List of pornographic sub-genres

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

The two main distinctions of pornography are between softcore and hardcore pornography, while hardcore works may include softcore content, but not the other way round.

• Softcore pornography generally depicts naked or partially clothed women and/or men in sexually suggestive situations but excludes explicit sexual activity and sexual penetration.
• Hardcore pornography depicts graphic sexual acts and visible penetration. Most of the genres in this list are of hardcore pornography.

Contents 1 Overview 2 By physical characteristics of participants 2.1 Age 2.2 Hair 2.3 Body features 2.4 Race 2.5 Subculture 3 Fetish 3.1 Bondage/BDSM 3.2 Bodily functions 3.3 Other fetish 4 Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual 4.1 Men with men 4.2 Women with women 4.3 Multiple men and women 4.4 Transsexual people 5 Reality 6 Specific sex acts 6.1 Anal 6.2 Other sex acts 7 Other categories 7.1 Computer-generated, interactive, and animated 7.2 Miscellaneous 8 References

Overview

Traditionally, pornographic movies are created for the pleasure of male viewers rather than females. A typical porn film would consist of a voluptuous female performer, whom the camera would have the majority of focus on. She would be joined by a male partner who would traditionally have no explicitly striking features other than a large penis. However, given the increase in female viewers over time, there has been a recent increase in efforts to sexualize male performers also. New features such as men with smaller penises, charming facial features and well-built bodies are becoming predominant within the porn scene.

By physical characteristics of participants

Age

• Mature pornography features performers aged 40 and over. A related type of pornography known as MILF (Moms I'd Like to Fuck) features women, generally of age 25 or older, in fantasy scenarios with younger men.
• Teen pornography, sometimes referred to Barely Legal, features young actors depicted as being aged 18 or 19. 18 is the youngest age to lawfully perform in sexually explicit films in many countries.
• Erotic Preteen Video is non-pornographic or simulated pornographic, live action, films consisting of models under the age of consent for actual pornography. Like adolescent and pre-teen pornography, it is not considered child pornography in countries where such films are legal to make and/or possess, and all parties involved gave consent.
• Child pornography is commonly considered pornography involving children or teenagers who are under the age of consent for sexual relations (although in some countries such as the United Kingdom and United States the definition of child pornography includes subjects over the age of consent or 18 pretending to be younger). The United States considers any erotic entertainment with people under the age of 18 to be child pornography, even in states where the age of consent is considerably lower. Production, possession, and distribution of child pornography are illegal in many countries. In the countries where child pornography is illegal, simulated photographs ("pseudo-photographs") or lifelike edited images representing child sex are often illegal as well.
• Lolicon pornography is hentai illustrations or animation featuring young female child-like characters. Shotacon is the male equivalent of Lolicon, featuring young male child-like characters.
• Mom & daughter pornography is a relatively new addition to the pornographic sub-genres. The genre would typically consist of an elderly performer and a voluptuous younger performer who would perform lesbian acts.

Hair

Hair fetishism is the sexual arousal of hair, mainly head hair or pubic hair, of various characteristics. This are commons examples in pornography:

• Long hair pornography is porn performed by participants with very long hair, for example waist-length, thigh-length, knee-length or floor-length, often with long bangs (hair). The acting may involve covering face and body with hair, hair tossing (headbanging), stroking and playing with hair, hair pulling, wet hair, and hair jobs (masturbation in which one partner drapes his/her long hair around the penis).
• Blonde pornography is porn generally performed by participants with blonde hair. Sometimes it is exclusively a blonde haired women or both blonde hair women and men.
• Brunette pornography is porn generally performed by brunettes. Most brunettes are in the dark brunette category and it may include other races.
• Redhead pornography is porn performed by participants with red hair.
• Black Haired pornography is porn performed by Asians or of people with black hair.
• Hirsutism pornography involves conspicuous amounts of body and/or pubic hair. The models may be partially shaven, show body hair stubble or be completely unshaven, with an emphasis on the socially tabooed armpit hair. The latter are sometimes marketed as "Hippies" and can be connected with Naturism. Because of the increased trend toward total depilation in contemporary pornography, the presence of any pubic hair at all on a model, even when groomed, is sometimes considered as making the model "hairy".

