What's the difference between Adult and Mature?

[Sager]

aren't Adult and Mature basically the same thing??

 

[CupcakeNinja]

I always thought of mature as rated R and adult as at least the story having softcore porn moments

 

[Sager]

I always thought of mature as rated R and adult as at least the story having softcore porn moments

I've seen people say the opposite where adult is R and mature is like 16+

 

[Sager]

In terms of ratings, actually, CupcakeNinja has it mostly right. "Mature" is media with things like violence, swearing, gore, etc. while "adult" is more or less basically just sex. In a video game like, say, Doom, you can violently dismember an enemy with your bare hands and splatter gore everywhere, but it'd be seen as "mature". But in a game like GTA, where the violence is pretty run of the mill, it's considered "adult" because you can have sex.

Modern day sensibilities, eh.

In terms of genre, mature can deal with aspects like violence or swearing or even sex, but if the target audience aren't adults, then it's not adult. You can have a story about teenagers in high school that deals with mature themes like violence in bullying, or teenage sex, and it would just be "mature" in theme. The later Harry Potter books have some fairly heavy themes about mortality, grief, racism, genocide, war, post-traumatic stress, survivor's guilt, etc. but they're still marketed as "children's books". They're just mature.

I guess that makes sense! you don't have to be an adult to be mature.
But you have to be an adult to watch porn.

 

[Nakakure]

In terms of ratings, actually, CupcakeNinja has it mostly right. "Mature" is media with things like violence, swearing, gore, etc. while "adult" is more or less basically just sex. In a video game like, say, Doom, you can violently dismember an enemy with your bare hands and splatter gore everywhere, but it'd be seen as "mature". But in a game like GTA, where the violence is pretty run of the mill, it's considered "adult" because you can have sex.

Modern day sensibilities, eh.

In terms of genre, mature can deal with aspects like violence or swearing or even sex, but if the target audience aren't adults, then it's not adult. You can have a story about teenagers in high school that deals with mature themes like violence in bullying, or teenage sex, and it would just be "mature" in theme. The later Harry Potter books have some fairly heavy themes about mortality, grief, racism, genocide, war, post-traumatic stress, survivor's guilt, etc. but they're still marketed as "children's books". They're just mature.

I feels like CupCakeNinja is ain and you are demiurge

 

[XianPiete]

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[Llamadragon]

I feels like CupCakeNinja is ain and you are demiurge

CupcakeNinja is a Biblical city and you’re a shaper of the physical reality? I smell a writing prompt.