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Originally Posted by ChronoGrl
My point: Australia will ban these films, but they will easily air pornographic movies in the middle of the day in a non-porno theater (I mean, had it been a porno-theater, I would have been upset if it WASN'T porn!)...
Selective censoring... At least be consistent.
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The Australian rating system is very different to the US rating system, even though we use some of the same letters.
R rating here means that no-one under the age of 18 is legally allowed to see it. It is more like the NC-17 rating in the USA, however not even these are really equivalent.
XXX is the porno rating here, but that is only allowed to be shown/sold in certain places - ie you can't buy a XXX video in Sydney but you can in Canberra.
And yeah, there is not much consistency. The same films are banned and unbanned and rebanned. Salo was available for a period of time after being unbanned but before being re-banned :-)