suggestive imagery
Implying without showing
Suggestive imagery refers to visual or descriptive content that implies something—usually sexual—without depicting it explicitly.
The phrase appears in content warnings and rating systems: The film contains suggestive imagery and mild violence.
What counts as suggestive varies by context; a lingerie advertisement might be suggestive in one setting and unremarkable in another.
The term can also apply to non-sexual implications—imagery that suggests violence, drug use, or other sensitive content without showing it directly.
- evocativeTending to summon memories
- provocativeMeant to provoke response
- sensualOf bodily pleasure
- bedroom eyesLanguorous seductive glance
- alluringPowerfully appealing
come hither · innuendo · nudge nudge · double entendre · risqué · tantalizing · seductive · implicit · hinting · erotic · steamy · charged · loaded · veiled · symbolic · metaphor · smoke and mirrors · subliminal
- symbolismsymbol, symbols, allegory, metaphor, archetype
- erotic arterotic art, nude painting, nude sculpture, artistic nude, classical nude
suggestive imagerypornography
Sexually explicit arousing material
obscenity · graphic imagery · explicit content · full-frontal nudity
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