{"id":12646,"date":"2009-08-22T14:06:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T19:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=12646"},"modified":"2009-08-22T14:09:32","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T19:09:32","slug":"explicit-material-censoring-lesbians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/08\/22\/explicit-material-censoring-lesbians\/","title":{"rendered":"“Explicit” Material: Censoring Lesbians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Giorgos S. sent us a link to a story in the Guardian<\/a> about the cover of DVDs of the movie “Lesbian Vampire Killers.” Some stores are carrying censored versions. Giorgos says he’s seen the censored version at Borders stores in the U.K.:<\/p>\n

\"Lesbian-Vampire-Killers-c-001\"<\/p>\n

So apparently the phrase “they won’t go down without a bite” is fine, and major cleavage requires just a tad bit of coverage with a sticker that says “Warning: Contains explicitly fit bloodsucking hotties!” The sticker that nearly entirely obscures the word “lesbian” says, “Warning: may display sexually suggestive cover image.”<\/p>\n

The distributors blame stores, saying a number of large retailers requested that they obscure particular parts of the cover. The stores say they didn’t request that the word “lesbian” be hidden. I suppose we’ll never know what happened there. It does crack me up that you’d be willing to sell a movie called “Lesbian Vampire Killers,” but then be worried about the cover.<\/p>\n

The issue of censorship leaves aside, of course, the content of the film itself. This may surprise you, but it was apparently widely negatively reviewed. IMDb<\/a> summarizes the plot thusly:<\/p>\n

Their women having been enslaved by the local pack of lesbian vampires thanks to an ancient curse, the remaining menfolk of a rural town send two hapless young lads out onto the moors as a sacrifice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the original marketing poster<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"200px-Lesbian_vampire_killers_film\"<\/p>\n

I like how her nipples have been photoshopped out (unless lesbian vampires have nipples on the sides of their boobs).<\/p>\n

If anyone’s seen it, I’d be interested to know if it portrays lesbians as ridiculously as I suspect it does.<\/p>\n

See also: airbrushing out men’s nipples<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Giorgos S. sent us a link to a story in the Guardian about the cover of DVDs of the movie “Lesbian Vampire Killers.” Some stores are carrying censored versions. Giorgos says he’s seen the censored version at Borders stores in the U.K.: So apparently the phrase “they won’t go down without a bite” is fine, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23384,55,343,120,54],"class_list":["post-12646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-gender","tag-tvmovies","tag-sex","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12652,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12646\/revisions\/12652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}