We had 2 similar tags for shaking or bouncing boobs, with the following definitions:
Breast Shaking: Breasts bouncing up and down for a time, through the use of a performer’s hands.
Bouncing Tits: Breasts bouncing up and down for a time, as a result of body movement.
I see several issues with this:
- Neither cover the case of breasts shaking side to side, like a performer might do herself by shimmying her shoulders, or even shaking breasts horizontally with hands.
- Idea that “Shaking = hands, Bouncing = body movement” isn’t obvious from the names. Many of the scenes with the Breast Shaking tag are scraped from DDF studios with no edit history, meaning this was done automatically with an early API scrape into StashDB, so this might not be accurate.
- Both sound like something that happens because another performer is shaking the breasts, or because boob bouncing happens naturally during sex. Nothing for intentional self shaking without hands, whether horizontal or vertical.
I created a 3rd tag for a scene where the performer shakes her breasts side to side without using her hands:
Self Breast Shaking: Purposely causing one’s own breasts to shake around, such as by shimmying the shoulders.
and now I have an edit applying it to the scene. But I got some feedback that maybe a different name like “Horizontal Breast Shaking” would be better.
Thoughts on what to do? Every option has drawbacks.
- Could remove “up and down” from the existing definitions, making them more general. But this makes it less specific especially in the “bouncing tits” case.
- Could remove the hands reference from Breast Shaking, but then it seems redundant with Bouncing Boobs, and removes a convention that’s been understood for a while.
- Could change the new tag to “Breast Shaking (Horizontal)” and have it cover the self breast shaking I had in mind, but that is inconsistent with the current convention that shaking means done with hands.
I don’t know what else the burlesque move of shimmying shoulders to make the breasts shake around could be called. Maybe “Breast Shaking (Hands Free)” could be another option.