A closer look
Hollywood used to operate under the ridiculously strict Hays Code, which explicitly banned movies from showing interracial relationships, profanity, or even a married couple sleeping in the same bed, until the system finally collapsed in 1968. Desperate to keep making money on increasingly edgy cinema without triggering government censorship, the industry replaced the archaic moral code with the modern MPAA rating system. This allowed studios to finally showcase violence and adult themes, provided they slapped an arbitrary letter grade on the poster to appease angry suburban parents. Naturally, this subjective, highly secretive rating board quickly developed a reputation for being aggressively lenient on gruesome, terrifying violence while punishing any movie that dared to show a female nipple. It proves that the American entertainment industry is totally fine with traumatizing teenagers with cinematic murder, as long as nobody gets naked
