Netflix Porn Codes: How To Find Erotic Movies From 150+ Hidden Categories

Netflix does not have porn – but it does have ‘steamy’ and ‘erotic’ content.

However, you won’t find these titles by searching for ‘Porn’ or by browsing for a category clearly marked as ‘Blue Movies’. To get the good dirty stuff, we need to learn a few tricks…

There is a little-known hack that works amazingly well: numerical sub-genre codes. For example, you can search “11781” to find all the content that Netflix has marked as Steamy. There are over 150 different filters in total (see our full list below).

While Netflix has plenty of steamy and erotic movies, it’s not the place to go for X-rated content. For that, we’d recommend AdultTime instead. It looks and feels like Netflix – but the entire library is porn.

How Can I Find Adult Content on Netflix?

Let’s get this out of the way first: Netflix does not host porn. No matter how creatively you search, you’re not going to stumble into a hidden Blue Movies aisle or unlock some accidental BangBros annex.

What Netflix does have is a surprisingly deep catalogue of steamy, erotic, and sexually explicit films and series – yes, including titles with full nudity, extended sex scenes, and stuff that would have lived on late-night cable twenty years ago. The difference is presentation. Netflix refuses to label anything in a way that might alarm a shared household or a nervous advertiser… or its investors…

So instead of obvious categories, everything lives behind numerical sub-genre codes.

The idea that Netflix has hidden menus for ultra-specific genres – from “Cult Horror from the ’80s” to “Steamy Thrillers” – is, of course, well founded. In reality, our list of dirty channels below is just the tip of a very large iceberg. This isn’t a hack in the exploit sense. It’s just how Netflix’s internal taxonomy works.

Early fans scraped those genre IDs and shared them around, and Netflix never really stopped them. Fast forward to the present day, and those codes have multiplied into the thousands… far beyond 158.

In fact, one exhaustive fan site recently catalogued over 4,100 distinct genre codes(!).

Since we first published the channels, Netflix has changed their search UX to make these hidden categories a lot more discoverable in the first place.

The most useful example – and still the best catch-all – is:

11781 – Steamy

Search that, and you’ll immediately see everything Netflix has broadly classified as adult-twinged. It’s the closest thing the platform has to an unofficial adult section… and it’s where most of you should start.

From there, as we dig deeper, the categories get extremely specific.

How to Access Netflix Adult Categories

There are two ways to use these codes, and both still work at the time of writing (Feb 2026).

Option 1: Search the code directly
Type the number (for example, 11781) into Netflix’s search bar. On desktop and most smart TVs, the category *should* surface as a clickable row. That’s all you need.

Option 2: Use the direct URL
If you’re browsing on desktop, go to:

Replace CODE with any number from the lists below.

Netflix Adult Category Codes

These channels/codes may change from time to time. Netflix adds, retires, merges, and reshuffles sub-genres constantly, usually without telling anyone, especially not AdultVisor lol.

New codes appear as the catalogue evolves; while older ones go quiet when a handful of key titles disappear or licensing deals expire.

Availability is also region-dependent. Some categories are packed in one country and nearly empty in another, all depending on local licensing, censorship, etc etc. You can use a VPN to browse the full selection, but that’s another post altogether!

Also, don’t forget to include the foreign language subcategories – as you can use subtitles if you want to follow the plots:

Of course, one of the best parts of Netflix is that, once you start watching a specific genre of film, it will keep on making suggestions for you based on what you’ve already seen.

For that reason, it’s a good idea to create a separate user account to watch these titles from if you share your viewing with anyone else!

What Actually Shows Up When You Use These Codes

Using these categories does NOT suddenly turn Netflix into an adult tube site.

What you’ll mostly find are erotic thrillers, sexually explicit dramas, arthouse films with long, unbroken sex scenes, and a crap ton of European cinema where nudity is (and has always been) commonplace.

What is worth paying attention to is how often these titles never surface organically.

Plenty of genuinely adult films exist in the catalogue that you’d never encounter unless you forced Netflix’s hand with a code. Once you do, you’ll inevitably start to see more of them – which is why I 100% recommend a separate “dedicated” viewing profile.

If the content on Netflix isn’t “adult enough” for your tastes, there are two obvious next steps, depending on what kind of experience you actually want.

If you like the Netflix-style interface – clean menus, recommendations, original series, binge-friendly browsing – then AdultTime is the natural upgrade. If, on the other hand, you prefer a more traditional porn movie off-the-shelf approach – AdultEmpire is pretty damn hard hard to beat. It has over 100,000+ porn movies!

We talk about both these services (and dozens more) in our Adult VOD Streaming guide.

Check that out if you’re looking for something slightly harder-edged than Netflix & Chill. 😉

Got any suggestions for the best raunchy viewing on Netflix?

Found any recent secret ‘Netflix porn codes’ that work nicely with the current algorithm? Let us know below!