Huh? What the heck does that mean?

[12oclocktales]

Okay, as a public service to the millions of us uncool people out there, I will sacrifice myself, admit my incredible ignorance, and make myself the idiotic laughingstock, in order that they, we, might gain enlightenment, acceptance, and maybe even a little self-respect. I was looking at the tags on the tags portal page, and, honestly, hadn’t the foggiest idea what some of them meant. Cmnf? Enf? What the heck are these things? Now boobs (big ol’ obnoxious bitchy sluts), that’s an easy one, and car sex (a Camaro and Toronado going at it full throttle tailpipe to tailpipe), another piece of cake, but sph? That sounds like me after I’ve had too much to drink. I know there are online sex term dictionaries available, but some of these things aren’t even in there. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not denigrating any of the stories found under these tags; in fact, I read quite a few of them and they can be pretty good, some of them. But I was starting to get nervous, not knowing what the tags meant, that maybe they were Mind Control tags and anyone who read from them would turn into Commie-rats or, even, worse, suddenly like Barry Manilow’s music! So, is there anyway this hopelessly just-ain’t-with-it person, as well as all the others of us out there, can learn to be hip regarding tags (or anything else, for that matter)?

 

[TarnishedPenny]

The only stupid question is the one not asked and I think everybody winds up scratching their head from time to time.

The two you cite specifically are ‘Clothed Male, Naked Female’ and ‘Embarrassed Naked Female’, both of which mean pretty much like what they look like.

For the rest, one can dip into a story so tagged; matters should become clearer with context. Urban dictionary dot com can be a useful source on occasion, but you might need to use quotation marks.

Life’s a learning journey. Welcome.

 

[NoTalentHack]

CMNF = Clothed Male, Naked Female
ENF = Embarassed Naked Female
SPH = Small Penis Humiliation

Check urban dictionary if you're having trouble finding an acronym; most of them are on there,

 

[MrPixel]

Don't sweat it. There's so much inside baseball around here sometimes, especially when it comes to fetish interests. I see TP and NTH defined some for you... and I didn't even immediately grok what "ENF" and "SPH" were simply 'cause they're not my thing nor anything I write about.

'T's all good!

 

[NoTalentHack]

Oh, one more that has multiple meanings out int he wider world. If you see CBT on here, it's probably not Computer Based Training; instead, it's Cock & Ball Torture. I had to learn that one, now you do, too.

 

[12oclocktales]

Oh, one more that has multiple meanings out int he wider world. If you see CBT on here, it's probably not Computer Based Training; instead, it's Cock & Ball Torture. I had to learn that one, now you do, too.

Thanks. You made my day.

 

[yowser]

All fetishes seem to have their shorthand abbreviations, and mostly for me it's 'if I don't understand it, it's probably not my thing anyway.'

What is annoying, however, is when the story includes some unknown (to me) abbreviation, with no subsequent defining. Please, if you do this in a story, at least make it clear what this thing is all about...

 

[SimonDoom]

It's nothing to feel bad about. It took me a long time to figure out what LOL meant.

 

[djrip]

Lots of luck, according to my mom

 

[BobbyBrandt]

Actually, a very good question that both readers and writers likely have from time to time.

Does anyone know if there is an LOA posted somewhere? Maybe in the "How-To" section?

 

[Lifestyle66]

While the OP has a good question about some of those obscure tags, every author posts their own story and creates their own tags. I would guess the site Admins might not even know what was in the author's mind for some of them.

 

[12oclocktales]

It's nothing to feel bad about. It took me a long time to figure out what LOL meant.

Used by bank robbers, right? Lots of Loot.

 

[RoperTrace]

CMNF = Clothed Male, Naked Female
ENF = Embarassed Naked Female
SPH = Small Penis Humiliation

Check urban dictionary if you're having trouble finding an acronym; most of them are on there,

My old editor, a lady from the UK, introduced me to the acronym, CFNM. So I wrote a story about it with her as the MC and included her male masturbation fantasy into the story. She loved it. Sometimes it's fun to try writing about something new(to me).

 

[tenyari]

This needs more details:
https://www.literotica.com/s/story-tags

My erotic genres are almost always CMNF, ENF, or just 'Nude' / Naked if it's everybody.

The placed in some fantasy, super, or sci-fi backdrop to give it "internal logic".

I use 'ENF' for 'Enforced Nude Female' - which is not right, but it's how I use it, as I've my work tends to be popular with readers who like 'ENF' even though my characters more more properly 'proud' or 'happy' rather than embarrassed. In fact if you to the 'top' ENF / CMNF / Naked Fiction story sites, you'll find half the stories and conversations are from people who are not doing 'embarrassed', and many stories that start with embarrassed end up in 'happy' or 'proud' or just 'enforced' if they end up as a series like the "classic" Tami Smithers story (could a story have a less interesting protagonist name... but oh well, it's got several hundred chapters written by dozens of authors over 20 years so who am I to complain... she gets over embarrassment by the end of the first or second story I think - written back when Usenet was still around).

And Usenet is where these tags came from. Back when ASSTR was still around you could find documents to a massive list of them - most of which still survive today.

That literotica page above needs to be easier to find (I have to click around in author pages to find it - it was NOT on the FAQ link that's on the tag page, even though that FAQ page has a page about tags: https://www.literotica.com/faq/stories/tags-portal - that page doesn't describe the meanings of any of them).

