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I don't view a rating system as censorship, but I don't really see the need for them. And what criteria would be used anyway?
When I was a teenager, my parents read a book that they thought was really risque (I think the title was "Summer of 42"). They hid the book and acted peculiar whenever we entered the room while they were reading it. Their behavior piqued my curiosity and so I hunted for the book, found it and read it on the sly. I was disappointed when i got to the one or two steamy scenes that i figured my parents were so worked up over. I guess it all boils down to how one perceives the written word.
If my parents had not been so silly about the book, I probably would not have been so interested in reading it. Adding rating systems to books, movies, games, seems to only provoke more interest in "mature audience" rated items. Why let some impersonal agency attempt to regulate such things?....Let the parents figure out and regulate what they deem appropriate or inappropriate for their own children.
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