Body features

• Big Beautiful Women (BBW) pornography features overweight or obese women.
• Big breast pornography, also called ginormous tits, big-boob or big-bust pornography, features women with large breasts. Some viewers prefer performers with breast implants, others prefer women who have naturally large breasts.
• Big cock pornography features men with very big penises.
• Big butt or Big ass pornography features women with large buttocks. This genre eroticizes the buttocks and anus, and often overlaps with anal pornography.
• Cameltoe Pornography which involves women with large and/or prominent labia and/or clitoris.
• Leg and feet pornography has an extreme emphasis on legs and feet.
• Disease ridden pornography involves women that are said to have 'disease ridden' body parts. Lepers are a main focus in this style of pornography.
• Flexible Pornography involves women that perform gymnastic exercises and take a flexible position.
• Tiny tits pornography features women with very small breasts. These women are often portrayed as teenagers. There is some overlap between tiny tits pornography, teen pornography, and Lolita pornography.
• Puffy Nips pornography features women with elevated areola.
• Small penis pornography refers to movies with men that have erect penises smaller than 4 inches.

Race

Race-oriented pornography 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 pornography features performers who are (or appear to be) Asian / or from the Far East.
• Ebony or black pornography features performers who are (or appear to be) black. They can be sub-divided into African pornography, African-American pornography or Caribbean pornography.
• European pornography involving performers who are (or appear to be) European with features from Western Europe or more commonly Eastern Europe.
• Indian/Desi pornography features performers who are (or appear to be) Indian.
• Interracial pornography usually features sex between people of different racial backgrounds, but is more associated with pairing black and white actors and actresses or Latino/Latina and white actors and actresses.
• Latina/Latin pornography features performers who are (or appear to be) from Latin America or Latin Europe. Most are of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Native American or Mestiza descent.

• Middle Eastern pornography features performers who are (or appear to be) from the Middle East. There is certainly an overlap with Arab pornography involving performers who are (or appear to be) Arabs from the Middle East or North Africa, and with Indian pornography.
• Bi-racial pornography features a model who is biracial and not specifically racially defined. This may include Albinos, Southeast Asians, Aborigines or Red-heads.

Subculture

• Alt porn features performers with tattoos, piercings, unusually coloured hair, unique haircuts or who have a goth, punk rock, skinhead, raver, rockabilly/greaser, crusty, skater or stoner appearance. Many involved are members of the punk, goth, skinhead, rave and even Kustom Kulture. Good examples of this are films directed by Bruce LaBruce, who is a punk himself and his work could also be seen as avant-garde cinema.
• Art porn or artistic porn features erotic art dedicated to specific pornstars. One of the first art porn groups is the Pornsaints collective, founded by the Italian artist Francesco D'Isa. Like alt porn, it can be indebted to avant-garde cinema.

Fetish

Bondage/BDSM

• Bondage pornography features performers tied up or constrained in various ways.
• BDSM pornography depicts bondage and discipline, domination and submission, sadism and masochism.
• Japanese rope bondage is distinguished by its use of specific katas (forms) and aesthetic rules. Sometimes, asymmetric and often intentionally uncomfortable positions are employed to heighten the psychological impact of the bondage.
• Rough sex pornography is similar to pornography 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.
• Rape pornography features performers simulating rape. Rape itself is a crime in most countries.
• Spanking or whipping pornography involves spanking or whipping, generally of the buttocks, with the hand or with other objects such as belts, switches, paddles, brushes, or whips.
• Facesitting when a woman or a young girl sits on a man's(or woman's) face.
• Wired pornography involves the use of electrical shocks and stimuli.
• Hard crush pornography features the actual killing of small animals and the act itself is generally illegal under cruelty to animals laws.
• Snuff pornography involves the actual death of any of the participants, consenting or otherwise, simulated death is not considered snuff. The existence of such content in commercially available pornography 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). The 1979 U.S. drama Hardcore showed this kind of film on its film.
• Guro or Gore is a genre of Japanese pornography involving blood, gore, disfiguration, violence, mutilation, urine, enemas, or feces.

