Deemed unacceptable to Ontarians are scenes that portray:

  • Graphic or prolonged scenes of violence, torture, crime, cruelty , horror, or human degradation;
  • Physical abuse or humiliation of human beings for purposes of sexual gratification or as pleasing to the victim;
  • A person who is or is intended to represent a person under 16 years of age nude, partly nude, in a sexually suggestive context, or involved in explicit sexual activity;
  • Explicit and gratuitous urination, defecation or vomiting;
  • Explicit sexual activity;
  • Explicit indignities to the human body;
  • Undue emphasis on human genital organs;
  • An animal being abused in the making of a film.