Entertainment Software Rating Board Interactive - Content Descriptors

Content Descriptors

  • Comic Mischief - Scenes depicting slapstick or gross vulgar humor.
  • Mild Violence - Mild scenes depicting characters in unsafe or violent situations.
  • Violence - Scenes involving aggressive conflict.
  • Graphic Violence - Explicit images or content that depict extremely violent acts. May contain blood or gore.
  • Nudity - Visuals which depict the human form:
    • Technical Nudity - Of a medical or health related nature.
    • Artistic Nudity - Museum pieces, sketches of the human form.
    • Nudity - Erotic or sexually explicit images.
  • Suggestive Themes - Mild provocative references or materials.
  • Mature Sexual Themes - Provocative material, possibly including partial nudity.
  • Strong Sexual Content - Sexually explicit images or content.
  • Mild Language - Mild references to profanity, sexuality, violence, alcohol, or drug use.
  • Mild Lyrics - Mild references to profanity, sexuality, violence, alcohol, or drug use in music.
  • Strong Language - Profanity and explicit references to sexuality, violence, alcohol, or drug use.
  • Hate Speech - Discussions involving stereotypes, racial epithets, bigotry.
  • Strong Hate Speech - Extreme discussions involving stereotypes, racial epithets, bigotry. May include physical violence.
  • E-Mail - Non-verifiable info only. Site requests E-mail address.
  • Personal Information - Site requests personal information (i.e., Name, Address, Age).
  • Survey Information - Site asks census type questions (i.e., How many people live in your home).
  • Financial Information - Site requests bank or credit check information.
  • Advertising - Site contains advertisements.
  • Transactions and Purchases - Purchases can be made. Credit cards accepted.
  • Direct Expenditure - Expenditure from a pre-agreed fixed ceiling account, bank account, credit card.
  • Potential Sensitive Areas:
    • Weapon Making - Instructions related to the making or development of bombs or weapons.
    • Suicide - Discussions involving suicide, cults, etc.
    • Intolerance - Maligns one group or advocates discriminatory treatment of its members (no physical violence).
    • Gambling - Discussions or depictions of games of chance for money or some other stake.
    • Alcohol - Discussions or prominent images of alcoholic beverages depicted.
    • Drugs - Discussions or prominent images of pharmaceutical, hallucinogenic or illegal drugs depicted.
    • Smoking - Discussions or prominent images of tobacco related products depicted.
  • Informational - Content provides data, facts, resource info, reference materials or instructional text.
  • Edutainment - Content provides user with specific skills, development or reinforcement learning.

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