Dating websites and apps might be a popular way to meet someone new these days but how can you truly connect with your soulmate if you don’t speak the right language?
Perhaps you’ve browsed the dating profiles of other people and seen strange and unfamiliar acronyms used to describe the person’s personality and tastes. You might sit for a moment trying to decipher the acronyms, like a secret code you have to crack before the online gods allow you to get to know your soulmate. But for the life of you, you can’t seem to figure out what they mean.
Well, rest assured, because we’re about to simplify the dating game for you forever. Here are 35 dating profile acronyms that make up the new language of love.
- BBW – Big beautiful woman
- BDSM – Bondage/domination/sadism/masochism
- Bi – Bisexual
- C – Christian
- DTF – Down to ‘frolic’ (you know what we really mean)
- F2F – Face to face
- F – Female
- FtM – Female-to-male transgendered
- FWB – Friends with benefits
- GSOH – Good sense of humor
- GWM – Gay white male
- HNG – Horny net geek
- ISO – In search of
- LD – Light drinker
- LDR – Long distance relationship
- LS – Legally separated or light smoker
- M – Male
- MBA – Married but available
- MBC – Married black couple
- MM – Marriage-minded
- MSM – Man seeking men
- MSW – Man seeking women
- MtF – Male-to-female transgendered
- MWC – Married white couple
- NSA – No strings attached
- NK or N/K – No kids
- SBiF – Single bisexual female
- SD – Social drinker
- STR – Straight
- SWF – Single white female
- SWM – Single white male
- TV – Transvestite
- VBD – Very bad date
- W – Widowed or white
- WAA – Will answer all
Have you seen or used any of these acronyms?
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