Wider social/political/cultural issues:
- Vast increase in controversal European films caused concern in BBFC - fortunate relax of attitudes towards sex
- The Idiots (von Trier, 1998) normally cut but sexual activity brief and serious intention to film
- New policy on sex references challenged in Baise-moi (Despentes, 2001) as explicit but also contained rape scene
- Spiderman (Raimi, 2002) decision to make it 12 was overruled by some local councils as it was a family film - led to construction of 12A rating
9 Songs (Winterbottom, 2004) was criticised as 'the most sexually explicit film in British cinema', but passed '18' uncut as no discrimination of English/foreign language films and uncut European films had similar standard of controversy- Shortbus (Mitchell, 2006) contained explicit images of real sex and received '18' certificate. French (The Observer) commented 'brought close the abolition of censorship but not classification'
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