Those tits! Those lips! Those eyes! Those biceps! Those… nostrils?
Are nose fetishes a thing? Do some people find the nose the most beautiful, sexiest part of someone else’s body?
The answer is yes. While most people don’t list the nose as the sexiest part of their beloved’s body, some do. Every part of the human body exists as a fetish, and that includes the nose fetish.
While some of us may occasionally notice a cute nose or an unusual nose, folks with nasophilia may notice the nose over other assets first. They may have a strong preference for kinds of noses, or experience sexual arousal or sexual pleasure from various qualities of the nose or nose actions.
What Is Nose Fetishism?
A nose fetish, or nasophilia, is when someone experiences sexual attraction to noses or to people because of their nose. They may find looking at, touching, kissing, licking, or hearing nose noises as sexually exciting or pleasurable.
Nasophilia is one kind of body partialism. Partialist fetishes are extremely common, and every part of the human body is exciting sexually for someone.
Some forms of partialism are so common that we barely think about it as a fetish—a huge ratio of the heterosexual population are “breast men” for example, including this woman ha ha! Legs, butts, eyes are also very common parts of the body that many find sexually attractive. The neck, the knee, the ear, the wrist are other body parts that some have a preference for, and so it goes for the nose.
Nose partialism is like other kinds of body part fetishes and other fetishes in general in that the people who experience it may like noses in general, or they may have a very specific kind of preference, such as an unusually large nose, a runny nose, or a pert nose.
Read: Partialism: 17 Body Part Fetishes from Head to Toe
People with a nose fetish may enjoy kissing the nose, looking at it, sucking on it, tasting it, being penetrated with it, worshiping it, and more.
The nose has long been associated with the penis and rumors abound that equate dick size to nose size, or some other links to virility. That said, the vast majority of folks with a nose fetish are men, excited by women’s noses.
The nose is an orifice, also, and holes of the body are sexually exciting, even if more often they are vagina, anus, and mouth. Ears, the armpit recess, even eyes, and yes, the nose can be orifices that excite.
Read: The BIG List of Kinks: 120+ Fetishes Explained
11 More Nose Fetishes and Kinks
1. Nasolingus
Nasolingus is a nose fetish for performing oral on someone’s nose. This can include sucking, licking, kissing, biting, and penetrating the nostrils with the tongue.
Read: Tongue Fetish: 8 Kinky Tongue Play Ideas
2. Nosebleed Fetish (Epistaxiophilia)
Epistaxiophilia is a nosebleed fetish, that is, sexual arousal and pleasure from a nose gushing blood. This can be related to blood fetishes, as one way to access blood. It can be viewed as something intimate, rare fluids from an orifice that person experiences as intimate.
3. Nose Blowing Fetish
For some people, nose blowing is their nose fetish. They are excited by the sounds, sights, and results of blowing the nose- sniffles, red nose, crumpled tissues, honking noises. They may feel excitement from blowing their own nose and experience it as a release.
Any body part that produces fluids can be sexually exciting to some people.
Read: 15 Hygrophilia Kinks: Fetish for Bodily Fluids
4. Snot Fetish (Mucophilia)
The process of blowing the nose does it for some, but others are more particular—it is the actual fluid that excites, the snot or mucus. Mucophilia is arousal from nasal fluids or snot.
People with a snot fetish may enjoy the sight of snot dripping from nostrils, looking at or touching snot in tissues, licking and tasting snot, and more.
All body fluids from tears to mucus to feces are sexually arousing to some. More commonly we get excited by the idea of a woman “getting wet” or by ejaculation, but any fluid can have this effect.
Read: Mucus Fetish and the Sexy Side of Snot
5. Sneezing Fetish (Ptaerophilia)
Sneezing fetish is a unique nose fetish that involves sneezing, whether experiencing the sneeze or witnessing it. The sneeze has long been linked to orgasm in that it is involuntary, wet, pleasurable, and comes with a feeling of relief.
Read: Sneeze Fetish: FAQ
6. Smell Fetishes (Olfactophilia)
Olfactophilia are a kind of nose fetish, but it’s more about the owner of the nose and the smells that nose perceives.
Olfactophilia is about excitement or attraction from smells. They are usually scents of the body—pussy, armpit, hair, ass, feet, sweat.
Read: Olfactophilia Kinks: 13 Body Odor Fetishes
Sometimes the arousal is triggered by perfume, by baking, or by a very specific scent such as lawn mowing, laundry detergent, plastics, or ink.
7. BDSM Nose Hook
A BDSM nose hook is a bondage instrument that hooks into both nostrils and pulls the nose up, restricting a submissive’s movements significantly and giving their nose a pig like aesthetic. There are also BDSM nose hooks that strap around the head, spreading the nose sideways.
Nose hooks are used in sadomasochism, bondage and discipline, and erotic humiliation or degradation.
Read: All About Degradation Kink and How to Play
8. Nose Torture
Nose torture may be about S&M or about nose fetishes or both. It comes from Japanese BDSM, but it is known in nonconsensual torture practices in China and Japan and beyond.
Nose torture play can include the BDSM nose hooks, clamps like nipple clamps or clothespins, caning or flogging the nose with a small stick or leather strap, hot wax, and more.
Read: 13 BDSM Torture Methods and Ways to Play
9. Big Nose Fetish
Some big-nose-appreciation initiatives are body positivity events rather than big nose fetishes, but there is considerable overlap with those who admire big noses because they find big noses sexually stimulating.
10. Transformation Nasophilia
Sometimes the nose fetish is more of a transformation fetish—the change in a nose, such as in the fairy tale Pinocchio—is what’s exciting. Pinocchio’s growing nose of course mimics an erection.
In some fantasy stories, wiggling the nose leads to becoming an animal or other kind of familiar. The transformation itself can be the sexual trigger. This kink may even include the popular “nose job” performed by plastic surgeons.
Read: 17 Transformation Fetishes and Kinks
11. Nose Sex
Not so much a separate nose fetish, but an expression of nasophilia for some. Most noses of course cannot accommodate being penetrated by a penis, but there are exceptions.
In other instances, a man may rub his penis against the nostrils or just kind of push the head in, ejaculating to fill the nostrils or all over the nose. Some noses can penetrate a vagina or anus too.
Read: 17 Non-Penetrative Sex Ideas and Fetishes
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