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[LT Sandpaw]

 Heh, way back when the first swearword heard on TV was 'damn', at that was considered a controversy.

I wonder if the rules today are a step forward, or a step back....

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[Jukka the Sling]

You can become a soldier at sixteen but god forbid you hear more than two swear words in a film before you're eighteen.

America is weird.

Meanwhile, Deadpool got a 15 rating in the UK for "strong bloody violence, strong language and sex references."  No mention of the, erm, intimate scenes and graphic nudity.  Apparently teens can see that without a warning?  Seriously?

[Jetthebinturong]

Most people know about those things by the time they're thirteen. Most people are into them by they're around fifteen, at least in Britain. Though America is a lot more repressed in terms of language and sexualness (not so much the violence though, which is the most troubling of the three, interestingly). That's not an insult, it's just a fact. As a country, you take harmless things a lot more seriously than in Britain and harmful things a lot less seriously. It's a strange dichotomy.

[LT Sandpaw]

That could go in the hearth, because its an opinion not a fact.

[Jukka the Sling]

Most people know about those things by the time they're thirteen. Most people are into them by they're around fifteen, at least in Britain. Though America is a lot more repressed in terms of language and sexualness (not so much the violence though, which is the most troubling of the three, interestingly). That's not an insult, it's just a fact. As a country, you take harmless things a lot more seriously than in Britain and harmful things a lot less seriously. It's a strange dichotomy.

I think it's weird that sexual references warrant a mention when actual sexual scenes don't.  It makes zero sense.

As for the American attitude towards violence in movies: violence in movies is always fake.  Nudity isn't.  The actors are really naked, and I find it appalling and degrading.  I wouldn't want anyone I know to have to do that.

[Eulaliaaa!]

I would say watching a movie with inappropriate themes such as graphic nudity and stuff like that could be more harmful than watching an intense war movie with a lot of violence.

[Jukka the Sling]

Right.  Sexuality is a completely different thing than violence, thanks to the way humans are wired.