The BBFC has passedthe French language cinema film, The Pornographer, ‘18’ for adults only, but has required a cut to a graphic sex scene.
The BBFC required that eleven seconds be removed from an unsimulated porn sequence in which a women is seen with semen on her face following oral sex. This is in line with the BBFC’s Guidelines at ‘18’ which state that the Board may cut or reject “the more explicit images of sexual activity - unless they can be exceptionally justified by context”. The Board did not feel that the images cut were justified. The distributor has chosen to remove seventeen seconds.
The distributors of the film subsequently resubmitted it and it has now been classified ‘18’ with 12 seconds cut.
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