Scat Play

Updated: NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Scat play refers to sexual activities involving feces. Individuals with a scat fetish, or coprophilia, derive sexual pleasure from the sight, scent, or feel of feces. Scat play can involve acts such as smearing feces on the body, defecating on a person's body, watching a person defecate, or even eating feces. Many scat players are also able to control the amount, consistency, and smell of their own feces by altering their diets.

While many people find this fetish repulsive, some are drawn to it because of the smooth warm feeling of feces as well as the sheer taboo mentality surrounding it. Sometimes, a scat fetish is combined with a diaper fetish.

Scat play may also be referred to as poop play, poop kink, coprophilia or scatophilia.

More About Scat Play

Experimenting with scat play is not something that everyone is open to, but it's possible to contain some of the mess involved with scat play by playing in a tub or shower stall, or laying down plastic sheets. Scat play also presents risks because feces contains unsafe bacteria that should not be introduced into the vagina or mouth. Gloves, condoms and dental dams can all be used help reduce the risk of infection.

Scat play may be related to sadomasochism; a small study found that a significant percentage of those in the S/M community had also engaged in scat play.