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How the ESRB Rates Games

Posted by timothy on from the they-know-it-when-they-see-it dept.

Ant writes "Joystiq mentioned a short Slate story on how the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) reviews and rates games. (Seen on Blue's News.)"

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  1. Re:Too Busty receiving a higher rating? by sesshomaru · · Score: 3, Interesting
    There is a scene in The Aviator when Howard Hughes is trying to defend his movie, The Outlaw, to the Film Review Board because of the prominence of Jane Russel's cleavage in the film. Well, he brings a scientist with him with some sort of measuring device, and he has pictures of other cleavage from other films up on the wall. The scientist goes to each one and measures saying things like, "Well, as you can see, in this image we see an entire inch more of cleavage than is seen in The Outlaw." and so on.

    I suddenly thought of that scene when reading this article.

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  2. Re:short guide by VoidWraith · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Personally, I think children should be mature enough to see breasts when they're less than a month old. Its often their primary source of nutrition, after all. If they were mature enough to handle it then, why aren't they mature enough to handle it as a teenager? And honestly, everyone has breasts. Some are larger than others...

  3. Re:So sensitive about censorship. by amliebsch · · Score: 3, Interesting
    we are in a more liberal world with "sex, drugs and rock and roll" being more excepted

    Assuming you meant "accepted"...I don't think so. I recall reading a good number of social science surveys that have shown that while our culture have grown more liberal as to individual freedom, it has grown more conservative as far as moral values, possibly a backlash from the 60's and 70's era of hedonism. So culturally we are more likely to allow you to do things of which we are more likely to morally disapprove.

    Weird, huh?

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  4. Re:How the ESRB Rates Games by AdamWeeden · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The logic behind that is that watching sex inspires sexual thought. Watching violence (typically) does not inspire violent thought.

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  5. Re:short guide by Deliveranc3 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Interestingly the average age of first intercourse in Canada is 17 while in the states it's 15.

    We reserve the right to be more reserved :P