I'm wondering if using the terms "NC-17" and "R" to rate fic according to sexual explicitness and other spectra is cooperating with a moral evil. It certainly isn't intended to mean "No children under 17" or "Restricted" when I use them, but that is their etymology and that meaning is out there and there is the (mostly) value-neutral alternative (if less precisely graduated, if you can get less precisely graduated than the MPAA system) "Not work safe" available.
"Not work safe" covers a much wider territory than NC-17, though. In terms of fanart, anything rated PG-13 through R through NC-17 could be NSFW depending on the workplace (in some places, just two people making out would be frowned upon, regardless of whether they're naked or not). That said, as someone who frequently websurfs in campus libraries, I appreciate cut tags and warnings for art a lot.
In terms of fic, how about something like "Contains Explicit Sex", which is essentially what NC-17 is used to mean?
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"Not work safe" covers a much wider territory than NC-17, though. In terms of fanart, anything rated PG-13 through R through NC-17 could be NSFW depending on the workplace (in some places, just two people making out would be frowned upon, regardless of whether they're naked or not). That said, as someone who frequently websurfs in campus libraries, I appreciate cut tags and warnings for art a lot.
In terms of fic, how about something like "Contains Explicit Sex", which is essentially what NC-17 is used to mean?