(Snagged from twoluvcats of a wealth of semi-useless informtion.)

In case you’re wondering how I managed to score this rating, because perhaps you hadn’t noticed any steamy sex scenes (or any steamy pseudo-sex scenes) of late, the site is kind enough to give the criteria on which the judgment was made:

This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:

ass (8x)
sex (3x)
dangerous (1x)

My site, especially the current front page with my two recent kick-ass women posts is a bit heavy on the ass. They seem to have only counted the free-standing ass tokens (as in “she kicked some ass”) and not those in compounds (such as my 20+ tokens off kick-ass).

I apparently also had sex three times on my front page. Woohoo! Getting some action! Of course, I was writing about the pheromones of Star Trek aliens, and the sex-free relationship of two other fictional characters. (I also used the word asexual a couple of times in that post. And that’s got sex right in the middle of it.)

And then, here’s the kicker. “Dangerous” contributes to an R-rating? Hello? This makes me unbearably curious about what other words might be considered too titillating for general audiences. For example, would synonyms of dangerous be considered equally as adult?

Roget’s New Millennium™ Thesaurus
Main Entry: dangerous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hazardous
Synonyms: alarming, bad, breakneck*, chancy, critical, dangersome, deadly, delicate, dynamite, exposed, fatal, formidable, hairy*, heavy*, hot*, impending, impregnable, insecure, jeopardous, loaded, malignant, menacing, mortal, nasty, parlous, perilous, portentous, precarious, pressing, queasy, risky, serious, serpentine, shaky, speculative, terrible, thorny*, threatening, ticklish*, touch-and-go*, touchy, treacherous, ugly*, unhealthy, unsafe, unstable, urgent, viperous, vulnerable
Antonyms: protected, safe, secure, unhazardous
Source: Roget’s New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1)
Copyright © 2007 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.
* = informal or slang

I’m thinking that parious sounds pretty racy, not to mention thorny and ticklish. As for speculative? Well, let’s not even go there.

Anyhow, I would have been inclined to generally rate my site with a PG-13 rating. Which, oddly enough, is how my real life gets rated according to this quiz swiped from raincoaster:

Your Life is Rated PG-13

Your life isn’t totally scandalous, but you definitely don’t shy away from adult themes!