[NSFW] Extensive tagging guide

Table of content:
01. Genders
02. Orientations
03. Forms
04. Form relationship
05. Species
06. Character count
07. Body parts
08. Sexual positions and acts
09. Sizes
10. Positioning (of characters and of body parts)
11. Views
12. Other
13. Color tags shorthands

1. GENDERS
    
   • male - masculine character with a penis or cloaca/genital slit  
   • female - feminine character with a vagina or cloaca  
   • intersex - character that has any genitals not matching their body  
   •• intersex male - male character with a vagina, cuntboy  
   •• intersex female - female character with a penis, dickgirl  
   •• herm - use for both feminine and masculine characters with both a penis and a vagina (to search for only feminine herms use “herm, -male herm”)  
   •• maleherm - use for masculine characters with both a penis and a vagina
    
   • ambiguous gender - when the gender can’t be determined because the character is not visible entirely or because it’s a feral with no visible genitals or the species has no visible sexual dimorphism (unlike with peacocks or lions)
    
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2. ORIENTATIONS
    
   Depictions of sexual or romantic situations between characters of same or different genders. Note that orientation tags are not mean to describe the sexual orientation of a character on a solo image. They should be used only when there is interaction between characters visible.
    
   Use any of the genders from the post above in the format:

gender A/gender B

gender A on gender B
and
gender B on gender A

solo gender C

3. FORMS
    
   • anthro - bipedal characters that act and move like humans and have body shape similar to a human, but they are neither humans nor humanoids. Sometimes they can still have paws as their hands.  
   
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   • feral - animals in their animal (feral) form, but they still might speak or use their limbs to grab things.  
   
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   • taur - character that walks on four legs but also has hands ^{(note that centaurs are both taurs and humanoids because they have human upper body)}  
   
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   • lamia - snake-like characters with upper body of human, humanoid or animal other than snake and lower body of feral snake  
   
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   • human - regular Homo sapiens sapiens
    
   • humanoid - when it has a human face and no fur/feathers/scales on at least part of the body (e.g. waist up) then it probably is a humanoid and not anthro.  
   
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   • semi-anthro - when it is impossible to make a clear distinction between anthro and feral. Mainly in simplistic styles and some Pokemon. If a character is bipedal but they have animal like-body shape and don’t have hands but rather paws or hooves they might be semi-anthro.  
   
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   • ambiguous form - when the form can’t be determined because only part of a character is visible. If the entire character is visible and it still is not possible use semi-anthro.  
   
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4. FORM RELATIONSHIP
    
   Depictions of sexual or romantic situations between characters of same or different forms.
    
   Two types of tags exist:  

form A/form B

form A on form B
or
form B on form A

5. SPECIES
    
   Usually the species tags are constructed as shown below, but not all levels are always present (especially for fictional species, which are not in the real life classification).
    
   ○ highest level group for both fictional and real animals (mammal, bird, reptile)  
   ○○ high level group in the rank of order/suborder/family (dinosaur, canine, feline, rodent)  
   ○○○ genus (marten) or common name for species from different genera (fox, badger)  
   ○○○○ species (red fox, golden eagle, European badger)  
   and sometimes, if a species has them:  
   ○○○○○ breed or prominent color morph (husky, maine coon, silver fox)
    
   In case of the more popular species you should not be worried about all levels when tagging, the implications adding necessary tags should be already in place. For example:  
    
   When adding the tag husky to a picture there will be also “dog, canine, mammal” automatically added to that picture when the changes are applied because this tag implies those three other tags.
    
   There are no tags like “avian” or “scalie” in use (they are aliased to “bird” and “reptile” respectively). Fictional species should be tagged with what they are based on + fictional species.
    
   Examples:
    
   mammal -> canine -> fox -> red fox  
   mammal -> feline -> cat -> maine coon  
   reptile -> snake -> rattlesnake -> timber rattlesnake  
   bird + fictional species -> gryphon -> blue jay gryphon  
   reptile + fictional species -> dragon -> night fury
    
   • mammals  
   •• canine, feline, marsupial, etc.  
   •• fictional races with fur  
   •• human  
   • birds  
   •• gryphons  
   • reptile  
   •• dinosaur  
   •• fictional creatures like dragons, argonians etc.  
   • amphibian  
   • fish  
   • insect  
   •• arthropod
    
   • monster  
   • alien
    
   • robot  
   • animate machine - living machine
    
   • fictional species - for species that don’t exist in real life, original species, mythological species etc.
    
