500 Japanese Adult Terms
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A curated guide to terminology used in Japan in connection with adult media, sexuality, the AV industry, adult services, nightlife, erotic art and literature, fetish culture, gravure, publishing, law, and sexual health. Literal translations are avoided where they would mislead international readers.
Editorial policy
The 500 headwords are unique and sorted alphabetically by their rōmaji reading. Rōmaji is presented in a consistent Hepburn-style Latin transcription without relying on Japanese gojūon ordering. Japan-specific terms are retained in rōmaji when no exact English equivalent exists, with an explanatory translation beside them.
Terms such as 風俗, 花街, グラビア, メンズエステ, and nightlife vocabulary are not automatically treated as prostitution or pornography; their definitions distinguish these concepts explicitly.
Terms beginning with A
A historical term for suggestive or erotic pictures that show nudity or sensuality without necessarily depicting the explicit sexual acts characteristic of shunga.
History / Art
A Japanese term referring to adult-oriented / sexually explicit.
Adult Media
A Japanese term referring to adult anime.
Anime
A Japanese adult-video term for adult video / Japanese AV.
AV
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to adult video content.
Internet
A Japanese term referring to adult goods / sex products.
Retail
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to adult-content streaming.
Internet
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to adult streaming website.
Internet
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to adult-content streamer.
Internet
A Japanese adult-video term for adult actress.
AV
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to adult message board / forum.
Internet
A Japanese term referring to adult-content advertisement.
Advertising
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to adult content.
Internet / Media
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for adult-content producer.
AV Industry
A Japanese term referring to adult model.
Photography / AV
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to adult live chat.
Internet
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to adult website.
Internet
A Japanese term referring to adult-specialty store.
Retail
A Japanese publishing term referring to adult-oriented photo book.
Publishing
A Japanese term referring to adult shop / sex shop.
Retail
A Japanese adult-video term for adult VR content.
AV / VR
A Japanese publishing term referring to adult magazine.
Publishing
A Japanese term referring to after-hours meeting.
Nightlife
A standard Japanese medical or sexual-health term for emergency contraceptive pill.
Medical / Sexual Health
A Japanese term referring to caressing / intimate touching.
Sexuality
A Japanese term referring to lover / extramarital partner.
General
A Japanese term referring to erotic desire / sensual passion.
Literature
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to fishnet tights / stockings.
Clothing / Fetish
A Japanese term referring to camera angle.
Photography
A Japanese term referring to 18+ / adults only.
Media Rating
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to leg fetish.
Fetish
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to foot fetish.
Fetish
Terms beginning with B
A Japanese adult-video term for extremely large breasts.
AV / Gravure
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to bust.
Gravure
A Japanese term referring to babydoll lingerie.
Clothing
A Japanese adult-video term for best-of compilation.
AV
A Japanese adult-video term for attractive buttocks / shapely rear.
AV / Gravure
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to model known for a shapely rear.
Gravure
A Japanese adult-video term for attractive mature woman.
AV
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to bikini.
Gravure
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to beautiful legs.
Gravure
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to beautiful-leg fetish.
Fetish
A Japanese adult-video term for small, shapely breasts.
AV / Gravure
A Japanese adult-video term for shapely / attractive breasts.
AV / Gravure
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to shapely-bust gravure.
Gravure
A Japanese term referring to bishōjo game / pretty-girl game.
Games
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to body / physique.
Gravure
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to body line / body contours.
Gravure / Fashion
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to bondage / bondage fashion.
BDSM / Fetish
A Japanese adult-video term for VR adult video.
AV / VR
A Japanese term referring to bra.
Clothing
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to glimpse of a bra.
Slang / Gravure
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to bra fetish.
Fetish
A Japanese term referring to bra / brassiere.
Clothing
Terms beginning with C
A Japanese gravure category emphasizing erotic appeal while retaining clothing or strategic coverage rather than presenting explicit nudity.
Gravure
A Japanese term referring to clothed / wearing clothes.
General / AV
A Japanese term referring to chapter.
Video
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to male chat performer.
Internet
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to female chat performer / chat hostess.
