You know how the saying goes: one person’s garbage is another’s treasure.
Gross kinks or disgusting fetishes are no different. What many people find revolting, others find exciting and arousing.
Disgust sensitivity is a natural human response to a spectrum of stimuli. Every person has a different sensitivity. Disgust is frequently a response to smells, textures, tastes, or ideas we view as negative. Disgust serves to warn us of pathogens or waste.
Disgust is also culturally ingrained, and each culture has different targets. An American may find the idea of eating insects disgusting, but snacking on crickets is a popular treat in Mexico. Many people find the idea and texture of raw fish disgusting, but sushi is an enormously popular and healthy food. Many who adore sushi once found it vile!
On the flip side, the disgust taboo can serve as the source of excitement or sexual arousal and pleasure. Anything forbidden or taboo can be incredibly exciting sexually for some.
Read: 27 Sexual Taboos That Are No One Else’s Business
Another aspect of gross kinks is that they frequently involve bodily fluids. We naturally find sweat or snot or feces to be necessary, but gross. But of course, all bodily fluids are related in some way to sexuality because we are sexual beings.
Many people find the idea of a pussy getting wet “hot” but don’t respond that way to someone blowing their nose. However, every bodily fluid can be arousing or the source of a fetish.
Read: 15 Hygrophilia Kinks: Fetish for Bodily Fluids
Don’t Kink Shame Over Disgusting Fetishes
We use the term “gross kinks” here to be candid and tongue in cheek. But don’t kink shame yourself or someone else if you don’t share their excitement for a fetish and you find their kinks gross.
It’s okay to think negatively about a fetish that disgusts you, and it’s also okay to find a taboo exciting sexually. If you don’t share someone’s fetish, no need to degrade their ways to play. To each their own.
Consent is the only real consideration. If someone feels uncomfortable about a gross kink, find another partner or use fantasy or porn. For some gross fetishes, consent is impossible and so those ones cannot play out in real time.
Read: All About Kink Shaming and Why It’s Not Okay
20 Fetishes People Find Gross or Disgusting
1. Fart Fetish
People of all ages find farting funny and a bit gross. But some have a fart fetish called eproctophilia, where they feel sexually aroused by the sound, smell, and idea of farts.
Read: Fart Fetish: The Smelly Kink of Eproctophilia
2. Burp Fetish
Burping is a gross kink that is surprisingly common. While most of us find burping a bit rude, some find the sounds and smells and the idea of being full and satisfied arousing.
Read: Burp Fetish: A Kink for Belching
3. Belly Stuffing
For others, burping is just one of the signs of a stuffed belly. Belly stuffing sounds like a disgusting fetish for some of us. But there is a whole belly stuffing kink. It is related to inflation or transformation kinks and sometimes to eating kinks or stomach kinks.
4. Spit Fetish
Being spit on is a symbol of humiliation, so the spit fetish can be part of erotic humiliation. But this gross kink is not humiliating for everyone. Saliva is also part of deep kissing and of oral sex. Some people are sexually excited by spit, saliva, or drooling.
Read: Spit Fetish: Salivating Over Saliva
5. Snot Fetish
This gross fetish is more common than you think! Sneezing is often compared to orgasm—it’s a pleasurable and juicy release, if you will. Sneezing is not always part of the snot fetish. Sometimes it is just the mucus.
Read: Mucus Fetish and the Sexy Side of Snot
6. Smelly Foot Fetish
The foot fetish is one of the most common fetishes of all. Most foot fetishists have specific kinds of feet, parts of feet, or shoes that attract them. While some love a tidy and decorative pedicured foot, it is very common to find the odor of smelly feet arousing!
Read: Foot Fetish: A Guide to Foot Kinks & Play
7. Cum Eating
Curiously, even many heterosexual women who crave dudes find the idea of cum eating to be a disgusting fetish. Few women love cum eating, despite what you see in porn. The idea is very exciting to some, however, and to many, many men.
Some men are turned on by the idea of eating cum themselves. It can be part of a cuckold or humiliation kink. It can be part of the perception of virility. It can be purely the taboo. It is common among both gay and straight men.
Read: How to Eat Your Own Cum
8. Menstrual Blood Fetish
The majority of us handle menstruation and sex practically. It’s a fact of life and a bit messy. Some of us feel disgusted by menstrual blood and smells, but some are menophiles.
