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ABBREVIATED STORY CODES IN A.S.S.

Version 4.0 -- May, 2001


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1:   Sex age and number.

2:   Willingness or unwillingness.

3:   Dominance, submission, bondage, pain and violence.

4:   Relationships.

5:   Activities.

6:   Various kinks.

7:   Other particulars.

8:   Special codes for MM and interr stories.


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1:   Sex, Age, (and number).

"M,m,b" are all males.  
"b" is always a young boy, should be up to 12. 

"F,f,g" are all females.  
"g" is a young girl, should be up to 12.

"M,F" *should* be adults, 18 and older.
"m,f" *should* be teens, 13 - 17.
"t"   is a teenage male (used in gay stories).

     They aren't always, because posters are careless (or 
     clueless).  Also, in the bondage/dominance community, "M" is 
     a male dominant, "m" is a male submissive, etc.

MF        is adult heterosexual sex
ff        is teen lesbian sex
MMM~f     means adult men gang-banging a teenaged girl
MMM/f     means adult men gang-banging a teenaged girl
          etc.
M+F       Means several men and one woman
MF+       Means one man and several women

     The presence or absence of "/" doesn't mean much except on 
dominance stories.  In those stories the one(s) to the left of 
the slash are dominating those to the right of the slash.

When it is used, ~ means "with."  M~dog is "man with a dog.  M~mf
means that an adult man has sex with both a teen boy and a teen 
girl.  Mm~f means that both an adult man and a teen boy have sex 
with a teen girl.


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1:   Willingness or unwillingness.

blackmail      Gaining sex through threat of exposure.
cons [or con]  The sex is consensual.  This should mean that 
               *ALL* the sex is consensual, but some authors use 
               "cons nc" to mean that only some is.
mc        "mind-control" a big subgenre.
nc        is non-consensual.  This is rape in law, but the style 
               may be different.
rape      is rape.
reluc     Woman says no, but loves it when she is raped.
rom       is romantic, which should always be consensual but some 
               writers use it very strangely.

There is a five-year tradition that (rom) implies (cons).  
However, there is currently an attempt to destroy that tradition.  
If you want (rom cons) stories, you have the choice of searching 
for both codes or of searching for (rom) and (-nc) and checking 
what else is in the code list.

The first method will, of course, lose you many fine stories 
which were coded according to the old pattern.  The second 
requires that your search engine allows both positive and 
negative searches simultaneously.


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3:   Dominance, submission, bondage, pain and violence.

bd        Bondage and Discipline
caution   Something in the story might offend (or even 
          sicken) you, but the author isn't telling you what.
cbt       Cock and ball torture.
_dom      Domination by member of sex/age 
Fdom [or femdom]     a dominant female
fist      Fisting, insertion of the entire hand into anus or vagina. 
mc        "mind-control" a big subgenre.
Mdom      a dominant male.
rough     Consensually rough sex, not always sm.
sad       Sadism.  For "just" inflicting pain. 
sm        Sadomasochism, pain for the pleasure of both.
snuff     Killing which is supposed to arouse you.
span      [Spanking], mild sm.
spank     [Spanking], mild sm.
tort      Torture.
va        Verbal abuse. [Abusive and dirty language]
viol      Violence, not necessarily connected to the sex.

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4:   Relationships

cheat     Married or committed people having sex outside of the 
               commitment, cheating on their partner, as distinct 
               from swinging.
inc       Incest
interr    Interracial
rom       Romantic, which should always be consensual but some 
               writers use it very strangely.
wife      Wife *watching* (participatory cuckoldry) 

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5:   Activities

anal      Anal sex.
beast     Bestiality, sex with animals (should be "best").
best      Bestiality, sex with animals.
cd        Cross dressing (should be tv).
copr      Coprophilia (Fun with feces)
enem      Enemas
exhib     Exhibitionism
fist      Fisting, insertion of the entire hand into anus or vagina. 
inc       Incest
inf       Infantilism
magic     Not only magic, per se, but also demons, fantasy 
               worlds, etc.
mc        Mind control, a big subgenre.
nec*      Necrophilia. Sex with a dead person
no-sex    There is no intercourse in the story.
no-_      There is none of whatever code replaces _ .
oral      Oral-genital contact.
ped       Pedophilia. Some participants age 12 or below. 
pett      Heavy petting
safe      Safe sex 
scat      Scatology: Involving feces.
_-solo    Masturbation, as in F-solo = masturbation by an adult woman.
swing     Swinging.  Mutually consensual adultery.
tg        Transgendered (Male changed into a female, or vice 
               versa.
toys      Vibrators or other adult toys
tv        Transvestite - man dressing as woman
voy       Voyeurism, peeking.
veg       Vegetable. Sex with food.
wife      Wife *watching*  (participatory cuckoldry) 
ws        Water Sports.  Pissing.
zoo       Zoophilia. Caring and consensual relationships
          between humans and animals. (See also best)


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6:   Various kinks.

alien     Sex involving someone, or something, from off Earth.
BBW       "Big Beautiful Women," Appreciation of fat women.
bi        Bisexuality of one or more characters.
breast    Abnormally large breasts
copr      Coprophilia (Fun with feces)
enem      Enemas
exhib     Exhibitionism.
fat       Involves fat people
feet      Foot or shoe fetish-story
furry     Animals with human characteristics.  Werewolf or Mickey 
               Mouse.
giant     Abnormally large (tall) persons
hair      Hair fetish
hirs      Hirsute - natural unshaved genitals and/or armpits
HYP       Hypnolove.  Consensual hypnotism to increase sexual 
               pleasure of both.
inf       Infantilism
lac       Lactation. Playing with (human) milk.
preg      Either impregnation or sex with a pregnant woman.
size      Overdeveloped body-parts
tg        Trans-gender, men being changed into women (or vice 
               versa).
toys      Vibrators or other adult toys
tv        Transvestite - man dressing as woman
veg       Vegetable. Sex with food.

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7:   Other particulars.

1st       First time, deflowering or male first time.
               Occasionally, the first time doing some 
               *particular* form of sexual activity.
bibl      Bible. based on a Bible story.
caution   Something in the story might offend (or even 
          sicken) you, but the author isn't telling you what.
Celeb     The story is about a celebrity.
coll      College-theme
dream     Sexual activity during a dream, (daydream or sleep.)
goth      Gothic (dark) setting
hist      [History]  Occurs in the (reasonably distant) past.
hs        High School-theme
humor     Humor. The story is intended to be funny
HYP       Hypnolove.  Consensual hypnotism to increase sexual 
               pleasure of both.
interr    Interracial
job       Place-of-work theme
magic     Not only magic, per se, but also demons, fantasy 
               worlds, etc.
real      Supposedly true
ScFi      Science fiction setting.  Please note spelling.
size      Overdeveloped body-parts
stroke    The author intended it simply to arouse.

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8:   Special codes for MM and interr stories.

bear      Hairy male. Usually gay. (Grizzly Adams)
twink     gay male: Young and hairless-type (Tom Cruise)

BC        (with interr) Black Couple
BF        (with interr) Black Female
BM        (with interr) Black Male
WC        (with interr) White Couple
WF        (with interr) White Female
WM        (with interr) White Male


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                            See Also:


The shorter form of this FAQ.


The story codes arranged alphabetically.

There is a list of recommendations for authors stored permanently 
at: 

The story code FAQ for authors.

More on what should, but might not, be included in the subject 
line at:


The ASSM subject line FAQ 

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