{"id":70667,"date":"2014-10-09T16:46:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T14:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=70667"},"modified":"2014-10-09T16:46:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T14:46:36","slug":"fpb-reveals-banned-films-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/70667\/fpb-reveals-banned-films-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"FPB reveals banned films in South Africa"},"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 on Porn<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Porn TV in SA is a crime, court hears\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/65494\/porn-tv-in-sa-is-a-crime-court-hears\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Porn TV in SA is a crime, court hears<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Icasa porn TV procedure challenged\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/65486\/icasa-porn-tv-procedure-challenged\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Icasa porn TV procedure challenged<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Porn channels face new court challenge\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/51003\/porn-channels-face-new-court-challenge\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Porn channels face new court challenge<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to USA takes action against \u201crevenge porn\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/international\/47048\/usa-takes-action-against-revenge-porn\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">USA takes action against \u201crevenge porn\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some double X-rated language found its way into a parliamentary response on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[25,5730,8947],"class_list":["post-70667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-active","tag-fpb","tag-x-rated-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70669,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70667\/revisions\/70669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}