   • species needed - when the character is of some species, but you just don’t know which one.
    
   • ambiguous species - when the species can’t be determined, e.g. because the character is seen at extreme close-up or is drawn with no details.
    
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6. **CHARACTER COUNT (QUANTITY) **
    
   (Shorthands are given in brackets, they are aliases of the their main tag, all start with “q” for quantity)
    
   a) General type:  
   • solo (q1) - only one character  
   • duo (q2) - exactly two characters  
   • group (q4) - three or more characters  
   •• trio (q3) - exactly three characters  
   •• large group (q10) - ten or more characters
    
   b) Gender specific  
   • solo male (q1m) - only one character, male  
   • duo male (q2m) - exactly two characters, both male
    
   • solo female (q1f) - only one character, female  
   • duo female (q2f) - exactly two characters, both female
    
   • solo intersex male (q1im) - only one character, intersex male  
   • solo intersex female (q1if) - only one character, intersex female  
   • solo herm (q1h) - only one character, herm  
   • solo maleherm (q1mh) - only one character, maleherm
    
   c) Sexual context:  
   • group sex - sex involving more than two individuals.  
   •• threesome - exactly 3 characters having sex with each other.  
   •• foursome - exactly 4 characters having sex with each other.
    
   •• orgy
    
   d) Other
    
   • offscreen character - when there is a character that is not fully visible  
   •• faceless male / faceless female - when there is male or female character whose face is not visible or blank
    
   • ambient wildlife - when there are animals that are not important to the overall scene, e.g. birds flying in the distance  
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7. BODY PARTS
    
   a) The not safe ones
    
   • animal genitalia  
   •• canine penis / equine penis (knotted equine penis) / cervine penis / etc.  
   •• canine vulva / equine vulva / feline vulva / etc.  
   •• canine anus / equine anus / etc.  
   (for more comprehensive list check which tags imply animal genitalia here)
    
   • penis - male external reproductive organ  
   •• foreskin - loose part of skin that covers the end of a penis  
   ••• unretracted foreskin - foreskin covering entire penis head (glans)  
   ••• partially retracted foreskin - foreskin covering some part of the penis head (glans)  
   ••• retracted foreskin - foreskin not covering the glans at all  
   •• circumcised - penises that had their foreskin removed
    
   •• flaccid - penis that is not in the state of arousal  
   •• semi-erect - in between flaccid and erect  
   •• erection - when penis is firm, engorged, and enlarged  
   ••• flared - when the tip of equine penis is swollen up during arousal
    
   •• urethra - the orifice at the end of urinary tract  
   •• knot - spherical area of erectile tissue (like in canines)  
   •• barbed penis - penis with barbs (like in felines)  
   •• medial ring - ring on equine penis shaft
    
   •• multi penis - character that has more than one penis  
   ••• hemipenis - character with two penises with common base (found in e.g. reptiles)  
   ••• diphallism - character with two penises with separate bases
    
   •• prehensile penis - penis that can move a bit like a limb  
   •• tapering penis - if the shaft thickness gradually gets lower from base to tip
    
   •• glazed penis - penis covered in cum, precum, saliva, vaginal secretions or other sexual fluids.
    
   • vagina - part of female internal reproductive system located between vulva and cervix  
   •• cervix - located between between vagina and uterus  
   • uterus - located behind cervix
    
   • vulva - external female genitalia  
   •• clitoris - part of vulva  
   ••• clitoral hood - equivalent of a foreskin, covers the clitoral glans  
   •••• prehensile clitoral hood - when the clitoral hood is prehensile (like in sergals)  
   •• urethra - the orifice at the end of urinary tract
    
   • genital slit - sheath that is not sticking out outside of the body, can look like vulva if penis is not sticking out of it.
    
   • claspers - external male reproductive organ in some species of fish (e.g. sharks)
    
   • cloaca - common opening for digestive, urinary and genital tracts present both in males and females
    
   • anus - the very end of digestive system if it is a separate orifice.
    
