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So, I'm from the US and really haven't been personally exposed to much TV from other countries. However, I've heard a lot about how U.S. TV acceptability standards for sex vs violence are very different than they are in a lot of other countries. Usually, this is only brought up while saying that some other countries' TV is more open about sex. But how about violence? Are some countries a lot more restrictive about violence than the U.S. is? Are there countries that are even less restrictive about violence than the U.S.?

I might be able to help out there if you could tell me what the standards of sex and violence on TV in the US are...

For extreme examples watch an episode of Hannibal to see what you can get away with violence on US network television, then watch an episode of Nip/Tuck to see what you can get away with sex on US basic cable television and then watch an episode of True Blood to see what you can get away with sex and violence on US paid cable.

It's amazing how much gore you can get away with US network television.

Foreign television is very violent.

http://youtu.be/piFFNUAhy4A

Edited 2014-03-28 23:51 (UTC)

The one chick popping pills while everyone stands around watching the boy die of a gut wound. WHY doe no-one take away the scissors?

I'm not really sure about the standards for violence in my country, but let's just say that many series from USA that are transmitted late at night and on cable are censured.

That being said, the censured parts aren't limited ad violent parts so it's hard to say what are the standards of what they show and what they don't.

So, I live in a border town in the Northern US, but I'd consider Canadian television to be somewhat more restrictive on the violence, and much less restrictive on language. So, for example, when I've watched "Back to the Future" on a Canadian station (not cable) on a weekend afternoon, the language was unedited but they cut away before the Libyans pumped Doc full of lead. In the US, you'll never hear Marty say "shit," but Doc being riddled with machine gun fire stays in.

Also, one of the stations out of Montreal used to play Sex and the City and Sopranos reruns at, like, 10 or 11pm. Usually, the only stuff that got edited out was some of the more overt mafia violence.

in france, it's about the same. we're not restrictive at all about anything when it comes to media (except extreme cases of antisemitism or racism but that doesn't happen often). sex, violence, swearing, drugs, whatever. it's up to the parents to let the kids watch or not.

Swearing, sex and sexuality is something that does not seem to be such big taboos in Norway. Violence is probably more of a taboo, but I don't really have a straight answer for you, so here are a lot of words where I try to explain it and feel free to make me explain better or if I didn't answer what you wanted to know:

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Sex: There was a childrens sex ed show right after the childrens "bedtime" show on our public broadcaster, we also aired a couple of seasons of sex ed* aimed at teenagers (with teenage presenters) at the same channel.

Swearing: We mainly don't sensor swearing, but there are not a lot of swearing on television before about 9 at night. The "here is the fucking news" joke that was going around on Tumblr. isn't that far off.

When it comes to non fiction I don't watch a lot of fiction shows that are Norwegian or Scandinavian, but we seem to go more for the dark fucked up mindfucks over straight up violence, also gun violence is mostly unheard in our society so having cops and such in a crime show running around shooting bad guys wouldn't be that realistic.

I remember a lot of swearing and sexual jokes and such in the comedy shows of my youth. Also we don't censor nudity for the most part, I've seen Bjørn Dælies butt on television (for those of you not in the know about skiing, he was one of the best cross country skiers of all time), Also the film Nymphomaniac was produced with partial state funding, so we aren't scared about the subject.

*With sexuality and different types of sex (positions, I think they also touched on BDSM and such)

I've noticed acts of violence being blurred-out on TV here in South Korea. Like, there was an episode of Law & Order where someone got stabbed in the neck with a pen or a knife or something, and it got blurred-out. They also blur smoking on TV, sometimes.

Germany is much more restrictive about violence. One of my German teachers says that if it has too much violence and gore, it's put in the more restricted sections. Like, I'm pretty sure The Walking Dead would be too much.
Sex is more lenient. I remember seeing a commercial for a movie years ago and everything seemed normal until it showed a shot of a topless woman. I was young so it was a big surprise for me.

Edited 2014-03-29 01:04 (UTC)

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