anal sex

See also: analsex and Analsex

English

Etymology

anal +‎ sex. First use appears c. 1970 in the American Sociological Review.

Pronunciation

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Noun

anal sex (uncountable)

1. A sexual activity involving stimulation of a sexual partner's anus or rectum, especially by penetration.
   • 2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 23:

     They had sex before either knew the other’s surname. They had anal sex before they had vaginal sex.

   • 2010, S. S. Abdool Karim, Q. Abdool Karim, HIV/AIDS in South Africa, page 299:

     It is a common misconception that anal intercourse is an exclusively homosexual male practice. […] As elsewhere in Africa, little data exist on the role of anal sex in HIV acquisition in women in the general population […]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:anal sex

Coordinate terms

• scissoring

Translations

sex involving the anus

• Arabic: جِنْس شَرَجِيّ m (jins šarajiyy)
• Armenian: անալ սեքս (anal sekʻs)
• Belarusian: ана́льны сэкс m (análʹny seks)
• Bulgarian: ана́лен секс (análen seks), анално проникване n (analno pronikvane), анално сношение n (analno snošenie)
• Catalan: sexe anal m
• Cebuano: lubot
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 肛交 (gong¹ gaau¹)

  Mandarin: 肛交 (zh) (gāngjiāo), (slang) 10 (zh) (yīlíng)

• Czech: anální sex m
• Danish: analsex c, analt samleje n
• Dutch: anale seks (nl) m
• Esperanto: anusa seksumado, bugro
• Estonian: anaalseks
• Finnish: anaaliseksi (fi)
• French: sexe anal m
• Galician: sexo anal m
• Georgian: ანალური სექსი (analuri seksi)
• German: Analverkehr (de) m, Analsex (de) m
• Greek: πρωκτική συνουσία f (proktikí synousía), πρωκτικό σεξ n (proktikó sex)
• Hebrew: מין אנאלי (he) m (min anali), סקס אנאלי m (seks anali)
• Hindi: गुदा मैथुन (gudā maithun), गुदा सेक्स m (gudā seks)
• Hungarian: anális szex
• Icelandic: endaþarmsmök n pl
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: gnéas tóna m
• Italian: sesso anale m
• Japanese: アナルセックス (ja) (anaru sekkusu), 肛門性交 (ja) (こうもんせいこう, kōmon seikō)
• Korean: 항문 성교(肛門性交) (hangmun seonggyo), 항문 섹스 (hangmun sekseu)
• Latin: paedicatio f
• Latvian: anālais sekss m
• Lithuanian: analinis seksas m
• Maltese: sess anali
• Maori: moe whakaeneene, moe whakaene
• Persian: آمیزش جنسی مقعدی (âmizeš-e jensi-ye maq'adi), سکس مقعدی (seks-e maq'adi), کون‌مرزی (kun-morzi)
• Polish: seks analny m, (colloquial) anal (pl) m, branie w dupę n, branie do dupy n
• Portuguese: sexo anal (pt) m
• Romanian: sex anal n
• Russian: ана́льный секс (ru) m (análʹnyj sɛks), (colloquial) ана́л (ru) m (anál)
• Sami:

  Inari: aanaalseksi

  Northern: análaseaksa

  Skolt: anaalseʹkss

• Samogitian: analėnės seksos m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анални секс m

  Roman: analni seks m

• Slovene: analni seks (sl) m
• Spanish: sexo anal (es) m
• Swahili: ngono ya mkundu
• Swedish: analsex (sv)
• Tamil: குதவழிப் பாலுறவு (kutavaḻip pāluṟavu)
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: การร่วมเพศทางทวารหนัก (gaan-rûam-pâyt taang tá-waan-nàk)
• Turkish: anal seks
• Ukrainian: ана́льний секс m (análʹnyj seks)
• Vietnamese: tình dục hậu môn, giao hợp hậu môn

See also

• vaginal sex

Further reading

• anal sex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia