Sex and the supernatural? Combining the most natural human impulses with supernatural fetishes makes perfect psychological sense in the context of unbridled fantasy.
A huge part of sex and romance is in our imagination—we fantasize about celebrities, acrobatic sex, or people way out of our league. We fantasize about super-human lovers who are hot, rich, kind, sensitive, virgins, or otherwise impossible.
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Humans in every culture invent fairy tales, mythology, folklore and legends that weave sexuality and supernatural into their labyrinth of themes.
Art, literature, and cinema are full of supernatural themes—monster movies where the beast is an alpha testosterone-pumped creature chasing down a beautiful maiden with heaving bosoms, or the intense popularity of vampire stories where blood seals romantic fate for all of eternity.
The Appeal of the Supernatural
The idea of supernatural kinks or supernatural fetishes may sound strange on the surface. After all, how can you have sex with forces that are beyond nature, with ideas that are not “in the flesh”? But sex and the supernatural have always gone together.
The oldest living religion in the world is Hinduism, which saw the world come into being through divine sexual union of the gods. The ancient temples are covered in carvings of sexual acrobatics we see in part in the Kama Sutra.
The ancient Egyptian god Atum was believed to have created the world through masturbation, an incredible magical metaphor for the potential world inside ejaculation.
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Goddess cultures were all about divine sexual magic, with various copulation rites (as well as castration rituals for some devotees!)
The mystery behind the miracle of life and the unknown qualities of life beyond what we know as natural has always consumed us. We are curious creatures, and our sexuality is cerebral and imaginative.
While animals mate through instinct and follow obvious cues like pheromones, sights and sounds, humans add fantasy and imagination—perhaps these are even more integral to human sexuality than our biological cycles and hormones. From vampire cinema to the idea of a “soulmate,” we are drawn to supernatural ideas in our sexuality.
The supernatural is mysterious, powerful, and constructed into what we want it to be. Vampires live forever, and ghosts can wander through walls. If penetration is a form of deep and symbolic union that could result in life itself, what more is the idea of being taken over or possessed by a spirit lover?
14 Supernatural Kinks
1. Monster Fetish
Teratophilia is the term bandied about for the supernatural monster fetish, but also for people who are disfigured or deformed (a popular romantic and sexual kink, given all the Beauty and the Beast storylines.)
Whatever you call it, the monster fetish is a widespread and longstanding staple kink for all imaginations.
Monster cinema and monster fiction often has a soft erotic bent or a full-on hard-on. Scantily clad maidens scurrying around while chased by an overpowering supernatural monster had their heyday in clumsy early cinema and now continue in higher tech special effects technology.
Think about the film The Shape of Water, a modern version of monster fetishism where the heroine rescues the underdog creature rather than being hunted. It’s a very erotic story!
Read: Teratophilia: Monster Fetish and Deformity Kink
2. Supernatural Vore
Vore is a kink for being devoured or consumed. In many ways, all vore fetishes are supernatural fetishes, because you cannot be swallowed and live to tell the tale.
While cannibalism kinks are related, it isn’t really the same because the desire is not about eating human flesh per se but about the act of fully consuming or being consumed. It’s a symbolic difference. A fantasy monster or god is really the only one who can consume a human the way a python might swallow a rodent.
Read: What Is Vore? The Consuming Fetish of Vorarephilia
3. Transformation Fetish
A classic transformation fetish is the werewolf story, where man turns into a wolf- or is it really his primal self? Lycanthropy transformation stories are another classic of cinema and literature, and if they aren’t outright supernatural fetish stories, they all have erotic overtones. While being overpowered through brute force is a big part of the werewolf fetish, it’s also the transformation that drives the allure for many.
Read: 17 Transformation Fetishes and Kinks
There are other transformation fetishes, and because transformation is an idea, many of them are impossible or supernatural. One is the dollification kink, where a human transforms into a living doll. One is the blueberry inflation kink—where a girl turns into a giant blueberry.
4. Vampire Fetish
This supernatural fetish has literally millions of adherents, thanks to Anne Rice and the Twilight series. A vampire has always been erotic, not just frightening. The fantasy of immortality, the blood lust, and aesthetic are extremely attractive elements for countless people.
Read: My Lover Has a Vampire Fetish
5. Ghost Fetish (Spectrophilia)
Spectrophilia is another common supernatural fetish. While most ghosts are not erotic, not in the way most vampires are—but they are such a common fascination and many of the fascinated have an erotic attraction to the idea.
There are many driving forces behind the ghost kink. One is the idea of transcending the body. Another is tragedy combining with fantasy—many people have lost a loved one and are attracted to the idea that love knows no boundaries.
Another ghost kink inspiration is that of being so exposed—a ghost does not respect walls, or time, or any other boundary, and that vulnerability and exposure can have a delicious sexual quality.
Read: Ghost Fetish: Spectrophilia and Ghost Sex
6. Alien Fetish (Exophilia)
The conviction that there are extraterrestrial life forms is widespread. And so many of the encounter stories or abduction tales have sexual aspects.
Various medical and reproductive probings often take place. Many people have claimed to have been impregnated by aliens, either with a beaker and technology of sorts, or the old fashioned way, during the abduction experience or consensual encounters.
This supernatural fetish is very common. There is even a ovipositor sex toy that caters to the fantasy of having an alien implant an egg inside of you!
7. Santa Claus Fetish
As someone who has always found the idea of jolly old Santa to be a bit of turn OFF, I wasn’t sure if Santaphilia was real or more of a spoof. But there are countless folks who are turned on by Daddy Christmas.
The idea of a benevolent, big-hearted, loving figure who “sees you when you’re sleeping” is apparently a major turn on for many, red suit, reindeer and all.
Read: 4 Ways to Satisfy Her Santa Fetish
8. Shrinking Woman Fetish (Microphilia)
Microphilia is when people experience sexual excitement at the idea of a person shrinking. This has been a theme in various films and books and could be considered a transformation fetish as well as a supernatural fetish.
Read: Shrunken Women and Other Micro Fetishes
9. Giant Fetish (Macrophilia)
The giant fetish is a supernatural fetish where someone is either attracted to the idea of giants, or to the idea of someone transforming into a giant.
Read: What Kind of Kink Is Macrophilia?
10. Stygiophilia
This supernatural fetish gets its name from the River Styx. If Dante’s Inferno fires you up, or you get a sexual charge from the intensity of hellfire and damnation lectures, you might have stygiophilia, or a hellfire kink.
Read: Fire Fetish: 4 Ways to Play with Fire
11. Angel Fetish
Any supernatural being can become the object of someone’s affection. If Santa Claus is so popular with the ladies, of course the beautiful and benevolent guardian angels are a thing. Some prefer the immortal winged creatures of heaven to vampires and ghosts.
12. Spirit Possession Fetish
This supernatural fetish is a kind of transformation fetish. The spirit possession fetish isn’t just about angels or ghosts—it’s the idea that the spirit can possess you. It’s a kind of spiritual vore, if you will.
Read: How to Own Your Fantasies
13. Demonology Fetish
Demons—the idea of evil spirits—have fascinated us since our earliest stories. While many are frightened of this supernatural force, many have a fetish and find themselves sexually attracted to demons.
14. Goddess Worship
Worship of a woman’s body may seem incredibly natural and down to earth for many, but it’s roots are ancient and spiritual.
There were entire temples to various goddesses, and sacred sex rituals were part of that heritage. Many folks who are submissive or who simply adore the female body view goddess worship as a spiritual or divine practice, not just a physical one.
Read: All About Body Worship and How to Indulge
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