Chastity, the orgasm denial fetish that has increasingly become a mainstream obsession, has been named 2025 Fetish of the Year by Clips4Sale, the world’s largest kink and fetish platform. Once a fairly obscure fetish, sales of chastity play content has grown dramatically in the past few years, increasing 193% since 2020. Much that growth has occurred in the past year, with sales jumping 71% in 2024 alone — one of the highest growth rates on the platform of any major category.

“On the platform and off, we’re seeing an interest in controlling pleasure, ” says Clips4Sale spokesperson Avery Martin. “It’s a submissive position that, in many ways, expands naturally from the interest we saw in giantess fetish last year. With so much anxiety around sexuality, it can bring relief to have someone or something, whether a domme or a cage, that denies you the ability to get off. Of course, while it may seem counterintuitive to those outside the community, chastity fetishists are also embracing a notion of pleasure and satisfaction that doesn’t entirely reside in the genitals.”

Martin points to a cultural embrace of chastity that extends beyond self-aware fetishists, such as the rise of the semen retention movement on platforms like TikTok, the huge NoFap anti-masturbation community on Reddit and calls for feminist calls for a global sex strike.

“We may be in an anti-pleasure timeline, but that doesn’t mean it needs to be joyless or sexless,” says Martin. “What I hope the fetish community can bring to the larger community is a sense of play, and a focus on other avenues of gratification. There’s freedom in restraint, denial and humiliation — so long as it’s enjoyable, self-aware and consensual.”

2025 Fetish of The Year: Chastity (Clips4Sale)