orientation play

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Images with a focus on sexual orientation, particularly a mismatch of one's identity with the activity going on in the image. Often involves play surrounding denial, homophobia, bicuriosity, conversion or other topics.

This tag is often misused as a way to tag pictures that conflict with canon sexualities, which goes against TWYS.

Tagging guidelines
Things that count as orientation play:
  • A character proclaiming they aren't gay while engaging in sexual activity with the same sex. (no homo)
  • A character discovering that they're sexually attracted to a gender they believed they weren't originally.
  • A character attempting to seduce someone who says they're straight/gay, or succeeding.
  • Trying to "convert" a character's sexuality.
  • Experimenting and exploring sexually with a different gender.
  • A character engaging in sexual activity with a gender they aren't usually attracted to, provided there is visual evidence to the orientation, such as a visible pride flag.
  • Mistaken gender in regards to attraction.
Things that DON'T count as orientation play:
  • Images with no reference to sexual orientation, regardless of the character's canon sexuality. For example, a lesbian with a man, with no reference in the image to the character being a lesbian.
  • Bisexual encounters with no reference to orientation.
  • Posts with a story in the description related to orientation play.

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See also

The following tags implicate this tag: gay_to_straight, straight_to_gay (learn more).

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