Menophiles are sexually aroused by menstrual blood. It feels primal to them, connected to creation and so symbolic of women’s magic powers. It has also been taboo in many cultures to touch menstrual blood or touch women who are menstruating, and taboo is always a powerful trigger for a sexual fetish.
Read: Menophilia: The Period Blood Fetish
9. Vomit Fetish
This gross kink is called emetophilia, also known as Roman shower, and it is sexual arousal from vomiting, being vomited on, from vomit itself, or from watching others vomit.
10. Piss Play
Piss play is a milder kind of gross kink. Most of us find urine a “little bit gross” compared to vomit or blood or sewage, let’s say. It is very common. Also called golden showers, or water sports.
Read: 5 Piss Play Ideas for Kinky Lovers
11. Scat Play
Scat play or coprophilia is the epitome of a disgusting fetish for most, and a hard limit for even the kinkiest folks. It can be a shameful experience to have a scat fetish.
We don’t choose our fetishes and finding someone to indulge this one is difficult. Even so, a minority of people find feces sexually arousing and love the smell, taste, texture, and taboo of poo.
Read: Scat Kink: All About Poop Fetish and Scat Play
12. Necrophilia
Over scat, only necrophilia is considered a more disgusting fetish, and it is totally illegal and immoral. We consider sexual attraction to dead people or corpses disgusting and perceive those with this fetish to be either criminally depraved or sick.
No one chooses what excites them, but stronger than the taboo of death is the fact that no one can consent to this so it is not an option except through role play and fantasy.
Read: Impossible Kinks and Fantasy Fetishes
13. Bestiality
Sex with animals is a criminal act almost everywhere. It is not uncommon, sometimes as a substitute for a human partner, and sometimes out of animal cruelty. The latter is a disgusting fetish for real. Humans anthropomorphize everything and mythology is full of mythic and fantastical half-human half-animal creatures who mate.
We also enjoy taking animal qualities such as flying or ferocity into our imagination and incorporating them. This is creative and beautiful. But those who have a literal attraction to real animals have no ethical way to indulge their gross kink because animals cannot consent to sex with humans.
14. Cum Collecting
Not very common, but out there. This disgusting fetish involves collecting and saving ejaculation.
Read: 7 Ways to Enjoy Your Cum Fetish
15. Blood Sports
Almost everyone finds the idea of the vampire deeply erotic and romantic on some level. Some find the nitty gritty part of this age old fantasy to be the blood itself. Blood play can be a medical kink, a form of edge play or risk, or just a taboo bodily fluid.
Read: Hematolagnia: Blood Fetish and Blood Play
16. Diaper Soiling
Adult Baby Diaper Lovers, or other diaper fetishists, may be really into diaper soiling. For some it is the texture and security of the diaper, but they are not into the idea of or actually soiling the diaper.
This gross kink is taken all the way by others, and the humiliation of soiling their diaper, or the sensation of the urine or feces squishing against their bodies and the diaper, is a huge a turn on.
Read: Diaper Fetish: 6 Kinks of Diaper Lovers
17. Feederism and Gaining Fetishes
Feeder fetishes and gaining fetishes can be part of fat fetishes, part of transformation fetishes, a bondage and humiliation thing, or part of food fetishes.
For some people, the idea of a fat person eating and gaining weight is the height of a gross kink. For others, it is super hot. It’s all about hunger and consuming.
Read: Feederism: Feeding and Gaining Fetish Explained
18. Sweat Fetish
Literally every bodily fluid is a kink for someone.
Read: Sweat Fetish: Related Kinks & Ways to Play
19. Lactation Fetish
Breasts are sexually exciting for almost everyone, and though most of us find the idea of milk a bit of a gross kink unless it’s food for new humans, the rarity of it and the fact it comes from boobs can make it enormously exciting.
Read: Lactation Fetish: 4 Types of Milking Kinks
20. Cannibal Kink
Consuming another human is how we symbolically imagine sex. Two people becoming one and all that. We use our mouths and the word “devour.” For some people, that symbolism becomes literal.
Inexplicably, the cannibal kink is not always connected to necrophilia, making it impossible or very difficult and dangerous to enact. While cannibalism is a disgusting kink to most of us, it is also a very common fantasy on some levels. People with this kink fantasize about both sides—being eaten and eating.
Read: 16 Illegal, Unethical, and Nonconsensual Kinks and Fetishes
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