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Drew Kerrigan:
I don't know if you guys and gals will be angered at this but I'm posting it here anyway. Here's an article posted in one of the most popular nationwide broadsheet publication in my country - The Philippine Daily Inquirer. FYI: MTRCB is like US's MPAA, only ours is a government agency while that of the Americans is an association...

~ Click on this: http://news.inq7.net/entertainment/index.php?index=1&story_id=68666 ~

???Anti-porn group hits MTRCB :-\


--- Quote ---...The Philippine Alliance Against Pornography Inc. sent a statement to the Inquirer objecting to the R-18 (“For Adults Only”) rating given to the award-winning film and insisting that it “should be banned in this country.”

In the statement, PAAP spokesperson Aldo P. Filomeno enumerated the “questionable” scenes—“nudity, torrid French kissing, perverted sex acts between homosexuals and vivid display of women’s breasts.”

The PAAP called on the Commission on Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund, and United Nation’s Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, to conduct a probe on “violations committed by the MTRCB” of human and children’s rights...
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Fla_Tim:
So what is it with Philipppine? Is it that religous a country or is this just their version of Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson? And I love how worked up they are about seeing a woman's breasts. Oh those secret parts of the human anatomy that need to be hidden forever! As if anybody has some secret body part people have never set their eyes on before.

ROFL

Drew Kerrigan:
~Hehe~ :D EXACTLY! Oh well, this is what happens to a country dominated with meddlesome Catholic priests who think they are all that 'almighty' and everything else (I'm Catholic BTW and obviously not a devoted one)... ::)  I have a feeling nothing will happen to PAAP's grievances. They will just die down like a natural death. ;)  Nobody listens to people who think they are always right anyway. :P

BBMGrandma:
Omg....I'm DYING here....lmfao!!!  hahah....BLASPHEMY...they scream!!  Hi Drew...I was a Catholic too....but resigned in a formal letter to the Pope!!  ;)


and I hear ya TIM...damn....women's breasts!!!  hahaha!!!  OH wait...it's the VIVID display of those breasts!!  OMG....hahaha!!  and TORRID french kissing!!  WOW...tar and feather em all....and send em outta TOWN!!   Better yet...put them in the STOCKS!!   ;D

Phillip Dampier:
The Philippines is a very Catholic country which is probably the root of this.

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