 

[alohadave]

While the OP has a good question about some of those obscure tags, every author posts their own story and creates their own tags. I would guess the site Admins might not even know what was in the author's mind for some of them.

I've seen some tags that looked like the author wrote the description in the tag field.

 

[tenyari]

I just put this comment onto the tags page. Probably won't be a visible comment for a few days though:


1. Needs more detail. Use the web wayback machine and look up the definitions for tags from Usenet and the now gone ASSTR (that was the place Usenet stuff was archived on).

2. There IS a standardized system to these that's been around since the 1980s. Every tag listed here should have it's definition next to it.

3. You cannot fix your tags once your story goes out without resubmitting it. So Authors really need to get these right, but there's not enough guidance telling them how to and how important it is for being searchable.

4. This page should be 'front and center' linked next to the form to add tags, and for readers it should appear as a link under the list of tags for a story.

5. Stories should be able to edit their tags without needing a re-submission unless they tag into categories known by the mods to be 'trouble spots'...

 

[tenyari]

I've seen some tags that looked like the author wrote the description in the tag field.

Stories that were published here before they added the tag system had random tags made more or less that way.

If a new story has tags like that - the author wasted a perfectly good opportunity to appear more often in search.

For example, if I post a story in 'exhibitionist' and put in the tag 'nonhuman' - that story appears in both categories. And when I use tags to find stories, people who use a tag like 'nonhuman' will see that story. So I always make sure my tags both fit my story, fit the old Usenet tag list (so they can be commonly understood - even my misuse of ENF still 'works' for people this way), AND are popular tags.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I've seen some tags that looked like the author wrote the description in the tag field.

One of the other sites I follow has no limit on how many tags authors can put on a story. That can get a bit wild.

 

[yowser]

Actually, a very good question that both readers and writers likely have from time to time.

Does anyone know if there is an LOA posted somewhere? Maybe in the "How-To" section?

A 'LOA' (list of abbreviations) of sorts is in this AH thread https://forum.literotica.com/threads/authors-hangout-library.596858/ (contains more than one set, much scrolling needed, onto second page and more) and a GUL (grand unified list) would be a great project for someone.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Okay, as a public service to the millions of us uncool people out there, I will sacrifice myself, admit my incredible ignorance, and make myself the idiotic laughingstock, in order that they, we, might gain enlightenment, acceptance, and maybe even a little self-respect. I was looking at the tags on the tags portal page, and, honestly, hadn’t the foggiest idea what some of them meant. Cmnf? Enf? What the heck are these things? Now boobs (big ol’ obnoxious bitchy sluts), that’s an easy one, and car sex (a Camaro and Toronado going at it full throttle tailpipe to tailpipe), another piece of cake, but sph? That sounds like me after I’ve had too much to drink. I know there are online sex term dictionaries available, but some of these things aren’t even in there. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not denigrating any of the stories found under these tags; in fact, I read quite a few of them and they can be pretty good, some of them. But I was starting to get nervous, not knowing what the tags meant, that maybe they were Mind Control tags and anyone who read from them would turn into Commie-rats or, even, worse, suddenly like Barry Manilow’s music! So, is there anyway this hopelessly just-ain’t-with-it person, as well as all the others of us out there, can learn to be hip regarding tags (or anything else, for that matter)?

Abbreviations became part of our culture with the rise of texting. It's probably getting of hand now, creeping into everything. It is true that New York has long had a lot of abbreviations, mostly geographical, known only to its inhabitants - PATH, BQE. LIRR, JFK (the airport, not the president), FDR (again, it's the roadway), NYU, CUNY, CCNY, and of course, the now obsolete names for the three subway systems, IRT, BMT, and IND. The latter terms survived for decades after the "unification" of 1940. I try to define these for the readers if I use them in a story, usually in a note at the top.

As for Lit tags, I usually try to avoid using abbreviations. My usual practice is to use words only, and I did that unconsciously I think.

P.S.: Two of the above became words. PATH is pronounced, well, as "path;" CUNY is "kune-knee."

 

[Carnevil9]

Oh, one more that has multiple meanings out int he wider world. If you see CBT on here, it's probably not Computer Based Training; instead, it's Cock & Ball Torture. I had to learn that one, now you do, too.

Yeah, also be sure not to mix up an Automated Teller Machine with Ass To Mouth sex. Boy, they'll never let me back in that bank again.

 

[Euphony]

Oh, one more that has multiple meanings out int he wider world. If you see CBT on here, it's probably not Computer Based Training; instead, it's Cock & Ball Torture. I had to learn that one, now you do, too.

CBT = Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to us mentally unwell folks.

 

[Seadog777]

There is so much bullshit out there with abbreviations.
I just stopped giving a flying figs fuck, and look it up IF I need to know it.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

It's nothing to feel bad about. It took me a long time to figure out what LOL meant.

Same with LMFAO. Live and learn, I guess

 

[ElectricBlue]

Yeah, also be sure not to mix up an Automated Teller Machine with Ass To Mouth sex. Boy, they'll never let me back in that bank again.

The problem wasn't the acronym, it was your cock in the money slot that did it (which is wrong on so many levels!)