Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watcgl.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale
From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Fun Sex in Movies, Moral Heavies
Message-ID: <1079@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Jan-85 12:03:14 EST
Article-I.D.: watcgl.1079
Posted: Mon Jan 28 12:03:14 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 29-Jan-85 05:42:24 EST
References: <600@pyuxc.UUCP> <1280@hou4b.UUCP> <529@mhuxt.UUCP> <1285@hou4b.UUCP> <2779@ncsu.UUCP> <712@utcsrgv.UUCP> <1093@hcrvx1.UUCP>
Reply-To: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
Lines: 29

Of course, if you make a film that has beautiful, sensitively erotic
sex scenes that are at all explicit, you'll run afoul of the Ontario
Censor Board if you want to show it here.  Either they'll demand that
parts of it be cut outright, or just rate it so that only adults can
see it.  (We wouldn't want teenagers to know what healthy sex looks like,
now would we?)  You'd be much better off, economically, making a violent
film - they don't seem nearly as concerned with censoring violence.

Oh, and you have to be careful of topic too.  Louis Malle's "Pretty Baby"
was banned outright - not allowed to be shown at all - because it dealt
with the topic of a child prostitute, which was deemed "not suitable for
Ontario audiences".  There wasn't even any explicit sex in the film.
As someone pointed out, all of the films that exploit Brooke Sheilds
(Blue Lagoon, etc) can be seen in Ontario, but the one film she did
that explores the exploitation of children (Pretty Baby) cannot.

The amazing thing, to me, is that the majority of the population of
Ontario seem to support this sort of mindless censorship.  This is one
reason I'm glad I'm leaving.

I realize that this article is a bit off-topic, but I get rather upset
about this sort of stupidity.  For people who don't live in Ontario, just
think of this as a reminder of what happens when censorship is applied by
a bureacracy.  To people who advocate censorship of pornography:  Would
you like people with this sort of judgement defining what you can and
cannot read?

	Dave Martindale
	{decvax,ihnp4,clyde,utzoo,allegra}!watmath!dmmartindale