NY Times don't understand the AO rating.

[KruzeS]

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, Lucía 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.

The thing is Lucia is not porn... except maybe in the US. I accidentally donwloaded the cut version, and it's just ridiculous. Cutting Hostel to the same level would leave you with no movie at all. We're not exactly a very open society in Portugal, and the uncut original version of Lucia is 16+, while Hostel is 18+.