PG‐13の英語

語源

Originates from the content rating for media entertainment in which "PG" stands for "parental guidance". There are several countries with a rating called "PG-13". The rating generally requires restrictions on profanity and depictions of adult topics like sexuality and violence.

形容詞

PG-13 (comparative more PG-13, superlative most PG-13)

1. Suitable for adolescents, typically due to the absence of explicit sexuality and intense graphic violence.
   • 2004, Andrea Boeshaar, The Long Ride Home, Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 56:

     With the ED relatively quiet, she'd made the trek to the fifth floor to say good morning to Kevin. Unfortunately for her, she'd walked in on a love scene that wasn't exactly PG-13.

   • 2013, Francine Prose, Primitive People: A Novel, Open Road Media, →ISBN, page 158:

     When I said my husband had rented the tape and I repeated Geoffrey's name, everyone got silent and shot guilty glances at this one girl—the usual blond subliterate trollop, very PG-13.

   • 2014 February 19, Jordan Mintzer, “Pompeii: Film Review”, in The Hollywood Reporter‎, Lynne Segall:

     He delivers one of his better set pieces, with Milo and Atticus fending off an entire Roman battalion as the city cheers on at the local arena, the two muscle-bound warriors cutting their way through many a throat in the most PG-13 way imaginable.

   • 2017, Mark A. Altman, Slayers & Vampires: The Complete Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Buffy & Angel, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 195:

     Each episode was three different story lines happening in high school, college, and postcollege with young adults in various sexual situations. It's MTV, so it was all very PG-13. Created by Roland Joffé, who did The Killing Fields, strangely.

   • 2017, Sara Rider, Going for the Goal, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 137:

     I know there's a lot of business to take care of, but I'd like to spend some of my time off actually enjoying myself, even if I have to do it in a completely PG-13 way.

   • 2020, Micol Ostow, Death of a Cheerleader (Riverdale, Novel 4), Scholastic Corporation, →ISBN, page 119:

     "It's also not exactly PG-13 down here." I glanced at JB. "What are you doing here?" JB rolled her eyes. "Oh, please. If you didn't want us to crash, you shouldn't have been blabbing about the whole thing to Betty right in front of my face."

名詞

PG-13 (plural PG-13s)

1. Content rated to be PG-13.
   • 2009, Stephen Arterburn, Fred Stoeker, Every Single Man's Battle: Staying on the Path of Sexual Purity, WaterBrook, →ISBN, page 70:

     What’s happened since PG-13 films were introduced in 1984 is that we’ve experienced a ratings creep where today’s PG-13 movies contain significantly more sex and profanity than PG-13s did a decade ago.

参考

• G, M, PG, NC-17, R, X