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| AAMOF | As a Matter of Fact |
| AB | Adult Baby |
| ABPE* | Alt.Binaries.Pictures.Erotica.* (.bondage, .leather,etc.) |
| AD(H)D | Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder |
| AFAIK/AFIK | As Far as I Know |
| AIUI | As I Understand It |
| AKA | Also Known As |
| ABP* | alt.binaries.pictures.* |
| APB | alt.personals.bondage |
| ASAP | As Soon As Possible |
| ASB | usually: alt.sex.bondage, sometimes: alt.sex.bestiality |
| ASF* | alt.sex.fetish.* |
| ASFD | alt.sex.femdom/ alt.sex.fetish.diapers |
| ASS | alt.sex.spanking/stories/services (context!) |
| AUP | Acceptable Use Policy |
| B4N | Bye for Now |
| BAD | Broken as Designed |
| BAMF | Bad Assed Mother F....... |
| BBR | Burnt Beyond Repair |
| B&D | Bondage and Discipline |
| BBS | Bulletin Board System |
| BDSM | B&D & D&S & S&M |
| BDSMLMNOP | BDSM and whatever else we might do |
| BRB | Be right back |
| BRS | Big Red Switch |
| BTA | But then Again (in response to IOW) |
| BTDT | Been There, Done That |
| BTW | By The Way |
| BWQ | Buzz Word Quotient |
| CAPS | Consenting Adult Play Slave |
| CB or C+B | Cock & Ball |
| CBT | Cock & Ball Torture |
| CD | Cross Dresser |
| CHUDWAH | Clueless Heterosexual Dom WAnnabe (The U is an extra) |
| CHUSWAH | Clueless Heterosexual Sub WAnnabe |
| CIS | Complete and Irrevocable Submission |
| CNC | Consensual Non-Consent |
| CP | Corporal Punishment |
| CTS | Carpal Tunnel Syndrome |
| CU | See you |
| CUL8R | See you later |
| D&S or D/s | Domination & Submission |
| DKF | Dreaded Koosh Flogger |
| DL | Diaper Lover |
| D/L | Download, transmit to you |
| DMQ | Do Me Queen (Sub demanding of attention...) |
| DOS | Disk Operating System (older); Denial of Service [attack] (newer) |
| DOYC | Deity Of Your Choice |
| DOYKB | Down On Your Knees, Bitch: The mating call of the CHUDWAH |
| DTRT | Do The Right Thing |
| DWIMC | Do What I Mean, Correctly |
| ETA | Estimated Time of Arrival |
| ETLA | Extended Three Letter Acronym |
| ESAD | Eat Shit and Die |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Question(s) |
| FFRD | Flying Fuck in a Rolling Donut (I don't give a FF in a RD) |
| FISH | First In, Still Here |
| FOAF | Friend of A Friend |
| FRED | Fucking Ridiculous Electronic Device |
| FTR | For The Record |
| FUBAR | Fouled up Beyond All Recognition |
| FUBB | Fucked up Beyond Belief |
| FURTB | Full up ready to burst (about hard disk drives!) |
| FWIW | For What It's Worth |
| FYI | For Your Information |
| F2F | Face to Face |
| GDW | Grin, Duck and Weave |
| GFR | Grim File Reaper (pervasive data destroyer) |
| GIGO | Garbage in, Garbage Out |
| GIGO | Garbage In, Gospel Out(blindly accepting what the computer says) |
GLGH | Good Luck and Good Hunting |
| GR&D | Grinning, running, and ducking |
| GS | Golden Shower |
| HAND | Have A Nice Day |
| HHOK | Ha Ha, Only Kidding |
| HHOS | Ha Ha, Only Serious(Applied to parodies, absurdities, ironic jokes etc that are alleged to contain a certain amount of truth |
| HNG | Horny Net Geek |
| HTH | Hope This Helps / Hand To Hand [combat] |
| HWSNBN | He Who Should Not Be Named |
| IAE | In any event |
| IAP | Internet Access Provider (normally ISP) |
| IIRC | If I Recall Correctly |
| IM | Instant Message (AOL version of /msg) |
| IMAO | In My Arrogant Opinion |
| IME | In My Experience |
| IMHO | In My Humble Opinion |
| IMNSHO | In My Not So Humble Opinion |
| IMO | In My Opinion |
| IMX | In My eXperience (perferred form: IME) |
| IOW | In Other Words |
| IRC | Internet Relay Chat |
| IRT | In Reply To, In Regards To |
