1) Pornographic material that does not show penetration, genitalia, or actual sexual activity, opposite of hardcore. 2) Anything that is either physically or inspirationally weak.
The pornos that TMC, Cine-max and Showtime show. Doesn't show dicks/cocks or open vaginas/pussys. Usally involves dumb storylines, bad music and predictable plots that we still watch anyway to see the good stuff.
1. less than extreme 2. mildly pornagraphic
A softcore gay erotic magazine or stroke book is allowed to show a man with an erection. But any other person nearby can only admire; no touching or penetration allowed. Nor can the tumescent model touch his own genitals although he could, for example, tweak one of his own nipples. Interestingly, such softcore magazines are now at symbiosis with what most prisons (or penitentiarys) allow their prisoners in the way of pornography. Gay prison porn is gay softcore porn, and gay softcore porn is gay prison porn. The rules are similar for non-gay porn and female nude models. .
Opposite of hardcore.
The music that defines the genre of emo; the opposite of hardcore (in the punk rock sense). Derived from the pornographic term, where "inappropriate" behaviors are depicted, but never viscerally, much like the music described above.
Softcore is a lesser, more ironic, version of hardcore. Softcore is dipping french fries in ice cream, getting up and sitting back down into a chair that makes a farting noise so you can prove that its the char and not you that made the noise, realizing that you have so much junk on the passenger's seat of your car that the car thinks it's a person and the seatbelt light is going on, seeing that you're wearing brown socks with black pants, stuff like that.
soft core is the feeling you get when your favorite song comes on the radio, soft core is holding hands, soft core is having chickens in your back yard, soft core is not hard core because it's soft, although it's not weak, or even really happy. closely associated with the band tender forever.
owning people softly by pooning them on the face. Harcore pooning = not cool. Softcore pooning = cool