"18"

"suitable only for adults. Adults are free to choose their own entertainment"


Exceptions are most likely in the following areas:

• where material is in breach of criminal law or has been created through the commission of a criminal offense.
• where material or treatment appears to the BBFC to risk harm to individuals or through their behavior to society. This may include portrayals of sexual or sexualized violence which might eroticize or endorse sexual assault.
• where there are more explicit images of sexual activity which cannot be justified by context.

Intervention may be more frequent than for cinema films in the case of video works (including video games) which may be more accessible to younger viewers.

• where sex materials genuinely seeks to inform and educate in matters such as human sexuality, safer sex and health, explicit images of sexual activity may be permitted.
• Sex works are works which primary purpose is sexual arousal or stimulation. Sex works containing only material which may be simulated are generally passed '18'. Sex works containing clear images of real sex, strong fetish material, sexually explicit animated images, or other very strong sexual images will be confined to the 'R18' category.