| ISO | In Search Of |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| ITMT | In The MeanTime |
| IWBNI | If would Be Nice If |
| IYFEG | Insert Your Favourite Ethnic Group |
| IYSWIM | If You See What I Mean |
| KTB | Kali's Teeth Bracelet |
| LLD | Leather Lifestyle Dork(s) |
| LOL | Lack of Literacy. Well, OK it stands for Laughing Out Loud (usual) or Lots Of Luck (rare), but it seems that as a rule the incidence of 'lol' in a post is inversely proportional to its general literary merit... |
| LTR | Long Term Relationship |
| MLA | Multiple Letter Acronym |
| MKIBTYK | My Kink Is Better Than Your Kink |
| MOTAS | Member of the Appropriate Sex |
| MOTOS | Member of the Opposite Sex |
| MOTSS | Member of the Same Sex |
| MPD | Multiple Personality Disorder |
| mung | Mash Until No Good |
| NBSP | No Bull Shit Please |
| NC | Non-Consensual |
| NG | News Group |
| NFW | No Fucking Way |
| NL | New Leather |
| NLA | National Leather Association |
| NP | No Problem |
| NSFW | Not Safe For Work (To label a link, picture etc on a public board, to warn coffee break surfers) |
| NSS | No Shit Shylock |
| Ob[BDSM] | Obligatory [BDSM][Spank] etc (used to add topic to an off-topic post) |
| OGL | Old Guard Leather |
| OIC | Oh I See |
| OT | Off Topic |
| OTOH | On The Other Hand |
| OTW | One True Way |
| P&E | Posted & emailed |
| P&M | Posted & (e)Mailed |
| PDA | Public Displays of Affection |
| PISS | Passive Ignorance (Ignoring) Silence Strike |
| PITA | Pain In the Ass |
| PLOKTA | Press Lots of keys to abort |
| PMFBI | Pardon Me for butting in |
| PML or PMSL | Pissing Myself Laughing |
| POSSLQ | Person of Opposite Sex sharing living quarters |
| PTSS | Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome |
| QOTW(Y) | Quote of the Week (Year) |
| RACK | Risk Aware Consensual Kink |
| R&B | Rubber and Bondage |
| RL | Real Life (as opposed to online life) |
| ROFL | Rolling On the Floor Laughing |
| ROFLMAO | Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Arse[Ass] Off |
| RPG | Role Playing Game |
| RSN | Real Soon Now |
| RT | Real-Time/Rise Time/RighT (direction) |
| RTFM | Read the Fucking Manual |
| SAM | Smart-Ass Masochist / Stand And Model |
| SFLA | Stupid Four Letter Acronym |
| SM or S&M | Sadism & Masochism; sadomasochism; Sexual Magick |
| SMOP | Small Matter of Programming |
| SNAFU | Situation normal, all fouled up |
| SO | Significant Other |
| SOS | Sack of Shit? |
| SQO | Some Quantity Of |
| SSB/SSBB | Soc.Subculture.Bondage-BDSM |
| SSC | Safe, Sane, Consensual |
| SSS | Soc.Sexuality.Spanking |
| STD/STI | Sexually Transmitted Disease / .. Infection |
| SWMBO | She Who Must Be Obeyed |
| TAFN | Thats all for Now |
| TDM | Too Damn Many |
| TES | The Eulenspiegel Society |
| TFTB | Topping From The Bottom |
| TG | TransGendered |
| TGIF | Thank God Its Friday |
| TIA | Thanks In Advance |
| TLA | Three Letter Acronym |
| TOS | Terms of Service |
| TPE | Total Power Exchange |
| TPTB | The Powers That Be |
| TS | TransSexual |
| TTL4N | Thats the lot for now |
| TTFN | Ta Ta For Now |
| TV | TransVestite |
| UL | Upload |
| V/A | Verbal Abuse |
| VBEG | Very Big Evil Grin |
| VBG | Very Big Grin |
| VWE | Very Well Endowed |
| WEG | Wide/With Evil Grin |
| WIITWD(H) | What It Is That We Do (Here) |
| WOFTAM | Waste of Flaming time and money |
| WRT | With Respect To |
| WYGIWYPF | What you get is what you pay for |
| WYSBYGI | What you see before you get it |
| WYSIWYG | What you see is what you get |
| YABA | Yet Another Bloody Acronym |
| YKINMK | Your Kink Is Not My Kink |
| YKINOK | Your Kink Is Not Okay |
| YKIOK,IJNMK | Your Kink is OK, It's Just Not My Kink |
| YMMV | Your Mileage May Vary |