18 - No one younger than 18 may
see an 18 film in a cinema. No one younger than 18 may rent or buy an 18 rated
video.
Adults should be free to choose
their own entertainment. Exceptions are most likely in the following areas:
• Where the material is in breach
of the criminal law, or has been created through the commission of a criminal
offence
• Where material or treatment
appears to us to risk harm to individuals or, through their behaviour, to
society. For example, the detailed portrayal of violent or dangerous acts, or
of illegal drug use, which may cause harm to public health or morals. This may
include portrayals of sadistic or sexual violence which make this violence look
appealing; reinforce the suggestion that victims enjoy sexual violence; or
which invite viewer complicity in sexual violence or other harmful violent
activities
• Where there are more explicit
images of sexual activity in the context of a sex work (see below) or where the
primary purpose of the images in question is sexual arousal
In the case of video, which may
be more accessible to younger viewers, intervention may be more frequent than
for cinema films.
Sex education at 18
Where sex material genuinely
seeks to inform and educate in matters such as human sexuality or safer sex and
health, explicit images of sexual activity may be permitted.
Sex works at 18
Sex works are works whose primary
purpose is sexual arousal or stimulation. Sex works containing only material
which may be simulated are generally passed 18. Sex works containing clear
images of real sex, strong fetish material, sexually explicit animated images,
or other very strong sexual images will be confined to the R18 category.
Material which is unacceptable in a sex work at R18 is also unacceptable in a
sex work at 18.
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