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Originally Posted by DonovanTrent
What separates the simulated rape in a mainstream movie from simulated rape in porn is "prurient interest" -- the first is a movie that tells a story, the second is something meant to bring on a sexual response. It all comes down to obscenity laws, which VISA is (rightfully) trying to stay within. I'm no apologist for VISA, but they gotta keep their biz in line.
Argue the rights/wrongs/morality/etc. of it all you want, but that's just the way it is.
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Where you are wrong is here "prurient interest." If rape turns you on, and you got wind of this movie, you would watch it for that scene, therefore, catering to the prurient interest of that individual. Therefore, by the letter of a much ambiguous law, "last house on the left is obscene."
Duke