The Spice Scale

What is the Spice Scale?

Many of the romance books I read have graphic content in them. I created a system to categorize these books based on the smut they include. This scale only takes into account how much smut there is, not whether I thought it was good or not.

  • 1

    Just the PG-13 stuff. No smut.

  • 2

    Things get a little hot and heavy. Smuttiness occurs once or twice but it is non-descriptive.

  • 3

    Smuttiness occurs once or twice and it is descriptive.

  • 4

    There are quite a few (3-4+) smut scenes in graphic detail.

  • 5

    Either many extremely graphic smutty scenes, smuttiness overrules the plot, or the smut gets pretty dark.