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<blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 833531" data-attributes="member: 8439">I perfer it to &quot;mature&quot; or &quot;adult&quot; because as mentioned earlier, most things labled that way aren't either. However, if you need a non-loaded term, I'd go for &quot;r rated&quot; or maybe &quot;R+&quot;. We've likely all seen R movies that got that way because the story had certain mature themes, and R movies that are just gratuitous.BTW, as a former psych student, I just have to make my standard comment to these debates. You can winge about &quot;conservative prudes&quot; or whatever all night long, you can talk about how able you were to &quot;handle that stuff&quot; as a kid, but issues of how different kinds of media content effect kids' (and adults) brains aren't boogymen invented by Concerned Women For America. Modeling, desensitization, all these things that get thrown around and exagerated are nonetheless basically founded in science. People may look like idiots when they assume D&amp;D will make your child sacrifice the family cat, but to someone who knows the basics, people who claim &quot;as long as you tell them its fantasy it won't have any effect&quot; look just as dumb.(I know for a fact that some of the misogynistic fantasy I read as a preteen messed with my emotional development. The fact that I eventually recognized and moved past those problems doesn't mean I would want my (theoretical) kids anywhere near that crap.)Kahuna Burger</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kahuna Burger, post: 833531, member: 8439"] I perfer it to "mature" or "adult" because as mentioned earlier, most things labled that way aren't either. However, if you need a non-loaded term, I'd go for "r rated" or maybe "R+". We've likely all seen R movies that got that way because the story had certain mature themes, and R movies that are just gratuitous. BTW, as a former psych student, I just have to make my standard comment to these debates. You can winge about "conservative prudes" or whatever all night long, you can talk about how able you were to "handle that stuff" as a kid, but issues of how different kinds of media content effect kids' (and adults) brains aren't boogymen invented by Concerned Women For America. Modeling, desensitization, all these things that get thrown around and exagerated are nonetheless basically founded in science. People may look like idiots when they assume D&D will make your child sacrifice the family cat, but to someone who knows the basics, people who claim "as long as you tell them its fantasy it won't have any effect" look just as dumb. (I know for a fact that some of the misogynistic fantasy I read as a preteen messed with my emotional development. The fact that I eventually recognized and moved past those problems doesn't mean I would want my (theoretical) kids anywhere near that crap.) Kahuna Burger [/QUOTE]

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