“Violence? No thanks. Sex, on the other hand …”

At the International Classifiers Conference (ICC) in Stockholm in October 2017, the central topic was the way depictions of sexuality are dealt with. Prior to the conference itself, participating organisations from 23 countries took part in a survey designed to provide some indication of the criteria employed in classifying sexual content in each country and to what end: is nudity an issue, or sexual acts or sexual orientation? Sexualised language, or sex in conjunction with violence? This article presents a few themes from the conference and some results from the study.¹

[The article was first published in German („Gewalt wünscht man keinem, aber Sex …?“ Sexualmoral und Bewertungskriterien im internationalen Vergleich) in tv diskurs, issue 83, 1/2018, pp 10-14, see second PDF below ]