Gay Dating Tips: Acronyms, Abbreviations, and other Online Gay Personals Ads Codes

Do gay personals ads, message boards and chat rooms all look like people are speaking a foreign tongue to you? Find out a few of the common codes they're using.

Acronyms and Abbreviations Commonly Found in Gay Personals Ads:

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Acronym / Abbreviation - Definition

69: Sixty-nine -- to give mutual BJs.

A: Asian

ALT: Alternative sex - doesn't necessarily refer to gay sex (often refers to BDSM and assorted kink)

ASL: Age Sex Location - used mainly in chat and instant messaging

B: Black

BB: Bare Back or Bare Backing - to have anal sex without a condom.

BDSM: Bondage, Discipline, Sado-Masochism

Bear: refers to gay men who have beards and/or mustaches - bearded mainly

BI: Bi-sexual

BiF: Bi-Sexual Woman

BiM: Bi-Sexual Man

BJ: Blow Job(s)

Blnd: Blond

Brn: Brunette

Bottom: Guy who prefers to be on the receiving end as it applies to fucking

C: Christian

CD: Cross Dresser

CPLS: Couples

Cub: refers to younger bears

Cut: No foreskin

D: Divorced (usually referring to a straight marriage - can refer to gay partnership and now with gay marriages being legal in many places, it won't be long before this is going to also refer to previous gay marriages.)

DDF: Drug/Disease Free

Dom: Dominant Male

DM: Divorced Male (usually referring to a straight marriage)

DGM: Divorced Gay Male (usually referring to a straight marriage)

Fems: feminine - more feminine than your "average" gay male

FF: Fist Fucking

FTM: Female To Male Transsexual

GAM: Gay Asian Male

GSOH: Good Sense of Humor

GWM: Gay White Male

H: Hispanic

HWP: Height Weight Proportional

ICQ: I Seek You - free online messaging service at www.icq.com

IM: Instant Messaging (AOL Instant messaging, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, MS Messenger etc...)

IRL: In Real Life

ISO: In Search Of

J: Jewish

LD: Light Drinker

LDR: Long Distance Relationship

LOL: Laughing Out Loud (found everywhere these days but it's usually found in chat rooms, e-mail, message boards and sometimes ads...)

LS: Light Smoker

LTR: Long Term Relationship

M: Male

M2M: Men To Men, Male To Male, Man To Man. EG: M2M Sex.

MSM: Men Seeking Men

MTF: Male To Female Transsexual

ND: Non-drinker

NLP: No Losers Please (I've always wondered - what if you don't know you're a loser? grin )

NS: Non-smoker

P: Professional

Pics: Pictures (often erotic pictures but not always.)

PLS: Please

PnP: Party And Play; usually under the influence of drugs.

POS: HIV Positive

S: Single

SBPM: Single Black Professional Male

SD: Social Drinker

SGM: Single Gay Male

SI: Similar Interests

SOGM: Single Oriental Gay Male

Sub: Submissive

SWGM: Single White Gay Male

SWPM: Single White Professional Male

Top: Guy who prefers to be the one who fucks - or the male dominant

TG: Transgender

TS: Transsexual

TV: Transvestite

Uncut: Has foreskin

Vrs: Versatile -- giver or receiver / Top or Bottom

W: White

W/: With

W/E: Well Endowed

WASP: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

WS: Water Sports - piss sports

YO: Years Old

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