Internet
A Japanese term referring to intimate bond / lovers’ union.
Historical / Literature
Terms beginning with D
A Japanese adult-video term for download sales.
AV Streaming
A Japanese adult-video term for debut title / debut work.
AV / Entertainment
A Japanese adult-video term for digital remaster.
AV / Video
A Japanese publishing term referring to digital photo book.
Publishing
A Japanese publishing term referring to electronic photo book.
Publishing
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for delivery health / out-call sexual-service business.
Adult Services
The common abbreviation of デリバリーヘルス (delivery health), a Japanese out-call adult-service business category.
Adult Services
A Japanese term referring to pre-work customer accompaniment.
Nightlife
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to independently produced adult video.
Independent / Internet
A Japanese term referring to independently produced game.
Dojin / Games
A Japanese term referring to self-published fan or independent publication.
Dojin
A Japanese term referring to independently produced CG collection.
Dojin
A Japanese term referring to male virgin.
General / Slang
Terms beginning with E
A Japanese adult-video term for Japanese adult video / AV.
AV
A Japanese adult-video term for AV actor / Japanese adult-film actor.
AV
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for AV debut.
AV Industry
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for Japanese AV industry.
AV Industry
A Japanese adult-video term for AV streaming / digital distribution.
AV / Internet
A Japanese adult-video term for AV streaming website.
AV / Internet
A Japanese adult-video term for AV retailer.
AV / Retail
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for AV talent agency / management office.
AV Industry
A Japanese adult-video term for AV actress / Japanese adult-film actress.
AV
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for AV director.
AV Industry
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for AV performance contract.
AV Industry
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for AV studio / producer.
AV Industry
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for AV talent agency.
AV Industry
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for AV label / imprint.
AV Industry
A Japanese adult-video term for AV title / adult-video production.
AV
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for AV filming / shoot.
AV Industry
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for AV set / filming location.
AV Industry
A Japanese adult-video term for specialist AV store.
AV / Retail
A Japanese adult-video term for new AV release.
AV
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for appearance in an AV production.
AV Industry
A Japanese legal or regulatory term referring to harm related to AV performance.
Law / Social Issues
Common short name for Japan’s law designed to prevent harm related to performances in sexually explicit audiovisual productions and provide remedies for performers.
Law
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for AV performance contract.
AV Industry
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for AV performer.
AV Industry
A historical term recorded as one of the names associated with shunga and erotic books; it has other non-erotic meanings in different contexts.
History / Art
A Japanese term referring to video streaming / distribution.
Streaming
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for video-content review.
AV Industry
A statutory Japanese category covering businesses that transmit sexually explicit visual content to customers by telecommunications.
Law / Adult Services
A Japanese term referring to submissive / masochistic type.
Slang / BDSM
A Japanese term referring to romantic scandal / rumor of an affair.
Literature
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for extension / additional time.
Adult Services / Nightlife
A historical Japanese term referring to erotic book / erotic illustrated book.
History / Publishing
A Japanese term referring to love letter / erotic correspondence.
Historical / Literary
A historical Japanese term referring to erotic bedchamber picture; historical term.
Art History
An initialism derived from netorare. In Japanese fiction, it usually centers on distress or jealousy when a person’s partner becomes romantically or sexually involved with someone else.
Adult Fiction / Internet
A Japanese term referring to erotic / sexually explicit material.
Slang
A Japanese term referring to erotic anime / adult anime.
Anime
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to erotic video / adult video clip.
Internet
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to erotic image / adult image.
Internet
A Japanese term referring to adult game / erotic game.
Games
A Japanese term referring to adult game / erotic game.
Games
A Japanese publishing term referring to erotic book / adult magazine.
Publishing
A Japanese term referring to sexy / erotic / sexually suggestive.
Slang
A Japanese term referring to erotic manga / adult manga.
Manga
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to adult website / porn site.
Internet
A Japanese term referring to erotica.
Art / Literature
A Japanese term referring to eroticism.
Art / Literature
A Japanese term referring to dominant / sadistic type.
Slang / BDSM
A Japanese term referring to S&M / sadomasochism.
