According to Ela Darling , a porn star and cosplay aficionado, cosplay simply means dressing up as your favorite character from a comic book, movie, or novel, and taking on the persona of that character. Cosplay can be sexual or nonsexual, depending on the context. Dressing as Wonder Woman and doing a strip tease for your nerdy gamer boyfriend? Dressing as Gandolf for a Lord of the Rings viewing party? Whatever the opposite of sexy is. Consider the context and surroundings before assuming a costume is an invitation for sexual attention. A lot of fangirls who participate in cosplay feel like they are oversexualized.

The term was created in by a man named Nobuyuki Takahashi who wrote an article in a Japanese magazine called, My Anime. In it, he encouraged attendees of various science fiction conventions to embrace dressing up in costume. Today, many find their cosplay inspiration from sources such as anime, cartoons, comic books, manga, TV shows, and video games. Is there an exact way that one should dress in order to be considered a cosplayer?

Admittedly, it's pretty fun to dress up for Halloween, no matter how old you are. You get to pretend to be someone else for the night, and maybe even channel some inner sexiness by dressing up as Khaleesi, or even a sexy mouse we see you, Karen. While some people just like playing a character, others like to kick things up a notch by bringing it to the bedroom. And that, friends, is called cosplay sex. Cosplay sex is exactly what it sounds like: People bang while in character.