Rule 1. No Erotic Role Play (ERP), erotic content, or 18+ sexual content - Roleplay intended to elicit a sexual response from the receiver(s), including but not limited to writing stories (WGW) or posting links to adult content. Doing so will almost always result in an instant permaban from our server. This is not to be confused with distasteful but acceptable marine bravado such as scratching your crotch or cup-checking. However, these actions could still be susceptible to Marine Law.
The current rule is something a lot of staff members do what they want with, as they decide if it falls into this category. The rule needs re-written because who scratches their crotch in-game or cup-checks? Just about no one. With that, we have marine law for a lot of offenses in-game, so why do a lot of them get thrown with the 18+ rule when they can be dealt with in-game?
No ERP is quite fine because the server isn't meant for that. 18+ sexual content is a grey line because what do you mean by that? Wouldn't anything having to do with the genitals be 18+? Though we allow scratching of the crotch and cup-checking; this makes no sense. 18+ sexual content rule needs to be changed to something like pornography links, and stuff like WGW. This is not happening, and multiple people are getting in trouble for stuff that is 18+ going on between two adults that isnt (ERP, something to elicit a sexual response), but is what the rule calls marine bravado.
The rule needs to be changed, and it's disgraceful how it's being used to nit-pick things.