NY Times don't understand the AO rating.

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LordTheNightKnight said:

KruzeS said:
I still don't understand a society where anything to do with sex is rated as worse than violence. I mean, Lucia y el Sexo has to get cut to get an R... but Saw and Hostel, that's fine!

They did get cuts. Yet what was left is still more explicit than sex in R movies. The reason is actually money. You can get porn on the web, so it doesn't matter if a film gets a higher rating for sex. Yet movies are still the best place to get gore, and teenagers are a vital audience for such films. So those films are allowed to get away with more.

Actually the U.S. is a Puritan society from a moral stand point. Sex is viewed as bad and violence not as much. Most other countries have an opposite view. Here in the U.S. the basic Puritan view of sex and violence remains over 400 years after the colonization of North America and I have no idea why it hasn't faded away like the rest of the crazy Puritan views.