Talk:R18 (British Board of Film Classification)

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To whom it may concern, The article R18 certificate was written by myself for my website [1] therefore there is no copyright infringement. I thought it may of been a useful source of information of current legislation and changes to the R18 film industry within the UK. The Love lizards guide does not sell or distribute R18 Dvds or videos, the article was not submitted for commercial reasons. Regards Mark

info@lovelizard.co.uk

Thanks for letting us know! Your posting has already been replaced by a rewrite, but feel free to edit that article to improve it. -- The Anome 10:03, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Some things that should be mentioned:

- there has now been a film with an R18 certificate release at the cinema - I think the first time was in March 2004 - virtually no cinemas have the right licencing (you basically have to be a private club) - reference http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=11285

- New Zealand also has an R18 certificate but it doesn't mean (just) porn

Re the recent addition

As of 2005, the BBFC still appears to regard the depiction of urination on oneself or others, "urination accompanied by sexual activity", or "immediately before/after", sexual activity, or with licking of urine, as prohibited by the Obscene Publications Act 1959. Nevertheless, the BBFC appears to have R18-rated a number of videos based on the theme of urination (presumably without any of the acts referred to above)

This is a bit weak - see the mention of "appears to" twice. Can't we name whatever these videos are, even we don't know for sure about their content? Pcb21| Pete 18:34, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Other categories?[edit]

Should the other BBFC ratings get a separate article? There's a history behind U, PG, 12, 12A and 15, too! CNash 13:28, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Perhaps they should be listed under Current Classifications in the BBFC article?

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:29, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Issues with "female ejaculation" section[edit]

I moved this section from the intro, where it was clearly inappropriate. I think that there are still multiple issues:

citations

there are none.

POV

The section reads as if written from a single point of view, that of wishing to permit the depiction of acts described by the contibutor as "female ejaculation".

Importance

the section fails to show that the alleged controversy is of sufficient importance to be described as such, or even merit a mention.

Weasel words

These are used significantly;

"There has been some controversy…" – between and according to whom?
"…the BBFC [still] appears to…" (2 instances) – who perceives this?

--Rogerb67 (talk) 12:13, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Section since removed by another author --Rogerb67 (talk) 23:24, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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