BDSM / Adult Media
Terms beginning with F
A Japanese adult-service business category. The literal English phrase “fashion health” does not convey the meaning outside Japan.
Adult Services
A Japanese term referring to fetish.
Sexuality / Adult Media
A Japanese adult-video term for fetish-oriented category.
AV / Internet
A Japanese term referring to fetishism.
Sexuality / Psychology
A Japanese adult-video term for return / comeback.
AV / Entertainment
A Japanese adult-video term for comeback title.
AV
A Japanese adult-video term for reissue / reproduced edition.
AV / Publishing
A Japanese publishing term referring to sealed pages / sealed insert.
Publishing
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for unassigned customer / no specific request.
Adult Services / Nightlife
A Japanese term referring to extramarital affair.
General
A Japanese term referring to full nude.
Photography / Film
In ordinary Japanese this word can mean customs or manners. In adult-industry conversation, however, it often abbreviates 性風俗 and refers to commercial adult services.
Adult Services
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for female sexual-service worker.
Adult Services
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for adult-service information website.
Adult Services / Internet
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for adult-service information magazine.
Publishing / Adult Services
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for adult-service establishment.
Adult Services
Terms beginning with G
A Japanese bar in which female staff generally serve customers across a counter. It is not inherently a sexual-service establishment.
Nightlife
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to garter belt.
Clothing / Fetish
Japanese magazine, photo-book, and video modeling, often featuring swimsuits or glamorous clothing; the term itself does not imply pornography.
Publishing / Entertainment
A Japanese model or entertainer known primarily for gravure photography and videos. Gravure is not inherently pornographic.
Entertainment
A Japanese term referring to gravure debut.
Entertainment
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to gravure video.
Gravure
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to gravure DVD.
Gravure
A Japanese term referring to gravure model.
Entertainment
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to gravure shoot.
Gravure
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to gravure photograph.
Gravure
A Japanese publishing term referring to gravure photo book.
Publishing
A Japanese term referring to gravure idol.
Entertainment
Terms beginning with H
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to skin / bare skin.
General / Gravure
A Japanese term referring to underwear / undergarment.
Clothing
A Japanese term referring to naked / nude.
General
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to showing skin / revealing styling.
Fashion / Gravure
A Japanese adult-video term for streaming-only release.
AV Streaming
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for dispatch-type / out-call business.
Adult Services
A Japanese term referring to commercial entertainment district.
General
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to partially nude / semi-naked.
General / Gravure
A specifically Japanese publishing term for nude photography in which pubic hair is visible, especially associated with the 1990s publishing boom.
Publishing History / Photography
A broad Japanese slang term that can refer to unusual sexual tastes and can be derogatory. Its Japanese meaning is broader than the English anime/manga genre label “hentai.”
Slang
In Japanese adult-industry slang, an abbreviation for ファッションヘルス. It does not mean ordinary healthcare in this context.
Adult Services
A historical Japanese term referring to secret erotic picture / erotic artwork.
Art History
A Japanese term referring to intimate erotic act.
Literature / Historical
A historical Japanese term referring to erotic act picture.
Art History
A historical Japanese term referring to secret or privately circulated book.
Publishing / History
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for catalog number / product code.
AV Industry
A Japanese adult-video term for secretary-themed adult genre.
AV
A Japanese term referring to married woman / wife.
General / AV
A Japanese adult-video term for married-woman genre.
AV
A Japanese term referring to obscene / lewd / indecent.
General
Literally “the real thing” or “the actual performance.” In some Japanese adult-service slang it specifically refers to intercourse.
Adult Services / Slang
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for repeat personal request / returning nomination.
Adult Services
A Japanese term referring to hostess.
Nightlife
A Japanese term referring to host.
Nightlife
A nightlife establishment where male hosts entertain customers, primarily women. It is not by definition a sexual-service business.
Nightlife
Terms beginning with I
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to image-video abbreviation.
Gravure / Internet
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to image video / gravure video.
Gravure
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to image DVD / gravure DVD.
Gravure
A Japanese term referring to erotically decadent / voluptuous.
Literature
A standard Japanese medical or sexual-health term for genital area / private parts.
