Subject: Re: [FanFic] What is a lemon, anyway?
From: johnd
Date: 12/3/1995, 9:20 PM
To: fanfic@andrew.cais.com

At 11:51 PM 11/30/95 LOCAL, you wrote:

Where is the line currently defined?  For example, in part 2 of 
December's End fanfic I have Tofu and Kasumi lying together naked in bed in 
the morning, but I have the sex occuring between episodes 1 and 2.

Does being together in this manner count as lemon?  Does the leadup to a 
sexual situation count as lemon even if there is no sexual activity (e.g. 
Nodoka dragging Genma into a "love hotel", episode ?) described?

IMHO:

Depending on the amount of nudity, the first scene could be rated anywhere
from PG-13 to NC-17 by the current standards, unless I'm out of date again,
in which case, it would be no worse than R-rated.

The second scene could even be a G if the "hotel" had no explicit
advertising visible and the characters made very little or no reference to
their planned activity.  Worst case, unless very graphic advertising or
explicit dialogue occurred, would be a PG-13 rating.

I would not, personally, consider either scenario to be a "lemon"  situation.

2 yen

johnd