   • taint - place between anus and balls
    
   • featureless crotch - crotch with no genitals depicted (SFW)
    
   • nipples - raised region of tissue on the surface of the breast, applies for both males and females
    
   • breasts - organs that form a prominence on the front of a female chest and contain the mammary glands  
   •• areola - the part of skin around a nipple  
   ••• big areola  
   ••• areola slip - when areola is visible but the nipple is covered  
   •• featureless breasts - breasts with no nipples and no aureola (SFW)
    
   •• cleavage - the place between breasts visible when they are partially covered
    
   •• sideboob - breast seen from the side  
   •• underboob - breasts seen from below
    
   •• multi breast - more than two breasts on chest or more that 6 teats/breasts in crotch and abdomen area.
    
   • udders - equivalent of breasts located in crotch area, have two nipples per one “breast”  
   • teats - equivalent of breasts located in crotch area, have one nipples per one “breast”
    
   • ovipositor - organ used to lay eggs
    
   b) The safe ones
    
   Tags describing what the character is covered in:  
   • fur  
   • feathers  
   • scales
    
   • hair  
   •• mane
    
   Body parts:
    
   • tail  
   •• short tail  
   •• long tail  
   •• big tail  
   •• tail fluff  
   •• hairless tail  
   •• prehensile tail
    
   •• leonine tail  
   •• fish tail
    

8. SEXUAL POSITIONS AND ACTS
    
   • missionary position  
   • 69 position  
   • from behind  
   • scissors position  
   • cowgirl position  
   • reverse cowgirl position  
   • train position
    
   Not specifically referring to sex but helpful:
    
   • face to face  
   • butt to butt
    
   • sex - sexual contact with genitals or anuses (even if not directly visible)
    
   • penetration - when a penis, tentacle, finger or other body part is inserted into body orifices.  
   •• anal penetration  
   •• oral penetration  
   •• vaginal penetration  
   •• cloacal penetration  
   •• genital slit penetration  
   •• sheath penetration  
   •• urethral penetration
    
   • docking - inserting a penis into foreskin/sheath/genital slit of other character
    
   • touching tips - when the tips of penises are touching
    
   • thrusting - act of moving the penis/tentacle back and forth while penetrating a body orifice.
    
   ••tail penetration - tail used for penetration
    
   •• double penetration - when a character is penetrated by two penises or tentacles at once  
   ••• double anal / double oral / double vaginal
    
   •• bilateral penetration - a character with two or more penises penetrating two different partners/orifices at the same time.
    
   •• triple penetration - when a character is penetrated by three penises or tentacles at once  
   ••• triple anal / triple oral / triple vaginal
    
   •• trilateral penetration - a character with three or more penises penetrating three different partners/orifices at the same time.
    
   •• balls deep - when the entire penis shaft up to the balls is used during penetration.
    
   • insertion - when a toy is inserted into body orifices.  
   •• anal insertion  
   •• oral insertion  
   •• vaginal insertion  
   •• cloacal insertion  
   •• genital slit insertion  
   •• sheath insertion  
   •• urethral insertion
    
   • sex toy  
   •• dildo - sex toy in the shape of a penis, tentacle or a tongue  
   ••• human dildo - human penis shaped  
   ••• animal dildo - dildo in the shape of animal bits  
   •••• equine dildo / canine dildo / etc.  
   ••• double-headed dildo - with two usable heads  
   ••• cumtube - when a dildo has a tube attached used to pump fake cum through the toy  
   •• anal beads - sex toy consisting of multiple spheres or balls attached together in a line  
   •• penetrable sex toy - sex toy intended to be penetrated  
   ••• fleshlight - penetrable sex toy with a blind hole  
   ••• onesie penetrable sex toy with a through hole  
   •• buttplug - designed for anal insertion, similar to a dildo but shorter and with a wide base  
   •• vibartor - vibrating sex toy, might be a type of dildo  
   •• strapon - sex toy that can be worn by a character and used like an artificial penis  
   •• transparent sex toy
    
    
   • oral - sex or masturbation involving use of mouth for stimulation  
   •• licking penis - when the penis is licked  
   •• blowjob - oral sex involving sexual stimulation of a penis using the mouth (but not solely the tongue), fellatio  
   ••• autofellatio - masturbation  
   ••• deepthroat - deep oral penetration  
   •• cunnilingus - oral stimulation of vulva  
   ••• autocunnilingus - masturbation
    
