{"id":111566,"date":"2014-10-09T16:41:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T14:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=111566"},"modified":"2014-10-09T16:46:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T14:46:26","slug":"banned-films-in-sa-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/111566-banned-films-in-sa-revealed.html","title":{"rendered":"Banned films in SA revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some double X-rated language found its way into a parliamentary response on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In a written reply to a parliamentary question, Communications Minister Faith Muthambi revealed that over the past five years, the Film and Publication Board (FBP) had given 12 films an &#8220;XX&#8221; rating.<\/p>\n<p>She included the films&#8217; titles, which suggest some of them go way beyond the single &#8220;X&#8221; rating applied to films commonly referred to as pornographic, and which may not be distributed or shown to persons under the age of 18.<\/p>\n<p>The double-X line-up she lists includes titles such as: &#8220;The Best of the Gangbang Girls Series&#8221;; &#8220;Fuck Me Like You Hate Me&#8221;; &#8220;Squirting for Extra Credit&#8221;; and one German title, &#8220;Das Beste Aus Extreme&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The two films stamped XX last year (2013\/14) were titled &#8220;100 Percent Grade-A Milf&#8221; and &#8220;Sexy Selena Rose&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Muthambi drew the line at revealing the FPB&#8217;s reasons for the effective banning of the films, referring the questioner &#8212; Democratic Alliance MP Gavin Davis &#8212; to the board&#8217;s document warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please be informed that information for XX classification is available from the files which are currently at document warehouse,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the board&#8217;s website, XX films may not be distributed or shown in public.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In terms of the Films and Publication Act, XX material is considered presumptively harmful material,&#8221; it says.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More FPB news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/110460-fpb-employees-fired-for-stealing-porn.html\">FPB employees fired for stealing porn<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/83211-disband-fpb-says-film-festival-director.html\">Disband FPB, says film festival director<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/82929-fpb-bans-sa-film-first-since-1994.html\">FPB bans SA film, first since 1994<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the board&#8217;s website, XX films may not be distributed or shown in public<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":108122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,19232,201],"class_list":["post-111566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-film-and-publications-board-fpb","tag-porn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}