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humiliation

humiliation

7 9.6
A sexual activity where people agree to make or be made to feel ashamed for pleasure
  • noun
  • /hjuːˌmɪl.iˈeɪ.ʃən/
  • Offensive
translation icon : humillación sexual
  • In their BDSM scene, she found pleasure in the consensual humiliation of her partner.
  • humiliation rituals

This sort of humiliation and shame can sometimes be part of the sort of the fetish.

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Examples

  • I mean, sure, we'd have fun, roll around, get into some erotic humiliation fantasy.

  • We may indeed, with propriety, be said to have reached almost the last stage of national humiliation.

    Academic text (1993)
  • See if they have public humiliation on the menu.

  • "Or do you prefer a position of humiliation?" she asked.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Unfounded public humiliation is really hard for anyone, especially a child.

    Blog text (27)
  • A crown that turned a symbol of rule and power into a symbol of humiliation, vulnerability, and contempt.

    Blog text (13)
  • She knows only too well the kind of games you like to play, the kind of humiliation you enjoy inflicting on other people.

  • She refuses to use sexual humiliation as an interrogation technique.

  • We've been through, you and I, too many of these two-in-the-morning scenes of mutual humiliation and disgust to think they can change our lives.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Odili's inability to admit his sexual humiliation forces him to distort Elsie's role in the novel.

    Academic text (2017)

Synonyms

abasement
vshumiliation
  • Formal
1 8.9

A feeling of deep shame when people treat you as unimportant

is a sexual practice that finds arousal in consensual degradation

How Humiliating

dehumanization
  • Offensive
4 7.8
degradation
16 6.3
humiliation
  • Offensive
7 9.6
taunting
  • Offensive
5.8
teasing
2.7

Surface Forms

humiliation singular
humiliations plural

Morphology

humiliation = humiliate (transparent) = humiliate + ion

Morphologically a standard nominalization from 'humiliate'; the specialized sexual-fetish sense is a pragmatic specialization but the formation remains predictable.

Etymology

Humiliation comes from the Latin humilis, meaning 'low', the same root as humble. A helpful way to remember erotic humiliation is to think of role-play where people who both agree use the idea of feeling 'low' or embarrassed to create sexual excitement.