Anatomy / Medical
A Japanese term referring to pubic hair.
Anatomy
A Japanese term referring to sexually promiscuous / lascivious.
Slang / Adult Media
A Japanese term referring to lust / carnal desire.
Historical / Literature
A Japanese term referring to amorousness / fondness for love affairs.
Historical / Literature
A Japanese term referring to love affair / erotic affair.
Historical
A Japanese term referring to sex appeal / sensuality.
General
A Japanese term referring to romance / love affairs.
General / Historical
A Japanese term referring to romantic entanglement.
General
A historical Japanese term referring to pleasure district / red-light quarter.
History
A Japanese term referring to sexy / alluring / sensual.
General
Terms beginning with J
A Japanese adult-video term for cover photo.
AV / Publishing
A Japanese adult-video term for cover / package artwork.
AV
A Japanese adult-video term for genre / category.
AV
A standard Japanese medical or sexual-health term for masturbation / self-stimulation.
Medical / Sexuality
A Japanese adult-video term for self-regulation.
AV / Publishing
A Japanese adult-video term for female-doctor-themed adult genre.
AV
A Japanese term referring to affair / liaison.
Literature / General
A Japanese term referring to lust / sexual passion.
Literature
A Japanese term referring to adults only / prohibited to under-18s.
Media Rating
A Japanese adult-video term for mature woman.
AV / Slang
A Japanese adult-video term for mature-woman genre.
AV
Terms beginning with K
A historical Japanese term referring to historical erotic-picture term.
Art History
A traditional district associated with geisha, entertainment houses, and hospitality. It is not synonymous with a brothel district or 遊郭 (yukaku).
History / Culture
A Japanese adult-video term for overseas location shoot.
AV / Gravure
A Japanese term referring to pleasure / pleasurable sensation.
General / Sexuality
A Japanese term referring to sensuality / sensual sensation.
Literature
A Japanese term referring to erotic film / sensual drama.
Film
A Japanese term referring to erotic novel.
Literature
A Japanese term referring to sensual / erotic.
General / Literature
A Japanese term referring to entertainment district / nightlife district.
General / Nightlife
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to search tag.
Internet
A Japanese adult-video term for concept-driven AV / themed AV.
AV
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for project-based AV actress.
AV Industry
A Japanese adult-video term for concept-driven title / themed production.
AV
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for move from featured/exclusive status to project work.
AV Industry
A Japan-specific AV-industry category for a recognizable performer who is not exclusive to one studio and can appear across multiple producers while being marketed by name.
AV Industry
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for freelance featured AV actress / kikatan actress.
AV Industry
An AV-industry abbreviation of 企画単体 (kikaku tantai). Because the category is distinctive to Japan, retaining kikatan in English is often more accurate than forcing a one-word translation.
AV Industry
A Japanese term referring to Japanese rope bondage.
BDSM
A Japanese term referring to forbidden love.
Literature / Adult Fiction
A Japanese term referring to sexual abstinence / restraint.
General
A Japanese term referring to kiss.
General / Romance
A Japanese term referring to hickey / love bite.
Romance / Slang
A Japanese adult-video term for high-quality / high-definition edition.
AV Streaming
A Japanese term referring to lover / romantic partner.
General
A Japanese term referring to condom.
Sexual Health
A historical Japanese term referring to licensed prostitute / licensed prostitution system.
History
A Japanese term referring to lustful / amorous.
Historical / Literature
A historical Japanese term referring to amorous / erotic book.
Literary History
A historical Japanese term referring to erotic / amorous literature.
Literary History
A Japanese term referring to restraint / bondage restraint.
BDSM
A Japanese term referring to cosplay.
General / Adult Media
A Japanese adult-video term for cosplay AV.
AV
A Japanese adult-video term for cosplay-themed adult media.
AV / Manga
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to narrow waist / waistline curve.
Body / Gravure
A Japanese term referring to hostess club / club.
Nightlife
A Japanese term referring to licensed pleasure quarter.
Historical
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to beauty of the legs / elegant leg line.
Gravure
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to large buttocks / big-rear category.