   • grinding - genital rubbing without penetration, either against partner’s body (except hotdogging (?), frotting, tribadism and cloacal kissing) or an object (see this thread for details: https://furbooru.org/forums/tagging/topics/nsfw-grinding-definition-and-connected-tags-with-visual-examples )
    
   • hotdogging - act of rubbing a penis between butt cheeks  
   • frotting - act of rubbing penises together  
   • tribadism - act of rubbing vulvas together  
   • cloacal kissing - act of rubbing cloacas together
    
   • handjob - penis stimulation using hands  
   • footjob - penis stimulation using feet  
   •• pawjob - penis stimulation using paws  
   • tailjob - penis stimulation using tail  
   • tonguejob - penis stimulation using tongue  
   • wingjob - penis stimulation using wings  
   • boobjob - penis stimulation using breasts
    
   (Above tags can be applicable for both masturbation and sex.)
    
   • masturbation - touching or penetrating themselves or inserting something into own body in order to pleasure themselves  
   •• autofellatio - blowjob on own penis  
   •• autocunnilingus - cunnilingus on own vulva  
   •• tail penetration - tail used for penetration during masturbation ^{(this tag apples also to sex)}
    
   • tentacle porn - porn involving tentacles  
   •• tentacles on female  
   •• tentacles on male  
   Note that tentacles do not count as a character unless they are attached to a specific character.
    
   • vaginal secretions - natural fluid that lubricates the vagina, equivalent of male precum  
   •• vaginal secretions trail
    
   • precum - clear fluid that is emitted from the urethra of the penis during sexual arousal
    
   • cum - thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract  
   •• cumming - ejaculation, cumshot  
   ••• internal cumshot - cumshot that happens inside of a body orifice  
   •• dripping cum  
   •• cum inside - when cum is inside of a body  
   •• cum string  
   •• cum on face - facial  
   •• cum on self - cum on own body  
   ••• autofacial - cum on own face  
   •• cum on penis (glazed penis) / cum on breasts / cum on balls / cum on butt / cum on tongue / cum on body / for comprehensive list see this link  
   •• cum on floor / cum on screen  
   •• excessive cum - overly large amounts of cum
    
   • creampie - aftermath of cumming inside when cum is dripping out of the body orifice  
   •• anal creampie  
   •• oral creampie  
   •• vaginal creampie  
   •• cloacal creampie
    
   • licking  
   •• licking lips / licking face / licking penis / licking balls / licking paws / licking self / for more see this link
    
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9. SIZES
    
   Characters  
   • micro - tiny character  
   • macro - gigantic character  
   • size difference - one character larger than other character
    
   Body parts  
   They usually go as follows (where X is the body part name):
    
   • small X - smaller than average  
   • X - average/normal size  
   • big X  
   • huge X  
   • hyper X - when a character has X that are/is larger than physically possible and are/is totally out of proportions in the relation to the rest of the body
    
   • impossible fit - for situations where one object/character fits into other object/character in a way that is not realistically possible
    
   For details see descriptions for specific body parts.
    
   • penis size difference - penis of one character larger than penis of other character
    
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10. POSITIONING  
    a) Entire character:
     
    • lying down  
    •• prone - on belly  
    ••• sploot - prone with limbs spread  
    •• on back  
    •• on side
     
    • face down ass up
     
    • leaning forward  
    • leaning back
     
    • sitting  
    • standing  
    • walking  
    • jumping
     
    b) Body parts:
     
    • hug - one character embracing another  
    •• wing hug / leg hug / penis hug / tongue hug  
    •• cuddling - more intimate form of hugging
     
    • presenting - character is showing their butt and/or genitals to the viewer
     
    • head between breasts  
    • raised head
     
    • spread wings and folded wings / spread legs / spread arms / spread butt / spread anus / spread vulva / spread cloaca
     
    • arms behind back  
    • arms behind head  
    • arms above head  
    • crossed arms
     
    • raised hands
     
    •hand on…  
    •• hand on penis / hand on hip / hand on butt / hand on leg / hand on face / hand on vulva / hand on breasts / hand on tail / hand on abdomen = hand on belly / snout / chest / hand on balls / hand on shoulder / hand on horns / (see the rest here)
     
