CAMBRIDGE, Mass, October 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Harvard study has concluded that the sexual content of modern movies has become far more explicit than even 13 years ago – to the degree that a movie rated PG-13 today would have garnered an R-rating in 1992.
The researchers concluded that “the MPAA [Motion Picture Association of America] applied less stringency in its age-based ratings over time for the period of 1992-2003.” In other words, as time went on, a PG rating became more and more meaningless, and was no guarantee that the film was free of the graphic sexual imagery that parents would not normally be comfortable allowing a 13-year-old to watch.
In the same period since 1992, a similar study found that G-rated movies had become eleven times more profitable than their R-rated counterparts. Since 1968, 60 percent of all movies made have been given an R-rating, whereas only 3 of the top 25 movies of all time were R-rated movies, according to a four-year study conducted by the Dove Foundation. The Dove Foundation awards a blue and white Dove Seal to any movie or video that is rated “family-friendly” by its film review board.
A separate study examining the top 200 movies of all time revealed that the consequences of so-called casual sex as depicted in movies, such as unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease, was never portrayed in the movies.
See the BBC coverage:
https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4294476.stm
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