AV / Fetish
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to beauty of curves / curvaceous beauty.
Art / Gravure
A Japanese adult-video term for large breasts / big-bust category.
AV / Gravure
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to big-bust gravure.
Gravure
Terms beginning with M
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for meeting at an agreed location.
Adult Services
A historical Japanese term referring to pillow picture / shunga.
History / Art
In this historical context, a term used for shunga books or erotic books. It should not be confused with Sei Shonagon’s literary classic The Pillow Book.
History
A Japanese adult-video term for niche / highly fetish-specific.
AV / Internet
A standard Japanese medical or sexual-health term for masturbation.
Sexuality / Medical
A Japanese term referring to masochist.
Slang / BDSM
A Japanese term referring to masochism.
Sexuality / BDSM
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to glasses fetish.
Fetish
A Japanese adult-video term for making-of / behind-the-scenes footage.
AV / Gravure
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for debut with a particular AV studio.
AV Industry
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for studio-exclusive / exclusive to one AV producer.
AV Industry
A broad Japanese category of massage, relaxation, and esthetic services aimed at men. It is not inherently a sexual-service business.
Services
A Japanese term referring to widow.
Literature / AV
A Japanese adult-video term for unlimited viewing.
AV Streaming
A Japanese term referring to secret meeting / clandestine rendezvous.
General / Literature
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to swimsuit.
Gravure
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to swimsuit gravure.
Gravure
A Japanese adult-video term for fantasy / imagined scenario.
AV / Internet
A Japanese adult-video term for mosaic censorship / pixelation.
AV / Video
A Japanese adult-video term for mosaic censorship / pixelation processing.
AV / Video
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to glimpse of cleavage / chest glimpse.
Internet / Gravure
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to breast fetish / chest fetish.
Fetish
A Japanese term referring to sexually aroused / horny.
Slang
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to uncensored / without mosaic censorship.
Internet / Adult Media
A statutory Japanese category for specified sexual-service businesses operated without fixed customer-service premises, including dispatch-type services.
Law / Adult Services
Terms beginning with N
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to bare legs.
Gravure / Fetish
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to photographic print / bromide-style photo.
Gravure
A Japanese adult-video term for nurse-themed adult genre.
AV / Cosplay
A Japanese term referring to negligee / nightgown.
Clothing
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to age verification.
Adult Media / Internet
A Japanese term referring to age restriction.
General
A Japanese publishing term referring to age rating / age designation.
Media / Publishing
A Japanese fictional genre centered on a person’s partner becoming romantically or sexually involved with someone else, usually emphasizing the original partner’s emotional perspective.
AV / Manga / Games
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for online booking.
Adult Services / Internet
A Japanese term referring to bedchamber / bedroom.
Historical
A Japanese term referring to matters of the bedchamber / sexual relations.
Historical
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to thigh-high socks.
Clothing / Fetish
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to thigh-high-sock fetish.
Fetish
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to physical beauty / beauty of the body.
Art / Gravure
A Japanese term referring to sexual relationship / physical relationship.
General
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for popular worker / popular hostess.
Adult Services
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to scent fetish / smell fetish.
Fetish
A Japanese term referring to knee-high socks.
Clothing
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to braless.
Slang / Gravure
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to non-adult / non-sexual content.
Internet
A Japanese term referring to without lower-body underwear.
Slang / Adult Media
A Japanese term referring to nude / nudity.
Photography / Art
A Japanese term referring to nude model.
Photography / Art
A Japanese term referring to nude photograph.
Photography
A Japanese publishing term referring to nude photo book.
Publishing
A Japanese term referring to erotic scene / sex scene.
Film / Entertainment
Terms beginning with O
A Japanese adult-video term for office-worker-themed adult genre.
AV
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to offline sexual meetup.
Internet Slang
A Japanese adult-video term for off-shot / behind-the-scenes image.
AV / Gravure
A standard Japanese medical or sexual-health term for orgasm.
Sexuality / Medical
A historical Japanese term referring to oiran / high-ranking courtesan.
History
A Japanese term referring to sex appeal / mildly risqué appeal.
Entertainment
A Japanese term referring to risqué television program.
