Just go with solo_male, other will just cause more.

I only blacklist fetishes involving "body functions" or death.

"single_female" refers to an image that has 1 female in it, as opposed to "multiple_females" which has more than 1. As you said, images with "single_female" may have other genders present. If the image only contains females, "female_only" would be included as well.


"solo_male" and "solo_female" are supposed to tell users that the image has 1 male/female and nothing else. But as you said, searching "solo male" or "solo female" (note: space instead of underscore) returns the same results and therefore makes those tags redundant.


Actually there is: "male_only". The "male_only" tag is applied to images that only contain male characters. There is also "female_only", "shemale_only" and "herm_only".


"1female" is more correct than "1girl" since the word girl is age and species specific (it means young female human), whereas female refers to any female character regardless of age, species, etc. "girl" should only be used if you are specifically referring to a "young female human", but the again, most characters that young shouldn't be here anyway...


That is likely because many users tag the content they don't like in order to make their blacklists more effective, and many users don't like images with males and nothing else.

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One thing I would like to add that is partly related to this. Users should stop using "girl" to refer to dickgirls, shemales and newhalfs since they are actually male, and also stop using "girl" to refer to futanari and herms since they are both male and female.

It's "easier" to tag as girls. That subject is whole another can of worms.

Is being easier more important than being correct?

Not only is tagging shemales with "girl" incorrect, it increases the chances of users finding them when they don't want them. Tagging them correctly would prevent that. It would also mean the correct solo tag as well so more "solo_female" or "1girl" on those images (it happens more often than you think).

Yes.




All I can say is this because it be derailing

There are those who treat it seriously and those that think it's funny to give a girl a penis.

There's "rules and variations" to futanari.

Ehhh shemales, dickgirls, and newhalfs arn't exactally male either. In most cases they generally have feminine features, breasts, and bodies. But they also have a cock. That doesn't always make something male or female.

Biologically it does. Looking female or acting female doesn't make you female. The gender of all characters and creatures (real and fictional) is determined by what reproductive system they have. Shemales have a male reproductive system but no female one, therefore they are male.

This argument has deviated more than I expected and we need to get back on track.

The point I was trying to get across earlier was that since Shemales, Herms, etc. are not truly female (some are male, some are both male and female), tags such as "1girl" and "single_female" should not be used since they are incorrect, and that more correct ones should be used instead. "single_female" should only be used to describe characters that are actually female. "single_shemale" is used for shemales and "single_herm" is used for herms. Each of those tags also has a "multiple" counterpart.

I guess now we should direct this argument back to it's original aim: Determining whether solo_gender tags should be used. I say they are unnecessary since searching "solo male" will find the same images that "solo_male" would, and users that don't want to see images that only contain male characters can dash-tag or blacklist "male_only". Ditto for "solo_female" and "futa_solo".

Biologically it makes them neither male nor female xD since they're a mixture of both. Also, some can decide if they wish to be concidered a male or a female... so mentality plays a part also. But yes, back to the topic at hand!