To think violence is worse than sex?

[BalloonSlayer]

I have been trying to find films that our (just) pre-teen DCs and us can watch as a family. Obviously I don't want things with a lot of sex, violence, swearing etc in.

We already have 2 films that I looked up, for parental content, on IMDB.

One was The Da Vinci Code

the other was Shakespeare in Love

Looking at the parental content advice, which would you think was the 12, and which the 15?

Clearly, no one wants to encourage underage sex, but violence at any age is unacceptable. And sex - done properly - is lovely, while violence is always vile.

How many people in your neighbourhood tonight are getting shot/stabbed/punched? Hopefully none. How many people in your neighbourhood are getting laid? Hopefully lots.

Yes I do get why we [society] seek to protect children under 15 from sex scenes. But, using the same criteria, why do we not protect children aged 12 from sickening violence?

FWIW I lost confidence and we watched neither, and instead watched a 35 year old episode of Fawlty Towers on UK Gold in which both men and women were physically and racially abused by others.

[Spuddybean]

NOt really sure i agree. Depends on the violence. When i was young karate/ninja films were all the rage and they were 18's. My parents let me watch them as they were so obviously not real, or even graphic (rarely any blood etc) yet and 18 film with sex in it can be very explicit.

I think kids understand violence more than sex. Things like A team, power rangers, teenage mutant turtles etc.