Prologue: Porn, Feminism & the folly of NC-17 (Erotic 90’s, Part 1)
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The NC-17 Rating System Is Holding Movies Hostage to a Repressive Double-Standard
In 1992, film critic Peter Travers wrote that the rating system is holding movies hostage to a repressive double-standard. The MPAA refuses to tell them how to cut their movies to get an R. An Australian film adaptation of the novel Wide Sargasso Sea was given an NC-17 for tastefully shot marital sex with one long shot of a penis. John Waters faced no pushback on casting Tracey Lords, then 21, who had recently been at the center of a major scandal when it was revealed she'd been underage.
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