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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.
[edit] Examples of single-letter abbreviations used in three-letter acronyms (TLA)
- 4: for ("seeking", "desires", etc.)--for 2nd letter of a TLA
- A: Asian--for 2nd letter of a TLA
- B: Black--for 2nd letter of a TLA
- C: Couple--for 3rd letter of a TLA
- F: Female--for 3rd letter of a TLA
- G: Gay--for 1st letter of a TLA
- H: Hispanic--for 2nd letter of a TLA
- J: Jewish or Japanese--for 2nd letter of a TLA
- L: Latino or Latina--for 2nd letter of a TLA
- M: Male (or Man)--used as 1st or 3rd letter of TLA
- M: Married--for 1st letter of a TLA
- S: Single--for 1st letter of a TLA
- T: Transgender--used before or after 4
- W: White--for 2nd letter of a TLA
- W: Woman--used before or after 4
- ASL: Age Stats Location OR Age Sex Location
- 420 (or 4:20): refers to cannabis (see 420 (drug culture))
- B&D (also B/D): Bondage and Discipline
- BB: Body-builder or Barebacking
- BBC: Big Black Cock
- BBW: Big Beautiful Woman (Overweight)
- BMW: (Big Mexican Woman) overweight Mexican woman
- 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
- CD: Cross Dresser
- D/D: drug and disease
- DDF: Drug and Disease Free
- DL: Down low: engages in secretive same-sex sex, often when in a heterosexual relationship
- Dom: Male Dominant partner/participant in BDSM
- Domme: Female Dominant partner/participant in BDSM
- D/s: Dominance and Submission - lowercased "s" signifies power exchange
- DTE: Down-to-earth
- DWF: Divorced White Female
- DWM: Divorced White Male
- FTM: Female-to-Male Transgender
- FWB: Friend With Benefits (friendship plus sex)
- GAM: Gay Asian Male
- GBM: Gay Black Male
- GF: Gay Female (Lesbian), or Girlfriend
- GG: Genetic Girl/Real Girl/All-Girl as opposed to a TV/TS/TG "girl"
- GSOH: Good Sense Of Humour
- GHM: Gay Hispanic Male
- GWC: Gay White Couple
- GWF: Gay White Female
- GWM: Gay White Male
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- Het: Heterosexual
- HWP: Height Weight Proportional: indicates an 'ideal' body weight
- IRL: In Real Life: face to face meeting
- ISO: In Search Of
- LTR: Long Term Relationship (opposite of NSA)
- M4M: Man seeking man
- M4MW: Man seeking man and woman
- M4T: Male seeking transsexual or transvestite (cross dresser)
- M4W: Man seeking woman
- MBC: Married Black Couple
- MBiC: Married Bisexual Couple
- MHC: Married Hispanic Couple
- MOTOS: Member of the Opposite Sex
- MOTSS: Member of the Same Sex
- MTF: Male-to-Female Transgender
- MW4M: Man and woman seeking man
- MW4MW: Man and woman seeking man and woman
- MW4W: Man and woman seeking woman
- MWC: Married White Couple
- NS: Non-Smoking
- NSA: No Strings Attached (opposite of LTR)
- PNP: Party and Play (drugs, usually crystal meth, and sex)
- Pre-Op: Pre-Operational Transsexual with genitalia unaltered, typically male-to-female
- RTS: Real-Time Sex
- S&M (also S/M): Sadomasochism, aka Sadism & Masochism
- SAE: Self Addressed Stamped Envelope
- SASE: Self Addressed Stamped Envelope
- SBF: Single Black Female
- SBM: Single Black Male
- SBiF: Single Bisexual Female
- SBiM: Single Bisexual Male
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- ski: an outdoor snow or water sport, or code for cocaine use
- snow: cocaine
- STD: Sexually Transmitted Disease
- Str8: Straight (not bisexual or gay)
- sub (also subby or subbie): Submissive partner/participant in BDSM (always lowercase)
- SWF: Single White Female
- SWM: Single White Male
- SWNS: Sex With No Strings
- SWS: Sex Without Strings
- TG: Transgendered person
- Tina: Methamphetamine
- TLC: Tender Loving Care
- TS (also Transsexual or Tranny): Transsexual person, typically male-to-female
- TV: Transvestite person
- TYVM: Thank You Very Much
- VGL: Very Good Looking
- VAS: Vasectomy
- W/E: Well Endowed: larger than average male organ
- W/S: Watersports
- W4M: Woman seeking man
- W4MW: Woman seeking man and woman
- W4W: Woman seeking woman
- WLTM: Would Like To Meet
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