Bodily functions

• Menstrual or "red rhapsody" pornography features sexual activities involving women who are menstruating, with a focus on the menstrual blood.
• Scat or "brown" pornography features defecation, manipulation of feces, or consumption of feces, in reality or fantasy, a good example being the 2 Girls 1 Cup video.
• Milking pornography features women being milked or milking themselves (not to be confused with milk enemas).
• Watersports pornography features sexual activities involving urine, such as "golden showers".
• Emetophilia pornography involving vomiting and gagging.
• Preggo pornography features pregnant performers and may include lactation as a fetish.
• Squirt pornography involves women ejaculating.
• Saliva pornography involves salivation and saliva.
• Cum-shot pornography features a collection of male ejaculation scenes.
• Crying pornography that features participating actors crying.

Other fetish

• Bareback pornography features performers who are not wearing condoms.
• Bestiality pornography involves the sexual attraction of humans to animals. Bestiality is illegal in many countries.
• Bukkake pornography involves a performer, usually female, onto whom several men or women (see Squirting) ejaculate.
• Clothed female, naked male pornography features naked 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 nude women interact with clothed men, is called Clothed male, naked female (abbreviated CMNF).
• Creampie pornography features ejaculation inside the vagina or rectum instead of the common cum shot.
• Crush pornography features objects being crushed by an actress or actor, who generally plays an overtly dominant role.
• Cuckold fetish pornography that involves a cuckolded husband.^[1]
• Cum swapping pornography involves performers trading semen between their mouths.
• Diaper pornography involves performers pretending to be infants, often with an adult performer acting in the role of an adult caretaker.
• Foot fetish pornography features heavy emphasis on the feet of the participants, either in combination with kissing and genital sex or in the context of acts such as trampling or crush fetishism.
• Felching involves drinking (via suction / soda straw) recently-ejaculated semen from the vagina or anus.
• Fisting involves the insertion of one partner's entire hand (or, less often, both hands or even a foot) into a vagina or the anal cavity.
• Furry pornography features anthropomorphic animals in an erotic or sexual context.
• Glasses fetish involves women who wear eyeglasses. Also referred to as spex appeal.
• Incest pornography features sex between actors who portray a familial relationship. Incest itself is largely taboo, and is a crime in many countries.
• Jerk off instruction (also known as Jerk off Encouragement (JOI / JOE)) features a performer encouraging or instructing the viewer to masturbate, often culminating in a countdown at the end of which the viewer is invited to induce orgasm.
• Lolita pornography (also known as lollipop) features women who are 18 years old or slightly older, who pretend to be underage teen girls. The fetish centers around this fantasy portrayal. Lolita pornography that features actual teenage girls under the age of 18 is illegal in most countries and treated as child or youth pornography. Lolita pornography caters to ephebophiles. The name was coined from the title of the controversial book.
• POV (Point-of-View) pornography involves camera angles designed to provide the viewer a view similar to that seen by one of the participants, whose face is never shown.
• Rubber pornography involves rubber, latex, and similar materials.
• Smoking fetish involves performers smoking cigarettes, cigars, joints, and/or blunts.
• Wetlook pornography involves clothed wet persons.
• Pantyhose/Tights/Stockings pornography involves women or men dressed in pantyhose, tights, or stockings.
• Bra pornography involves women or men dressed in bras.
• High heel pornography involves women or men dressed in high heeled shoes.
• Cheerleader pornography involves pictures of cheerleaders, both staged and real.
• Jail/Prison pornography involves inmates in jails or prisons in various sexual situations, often fake. Real jail or prison shots or videos may violate laws in some countries.
• Medical pornography (often called Doctor or Nurse and Patient pornography) involves sexualized medical situations, often fake, including gynecological pelvic examinations. Real medical shots or videos may violate privacy laws in some countries.
• Enema pornography involves adults given enemas to others, often fake. Real enema shots or videos of true medical situations may violate privacy laws in some countries.
• Teacher and Student pornography involves sexualized situations which take place between the teacher and student, often fake. Real school shots or videos which are sexualized may violate privacy laws in some countries.
• Tentacle erotica features tentacled creatures (usually fictional monsters) raping or otherwise penetrating women or men.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual

