Both mainstream and art house cinema continues to blur the line of what is acceptable to show on screen. Forgetting that Blue is the Warmest Color opens with a ten-minute sex scene, the actresses draw attention during a heightened six-minute scene when they are shown actually masturbating to help create arousal in the moments building up to sex. The anatomy may have been prosthetic, but the actions performed were nothing short of authentic. You create the controversial 70s classic Caligula. A sex-obsessed Roman emperor Malcolm McDowell puts on a show as graphic as the fantastical orgies in ancient frescoes.

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Thailand: caning of novice monk at Buddhist temple school, 2014 (also video clip) Tonga: caning by prefects, 2011 (also video clips) Uganda: junior boys queueing up to receive a caning, c. Uganda: senior girl student being caned in presence of parents, 2003. Uganda: girls being caned outside school for lateness, 2009.