Acronyms

[bbcbarry9033]

There are many, I like CFNM. This is my go-to for inspiration when I work out. OK, so I don't really work out, I do a pull-up every few years or so give or take a few years or so. But, when I do think about doing a pull-up I like to imagine I'm getting in shape for a reason. That I'm going to have to show off somehow - an impromptu hen party or something like that.

Anyway, every once in a while I come across a new acronym and I have to look it up. Today it was ENF, and I have to say, I like it.

What are some of the Literotic acronyms you guys like?

 

[NotWise]

Anyway, every once in a while I come across a new acronym and I have to look it up. Today it was ENF, and I have to say, I like it.

What are some of the Literotic acronyms you guys like?

I try to avoid acronyms. They're usually part of insider lingo and not really intended to communicate to non-insiders. Case in point -- what's ENF supposed to mean?

 

[SamScribble]

What NotWise said.

Also, CFNM is not strictly speaking an acronym. It's an initialism. Acronyms should be words. NATO for instance.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I try to avoid acronyms. They're usually part of insider lingo and not really intended to communicate to non-insiders. Case in point -- what's ENF supposed to mean?

Urban Dictionary is your friend.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ENF

 

[JasonClearwater]

Urban Dictionary is your friend.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ENF

Enterprising Necrophiliac Fiend. Great genre.

 

[Kantarii]

I try to avoid acronyms. They're usually part of insider lingo and not really intended to communicate to non-insiders. Case in point -- what's ENF supposed to mean?

My feelings exactly.Kant

 

[FaeLissa]

If I can't seed it from context I ignore it. If it seems to be important later, I ignore the rest of the writings and go on to something that doesn't assume the reader is a 45 year old what uses kiddie-speak (the old crap from dumb-phone days when just getting "u" was a lot of keystrokes sos they didn't bother trying to make whole word "you").
I knows my words is hard to read - they's hard to make! - and I isn't offended if peoples just goes "nope, isn't working on that". As long as they understand I's doing the same thing when they uses kiddie-speak and initialization to the point what the intended words is not intuitive. In chat is fine - in a story - is not so kay.
In a forum or chat I make words teh easiest ways I can. Writing stories I make words as I think readers can get the most from. I expect the same from nother writers and ifs they doesn't then is fine - I can't read it and they never knows the mean thinks I had when seed all the mangled letters

 

[lovecraft68]

I try to avoid acronyms. They're usually part of insider lingo and not really intended to communicate to non-insiders. Case in point -- what's ENF supposed to mean?

It works if the fetish is involved in the story, and you have a character mention it. To just throw them out there can be confusing. I'm blank on ENF as well, but I imagine if it were used in the context of a story I'd figure it out.

Don't be a lazy reader

 

[lovecraft68]

ATM and it doesn't involve money from a machine.

It also-on a site full of people who enjoy porn-something that seems to garner a lot of people saying "In real life this...."

If this were real life the loser in the story wouldn't be the beneficiary of it in the first place.

I always find selective reality/suspension of interesting. The same person who thinks five 18 year old hotties swoon and throw themselves at a middle aged loser, or sitting on a son's lap turns mom into his cockwhore can't believe -fill in kink/scene here-is a thing.

 

[SimonDoom]

ENF = embarassed nude female, I believe. It encompasses stories about women who get caught naked in public, that sort of thing.

 

[SimonDoom]

I found Jason's meaning more intriguing.

Without question.

But now it's incumbent on him to write a story that lives up to the acronym.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

But now it's incumbent on him to write a story that lives up to the acronym.

But it's Jason!

Bull, this is Red Flag. Challenge, over...

 

[Bramblethorn]

Enterprising Necrophiliac Fiend. Great genre.

Nah, it's a band. They had a hit with "Umbelievable" back in 1990.

 

[SamScribble]

ENF? It's a branch of medicine in East London. Ear, Nose 'n' Froat, innit?

 

[JasonClearwater]

But it's Jason!

Bull, this is Red Flag. Challenge, over...

Consider it fucking done.

 

[Jada59]

I hate it when I have to look stuff up. I don't mind a word here and there that I'm not familiar with, but other than that, no.

 

[JasonClearwater]

I hate it when I have to look stuff up. I don't mind a word here and there that I'm not familiar with, but other than that, no.

Acronyms and initialisms annoy me, because they're not actual words, just closed-group jargon. But I don't mind if need to Google a few things while I'm reading. How else am I going to get an education?

 

[ElectricBlue]

Acronyms and initialisms annoy me, because they're not actual words, just closed-group jargon. But I don't mind if need to Google a few things while I'm reading. How else am I going to get an education?

Libraries. They have teaching materials called books.

I know it's a difficult concept, pages that turn; but once you master the finger lick, you'll be fine. Trust me, Mr Clearwater, would I lie?

 

[JasonClearwater]

Libraries. They have teaching materials called books.

I know it's a difficult concept, pages that turn; but once you master the finger lick, you'll be fine. Trust me, Mr Clearwater, would I lie?

Look, books are great for information that never changes (i.e. almost no information, ever), but if you want to know something in its present context, you need The Internet.

And from what I've seen on the telly, the internet at most libraries has a top speed of 56K.

 

[Jada59]

Acronyms and initialisms annoy me, because they're not actual words, just closed-group jargon. But I don't mind if need to Google a few things while I'm reading. How else am I going to get an education?

True.

 

[Requiax]

If you’re talking about fetishes/kinks though (which OP is) surely the fact acronyms are kind of only understood by those who know is not a problem? If you’re into “Embarrassed Nude Female” scenarios (you’re good old “caught naked” type story) you probably know what ENF stands for and know that if you search for those terms you will find stories by others who are writing for a reader like you.

