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.