Abstract
A responsibility of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is to assign ratings to films. The purpose of this study is to test the MPAA's assertion of equal treatment of sexual and violent content when assigning a rating to a film. Critics charge that MPAA members are more restrictive toward sexual content than violent content, because they find the former more offensive. As a result, children have easier access to violent content, which may be more harmful to them than sexual material. Systematic content analysis of 52 film rating descriptions is used to test the hypotheses, which were supported.
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