Clean Flicks

How many times have you watched a movie with a completely gratuitous sex scene? I would wager that it has been quite a few times. Hollywood has a tendency to add superfluous nudity and sex scenes to movies. Most of the times these scenes don't really add anything to the plot and merely provide titillation.

Well a company called Clean Flicks have been providing a service in the states where they edit these movies and provide clean versions for those that want them. This seems rather a good idea to me.

Well a court has now ruled against these "sanitizing" films. It is an illegitimate business that hurts Hollywood studios. Now companies such as CleanFlicks, Play It Clean Video and CleanFilms must stop their business and hand over their inventory to the movie studios.

Michael Apted, president of the Director's Guild of America said

"Audiences can now be assured that the films they buy or rent are the vision of the filmmakers who made them and not the arbitrary choices of a third-party editor".

Gratuitous sex and nudity scenes are now simply part of life in the movie industry.

This has spilled over into the TV industry as well. I enjoy NYPD Blues but The gratuitous sex scene at the end of every episode simply stops it being suitable for general family viewing.