male focus
Images featuring only male characters, or with an overwhelming emphasis on male characters. Do not use on male-to-female genderswaps, or any image with an easily noticeable female presence.
Different themes
- bara - content usually created by and for a homosexual male audience.
- bishounen - is aimed at a female audience, centered on teenage boys, and drawn elegantly.
- manly - scraggly beards and rippling muscles.
- otoko no ko - males who have taken on the appearance and/or identity of the female gender.
- shota - art that depicts preadolescent boys. Use this tag only with sexually suggestive or explicit content, otherwise use child.
- yaoi - usually involves bishounen and is intended for a female audience, but on danbooru, yaoi is used for any romantic and/or sexual depiction between males.
Hairstyles
Facial hair
Body hair
Physique
Male clothing tags
Male underwear
Remember to not use the shirtless or bare pecs tags if wearing underwear only or nude.
Male swimwear
Remember to use bare pecs instead of shirtless with this tag, as swimwear does not require a shirt in the first place.
Pectorals tags
- bare pecs
- pectorals
- pectoral focus - A post focusing on someone's pectorals, especially in a close-up.
- bursting pecs - Where large pectorals cause a wardrobe malfunction or the pecs look like they are about to "pop".
- object on pectorals - Something is placed on the character's pectorals.
- pectoral press - The act of pressing one's pectorals against something.
- pectoral pillow - When one lays their head, in any direction, on a male's pectorals as a pillow.
- pectoral docking - The act of pressing pectorals on another set of pectorals. Usually associated with Bara artwork.
- pectoral grab - The act of grabbing or groping pectorals.
- between pecs - When any object or a penis fits or is pressed between the male pectorals.
- pecjob - A paizuri-like sex act where a penis is rubbed between pectorals.
- Head between pecs
- manboobs - concerning fatty or breastlike pectorals
- bouncing pecs - Refers to pectorals in motion.
Penis tags
- bulge - When penis is covered.
- penis - when penis is exposed.
- erection
- flaccid - can apply if exposed or not.
- penis grab can apply for bulge or crotch grab as well.
- small penis
- large penis
- huge penis
- veiny penis
- foreskin
- testicles
Animal or creature tags
Remember to only use those tags when at least two characteristics are present.
- demon boy
- monster boy
- dragon boy
- insect boy
- plant boy
- slime boy
- incubus male equivalent of succubus
- snake boy - male equivalent of lamia
- harpy boy - male equivalent of harpy
- octopus boy - male equivalent of scylla
- fishman
- lizardman
- merman
- vampire
- werewolf
- zombie
- centaur
- cat boy
- dog boy
- fox boy
- tiger boy
- jaguar boy
- panther boy
- wolf boy
- lion boy
- rabbit boy
- bear boy
- bird boy
- cow boy - A male dressed as a cow or with cow-like features.
- minotaur- For characters with the head of a bull.
- goat boy
- satyr
Other male tags
- shirtless, topless is for females.
- old man
- Fudanshi
- Boy on top
- Boy sandwich
- male harem
- male lactation
- male masturbation
- male prostitution
- male pregnancy
- tentacles on male
- sucking male nipple
- dark skinned male
- Husband and husband
- Husband and husband and husband
- giant male which is the opposite of miniboy
Related tags
The following tags are aliased to this tag: men, man, and male_only (learn more).