What are your thoughts on this group of tags? Do people actually use these tags for searching or are they too arbitrary and non-specific to be useful?

Personally, I feel like they're a byproduct of overzealous tagging and better served by more specific tags (especially when said body part is a penis most of the time) but I'd like to hear what others have to say about them

After taking a peek, I'd say they serve as a placeholder at best, bloat and needing destruction at worst.

Looking through the tags' history this group seems to be a remnant of Fluffball, a former user and known over-tagger. They and one other user were pretty much the reason we hit the maximum of tags on some posts before they were cleaned up.

For me these tags are nothing but bloat.

Also, the topic came up 2 years ago: https://e621.net/forum_topics/38866

They need to be gotten rid of but most don't have a great alias target, mostly because fingering isn't penetration

Alright, the way I see it, aliasing these tags away to anal/vaginal/cloacal, etc. seems to me like a solid option if we're just looking to get rid of them and should encourage anyone who uses them to use more specific tags (not like the people still using them aren't being thorough enough). Helps to avoid any issue with fingering and penetration, too; as long as people are tagging properly this shouldn't be much of a problem. I've already done some preliminary cleanup to make it work.

The only concern I have is with aliasing body_part_in_mouth to oral since it isn't implicated by finger_in_mouth. However, oral_fingering exists, but that doesn't implicate oral either.

donovan_dmc said:
They need to be gotten rid of but most don't have a great alias target, mostly because fingering isn't penetration

I did make a topic to propose changing that, though it stalled due to disagreement about edge cases. Might be worth taking another look at that if it will help here.