You'd think this was a joke, but you'd be wrong: Brokeback Mountain film considered too explicit for US prison :
Correctional authorities in Massachusetts said the film was unsuitable for a prison setting because of its "sexually explicit scenes". I think some people are in serious denial. This is especially amusing (?) given the article I read recently on the largest prison system in the world. That would be the American one, by the way. For a real lark, look at the chart showing prison populations about midway down the page. China, which at this point has five times the population, has one fifth the prison population. Say what you will, that's a curious statistic.
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