Sex and Security
According to Counter Currents (via), Satyajit Maitipe has been ordered by the Sri Lanka Censorship Board to remove the sexual scenes from his film, Bora Diya Pokuna (Scent of the Lotus Pond) - even if he expects to get an Adults Only certificate.
The Sri Lankan Public Performance Board operates under the Ministry of Defence. Their brief is to keep an eye on anything they considered might damage Culture or interfere with National Security. It strikes me as ironically amusing that this authority thinks it can protect national culture and security by banning several sex scenes from a film. Whose culture are they trying to protect? Who’s security?
Wednesday 11 Jul 2007 | Paul | Sri Lanka
