To keep what they consider the moral order, Swiss censors have been keeping an eye on the nation’s cinemas and televisions for decades. “No pornography or violence” was the main rule.
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In Switzerland, film ratings are left to the country’s 26 cantons, with the result that films can be banned in one canton but shown uncut just across the cantonal border. (Images: cinetext, AFP)
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“Pornography is my profession”
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With dirty hands and an old film projector wedged under her arm, Stähli opens the door of her office, located in Zurich’s lively Kreis 4 district. She’s been busy emptying the office cellar, which resembles a dusty sex museum full of old films and other porn artefacts. Since the end of the 1970s it is…
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Take a woman, blonde, brunette or redhead – it doesn’t matter much. She smiles, groans, and yells. A man is engaged in intercourse with her – face-to-face, from behind, from the side. The video camera picks up every movement and records the encounter in the greatest detail. The scene is repeated. There is no plot,…
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