sexual role-play

or sex·u·al role·play

[ sek-shoo-uhl rohl-pley ]

noun

1. role-play, either in person or online, in which participants act out erotic fantasies for mutual gratification, often involving bondage, dominance, or the like: : SRP

   Popular for sexual role-play is the French maid uniform, worn by a servant who traditionally defers to her wealthy master.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sexual role-play¹

First recorded in 1985–90

Example Sentences

Toward the end of the novel, sexual role-play with a black lover leads Kennedy to recall the childhood incident in which she, like her mother, called her black Brentwood playmate the N-word.

From New York Times

Crimp, the adventurous author of “The Treatment” and the sexual role-play drama “When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other,” finds depths of ambiguity in “Cyrano” that you may not have ever realized were there.

From New York Times

Girls had that sexual role-play scene gone wrong, a scene that showed just how far Adam and Hannah’s relationship has come and just how far it has yet to go.

From Slate

Mike Leigh's 1988 comedy High Hopes contains a scene in which a suburban shrew attempts to cajole her boorish husband into some sexual role-play.

From The Guardian

The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw called Polanski's first French-language film a "playful if occasionally heavy-handed jeu d'ésprit on the subject of sexual role-play, the games we all play, illusion and reality, and directing as a sexual act."

From Reuters