The cherry emoji and 14 other emoji you can use to sext

Sexting is with emoji is delicious.
By Rachel Thompson  on 
Various emoji, including the eggplant and peach emojis.
Sexting with emoji? Let us help. Credit: Rachel Thompson / Mashable

Sexting with emoji doesn't just make you thirsty. It can make you hungry too.

Between the cherry emoji, the eggplant-alternative hot dog emoji, and the peach emoji, your choices for flirty texting with emoji are a virtual grocery basket of juicy options. And beyond just the food emoji, with a little imagination, nigh-on any emoji can be made sexy.

Here are 15 saucy emoji you can use for sexting:

1. Cherries

A cherry emoji.
Sexting with emoji: cherry emoji Credit: unicode

How have we ignored the cherry emoji for so long? They are so very versatile. The ruby red cherries resemble a particularly juicy derrière. And, if butts aren't your bag, you can even use the cherries as a euphemism for breasts and balls.

2. Full moon

A moon emoji.
Sexting with emoji: full moon Credit: unicode

The full moon is the original euphemism for bottoms. In fact, moon has been a used to describe butts in English since 1743, long before the peach emoji was invented. The moon emoji is perfectly round, and its smiley face will bring a similar smile to the face of your sexting partner.

3. Beating heart

A beating heart emoji,
Sexting with emoji: beating heart Credit: unicode

Sometimes it helps to depict movement when you're sexting. Plainly put, we're talking about twerking and, well, anything that involve wiggling your bottom. Use with wild abandon.

4. Chestnut

A chestnut emoji.
Sexting with emoji: chestnut emoji Credit: unicode

The poor chestnut emoji has long been resigned to the long list of emoji that you never, ever use. But, it shouldn't be. The chestnut emoji is useful. Not all butts are completely round. Some are chestnut-shaped. This is the emoji for you if you wanna be anatomically correct.

5. Cactus

A cactus emoji,
Sexting with emoji: cactus emoji Credit: unicode

Why does the eggplant emoji get so much attention? If you think about it, the cactus is just as phallic. Granted, the prickles might be slightly off-putting, but why not shake things up a little?

6. Melon

A melon emoji.
Sexting with emoji: melon emoji Credit: unicode

This is a highly versatile emoji. You can use it to describe breasts, butts and even balls.

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7. Apple

An apple emoji.
Sexting with emoji: apple emoji Credit: unicode

There's a reason why there's an entire line of jeans named after apple-shaped bottoms. Some butts really do look like apples. Again, if you feel like this emoji is more representative of your behind, go ahead and use it.

8. Tulip

A tulip emoji.
Sexting with emoji: tulip emoji Credit: unicode

While the eggplant — and cactus — emoji abound when talking about penises, what can we use if we want to talk about female genitals? Make like Georgia O’Keeffe and use some floral, vulvic emoji.

9. Broken heart

A broken heart emoji.
Sexting with emoji: broken heart emoji Credit: unicode

It may not match that butt cheek definition afforded by the classic peach emoji, but the broken heart could certainly be interpreted as two rather distinct cheeks.

10. Lollipop

A lollipop emoji.
Credit: unicode

Too shy to talk about oral sex? The lollipop emoji could work a treat in getting the message across. What's more: it can refer to every single type of oral sex imaginable. Cool.

11. Hot dog

A hotdog emoji.
Credit: unicode

Thank you, Unicode, for the gift of the hot dog emoji. This is patently both phallic and vulvic. But the two buns could also act as a rather tenuous butt metaphor too.

12. Pear

A peach emoji.
Credit: unicode

When your booty is pear-shaped, an apple just won't work. Crack out the pear emoji when chatting about your behind.

13. Corn on the cob

A corn emoji.
Credit: unicode

Ugh, eggplants are so over. The corn on the cob is phallic and just screams 'penis!'

14. Taco

A taco emoji.
Sexting with the taco emoji Credit: unicode

Depending on how much you like Mexican food, this vulvic creation could be a dream-come-true or your very worst nightmare.

15. Peach

A peach emoji.
Sexting with the peach emoji Credit: unicode

A juicy classic representing all the butts.

Go forth and sext!

UPDATE: Jun. 29, 2023, 10:26 a.m. AEST This article was originally published in July 2019, and has since been updated in June 2023.

Related Video: How to have virtual sex, according to a sex expert

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Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World will be published by Penguin Random House on Jan. 30, 2025. It is available for pre-order now.

Her first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021. Stylist magazine called Rough "2021's most important book about sex".

Based in the UK, Rachel has been writing about sex, dating, relationships, and digital culture for over a decade.


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