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Film Harry Hill once said: 'Pornography / Art' 'Art / Pornography'. He summed up in a few words this whole article from Papermag about how semi-porno has reached into the art house film sector in recent times. It's from an American perspective, and their censors are notorious for being able to cope with savage violence and not tender loving care. Compare and contrast the stigma attached to NC-17 films there with 18-certificate films in the UK: "Alfonso Cuarón's wildly entertaining erotic road movie Y Tu Mamá También contains enough crude language, rampant nudity, and ribald sexual permutations among its three attractive leads to have earned an NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. Taking into account the box-office doom of past NC-17 recipients Henry & June and Showgirls, Y Tu Mamá's U.S. distributor, IFC Films, has opted to release the film unrated, thereby limiting its advertising and distribution channels and ghettoizing its audience into select urban arthouses."