Men with men

• Gay pornography is usually male homosexual pornography, acts depicted typically include anal or oral sex. Men who perform in mainstream gay pornography often do not consider themselves gay or bisexual. See "Gay-for-pay".
• Twink pornography features young-looking performers, and usually features young men who identify as gay or bisexual. Performers are usually thinner and more effeminate than ones in mainstream gay pornography.
• Bear features a combination of middle-aged, hairy or overweight males.
• Yaoi is a term used to describe male homosexual hentai.

Women with women

• Lesbian or girl-girl pornography features women engaged in sex together, but is typically aimed at a male audience. Women who perform in lesbian pornography often do not consider themselves lesbian or bisexual. See also Gay-for-pay.
• Lesbian pornography made for women is usually made by women, and usually features women who identify as lesbian or bisexual. Lesbian pornography typically features a wider range of appearances and body types than is typical of mainstream pornography. Particularly, some pornography in this genre features butch women, who are almost never seen in mainstream pornography.
• Yuri is a term used to describe female homosexual hentai.

Multiple men and women

• Bisexual pornography features one woman and two men who all perform sex acts on each other. The pornography is geared towards men; hence the word "bisexual" describes the men rather than the woman.
• Bukkake pornography usually depicts numerous men having sex with one woman, with multiple, usually 10 or more, men ejaculating on the female's face (frosting). Especially popular in Japanese pornography.
• Threesome pornography features one man and two women who all perform sex acts on each other. It is geared towards heterosexual men, who would most typically define a threesome as such.
• Gang bang pornography usually depicts numerous men having sex with one woman, or one man. A scene where many women have sex with one submissive man is referred to as a "reverse gang-bang".

Transsexual people

• Transman pornography features performers who were born female and who medically transitioned to male. Buck Angel is the best-known example of this genre.
• Tranny pornography features performers with male genitalia and augmented female breasts with the aesthetic appearance of a woman. They are most often featured with male partners, but are also featured with other transsexuals or biological women. Common phrases used to refer to these individuals are "chicks with dicks" or "she-male", although these are generally considered pejorative among transwomen. Transsexual porn star Wendy Williams has stated that "transsexual Porn is classified as Straight Specialty."^[2]
• Transgender pornography features performers who cross-dress for sexual gratification, either for themselves or for their partners, known as tranny chasers. Many men who like trans partners of any variety don't necessarily identify as gay themselves, even though the sex act is between two genetic males. This is why video stores might consider stocking transgendered subject matter in the straight section, as some straight men will have passive or active sex with another man as long as their partner appears to look like a woman to them, to some minor or major degree.
• Hermaphrodite, also known as herm, refers to pornography, typically hentai, that features persons with the genitalia of both sexes. The most common depiction of a hermaphrodite is a person with a female face, breasts, and build, and a penis, although there are other combinations. This type of pornography is almost exclusively hentai, as true hermaphroditic humans are not fertile and are not usually found in nature. Is also common of the furry genre.
• Futanari, Japanese term for females with a penis.

Reality

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

• Amateur pornography was originally produced by amateurs. There is now also professionally made pornography designed to appear as if it were amateur.
• Celebrity sex tapes are amateur or professionally-made recordings of sex acts, as performed by a celebrity and their partner(s). These typically are leaked to the public via the Internet, with or without the celebrity's consent. A celebrity may allow such a recording to surface willingly, as part of a publicity stunt.
• Exhibitionist pornography features performers, usually female exposing themselves in public and spans simple flashing to public sex. The Girls Gone Wild series is one example.
• Gonzo pornography involves a first-person cameraman/performer perspective. Also see POV.
• Upskirt and Downblouse pornography features staged filming up women's skirts or down their blouses while in public. Actual upskirt or downblouse shots may violate privacy laws in some countries.
• Hidden Camera pornography involves shots that appear to spy or peep on a woman who is unaware she is being viewed or filmed while dressing, going to the bathroom, or showering. Actual spying may violate privacy and/or trespassing laws in many countries. Voyeur pornography is usually more staged with the subjects aware of the cameras, sometimes openly including this exhibitionist awareness.
• Gloryhole pornography features women performing fellatio on unidentified men through a small hole made in a bathroom divider. This genre also features gay men on men fellatio through a small hole made in a bathroom divider.