I dunno, maybe it’s because I write in that area, so I feel the need to defend these acronyms, but I think they are useful signposts to readers who are looking for something particular that your story has it.

Others I’ve gotten to know are:
CFNM - Clothed Female Nude Male. Usually (but not always) a dominant woman and submissive or humiliated man where power is in the hands of the person who isn’t naked.
CMNF - Clothed Male Nude Female. Not just the direct opposite of CFNM (although can sometimes be dominant man/female submissive or slave) - can sometimes be female exhibitionist theme, like Jessica Tang Von Harper’s Saturday Night School series.
CMNM - the gay version of CFNM, pretty much
CFNF - sometimes lesbian dom/sub, sometimes not! Nakedness in these stories can sometimes be used to signify someone who is sexually confident, rather than vulnerability.
ENF - Embarrassed Nude Female. Main character is put on a situation where she is naked in front of other people when she doesn’t want to be. Humiliation ensued although as with most other types of non-con story, she usually ends up liking it.
CNF - Confident Nude Female. The opposite of ENF. She knows exactly what she’s doing and the buzz comes from people’s reactions. A female exhibitionist basically, although could also be a “this is me natural and unashamed, deal with it” nudist type.
NIP - Nude/Naked In Public. Self explanatory. Main character is naked in a public place where nakedness is not the norm (street, shopping mall, college campus, wherever). Either they are ENF about it, or CNF!
OON - Only One Naked. MC is naked, either in public or in private, with multiple people who are not. Again, either because they want to be or circumstances compel them to be, and it’s either embarrassing or exciting to them, or both.

I also used to see F2S around occasionally which stood for Forced To Streak (in other words, character loses their clothes somehow and has to run past observers to get from a pace of concealment to a place of safety), probably because there used to be a forum of the same name, but I don’t see that one much any more.

 

[JasonClearwater]

If you’re talking about fetishes/kinks though (which OP is) surely the fact acronyms are kind of only understood by those who know is not a problem? If you’re into “Embarrassed Nude Female” scenarios (you’re good old “caught naked” type story) you probably know what ENF stands for and know that if you search for those terms you will find stories by others who are writing for a reader like you.

I dunno, maybe it’s because I write in that area, so I feel the need to defend these acronyms, but I think they are useful signposts to readers who are looking for something particular that your story has it.

Others I’ve gotten to know are:
CFNM - Clothed Female Nude Male. Usually (but not always) a dominant woman and submissive or humiliated man where power is in the hands of the person who isn’t naked.
CMNF - Clothed Male Nude Female. Not just the direct opposite of CFNM (although can sometimes be dominant man/female submissive or slave) - can sometimes be female exhibitionist theme, like Jessica Tang Von Harper’s Saturday Night School series.
CMNM - the gay version of CFNM, pretty much
CFNF - sometimes lesbian dom/sub, sometimes not! Nakedness in these stories can sometimes be used to signify someone who is sexually confident, rather than vulnerability.
ENF - Embarrassed Nude Female. Main character is put on a situation where she is naked in front of other people when she doesn’t want to be. Humiliation ensued although as with most other types of non-con story, she usually ends up liking it.
CNF - Confident Nude Female. The opposite of ENF. She knows exactly what she’s doing and the buzz comes from people’s reactions. A female exhibitionist basically, although could also be a “this is me natural and unashamed, deal with it” nudist type.
NIP - Nude/Naked In Public. Self explanatory. Main character is naked in a public place where nakedness is not the norm (street, shopping mall, college campus, wherever). Either they are ENF about it, or CNF!
OON - Only One Naked. MC is naked, either in public or in private, with multiple people who are not. Again, either because they want to be or circumstances compel them to be, and it’s either embarrassing or exciting to them, or both.

I also used to see F2S around occasionally which stood for Forced To Streak (in other words, character loses their clothes somehow and has to run past observers to get from a pace of concealment to a place of safety), probably because there used to be a forum of the same name, but I don’t see that one much any more.

You'd be using those as tags though, surely, wouldn't you, rather than in the body of the text? That describes the fetish, it's not something the people involved would think or say.

As a tag, it makes sense. But you never know, there may be people who haven't yet put a name to their preference, who won't use the initialism to search for it, because they don't know what's what it's called. They might even be surprised to discover that it has a name at all.

I've put names to my kinks gradually as I've gone along. It's been illuminating.

 

[Requiax]

You'd be using those as tags though, surely, wouldn't you, rather than in the body of the text? That describes the fetish, it's not something the people involved would think or say.

As a tag, it makes sense. But you never know, there may be people who haven't yet put a name to their preference, who won't use the initialism to search for it, because they don't know what's what it's called. They might even be surprised to discover that it has a name at all.

I've put names to my kinks gradually as I've gone along. It's been illuminating.

I thought we were talking about tags (at least, I assumed the OP was)?

I wouldn’t expect to see acronyms like those in the text itself because as you say, people don’t talk like that!

I think a well-signposted story needs a mix of tags for the aficionados and for the laypersons. It’s a balancing act and of course if you only tag your story with acronyms you’re limiting who can find it. Best of both worlds is key.

 

[JasonClearwater]

I thought we were talking about tags (at least, I assumed the OP was)?

Oh, probably. Scrolling's hard on this shit-box laptop.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I thought we were talking about tags (at least, I assumed the OP was)?

I think the OP was actually on about the kinks behind various acronyms, not the use of acronyms in text, not tags either.