kinky

comparative kinkier · superlative kinkiest

1. Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl.

   kinky hair

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   It seemed that there had never been a time when he had not known this moment of waiting while the packed church paused—the sisters in white, heads raised, the brothers in blue, heads back; the white caps of the women seeming to glow in the charged air like crowns, the kinky, gleaming heads of the men seeming to be lifted up—[…]

   1953, James Baldwin, “The Seventh Day”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN

2. informalMarked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior, as fetishism, sadomasochism, and other sexual practices.

   Their male customers are often identified as lonely, sleazy, and into kinky sex[…]

   1994, Roberta Perkins, Sex Work and Sex Workers in Australia, page ii

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   What had I been expecting, behind that closed door, the first time? At the very least some minor sexual manipulation, some bygone peccadillo now denied him, prohibited by law and punishable by amputation. To be asked to play Scrabble, instead, as if we were an old married couple, or two children, seemed kinky in the extreme, a violation in its own way.

   1985, Margaret Atwood, “Soul Scrolls”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 163

   Scars on my back were revealed from when I was whipped by a sadomasochistic ex-lover. I wondered if it bothered anyone, but it only seemed to make everyone harder than they already were. I was a kinky girl.

   2002, Lyla Verone, The Interview

   We begin to see that a kinky relationship is complex and difficult to maintain. And yet, Sir Sultan Stud’s harem arrangement is only the tip of the iceberg. Kinky people are capable of amazingly complicated relationships that are not for the faint of heart.

   2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “Kinksters and kinksterettes—Who are these people, anyway?” (chapter 1), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 31

   Antonyms: normophilic

3. Queer; eccentric; crotchety.

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   People received energy and solace from wanting things and then getting them. Pearl wanted energy and solace. She felt that if she could only get interested in and knowledgeable about a kinky subject, for example hockey or sharks, she would be a more contented person. She could not just be fucking all the time.

   1978, Joy Williams, The Changeling, 40th anniversary edition, introduction by Karen Russell, Portland, Or.; Brooklyn, N.Y.: Tin House Books, published April 2018, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24