everyone says it but im not sure what it means?
im embarresed to ask my friends cause they use it
12 answers by real people - what does Kinky mean?
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What is the age group of your friends? How old are you?
One of the explanations so far offered is accurate, but insensitive to the the “Millennial” generation. The word “gay” meant “joyous” as I grew up, it then became “homosexual”, and now means to millennials “something different or unexpected”, and seems to have little sexual overtone while being a bit demeaning. Slang, indeed!
“Cool” went through a number of spins over the years, lost favor as a term for something positive and desirable, then returned with a casual conviction.
The kinky that once meant a bent wire and then became a sexual reference now indicates in some conversations a strangely desirable deviation from the unexpected, whether sexual or otherwise. Thus, a new coffee shop attached to a tattoo shop might be “kinky” without any sexual reference whatever. Thus, “gay” and “kinky” are now similar, with gay being a bit not loved, while kinky might be tantalizing.
This trend began, in fact, over thirty years ago, when some folk spoke of unpredictable new pop music tunes as “kinky”.
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Perverted but in a mildly erotic way. Kinky Boots used to be very popular in the 1960’s – almost fetishistic – but not quite. There is a noveel by Esther Freud called Hideous Kinky – a novel about hippies in Morocco written supposedly by a five year old who loves that particular phrase – a brilliant read.
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Try a dictionary if you don’t know meanings. There are plenty in the library or online. Most likely your friends are talking about definition #3 or maybe they don’t know what it means as well?
kink⋅y
/ˈkɪŋki/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [king-kee] Show IPA
Use kinky in a Sentence
–adjective, kink⋅i⋅er, kink⋅i⋅est.
1. full of kinks; closely twisted: a kinky wire.
2. (of hair) closely or tightly curled.
3. Slang. marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior, as fetishism, sadomasochism, or the like.
Origin:
1835–45, Americanism; kink + -y 1
Related forms:
kink⋅i⋅ly, adverb
kink⋅i⋅ness, noun
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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Twisted and /or weird,
or unconventional taste in sex, which one of your answerers sure seems to know a lot about!! LOL!!
Kinky does not HAVE to be about sex at all. A person can be kinky just by acting in a twisted manner. 😉
LadyLynn is wrong. ‘kinky’ is not about doing ‘crazy, nasty stuff’, it’s more like indulging in a bit of light S&M, having a foot-fetish or indulging in erotic roleplay. It’s one step up from ‘vanilla’ sex, which is like… the usual kind of thing- missionary position, oral sex, mutual masturbation etc.
I don’t know if there’s a word for being into crazy stuff, like say coprophelia. I mean, that sh*t is *nasty*- literally.
Coprophelia
I’m not entirely sure how to explain it.
In a roundabout way, it’s an adjective for something that’s sexual.
