Govt To Crack Down On Obscene Movies

[george]

Govt to crack down on obscene movies

BANGKOK: Vice Minister for Culture Veerasak Khowsurat yesterday vowed to go ahead with a crackdown on low-budget films with obscene content.

He was responding to a complaint from producers of low-budget films, which are made for distribution on video CDs and DVDS only, that the police crackdown ordered by the Culture Ministry had severely affected their business.

"The government will take action against producers of X-rated movies. Those who do not produce such movies will not be affected," Veerasak said.

Low-budget movies published on VCD discs have become popular in the provinces because of their low prices. Parents have complained that many of these movies have explicit love scenes.

Veerasak asked police to check on such movies after a series of gang rapes by teenagers. He blamed X-rated movies on VCDs and DVDs for motivating them to commit the rapes.

Producers of movies for home viewing have called on the government to issue clear-cut guidelines on the scope of permitted sex scenes.

Veerasak said last week that actors and actresses appearing in pornographic films would also be targeted.

Meanwhile, Ladda Tangsuphachai, a chief culture monitoring officer of the ministry, said the ministry could do nothing about a song on the new album by pop singer Amita Tata, better known as Tata Young.

The song, titled "Sexy Naughty Bitchy", has been criticised by conservatives as going against Thai culture because they felt it encourages a woman to have many lovers.

Ladda said the album was produced overseas so the ministry could do nothing. She said she sympathised with Amita, who had to comply with the orders of the music label she had signed a contract with.

--The Nation 2004-02-14

[huski]

The song, titled "Sexy Naughty Bitchy", has been criticised by conservatives as going against Thai culture because they felt it encourages a woman to have many lovers.

sounds like a night at nana

sexy - you get grabbed and kissed by pretty girls dancing around

naughty - now you are in your hotel room and good girl goes bad

bitchy - it's in the morning, and you wish you didn't go long time