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NC-17 Stories Have Plots!

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Teri:

--- Quote from: julilly on October 07, 2007, 08:54:11 PM ---Before you gave your fic that rating were you aware of exactly what an NC-17 rating is? I'm not trying to be condescending, I'm curious. In the film world, both ratings R and NC-17 mean that it's not appropriate for persons under 17, but in different ways.

Rated R: "An R-rated motion picture may include adult themes, adult activity, hard language, intense or persistent violence, sexually-oriented nudity, drug abuse or other elements..."

Now, given that I have read both of the fics you've noted here, does that not seem like a more appropriate rating? By giving your fic an NC-17 rating you are saying that it is for adult eyes only because it is pornographic or obscene in nature, and should be off-limits to children. I don't very well believe that your writing is so obscene that it is NC-17, unless you just haven't gotten to the beastiality/S&M/heroine overdose scene yet. 

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Thank you jullilly for clearing that up for me....honestly I had no idea!

julilly:
I thought it might help to actually see what was being considered as NC-17 and why we choose not to feature stories that are so intensely graphic in nature like visuals, child molestation and rape themes. We feature R rated stories all the time... hell, the feature story for this month is R rated for violence, so if you consider that you were probably putting yourselves into the wrong category for what was expected of the story you'll see that you are just as able to be seen as everyone else.

Teri:
Thank you though, I had always seen NC-17 as a story with alot of graphic sexual content and anything worse was like X or higher.

julilly:

--- Quote from: Teri on October 08, 2007, 12:34:21 AM ---Thank you though, I had always seen NC-17 as a story with alot of graphic sexual content and anything worse was like X or higher.

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You can have an NC-17 without sex too, but consider that Hostel (the movie) is still only rated R, so the violence has to be pretty darn graphic to move up a rating, same as the sex (it's usually things like incest, and graphic rape, and erotica). Before their was NC-17 that rating was the X rating. So they are considered to be nearly the same except X puts the focus on sex where NC-17 could be violence, or just graphic content.

Teri:
Interesting... .glad I learned something new! LOL The most violence my stories have is a physical altercation that's more funny than anything.

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