that exchange sperm after oral sex by kissing, but also in gay movies. | ![]() |
Cumshots | Scenes of the money shot (a man shooting his sperm, often over the body of a woman). | ![]() |
DP | Double Penetration. Films in which a woman is penetrated both vaginal and anal at the same time. | ![]() |
Electro (wired) | Sex with electro shocks (sub genre of BDSM). | ![]() |
Emetophilia | Porn where the porn star is vomiting and the viewer gets turned on by it. | ![]() |
Enema | An enema is a device to insert fluids in the anus. In these movies, you witness the inserting, but also the squirting of said fluids. | ![]() |
Exhibitionist or flashing | Movies of men or women showing their nude bodies in public. | ![]() |
Femdom | Female domination, sub genre of BDSM; Women dominating over men. | ![]() |
Fetish | Fetish is an umbrella term for getting sexually aroused of a material or object. Well known are shoe fetish, rubber or leather fetish, foot fetish, but also smoking fetish. | ![]() |
Fisting | Fistfukking. Entering an entire hand in a vagina or anus. | ![]() |
Furry | This is a sub genre of hentai: animation of characters that are half human and half animal. Sometimes also people wearing animal-like suits. | ![]() |
Futanari | Japanese for women with a penis. | ![]() |
Gangbang | Group sex, where 1 person (often a woman) is being fucked by a group of men in turns. There are several record attempts where a woman is challenged to take as many men as possible. Sometimes you will find a reversed gangbang with one man and many women. | ![]() |
Gape shots | Sex movies in which shots of gaping openings (usually the anus) are shown. | ![]() |
Gay | Porn with homosexual men. | ![]() |
Gloryhole | Imagine a room with holes in the wall. Outside of the room, men are sticking their penises through these holes. They don’t know what is in the room. In the room is 1 or more persons that satisfy the men. The movies have been shot from within the room. | ![]() |
Golden Shower | A golden shower is the kind of shower you get when someone pees over someone else. Pee sex. | ![]() |
Gonzo | These films are made with the camera man as the first person (see also POV). | ![]() |
Grannies | Sex with older women. | ![]() |
Group sex | Sex with more than two persons is considered group sex or an orgy. This could be a threesome, but often it is a bigger group. Don’t mix this up with a gang bang. | ![]() |
Guru or Gore | Japanese sub genre with a lot of blood and violence, that gets pretty grosse. This is the horror of porn. | ![]() |
Hair (colour or lengt) fetish | Blonds, brunettes, redheads, black haired. It’s mostly about the hair colour or the length (growing up to her ass) or hairdo (sometimes also bald) . | ![]() |
Hairy | In contrary to the previous genre, it is not the hair on the head that is playing the majojr part, but other body hair. | ![]() |
Hand jobs | Satisfying a man manually (not to be confused with masturbation). | ![]() |
Hentai | This is a Japanese cartoon genre (also anime). Not all anime is porn, but Hentai is usually pornographic with lots of violence and extreme sex. | ![]() |
Hermaphrodite | A hermaphrodite is a person of both sexes. In other words, having genitals of both a man as a woman. Rare and therefore big fun, but also usually very fake. | ![]() |
Hidden cams | Cameras can be hidden on all sorts of places where women undress: dressing rooms, toilets, bedrooms, offices. | ![]() |
High Heel | Who isn’t into women on high heeled shoes? In this case the heels are of extreem heights and fetish-like. | ![]() |
Incest | Almost every taboo is good for porn. Hence incest. In this genre it is usually the fathers and brothers that do the willing mothers and sisters. Or each other. Of course the actors aren’t really related. | ![]() |
Interactive | Interactive porn uses computer animated graphics. The user (you) can make the characters do whatever it is you want them to do. Like Sims, but for adults. Unfortunately not available for the major game consoles. | ![]() |
Interracial | In interracial porn there is usually one white woman who has sex with one or more black men. Of course, all prejudice about black men seem true in these movies. | ![]() |
Jail/Prison | Inmates doing it with each other, but also with men and women in police uniforms. | ![]() |
Japanese Bondage | An artful form of BDSM, with suspense and knots that require a lot of practice. Also called shibari. | ![]() |
Jerk off encouragement, or jerk off instruction | Movies in which women instruct the mostly male viewer how to masturbate. Usually they make encouraging moves and sounds. | ![]() |
Lesbian | No men allowed in these films. Just ladies, doing it with each other. Oddly enough, very popular among men. | ![]() |
Lolita (lollipop) | Because childporn is illegal, girls over 18 dress up like little naughty girls. Think pony tails, roller skates and a lollipop. | ![]() |
Men | See Gay | |
Massages | Everyone that ever has been to Thailand knows there are 2 forms of massages: those with, and those without a happy ending. Oil will be applied. | ![]() |
Masturbation | Solo sex. A man or a woman doing it with themselves. That, filmed. | ![]() |
Matures | For once, not young girls, but mature women. | ![]() |
