Many people have some form of hygrophilia, a kink or fetish for bodily fluids. Sexuality is, after all, intimately linked to fluids, to the body, and hence to body fluids.
Body fluids like saliva are present in kissing. Sexual arousal means vaginal lubrication. Orgasms cause semen ejaculation or even G-spot fluid squirting. Sex during menstruation involves blood. Getting pregnant is often the goal or outcome of sex and means lactating breasts and nursing.
All of these fluids are integral to the sexual experience, and enhance sex for some people. Those who are especially excited by one or more body fluids can be said to have hygrophilia.
What Is Hygrophilia?
Hygrophilia is an umbrella term for body fluid fetishes. Someone who is sexually aroused by, attracted to, or receives sexual and psychological pleasure from a specific body fluid or multiple body fluids has hygrophilia.
Hygrophilia is extremely common. Many people experience it without calling it anything.
For example, most heterosexual men are extremely aroused by the idea of a woman getting “wet.” Many find very wet open-mouth kissing with a lot of saliva exchange very exciting. Lots of gay guys are really into male ejaculation. Lots of people are aroused by the idea of full, overspilling breast milk.
While some of the body fluids that excite certain people are taboo and evoke the disgust response in many, such as nasal mucus or feces, the taboo makes it more alluring to some.
Read: 27 Sexual Taboos That Are No One Else’s Business
15 Body Fluid Fetishes and Kinks
1. Crying Fetish (Dacryphilia)
Dacryphilia is sexual pleasure or sexual arousal from crying. It can be the sound of the crying, the emotional release from crying, or the look of the mouth or eyes and expression of crying that do it for some folks with the crying fetish.
For many, the tears themselves streaming down someone’s face are the main trigger of excitement. They like to touch, lick, and look at tears glistening and pouring. When the tears are at the center of the crying fetish, it is a form of hygrophilia, or body fluid fetishes.
Read: Dacryphilia: All About the Crying Kink
2. Snot Fetish (Mucophilia)
You don’t hear very often about mucophilia because of social taboo and the danger of respiratory illness, as mucus carries viruses and other germs.
Most people find mucus or “snot” kind of gross, or neutral at best. But any body fluid can be sexually arousing and this form of hygrophilia exists for some people.
Some snot lovers enjoy the sound of someone blowing their nose, the facial expressions made, the consistency of the snot, rubbing the snot, licking it, or penetrating and picking the nasal orifice to retrieve snot.
Read: Mucus Fetish and the Sexy Side of Snot
3. Spit Fetish
The saliva fetish can be a form of BDSM, punishment or degradation or humiliation in a power exchange relationship between a dominant and submissive or master and slave. It can also be a form of hygrophilia, where saliva is the driver of sexual arousal, not the symbolic interpretation of “being spit on.”
Saliva figures into excitement for most lovers even though we may not think of it. Testosterone is passed from male saliva to female while kissing, amping up her arousal and openness to having sex with him. And we are often turned off by dry kissing or report it feeling familial, rather than sexy or romantic.
Some have a bona fide spit fetish and want to watch the saliva stringing from a mouth during a blowjob or drool from one’s lips. They may ask a lover to spit into a cup and build up a bowl of saliva.
Read: Spit Fetish: Salivating Over Saliva
4. Sweat Fetish
Another form of hygrophilia is the sweat fetish. Sweat holds pheromones and other signals. When you like the smell of a certain someone’s sweat you are more likely to be sexually attracted to them, and when you are disgusted by their smell, you probably won’t want to sleep with them.
Some people with a sweat fetish love strong scents. Some like the specific scent of their partner or certain partners only. Some like “clean” sweat but love the glistening look of it or the stains under the armpits or fluids left on a seat or gym equipment.
Read: Sweat Fetish: Related Kinks & Ways to Play
5. Lactation and Breastfeeding Fetish (Lactophilia)
Being turned on by the idea of someone breastfeeding or having a desire to nurse from a woman who is breastfeeding is a form of hygrophilia.
Read: Lactation Fetish: 4 Types of Milking Kinks
6. Cum Fetish
A few women and a lot of men—straight, gay, and more—are wildly excited by male cum. They may want to see the evidence inside their lover, or see another man’s cum on her body, as evident in the popular cream pie videos. Some love to touch it, roll in it, slather the whole body with it. Some even eat their own cum.
Read: 7 Ways to Enjoy Your Cum Fetish
7. Bukkake and Facials
Bukkake is basically when a large group of guys ejaculates on someone—a “cum bath.” This is hygrophilia. Facials are ejaculation on the face.
8. Cum Drinking
Some people are turned on by the idea of cum drinking—watching their partner, or trying it personally.
Read: Gokkun: the Cum Drinking Kink from Japan
9. Female Ejaculation
The G-spot and female ejaculation has a mystique about it and a rarity that can make it really exciting to experience.
Some people with hygrophilia go out of their way to find women who squirt. Some want to see the female ejaculation happen, get wet and messy, drink it, or rub it all over them.
10. Blood Play (Hematolagnia)
Blood play is often part of BDSM, sadism, masochism, or vampire fetishism. It can also be a form of hygrophilia, as for some, it isn’t the pain, bondage, or folklore but the actual fluid of blood that is most exciting.
11. Menstrual Blood Fetish (Menophila)
The blood fetish can be specific to menstrual blood. Menophilia can be a kind of hygrophilia.
Read: Menstruation Fetish: The Allure of Period Sex
12. Golden Showers (Urolagnia)
Piss play is a classic kink and a form of hygrophilia as old as the hills. Many kinky people into golden showers simply find extreme sexual excitement in the wetness of urine, in handing it, being pissed on, looking at the fluids.
13. Pee Drinking (Urophagia)
Some kinky folks find special arousal in drinking urine fluids.
Read: Pee Drinking Fetish: Urophagia as Kink
14. Scat Fetish (Coprophilia)
The scat fetish is among the most taboo kinks. Technically it falls under hygrophilia. People with scat fetishes are often embarrassed by their excitement and don’t know why they find it arousing.
The texture, scent, and appearance of feces excite them. Scat kink may be a form of degradation and humiliation in BDSM and that is often the draw, but not always. It can be completely independent of the symbolism and all about the shit itself as a bodily fluid and solid.
Read: Scat Kink: All About Poop Fetish and Scat Play
15. Roman Shower or Vomit Fetish (Emetophilia)
Another taboo kink is emetophilia, a form of hygrophilia where the exciting fluid is vomit. People may find vomiting sexually exciting themselves, or want to be barfed on or witness other people vomiting. It is often tied to the vomit itself, the stomach fluids and food waste, independent of the process of vomiting.
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