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@noah-cochran Hey Noah! I’m doing well, and hope you are also.

R rated does not mean scary or wicked, it means that one is imbuing themselves with explicit violence, sexual language, or sexual content.

Everyone’s going to mean slightly different things regarding their definition of this, especially when talking about books rather than films, since books don’t get MPA ratings.

My general definition for “R-Rated” regarding books is “stuff I wouldn’t recommend to teenagers without a careful content warning.” I don’t agree with yours, and it’s not one which even necessarily lines up with actual film ratings. You can drop the F-bomb at least once in a PG-13 movie, for example, and have quite a lot of sexual content and violence while maintaining that rating. Blood and gore are usually what tip the scales to R, and there’s a ton of variance in what “R” constitutes in film.

Compare, for example, the different cuts of Justice League by Joss Whedon and Zack Snyder. Snyder added more language and more blood, but the general level of violence is pretty much the same. There’s a bit more brutality to how some people die, for example getting clearly decapitated or disintegrated.

Compare that to gory horror movies or sleazy comedies, and you can end up with completely different kinds of content in one R movie or another.

Frankly, the account of the Levite’s concubine in Judges 19 should be R-rated. I don’t care how explicit the description is.

It would be irresponsible for me to give the most explicit bits of the OT, so I won’t.