soft core

softcore

1. Depicting erotic sexual content or activity without containing explicit or graphic images or descriptions, especially of penetration or genitalia (i.e. "hardcore"). The magazine has been accused of being little more than softcore pornography. It's being described as an art film depicting the true nature of an adult relationship, but it's just softcore porn, if you ask me.
2. Not particularly extreme in one's dedication to something. I still love playing video games, but I'm just a softcore gamer these days. We're all pretty softcore fans of football. We love watching it when it's on, but we don't follow it religiously or anything.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

soft core

1. mod. referring to a mild type of pornography. Now even the soft core stuff is getting harder to find at newsstands.
2. n. mild pornography. They keep some soft core under the counter.
See also: core, soft
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • softcore
  • soft-core
  • private parts
  • flasher
  • family jewels
  • the family jewels
  • randy
  • be near the knuckle
  • near the knuckle
  • kinky
References in periodicals archive
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