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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. Personals are generally meant to find romance or friendship, and usually include a basic description of the person posting it, and their interests.
Some University Newspapers offer free personals where students direct messages to others on campus. Most notable is The Koala at UCSD and UCI.
Due to newspaper prices being based on characters or lines of text, a jargon of abbreviations and acronyms arose in personals, and have carried over to the internet. The most common are:
- A: Asian--for 2nd letter of a three-letter acronym (TLA)
- B: Bisexual--for 1st letter of a TLA
- B: Black--for 2nd letter of a TLA
- F: Female--for 3rd letter of a TLA
- G: Gay--for 1st 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--for 3rd letter of a TLA
- M: Man--used before or after 4
- T: Transgender--used before or after 4
- W: White--for 2nd letter of a TLA
- W: Woman--used before or after 4
- 4: refers to "for" or "looking for"
- 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
- BDSM: Bondage and Discipline, Domination and Submission, Sado Masochism
- BF: Black Female, or Boy Friend
- Bi: Bisexual
- BiF: Bisexual Female
- BiM: Bisexual Male
- CD: Cross Dresser
- D/D: drug and disease
- Dom: Male Dominant partner/participant in BDSM
- Domme: Female Dominant partner/participant in BDSM
- D/s: Domination and Submission - lowercased "s" signifies power exchange
- DTE: Down-to-earth
- FTM: Female-to-Male Transgender
- GBM: Gay Black Male
- GF: Gay Female (Lesbian), or Girl Friend
- GG: Genetic Girl/Real Girl/All-Girl as opposed to a TV/TS/TG "girl"
- 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
- 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
- PNP: Party and Play (drugs, usually crystal meth, and sex)
- Pre-Op: Pre-Operational Transsexual with genatalia unaltered, typically male-to-female
- RTS: Real-Time Sex
- S&M (also S/M): Sadomasochism
- 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
- Snow: Cocaine
- STD: Sexually Transmitted Disease
- SWF: Single White Female
- SWM: Single White Male
- Str8: Straight (not bisexual or gay)
- sub: (also subby or subbie) Submissive partner/participant in BDSM note: lowercased letters used to signify power exchange
- TG: Transgendered person
- Tina: Methamphetamine
- TS: (also Transexual or Tranny) Transsexual person, typically male-to-female
- TV: Transvestite person
- TLC: Tender Loving Care
- 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
See also
"Personal advertisement"