soft-core pornography
Suggestive without explicitness
Soft-core pornography depicts sexual content—nudity, simulated sex acts, erotic scenarios—without showing explicit genital contact or penetration.
It occupies the middle ground between suggestive material and hard-core pornography: late-night soft-core on cable television, The film was basically soft-core with a plot.
Often shortened to soft-core or softcore.
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- romance novelsStories centered on courtship
- age restrictionsLimits based on years lived
- age verificationConfirming someone meets minimum years
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Media aimed at young viewers
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