Subgenre problem: Confidently speaking for the logical people in the world...

Good question. Well, maybe the keywords "hardcore" and "softcore" should be replaced respectively with the keywords "hardcore-erotica" and "softcore-erotica" in addition to making pattern "-erotica" a subgenre of the "adult" genre.

Adding "-erotica" is just part of a bigger problem with Subgenres.  Such suffixes go against the basic principles of outlining that are usually taught by at least the 5th grade:  You go from the general to the specific.  As such, Erotica should precede Adult.  By using genres as suffixes, they are just "tagging along" in a weird and occasionally redundant way.  ("melodrama-drama," when "melodrama" would be just  fine.)"softcore" and "hardcore" should be able to stand alone, on their own, without any "erotica" suffix.

Another example of this problem: "satire-comedy," when "satire" should suffice by itself.  (By the way, there are dramas that are also satire.)

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When you get down to it, this is just simple logic.  It goes back to the principles of outlining that one learns in the fifth or sixth grade.  A subgenre (sub point) can only exist UNDER a genre (main point).  There is a hierarchy in outlining and organizing.  A subgenre cannot exist without "existing under" (being "sub" to) a genre.  What's so difficult to understand about this?  Even the listing of IMDb's created subgenres places them "under" a genre.

This may result in some seemingly unnecessary repetitions ("sitcom-comedy." "melodrama-drama." etc.), but it is the only logical way that subgenres can exist.  This, of course, all depends on whether one wants to be logical, or not.  We, unfortunately, may know the IMDb answer.