Violence

• Takes into account the degree and nature of the violence involved
• More restrictive classifications are likely to be given with the portrayal of violence as a normal solution to problems, heroes who inflict pain and injury, callousness towards victims, encouragement of aggressive attitudes and content involving characters taking pleasure in pain or humiliation
• Sexulised violence  or works which glamorise violence will receive more restrictive classification or be cut
• Strict policy on sexualised violence and rape
• Content which might eroticise or endorse sexual violence may require cuts
• Cuts are more likely in video works due to the potential to take the scenes out of context
• Any association of sex with non-consensual restraint. pain or humiliation may be cut