Lotion play is a subset of the better known wet-and-messy fetish (WAM), which typically involves participants using food (such as pudding or whipped cream), mud, or paint as a lubricant to facilitate sexual activity. Lotion play uses lotion specifically for this purpose. In Japan, , also known as gookakke or gluekakke (a play on words from ''goo''/''glue'' and ''

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''), is a popular fetish, a form of Japanese erotica and prostitution request involving the use of copious amounts of lubricant, which in the

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is referred to by the French loanword "lotion" (ローション in Japanese). Typically lotion play involves a participant rubbing lotion on another using their body,Talmadge, Eric. ''Getting Wet: Adventures in the Japanese Bath''. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2006, p. 187, 190–191. . sexual intercourse in a pool or bath filled with lotion,Sinclair, Joan. ''Pink Box: Inside Japan's Sex Clubs'', Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2006, p. 112–113. . or lotion being poured over the participants during sex. Lotion is available in concentrated form, to be added to hot water. A one-gallon concentrate will typically yield 6-10 gallons of lotion (J-Lube Lotion Concentrate). The main component in most lotion is

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.Page for a lotion product, listing acrylate as the main component
(in Japanese) A similar effect can be achieved by dissolving powdered

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in water.

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