Every rated title carries a compact rating that can be read quickly, with a fuller record underneath for anyone who wants to set precise limits.

One Label Isn't Enough

For decades a single mark, "X-rated", did the whole job. It drew one line, and beyond that line everything was simply "adult". That worked while the category was narrow.

The range and craft of adult video have grown a great deal since, and the one bucket now holds work so varied that the label tells a viewer almost nothing about what a given title contains. One word cannot separate the mild from the extreme, or point to the specific things a person might want to seek out or avoid.

The Standard replaces that overloaded label with a description precise enough to guide a decision and short enough to read quickly.

A Familiar Idea

You already know how this works from film and television. A short rating tells you what kind of content a title contains, and a set of descriptors tells you why. This Standard does the same thing for adult video.

The difference is precision. A film rating sorts a title into one of a handful of buckets. The Standard describes what is actually in it, so two titles that would share a single letter elsewhere can be told apart here.

Built to Describe, Not Decide

The Standard is advisory. It informs a viewer's choice and never makes it for them. It records what a title depicts rather than whether that content is good or bad, and it speaks only to what is performed on screen, never to real conduct.

It is also stable. The footage never changes, so the rating never expires: a title rated today reads the same in thirty years.