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Softcore pornography is pornographic or erotic film or photograph that is less sexually explicit than hardcore pornography.

Softcore pornography is intended to arouse men and women and typically contains nude and semi-nude performers engaging in casual social nudity.

The visual representation of genitalia ( full nudity ) is common in printed media, and increasingly so in film and television.

Softcore pornography also typically contains depictions of sexual activity, such as sexual intercourse or masturbation.

The sexual activity is typically simulated.

Softcore pornography typically does not contain explicit depictions of vaginal or anal penetration, cunnilingus, fellatio and ejaculation.

Depictions of erections of the penis may not be allowed ( see Mull of Kintyre Test ), although attitudes towards this are changing.