NC-17 is nor so much a moral issue, but an issue of freedom vs. censorship. In a free country we can live with NC-17 films. The alternative is to allow a few morally deluded moralists decide what is moral or acceptable for everyone. Then we will all be up the creek, because freedom will be in jeopardy. By the way, "protecting the children" as an excuse to censor is a right-wing cop-out. There ought to be a way to allow those of age to watch and to keep children out if need be. If you value freedom, and if you deplore censorship, urge the MPAA to retain the NC-17 rating. (to be cont'd)
[The original version of this essay, then entitled "NC-17 Films" was first published in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early '90s, in my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays, and in UMass/Boston's Mass Media student newspaper in the mid-'90s.]
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