Medical (doctor) | Ever played doctor when you were a child? “Oh, please nurse, I feel such an itch between my toes. Between my big toes!”. Doctors and nurses taking very good care of their patients. Bring in the medical instruments. | ![]() |
MILFs | Mothers I Like To Fuck. The more mature soccer moms and their neighbors stimulate the fantasy. | ![]() |
Milking | There are two variants. In the first women lactate (milk will come from their nipples). In the second a man is being ‘milked’, in which case it is some form of a hand job. | ![]() |
Old and young | In most porn movies the porn stars are young and beautiful. Here we see older men or women doing it with much younger (but adult) sex partners. | ![]() |
Oral | Oral sex, or satisfying the partner with the mouth and tongue. This could either be fellatio or cunnilingus. Or both at the same time. | ![]() |
Panties, Bras | In most genres, the women are usually nude. Not in this one. Expect women in beautiful lingerie. | ![]() |
Parody | In these porn movies the story line is derived from a popular movie. Usually the film titel is also recognizable (e.g. ‘Saving Ryan’s Privates’). | ![]() |
Pegging (strap-on) | Pegging is a form of anal sex, where a woman fucks a man with her strap-on dildo. | ![]() |
POV | The abreviation POV stands for Point Of View. Similar to Gonzo (see above). You see sex like you would have if you would cary the camera. Very popular on tablets. | ![]() |
Preggo | Sex with pregnant women. | ![]() |
Public nudity | A large genre of movies, varying from exhibitionism, sex in dressing rooms, public transportation, parking lots, public humiliation (BDSM), etc. | ![]() |
Race | Different sub genres exist that distinguish because of the origin of the porn stars. Known genres are Asian, Japanese, Ebony, Black, German, French, Indian, Latin and even Dutch. | ![]() |
Rape | For many women and men, a rape fantasy is very arousing. This genre acts out that fantasy. Real rape is never OK. | ![]() |
Red rhapsody | Also called ‘Erotic Red’. Because good sailors also sail the red sea: sex with women on their period. | ![]() |
Rimjob | Tossing the salad. A rim job is licking the anus. | ![]() |
Rubber | Rubber is a fetish for wearing or touching rubber. | ![]() |
Saliva | Exchanging saliva. Usually with oral sex and spitting. | ![]() |
Scat | Scat porn is all about faeces. People getting excited about watching, touching, smearing and even eating excrement. | ![]() |
Sex toys | Playing with toys. Think vibrators, butt plugs, dildo’s, and other stuff. | ![]() |
Shemale or Tranny | Open during renovation. Men that are halfway the proces of transsexual operations. A shemale is a person with boobs, but still has a penis. | ![]() |
Smoking | Women who smoke can be a great turn on. Ask Bill Clinton, who used to do things with his cigar. | ![]() |
Snuff | A snuff movie is a film where someone is being killed. The existence of real snuff is considered an urban legend. | ![]() |
Solo | Solo sex. See masturbation. | |
Spanking (whipping) | A sub genre of BDSM, where people are getting spanked and experience pain as a result of getting their ass beaten with a hand or a whip. | ![]() |
Squirting | When a women ejaculates when she cums, it is called squirting. | ![]() |
Stockings | Similar to high heel, porn containing stockings or pantyhoses are related to foot fetish. Legs and feet are the main characters in these movies. | ![]() |
Swingers | Swingers are adults that exchange partners. See also group sex. | ![]() |
Teacher/student | A fantasy where a student (male or female) has a relationship with a teacher (man or women). Power exchange and a big taboo. | ![]() |
Teens | Young girls and boys, but over 18. | ![]() |
Tentacle | An extreme variation filled with fantasy and bestiality. A person is being conquered by an alien creature with lots of tentacles that fill all holes. Usually originated from Japan and a beloved theme in Hentai. | ![]() |
Threesome/trio | Sex with three persons. Who hasn’t fantasized about that. And surprisingly enough, there are lots of variations in this theme. | ![]() |
Transgender | A transgender is a cross dresser: Someone who acts and dresses like someone of the opposite sex.
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Transman | A transman is a transsexual that once was a woman, but received surgery to become a man, except for the genitals. Opposite of a shemale. A famous transman is Buck Angel. | ![]() |
Transsexual | A transsexual completed the surgery for a sex change. | ![]() |
Twink | Twinks are young gay men. Sort of the male version of a Lolita, but gay. | ![]() |
Underwater | Underwater sex is for the advanced divers. Great under water views, bizar positions and rubber fetish. | ![]() |
Upskirts | Uppies are photos and films made under the dresses of unsuspecting women. Often celebrities. | ![]() |
Vintage | Ah, the classics. From the times breast were real, hair still grew in private places and the story line was less predictable. | ![]() |
Voyeur | Be a voyeur and secretly watch people having sex. | ![]() |
Watersports | Also see golden shower. | |
Webcams | With web cams came web cam sex. Women (and men) show off in front of their web cam and record it. | ![]() |
Wetlook | Not just wet T-shirt, but soaking wet clothes. | ![]() |
Yaoi | A form of hentai with gay porn. | ![]() |
Yuri | And yet another form of hentai, but now with lesbian porn. | ![]() |
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