Television
A Japanese term referring to sex-appeal marketing strategy.
Entertainment
A Japanese term referring to risqué scene / sexy scene.
Film / Television
A historical Japanese term referring to historical name for erotic pictures.
Art History
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to masturbation abstinence.
Internet Slang
A Japanese term referring to masturbation.
Slang / Sexuality
A Japanese adult-video term for omnibus / compilation.
AV / Video
A Japanese adult-video term for female-boss-themed adult genre.
AV
A Japanese adult-video term for female-teacher-themed adult genre.
AV
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to hot-spring gravure.
Gravure
A Japanese adult-video term for hot-spring-themed adult production.
AV
A Japanese term referring to lovers’ rendezvous.
Literature / Historical
A Japanese term referring to for adults / adult-oriented.
General
A Japanese term referring to adult relationship / sexual relationship.
Slang
A Japanese term referring to adult toy / sex toy.
Retail
Terms beginning with P
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for packaged / physical-media AV.
AV Industry
A Japanese term referring to glimpse of panties.
Slang / Manga
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for panel magic; abbreviation.
Adult Services / Internet
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for profile panel / worker photograph.
Adult Services
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for panel magic; flattering profile-photo effect.
Adult Services / Internet
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for profile-panel photograph.
Adult Services
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to pantyhose / tights.
Clothing / Fetish
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to pantyhose fetish.
Fetish
A Japanese term referring to panties.
Clothing
Japanese slang for relationships in which an adult receives financial or material support from an older person in connection with meals, companionship, or dating. The term does not by itself imply sex.
Internet / Slang
A historical Japanese term referring to pink film / Japanese softcore adult cinema.
Film History
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for pink salon.
Adult Services
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for pink salon; abbreviation.
Adult Services
A Japanese term referring to pornography / porn.
General / Adult Media
A Japanese term referring to pornographic film / adult film.
Film
A Japanese term referring to pornography.
General / Academic
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for profile.
Adult Services
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to proportions / figure.
Gravure
Terms beginning with R
A Japanese term referring to adult goods / sex products.
Retail
A Japanese term referring to love hotel; abbreviation.
Slang
A Japanese term referring to love hotel.
General
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to live chat.
Internet
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to lingerie.
Clothing / Gravure
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to lingerie fetish.
Fetish
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to lingerie gravure.
Gravure
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to lingerie model.
Advertising / Gravure
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for highly ranked worker.
Adult Services
A Japanese term referring to lounge / hostess lounge.
Nightlife
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for debut with a particular label.
AV Industry
A Japanese term referring to romance game.
Games
A Japanese term referring to romantic relationship.
General
A Japanese term referring to dating simulation / romance simulation.
Games
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for rental edition.
AV Industry
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for rental-market AV.
AV Industry
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for hourly rental room.
Facilities / Adult Services
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to leotard.
Clothing / Fetish
A Japanese adult-video term for resort-themed production.
AV / Gravure
The name of Nikkatsu’s historically important adult-film brand launched in 1971.
Japanese Film History
A Japanese adult-video term for extended version.
AV
A Japanese term referring to exposure / revealing display.
General / Adult Media
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to degree of exposure / revealingness.
Fashion / Gravure
Terms beginning with S
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to subscription service.
Internet
A Japanese term referring to sadist.
Slang / BDSM
A Japanese term referring to sadism.
Sexuality / BDSM
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for title number / product identifier.
AV Industry
A Japanese adult-video term for preview video / sample clip.
AV / Internet
A Japanese adult-video term for sample images / preview images.
AV / Internet
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to model photo session / photo event.
Gravure / Photography
A Japanese term referring to photo model.
Photography
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to friends with benefits / non-romantic sexual partner.
Slang / Internet
A Japanese term referring to sex / sexuality.
General
A Japanese term referring to sexual love / erotic love.
General / Literature
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for sexual-service industry / adult services.
Adult Services
The statutory umbrella category in Japan for specified sexual-service-related businesses regulated under the Act on Control and Improvement of Amusement Business.
Law / Adult Services
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for sexual-service establishment.