Specific sex acts

Anal

• Anal pornography features anal sex scenes be it penetration with a penis, a dildo, other objects, or some combination of them.
• Ass to mouth (aka ATM or A2M) pornography shows the transfer of a performer's penis or other object from another performer's anus to their mouth in a single shot.
• Gape shots in pornography feature scenes of anal sex with a focus on the recipient's anus remaining wide open for a period of time after the erect penis or dildo is removed. A sub-set of gaping is the "'tunnel cumshot", wherein the male ejaculates directly (and visibly) into the gaping anus.
• Pegging pornography features a woman penetrating a man with a strap-on dildo.
• Rimjob pornography centers around anilingus.

Other sex acts

• Double penetration (aka DP) pornography depicts simultaneous anal and vaginal penetration of one woman. Double Stuffed (aka DS), Double Vaginal (aka DV), or Double Anal (aka DA) pornography involves the penetration of one orifice by two penises or other objects.
• Fisting pornography features the insertion of an entire hand into a performer's vagina or anus. A sub-set of vaginal fisting attempts to photograph the female cervix immediately after the fist (or large dildo or speculum) is removed from the now-gaping vagina.
• Oral sex pornography frequently features a person performing fellatio, and less frequently cunnilingus.
• Solo pornography features performers masturbating. Can also include auto-fellatio, or performing oral sex on one's self.

Other categories

Computer-generated, interactive, and animated

• Cartoon pornography depicts illustrated or animated fictional characters in erotic and sexual situations.
• Hentai is a catch-all term for various forms of Japanese pornography, 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 anime or manga that features gay males (although not necessarily pornographic). Yuri is the lesbian equivalent.
• Interactive pornography, 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 Porn is pornography made using 3D computer graphics, usually with the 3D art program Poser, made to represent people in various sexual acts.

Miscellaneous

• Classics are pornographic films from the 1970s and sometimes 1980s.
• Compilations are a collection of short pornographic scenes, usually themed to a particular fetish such as anal or cum-shots, taken from otherwise unrelated films. (For copyright reasons, compilations are often limited to clips from films published by a single company.)
• Full-feature pornographic films are typically about two hours long, and usually have a plot.
• Parody Porn is a sub-genre that parodies the title to mainstream film or television show using sexual puns.
• Independent pornography is pornography produced by filmmakers unconnected to the major porn studios in a given country. It is often mislabeled "amateur pornography", though the producers and actors are often professional pornographic filmmakers and actors. (It is not always easy to distinguish between genuine amateurs and unknown professionals: often, the distinction is a matter of timing.)
• Japanese adult video or JAV is pornography 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 pornography produced in other countries. Notably, because of Japanese obscenity laws, most Japanese pornography 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 sub-genres in general pornography; however, there are also fetish and costume genres that are largely unique to the JAV milieu.
• Vintage erotica is generally pre-1970s pornography, especially early-Twentieth-Century black and white photographs and stag films.
• Extreme pornography is a term introduced by the UK Government, describing a classification of adult pornography that has become illegal to possess under new laws.
• Women's Pornography sometimes referred to as Pro-Sex or Sex Positive Pornography- refers to a category of porn that is expressly produced for female customers, taking into account that male and female receptive and aesthetic needs may differ widely. Sometimes that involves, that the director and/or producer are women. Frequently, there is a focus on certain dos and don'ts for the production process (behind the scenes and on-screen) and the actions portrayed.
• Avant-porn is a sub-genre of pornography with the aesthetics and methods of avant-garde cinema.

References

1. ^ http://www.nerve.com/dispatches/ma/cuckold/printcopy.asp
2. ^ Wendy Williams (2009-06-24). "HIV Adult Industry Scare from a TS Point of View". Wendy Williams' MySpace blog. http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=22387538&blogId=496679913.