I don't get the MPAA.

[harmonica44]

I was watching the excellent documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated, and some of the MPAA's decision making is beyond my reasoning. Why is it that if a movie has missionary and cowgirl sex positions, it will often get an R rating, but if it's reverse cowgirl and doggie style, that often warrants on NC-17 based on their rules?

The reason which sex is restricted obviously is because we don't want your kids making bad decisions and getting pregnant, without knowing all the ins and outs. However, the odds of getting pregnant during missionary and cowgirl positions, are just as likely, in doggie style and reverse cowgirl, and make no difference, according to any studies. So what's the idea of having a higher rating, in that case really?

 

[Dreadylocks]

I was watching the excellent documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated, and some of the MPAA's decision making is beyond my reasoning. Why is it that if a movie has missionary and cowgirl sex positions, it will often get an R rating, but if it's reverse cowgirl and doggie style, that often warrants on NC-17 based on their rules?

Yes, that's exactly the point the documentary filmmaker was trying to make. The MPAA makes arbitrary decisions without any transparency.

getting pregnant, without knowing all the ins and outs.

I'm pretty sure one needs to have a basic understanding of the 'ins and outs' in order to get pregnant... :snicker:

So what's the idea of having a higher rating, in that case really?

It's because of some 'raters' own personal, puritanical views. It's not that hard to understand, really.

 

[harmonica44]

Since the MPAA has people that decide though that means, they will actually have to tell the people to rate that way. I wonder how the raters feel, knowing that they have to rate differently based on if the woman is not facing the man during sex or not.

Out of curiosity, does the same go for rape scenes, in movies for example?