Adult Services
A standard Japanese medical or sexual-health term for sexual response.
Medical / Sexuality
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to sexual preference / kink, in modern slang.
Internet / Slang
A Japanese term referring to adult dojin material.
Dojin
A Japanese term referring to adult film.
Film
A Japanese term referring to adult movie theater.
Film
A Japanese term referring to adult game.
Games
A Japanese term referring to adult comic / adult manga.
Manga
A Japanese term referring to adults-only section.
Retail
A Japanese term referring to adults only / intended for adults.
General
A Japanese term referring to adult anime.
Anime
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to adult video content.
Internet
A Japanese term referring to adult dojinshi.
Dojin
A Japanese term referring to adult game.
Games
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to adults-only notice / adult-content label.
Publishing / Internet
A Japanese term referring to adult-content advertisement.
Advertising
A Japanese term referring to adult comic / adult manga.
Manga
A Japanese term referring to adult manga.
Manga
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to adult website.
Internet
A Japanese publishing term referring to adult photo book.
Publishing
A Japanese publishing term referring to adult magazine.
Publishing
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to adult verification.
Internet
A Japanese publishing term referring to adult magazine.
Publishing
A Japanese publishing term referring to adult-only classification.
Media / Publishing
A Japanese term referring to sexual sensation.
Sexuality
A standard Japanese medical or sexual-health term for erogenous zone.
Sexuality / Medical
A standard Japanese medical or sexual-health term for genitals / sexual organs.
Medical
A standard Japanese medical or sexual-health term for sexual intercourse.
Medical / General
A standard Japanese medical or sexual-health term for sexual activity / sexual act.
General / Medical
A formal Japanese legal term used for certain audiovisual productions depicting sexual acts.
Law
A Japanese term referring to sexual relations / sexual intercourse.
General
A Japanese term referring to sex life.
General / Sexuality
A Japanese term referring to sexual drive / sexual impulse.
Sexuality / Psychology
A Japanese term referring to sexual experience.
General
A Japanese term referring to sexual.
General
A standard Japanese medical or sexual-health term for sexual pleasure.
Sexuality / Medical
A standard Japanese medical or sexual-health term for sexual arousal.
Medical / Sexuality
A Japanese term referring to sexual preference.
General / Sexuality
A Japanese term referring to sexual desire.
Sexuality / General
A standard Japanese medical or sexual-health term for sexual desire / libido.
General / Medical
A standard Japanese medical or sexual-health term for decreased libido.
Medical / Sexuality
A standard Japanese medical or sexual-health term for increased libido / heightened sexual desire.
Medical
A Japanese term referring to sex / sexual intercourse.
General
A Japanese term referring to sexless relationship / sexless marriage.
General
A Japanese term referring to sexy.
General
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to sexy outfit / revealing costume.
Gravure / Adult Media
A Japanese term referring to sexy actress; euphemism often used for AV actress.
Entertainment / AV
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to sexy pose.
Gravure
A Japanese term referring to sexy lingerie.
Clothing
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for exclusive contract / exclusive performer status.
AV Industry
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for exclusive AV actor.
AV Industry
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for exclusive AV actress.
AV Industry
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for sell-through edition / retail edition.
AV Industry
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for sell-through AV / retail AV.
AV Industry
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for photo diary / worker blog.
Adult Services / Internet
A Japanese term referring to CG image collection.
Dojin / Digital
A Japanese term referring to lust / sexual passion.
Historical / Literature
A Japanese term referring to lust / sexual desire.
Literature
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for personal request / nomination.
Adult Services / Nightlife
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for new AV actress / rookie AV performer.
AV Industry
A Japanese adult-video term for new AV release.
AV
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to buttocks fetish.
Fetish
A Japanese adult-video term for series title / recurring series.
AV
A Japanese adult-video term for amateur-style AV.
AV
A Japanese adult-video term for amateur-style / non-professional aesthetic.
AV
A Japanese adult-video term for amateur-style category.
AV
A Japanese adult-video term for amateur-style adult production.
AV
A historical Japanese term referring to unlicensed prostitute.
History
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to sheer / see-through clothing.
