Explicit Content

How violent/sexual/generally explicit does content have to be before you cannot take part in it any further? Likewise, what kind of explicit content is a draw for you?

I'm probably never going to see Audition or The Human Centipede, but most other 'explicit' stuff is OK with me. It's not a massive draw in and of itself, but it doesn't really put me off either.

I don't do gory, gratuitous violence. I don't find merit in the gross/shock attempts by movies to make us viewers feel anxious/afraid/horrified. It's just violence porn. Big turn off.

I don't think explicit material will draw me in, not for more than for a second or two which is as much out of curiosity as it is anything else. Like, "Is that a nude scene? Huh, guess so."

Gore and explicit content drives me away, certainly never pulled me in. I can deal with a
non-extreme sex scene, a la Game of Thrones, but I really don't appreciate ultraviolence or graphic displays of wounds.

I can deal with nudity/sex most of the time, but it's a huge turn off for me when it's gratuitous. I despise, despise when movies/shows/games use nudity to draw in viewers, instead of focusing on content and narrative. This almost always happens with female characters, bar a few instances of gratuitous male nudity that're just too few and far between to become a problem. Female nudity for the sake of nudity is very illustrative of the disgusting sexism in Hollywood, and it has to fucking stop. If I want porn, I'll go to a porn website. Focus on writing good stories and characters, and especially focus on writing good female characters instead of making them sex objects. Some examples of nudity don't apply to this, but more often than not they do.

As for gore/violence, I can handle a reasonable amount of it. Game of Thrones, for example, has some good use of gore/violence (albeit failing miserably in the nudity department). Anything more than that, however, and it becomes a major turn off for me. It's incredibly concerning to me that people find it amusing when it's not necessary. In GoT, the violence is primarily there to illustrate realism. In Quentin Tarantino movies, the violence is exaggerate and sickening. I've seen people get shot, and it looks absolutely nothing like that, Quentin. I don't see how it's artistic when it's often played for gags or exaggerated humor, and it legitimately concerns me that a lot of audience members seem to enjoy gore for the sake of gore...

Violence in and of itself, however, I don't have a limit to. My limit usually comes in the form of how/why it is portrayed. I don't enjoy it, mind you, but I accept it in most cases when it's not torture porn (just because, again, why the fuck), and when it isn't played for laughs. Other forms of violence, particularly those used in a way that serves the story/themes of whatever work they're in, I can accept because the unfortunate truth is that it's mostly all realistic; people have done far, far worse in real life, and I see no reason to pretend otherwise.

Yeah explicit content isn't really a problem for me but The Human Centipede was just downright horrible, no wonder it was banned in some countries.

Gory for the sake of it, I don't like. But if its a well-made show or movie I can handle whatever graphic content it throws at me.

If I can still watch it with my sibling or parent, it's watchable enough for me :)

You'd be surprised as to what levels of sex/gore that your (supposedly weak hearted) parent can handle, especially when such scenes can be used as a learning/teaching material for each other.

Its just awkward watching explicit sex scenes with my mum.

There's not any type of explicit content that I'm unable to watch. But when something is trying too hard to be gory, or tossing irrelevant sexual stuff around because it sells, I lose interest quickly. It's why I don't watch most horror movies, as too many of them are just trying to shove some gore in your face for a reaction. Not very interesting.

I don't really have tolerance for anything with gore, heavy violence, horror/suspense, or gratuitous sex. Which isn't to say that it's necessarily a bad thing, but what bothers me may not bother others. For film class, I had to watch Silence of the Lambs and Night of the Hunter and those were too much for me. I just don't take suspense very well for whatever reason. Nudity/sex is a lesser extent. It's not that I mind it per se, but just not gratuitous sex, especially if the sex is baseless and just there for the sake of a sex scene, which I thankfully don't recall seeing any movies that fit that bill. I know they're out there, but they haven't been under my eye, at least. lol

I'm completely almost neutral. If the plot is there and the show/movie is not totally reliant on the sex and/or gore I'm fine with almost anything. My problem is more that if there's no actual content I'd get bored or annoyed lol.

I'm less bothered by violence if I'm enjoying the show/game. I like the Fable series, even though it has decapitations, nudity, and everything that would turn people off. I get so into the game I don't even notice it.

Something like Happy Tree Friends though, is mindless violence with no plot. I can't get into that, and the gore starts bothering me.

The more explicit content the better in my opinion
Gore and violence is great and censoring words like "fuck" and "shit" is really fucking shitty

if the sex or cussing takes away from the story, then I'm not fan of it. moderation is fine

im a big fan of gore and violence though, but only if its fitting. For example, I dont want to watch an action movie with gore (such as Mission Impossible), but I expect gore in a horror film.

In my opining, sex/cuss words/gore dont make a movie inherently better or worse. But if used right, they can make a movie better. And if used wrong, then worse.

With gore it's always for shock value and nothing else. Even in horror movies it isn't really necessary. The best horror movies I've seen use the suggestion of violence, rather than showing it outright, to create a much better atmosphere. It leaves things to the viewer's imagination, which is capable of generating emotion far more effectively than showing someone getting butchered or whatever. The music, the sound effects, and the off-camera shots (like showing it from behind, so you don't see the actual wound but KNOW there is one) is what makes it so brilliant. Some of the most horrific scenes I've seen haven't even been in horror movies because of this.

As for sex...there has never been a sex scene portrayed convincingly in any movie or TV series, ever. It's always so artificial and predictable that it's embarrassing to watch it. You can't fake passionate sex. Even rape seems painfully contrived. It's just...boring to watch, and again, you can achieve the same results by having two people go into a bedroom and closing the door.

tl;dr not seeing these things makes it more explicit than actually seeing them, to me. Film makers just have no imagination when it comes to actually depicting these things in a believable manner.

I can be kind of picky. If I suspect a show will fall out of these rules, I automatically consider it as possibly something I will never watch.

Acceptable:
Violence: Up to Gunshots, Wounds realistic. No gratuitious unrealistic violence, such as excess harm to someone.
Sex: Depending on the rating; R, Sex scenes allowed, but not explicit or showing any frontal nudity. Can heavily imply or confirm sex is being had audio-visually, but not reveal the actors bare bodies having sex. X/AO/R18/R21; anything goes.
GORE: , No gratuitious/unrealistic blood levels Excessive Gore is Absolutely unacceptable in any photorealistic or near-photorealistic media. Is fine in animation if it's not too excessive. NSFL GORE IS ALWAYS UNACCEPTABLE
Crudeness: Depends on the rating. Y(7); NO CRUDENESS BEYOND FART JOKES OR "HEE HEE YOU SAID BODY PART", NO CRINGE OR EDGY CRAP OR ELSE IT'S AUTOMATICALLY TRASH! G; I SHOULD NEVER CRINGE It's unacceptable if it's being censored and happens excessively. PG(-13)/TV-14/T; it's fine, if it's not too excessive or tries to be too edgy or too cringey.
Language: Beyond what I interpret as "Too crude" I don't police it much. However I don't wanna watch a show laced with profanity bleeps or censorship, so if it has profanity it should be rated accordingly and bleeps or censorship done as sparingly as the FCC allows. (The FCC clause ONLY APPLIES TO LIVE SATELLITE/CABLE/BROADCAST TV IN THE USA ONLY)