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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.

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

List of common abbreviations, acronyms, and code words

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

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

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 Further Information

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