The Happy Hotwife Glossary

When you first step into this lifestyle, it feels like learning a foreign language. Here is a quick guide to the terms we use, defined my way. Pulled directly from my book, Becoming Happy Hotwife.

Hotwife / Vixen

A married woman who has the full blessing and encouragement of her husband to explore her sexuality with other men. She is not cheating. She is playing by the rules of her own marriage.

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Stag

A husband who loves watching his wife fully realize her sexual side. Stags are generally secure, dominant men who enjoy the visual pleasure of seeing their wife being powerful in a sexual situation. They are not looking to be humiliated.

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Cuckold

Similar to a Stag, but the dynamic usually involves an exchange of control. He enjoys surrendering his dominance, watching his wife take control, and often enjoys the teasing and humiliation aspect of her being with a more endowed man. This is where fantasy mixes. It uses a language those involved understand. It is the language of the game and it is a very exciting one to play together.

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Bull

The single man (or sometimes a married man playing separately) who is brought in to pleasure the Hotwife. A good Bull knows his job is to respect the marriage and team up with the husband to give the wife the best night possible.

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Keyholder / Chastity

A dynamic where the wife wears a key around her neck to her husband's chastity device. It is a symbol of her sovereignty, his trust, and the playful ownership at the center of our marriage.

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The Switch

That intoxicating moment when the quiet, everyday wife turns off her inhibitions and unleashes her dominant, unapologetic sexual sovereignty.

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Compersion

The feeling of genuine joy you get from watching your partner experience pleasure. It is often described as the opposite of jealousy. In the Hotwife lifestyle, compersion is the emotional engine underneath the whole thing. The husband who feels it most deeply is usually the one who thrives longest in this life.

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Cuckold Angst vs. Compersion

These two feelings almost always exist at the same time. The angst is the jealousy and ego fighting back. The compersion is the love and pride winning. Most Cuckold husbands live in the space between them, and that tension is exactly what keeps them coming back.

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Seasons

Our shorthand for the version of the lifestyle in any given stretch of time. Intense seasons. Quiet seasons. Stag seasons. Cuckold seasons. The marriage stays the same. The version changes.

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HHW (IYKYK)

Happy Hotwife. If you know, you know.

White Gold

Our redefined wedding rings. The symbol of our uncommon marriage. The symbol of everything Becoming Happy Hotwife describes.

Tyler's Girl

The two words on my lower back. The line on my body that tells the world exactly who I belong to, no matter what room I am standing in.