MÖTLEY CRÜE, SLIPKNOT Mentioned In UK Debate About Video Content
January 13, 2010, 14 years ago
According to the BBC News, a legal loophole which allows films showing cage-fighting or self-mutilation to be sold to children must be closed, MPs have heard.
DVDs and videos with such content can be sold under current law without an age classification, as long as they are about sport or music.
Labour MP Andrew Dismore said this caused confusion among parents and could harm children.
His parliamentary bill will now be heard again next month.
Under the Video Recordings Act of 1984, videos and DVDs primarily concerned with sport, religion or music can be given an E certificate - meaning they are exempt from classification.
This allows sexual content short of full sexual activity and violence short of "gross" levels to be included without an age rating.
Exemptions included MÖTLEY CRÜE - Greatest Video Hits, a music video featuring topless lap dancing.
Another was SLIPKNOT - 10th Anniversary DVD, featuring images of the aftermath of self-mutilation carried out by two teenage girls who have carved the name Slipknot into their arm and torso respectively.
The Conservatives called last month called for the law to be redrawn to eradicate such exemptions.
Read the entire report at the BBC News here.
