Can porn be "soft-core", or is porn just clearly porn? Basically, porn is considered to be any depiction of sex. Usually, SFW and NSFW is primarily designed to deferentiate the porn (and other "adult content") from pure art, but there is clearly a million+ ways to create raunchy content that can pass as SFW. A perfect example being Rick Griffin who has clearly gotten this NSFW to SFW conversion down to a science, making art technically safe while the lewdness is preserved overall. Given these and other facts, ought we to ditch/update our definitions for NSFW & SFW? Like, if we are just scared of showing genitals and blood to kids (things every kid has seen 100 times before) what is the actual point?
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I think NSFW designations, when it comes to content warnings/content filters, should be expanded to include specificity. Like how on ESRB ratings in the US, there's the letter rating to give you a general idea on who it's appropriate for, but then it lists the things that resulted in that ruling (violence, strong language, nudity, sex, etc.) so you can still make an informed decision, "this says it's rated T but mostly due to language, and I don't mind if my seven-year-old hears bad words so I'll still buy it for him" vs "it's rated T, but there's nothing to say why so I don't want to risk something I don't want my kid to see"
This can be applied to artwork, too. It can be flagged as NSFW or SFW, but if flagged as NSFW it has explanation (full nudity, suggestive pose, suggestive language, partial nudity, gore, etc.). Users would be required, when marking something as NSFW, to choose from a list of reasons. Of course if someone takes porn and marks it as SFW, then it won't matter but that can happen with the current system, too.
As far as figuring out if your art is SFW or NSFW, there should be published guidelines listing what can make an artwork NSFW.
This would, obviously, be something each site would have to determine from a moderator perspective. There isn't really a good way to get *everyone* on the same page as far as classifying NSFW/SFW.
This can be applied to artwork, too. It can be flagged as NSFW or SFW, but if flagged as NSFW it has explanation (full nudity, suggestive pose, suggestive language, partial nudity, gore, etc.). Users would be required, when marking something as NSFW, to choose from a list of reasons. Of course if someone takes porn and marks it as SFW, then it won't matter but that can happen with the current system, too.
As far as figuring out if your art is SFW or NSFW, there should be published guidelines listing what can make an artwork NSFW.
This would, obviously, be something each site would have to determine from a moderator perspective. There isn't really a good way to get *everyone* on the same page as far as classifying NSFW/SFW.
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