    • holding  
    •• hand hold - when something is held using hands  
    •• holding hands - when characters are holding their hands together
     
    • floppy ears - ears pointed down  
    • ears laid back - ears pointed backwards
     
    • looking…  
    •• looking at you / looking back / looking back at you / looking at each other / looking up / looking down / looking at something / for more check this page
     
    • penis related position tags:  
    •• penis on face  
    •• penis on head  
    •• poking out - when a penis is poking out from under clothing intended to cover it  
    •• penis tip - when only the tip of the penis is poking out of the sheath  
    •• just the tip - when only the tip of the penis is used during penetration  
    •• 180 penis - when a penis is positioned parallel to the character’s legs with its tip pointing towards the character’s feet
     
    • balls related position tags:  
    •• balls on face  
    •• balls on floor  
    •• resting balls (possibly balls on floor can be aliased into it)
     
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11. VIEWS
     
    front view - character seen from the front  
    
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    rear view - character seen from the back  
    
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    side view - character seen from the side  
    
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    low angle - when the view is from a point located at a low position (looking up at something)  
    
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    high angle - when the view is from a point located at a hgih position (looking down at something)  
    
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    top view - view from directly above  
    
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    bottom view - view from directly below  
    
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    three-quarter view - character seen at an agle, either from front or from rear (use with front view and rear view)  
    
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    • pov - general tag for images that depict a view from a point of view of some character present in the image.  
    •• male pov - seen from male point of view  
    female pov - seen from female point of view  
    •• dominant pov - seen from dominant character point of view  
    •• submissive pov - seen from submissive character point of view  
    ••• blowjob giver’s pov - seen from the point of view of a character giving a blowjob  
    ••• pov facial - seen from the point of view of a character getting a facial
     
    • internal view - view from inside a body or that shows what is going on inside of a body from the outside
     
    frequently paired with:
     
    • picture-in-picture - smaller drawing within a drawing that shows what is not visible in the main picture, might show internal view, other angle, etc.  
    • cutaway - when character’s body (or an object) is locally drawn as transparent to show what is happening inside  
    • transparent body - when the body is transparent or semi-transparent as a feature of the character
     
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12. OTHER
     
    • indoors / outdoors
     
    • signature - when the artist signature is present  
    • watermark - when a watermark is present  
    •• obtrusive watermark - when the watermark is obstructing the main focus of the image
     
    • alpha channel - images with any transparency or semi-transparency  
    •• transparent background - when the entire background is transparent
     
    • white outline - when there is a white outline around something
     
    • alternate version - for other versions of the same image made by the same artist  
    • edit - for edits not made by the original artist  
    • part of a set - for many images forming one set
     
    • high res / low res
     
    • animated  
    •• gif  
    •• webm  
    ••• sound  
    ••• no sound  
    •• frame by frame - when each frame was drawn by a human and not generated on computer
     
    • 3d - aplicable for art and animation
     
    • chain - the fashion one  
    • chains - the dungeon/bondage ones  
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13. COLOR TAGS SHORTHANDS
     
    Shorter aliases for long color tags for body, background, fur, feathers and scales. They are composed from 4 letters, the first two for color name and the last two for the thing that is in this color.
     
    Colors:
     
    bk - black  
    bl - blue  
    br - brown  
    cr - cream  
    gn - green  
    gy - gray  
    mg - magenta  
    or - orange  
    pp - purple  
    pk - pink  
    rd - red  
    tl - teal  
    tn - tan  
    wh - white  
    yl - yellow
     
    tt - two toned ^{for body, fur and hair}  
    mc - multicolored ^{for body, fur and hair}
     
    Things that have that color:
     
    bd - body  
    bg - background  
    fr - fur  
    ft - feathers  
    sc - scales
     
    So for example instead of writing “yellow feathers” you can write “ylft” or instead of “orange fur” you can write “orfr” and because those tags are aliased they will be changed into the proper tag. Example: blsc

sideboob - when clothing or positioning reveal only the sides of breasts.

underboob - when clothing or other covering/hiding reveals the underside of breasts.

Generally not used on entirely topless characters unless the breasts are partially hidden.