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Content Based Book Rating System

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EXPLICIT depictions or descriptions of aberrant sexual activities (5)

EXPLICIT depictions or descriptions of sexual assault/ battery (5)

bestiality (5)

sadomasochistic abuse (5)

EXPLICIT depictions or descriptions of child molestation (5)

Oral sex between minors (5)

Pedophilia (5)

Explicit oral sex (5)

Sex toys (5)

Bondage (5)

Explicit sexual nudity (4)

Explicit details about suicide or self-harm (4)

EXPLICIT depictions of sexual organs in a state of arousal (4)

Obscene references to anal, oral or vaginal intercourse (4)

Obscene references to fingering, anilingus or ejaculation (4)

Promotion of suicide, cutting or other self-harm (MH4)

Pictures of drawing of oral, anal or vaginal sex (4)

EXPLICIT violence (3)

Masturbation (3)

Intense bullying based on, but not limited to, race, sex, occupation, religion, nationality (B3)

EXPLICIT / frequent use of profanity (3)

Frequent mention of suicide, cutting or self-harm (MH3)

Frequent reference to underage transitioning or underage labeling of sexual orientation (G3)

Sexual Nudity (3)

References to sexual activities not involving penetration, cunnilingus, fellatio or ejaculation (3)

Drug or alcohol abuse (3)

References suicide or self-harm (2)

Moderate violence (2)

Inexplicit sexual nudity / sexual activity (2)

Drug or alcohol abuse (2)

Frequent bullying based on, but not limited to, race, sex, occupation, religion, nationality (B2)

Depictions of underage transitioning or underage labeling of sexual orientation (G2)

MH: Mention of suicide, cutting or self-harm (2)

Normalization: Normalizing refers to social processes through which ideas and actions come to be seen as “normal” and become taken-for-granted or “natural” in everyday life. It is a process whereby behaviors and ideas are made to seem “normal” through repetition or through ideology and propaganda. To alter, modify, convert, change, adapt.

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