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A personal or personal ad is an item or notice traditionally in the newspaper, similar to a classified ad but personal in nature. With its rise in popularity, the World Wide Web has also become a common medium for personals, commonly referred to as online dating. Personals are generally meant to generate romance, friendship, or casual (sometimes sexual) encounters, and usually include a basic description of the person posting it, and their interests.
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A personal or personal ad is an item or notice traditionally in the newspaper, similar to a classified ad but personal in nature. With its rise in popularity, the World Wide Web has also become a common medium for personals, commonly referred to as online dating. Personals are generally meant to generate romance, friendship, or casual (sometimes sexual) encounters, and usually include a basic description of the person posting it, and their interests.
Due to newspaper prices being based on characters or lines of text, a jargon of abbreviations, acronyms and code words arose in personals, and have carried over to the internet.
First letter
The first letter describes the person seeking.
- F: Female
- M: Male (or Man)
- M: Married
- S: Single
- T: Transgender
- W: Woman
Middle letter
The middle letter represents the ethnicity of the person posting the ad. Can be replaced by 4, standing for for ("seeking", "desires", etc.).
- A: Asian
- B: Black
- H: Hispanic
- J: Jewish or Japanese
- L: Latino or Latina
- W: White
Last letter
- C: Couple
- F: Female
- M: Male (or Man)
- T: Transgender
- W: Woman
List of common abbreviations, acronyms, and code words
- 225: Seeking domination (i.e. will accept when told that 2+2=5)
- 420 (or 4:20): refers to cannabis (see 420 (drug culture))
- ASL: Age Stats Location OR Age Sex Location
- ATM: Ass To Mouth - Anal copulation where the penis pulls out and ejaculates into a mouth
- B&D (also B/D): Bondage and Discipline
- BB: Bodybuilder, or Barebacking
- BBC: Big Black Cock, or Big Black Cunt
- BBW: Big Beautiful Woman (Overweight)
- BDSM: Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and submission, Sadism and masochism
- BF: Black Female, or Boyfriend
- BHM: Big Handsome Man (uncommon, see BBW)
- Bi: Bisexual
- BiF: Bisexual Female
- BiM: Bisexual Male
- BJ: Blow Job (Fellatio)
- BMW: (Big Mexican Woman) overweight Mexican woman
- BOTS: Bit on the Side
- BTW: By The Way...
- BWC: Big White Cock
- CBT: Cock & Ball Torture, used in BDSM
- CD: Cross Dresser
- CFNM: Clothed female, naked male
- CP: Cock Play, between 2 or more males
- D/D: drug and disease
- DDF: Drug and Disease Free
- DL: Down low: secretive same gender sex, often parallel to a heterosexual relationship
- Dom: Male Dominant partner/participant in BDSM
- Domme: Female Dominant partner/participant in BDSM
- DP: Double Penetration, as when one person is penetrated by two objects
- D/s: Dominance and Submission - lowercased "s" signifies power exchange
- DTE: Down-to-earth
- DWF: Divorced White Female
- DWM: Divorced White Male
- FB: Fuck-Buddy
