What is "PG" Anyway

Hey, some grammas are hip to that scene baby

If my Nana were here she'd probably be selling that stuff.......

I have reported ads showing sex clubs (with censored nipples) and casinos inside pg land and they disappeared 4 days later

I cant tell you what linden thinks it is but as a landowner in a pg sim I can tell you what I believe it should be..I believe that what is allowed in a pg sim should be the same as what is shown in a pg rated movie... that makes sense doesnt it? For me its some violence if its not too extreme , not much cursing, and some sex as long as its done privately and discretely... if you allow none of those things you have a G not a PG... in my opinnion. Heck even a G has violence these days and kissing too. Its all in how you look at it , but since they call it PG it should be based on that. They do have violence and love scenes in PG they just do it carefully.

Elinah

I don't know about her collective remarks, that's a pretty large set, but this remark, from /142/c8/181801/7.html#post1500521 says the opposite to me:

She is saying that this "overtly, graphically, or explicitly sexual ... or intensely violent" content is extreme, even for a Mature region. That suggests pretty clearly to me that there is such a thing as Mature content that is not extreme, and need not have the adult flag set. If she had meant to say "if a parcel in a mature region doesn't have the adult flag set, then it must comply with the PG standards", she would have said it that way.

I keep getting back to the motion picture standards, because of their famliarity and acceptance. An R rating is not wiggle room, it's a well defined, significant rating between PG-13 and NC17. While the grey areas on the boundaries between ratings will always be debated, I don't see why people are having such a problem with the idea of parcels that are Mature but not Adult. One obvious example is a nude beach where sexual animations or aroused genitals aren't allowed by the parcel owner, but unaroused genitals are.

Non-aroused genitalia is classed as mature, not adult? Nudist colonies aside, which is a pretty distinctive subculture which is why outside the norms of mainstream society, can you think of any RL places where you could hope to see that?

That's a very US-centric reaction, because nude beaches are fairly common in Europe, with no age check at the entrance.

But I think the answer could have been inferred from my post, i.e. at an R rated movie. Remember Schindler's List?

Yes I'd agree with that, it's the mull of kyntyre ruling.

there are nude beaches like this in the US with no age check -

They Just have to be on private property and need some sort of privacy screen between them and the normal beach (and the view from the street)

I guess they keep so low key people dont know they are there , lol.

PG / Mature / Adult Oh my!

Until LL devotes staff to monitor the grid, it is all erroneous mumbo jumbo.

Unless you are in Boardman, of course

I've been called many names over the years, but this is the first time someone has dared call suggest I'm American.

I think I need to go shower now.

Please do....we prefer unwashed masses on our teeming shores. Or is it huddled masses.....?

Well as I recall didnt they say this whole age verification on adult flagged land thing would begin by now? It hasnt, so maybe sl has wised up and realized it was a stupid idea ?

Elinah

Don't make me laugh....It hurts

Since when have they listened. They just haven't got round to it yet..!!!!

Today is the first I'd seen that particular remark, and you're right, it's very telling. I avoided that thread due to the long, anti Integrity posts, so I'm glad you pointed me directly to that post. "The flag we're talking about will be available on Mature rated sims" sure *does* sound an awful lot like "We're adding an additional content flag, called Adult."

I get my Linden propaganda mainly from the blogs, as it is often too painful to wade through pages of long winded complaints.. It's a shame we have to piece these things together, and still end up unclear.

Somewhere it was mentioned that they had actually just recently signed the deal with Integrity. I'd bet it's probably going to be the subject of the next major grid/client update.

A lot of information in this thread. In movie ratings history there use to be:
Rated G: General Audiences. All ages admitted.
Rated M: Suggested for Mature Audiences. Parental discretion advised.
Rated R: Restricted. Persons under 16 are not admitted unless accompanied by parent or adult guardian.
Rated X: Persons under 17 not admitted.

M rating was replaced with PG around 1970 because of confusion with R rating and in 1984 PG-13 was introduced.

I think we all have a sense of what is PG, Mature or Adult. All of us have seen explicit pictures showing genitalia on walls in both PG and Mature sims. There are demos of products on display in both types of parcels. I could be more forgiving it the displays were behind opaque walls and windows when on a PG sim but in reality as stated earlier anything explicit has not place in a PG sim.

I have seen the bright green prims hiding things from view when land owners have displayed explicit photographs on PG sims. I think the same should happen to all the advertisement and displays of mature items on that PG sim that Astarte has reported.

One of the things I really liked about SL early on was how easy it was to actually get help from people in game as well as the Lindens. I know they are probably overwhelmed because of the growth of SL. I have seen similar trends in support in other games I have played. I am reminded that the only constant we have is change and we should try to embrace it instead of fearing change.

Even simpler answer, don't say, or do anything you would Not be proud to say or do in front of Both your Grandmothers.

Angel.