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Sexual roleplaying is the sexual behavior of playing some kind of character during a sexual encounter, in order to evoke a sexual fantasy in oneself and/or one's partner. This should not be confused with other types of roleplaying, such as improvisational theatre or role-playing games. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Sexual behavior is a form of physical intimacy that may be directed to reproduction (one possible goal of sexual intercourse) and/or to the enjoyment of activity involving sexual gratification. ... In roleplaying, participants adopt and act out the role of characters, or parts, that may have personalities, motivations, and backgrounds different from their own. ... Improvisational theatre (also known as improv or impro) is a form of theatre in which the actors perform spontaneously, without a script. ... This article is about traditional role-playing games. ...

Sexual roles can be very general designations of power position, sometimes abstracted to "top" and "bottom," or very specific, detailed fantasies. Nearly any role could become the base material for an erotic experience, but certain scenarios are typical in pornography and probably in real life as well, though it is difficult to collect empirical data on such things. Many of the most common sexual roleplays, such as Doctor(male)/Nurse(female), Nurse(female)/Patient(male), Police(female)/Criminal(male), Prostitute(female)/runaway child(male), Businessman(male)/Secretary(female), Teacher (male)/Schoolgirl (female), Teacher(female)/Student(male), Pornstar (female)/Underaged teenager (male), and High school football player (male)/ High school cheerleader (female), Rapist(male)/Victim(female) , Transvestite (female)/Wild Boar (male), involve a power differential. This article is about the erotic activity. ... This article is about the erotic activity. ... Pornographic movies Pornography (Porn) (from Greek πόρνη (porne) prostitute and γραφή (grafe) writing), more informally referred to as porn or porno, is the explicit representation of the human body or sexual activity with the goal of sexual arousal. ...

Often, and especially in cybersex, sexual roleplaying is used to act out a sexual act that would otherwise be taboo or forbidden. Cybersex, computer sex or net sex is a virtual sex encounter in which two or more persons connected remotely via a computer network send one another sexually explicit messages describing a sexual experience. ... A taboo is a strong social prohibition (or ban) against words, objects, actions, discussions, or people that are considered undesirable by a group, culture, or society. ...

See also

• Humiliation (BDSM)
• Subservience (BDSM)
• Animal Transformation Fantasy
• Erotic Objectification
• Robot Fetishism
• Rape fantasy (or ravishment)
• Roleplay
• Ageplay
• Imaginative Sex

In BDSM, humiliation is one psychological technique a top may use on a bottom. ... In BDSM, servitude is performing tasks and following orders as an aspect of being submissive. ... Girl dessed as Hajime Sorayamas Sexy Robot. ... A rape fantasy is a sexual fantasy about participating in a rape, a fictional story about a rape, or an acted-out scene of pretend rape between consenting adults. ... In role-playing, participants adopt characters, or parts, that have personalities, motivations, and backgrounds different from their own. ... Ageplay is a type of sexual roleplaying or BDSM in which a person pretends to be an infant, child or adolescent. ... Exploration and satisfaction through the mental and spiritual aspects of sexual intercourse is the thesis of Imaginative Sex, John Normans nonfiction 1974 work. ...

External links

• Collection of Roleplay Ideas for Couples