The Entertainment Code of Decency
Published by contactus September 11th, 2009 in Abstinence1. The basic dignity and value of human life shall be respected and upheld.
2. Restraint shall be exercised in portraying the taking of life.
3. Evil, sin, crime, and wrongdoing shall not be justified.
4. Detailed, protracted and overly bloody or gory acts of brutality, cruelty, physical violence, torture, and abuse shall not be presented.
5. Indecent or undue exposure of the human body shall not be presented.
6. Illicit sex relationships shall not be justified. Intimate sex scenes violating common standards of decency shall not be portrayed. Restraint and care shall be exercised in presentations dealing with sexual aberrations.
7. Obscene speech, gestures or movements shall not be presented. Undue obscenity and profanity shall not be presented.
8. Religion shall not be demeaned.
9. Words or symbols contemptuous of racial, religious or national groups shall not be used so as to incite bigotry or hatred.
10. Excessive cruelty to animals shall not be portrayed, and animals shall not be treated inhumanely.
Source: Dr. Ted Baehr with David Outten