Clothing / Gravure
A Japanese term referring to underwear.
Clothing
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to underwear fetish.
Fetish
A historical Japanese term referring to prostitute; historical/general term.
History / General
A historical Japanese term referring to licensed prostitute; historical term.
History
A Japanese term referring to panties / briefs.
Clothing
A Japanese term referring to wedding night / first marital night.
General / Historical
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for worker availability / shift schedule.
Adult Services
A historical Japanese term referring to shunga / Japanese erotic art.
Art History
A Japanese term referring to amorous passion / erotic desire.
Literature
A historical Japanese term referring to erotic book / shunga book.
History / Publishing
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for out-call type.
Adult Services
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for soapland; shorthand.
Adult Services
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for soapland worker.
Adult Services
A Japanese premises-based sexual-service business category commonly known in English by the loanword “soapland.”
Adult Services
A Japanese adult-video term for compilation / best-of collection.
AV / Video
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for scout / talent recruitment.
Entertainment / AV Industry
A Japanese term referring to lecherous / horny / dirty-minded.
Slang
A Japanese term referring to lecherous / lustful.
Slang
A Japanese term referring to Japanese snack bar.
Nightlife
A Japanese term referring to slip / lingerie slip.
Clothing
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to stockings.
Clothing / Fetish
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to stocking fetish.
Fetish
A Japanese adult-video term for streaming.
AV Streaming
Terms beginning with T
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to tights.
Clothing / Fetish
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to tights fetish.
Fetish
A Japanese adult-media or sexuality term referring to tights-themed adult genre.
Fetish
A Japanese adult-video term for individual-title purchase.
AV Streaming
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for featured-exclusive performer category.
AV Industry
A term used in the Japanese AV industry for featured / exclusive AV actress.
AV Industry
A Japanese adult-video term for performer-focused AV production.
AV
A Japanese adult-video term for performer-focused AV title.
AV
A historical Japanese term referring to tayu; highest-ranking courtesan title.
History
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for premises-based type.
Adult Services
A statutory Japanese category for specified sexual-service businesses operated from fixed premises.
Law / Adult Services
A Japanese term referring to thong / T-back underwear.
Clothing
A Japanese adult-video term for bonus footage.
AV
A Japanese adult-video term for newly shot / newly photographed for this release.
AV / Publishing
Terms beginning with U
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for reception / booking desk.
Adult Services
A Japanese term referring to cheating / infidelity.
General
Terms beginning with W
A Japanese term referring to dirty talk / sexual conversation.
Slang
A historical Japanese term referring to obscene book / erotic book.
Publishing / History
A Japanese legal or regulatory term referring to obscenity / indecency.
Law / General
A historical euphemism for shunga or shunpon; the わ derives from words such as 笑い絵 and 笑い本.
Publishing History
A Japanese term referring to young wife.
General / AV
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to one-night stand.
Romance / Internet
A Japanese term referring to one-night stand / one-night romance.
Slang
A Japanese gravure or modeling term referring to one-piece swimsuit.
Gravure
A historical Japanese term referring to laughing picture; historical term for shunga.
Art History
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to no-strings-attached arrangement.
Internet
Terms beginning with Y
A Japanese term referring to desire / urge.
General
A Japanese term referring to desire / craving.
General
A Japanese term referring to sexual arousal / lust.
General / Literature
A Japanese term referring to nightlife district.
General / Nightlife
A Japanese term referring to nightlife establishment / adult-nightlife venue.
Slang
A Japanese term referring to nighttime attendance; intimate companionship.
Historical / Literature
A term used in Japanese adult-service businesses for reservation / booking.
Adult Services
A historical Japanese term referring to courtesan / woman of the pleasure quarters.
History
A historical Japanese term referring to licensed pleasure quarter.
History
A Japanese term referring to pleasure-seeking / entertainment.
Historical / General
A Japanese term referring to pleasure quarter.
Historical
A Japanese internet or adult-media term referring to paid streaming.
Internet
Terms beginning with Z
A Japanese term referring to foreplay.
Sexuality
A Japanese term referring to fully nude / naked.
General / Adult Media
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