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Originally Posted by Autumn Demon
It seems people call any visual novel with a sex scene eroge. This does not make sense: would you call any movie with a sex scene an erotic film?
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It depends on the portrayal. A good number of movies have sex scenes, but they're not explicit in the sense that you don't "see anything". They also tend to go by in a minute at most, and resolve in either "the morning after" or "talking in bed". So you know they had sex, but most wouldn't call it "porn".
But I mean even in eroge with the least sexual content (games with maybe one or two scenes per route), each scene is still usually 15-20 minutes (if you listen to all the audio) and contains explicit dialogue and visuals (even if mosaic'ed). Now of course, these scenes may be in the context of a 15-20 hour route, so you could say that proportionally it's no different from the short snippet in a movie. But still, these scenes go much further than what you would see in those movies.
So basically, an eroge is just any adults-only game with sexual content. As soon as they add one scene that goes over the line, it needs the 18+ sticker. If they eliminate that one scene, they can sell it as "all-ages" (likely rated E-15 or whatever, but these are more voluntary). This is why there are a lot of games, anime, manga and so on that try to get as close to the line as they can without crossing it, and those that do cross it tend to go further than just one scene (because at that point, you might as well take advantage of it).