SABC3 reprimanded for afternoon sex in All my Children soap with wrong age restriction and no 'S' parental advisory.

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SABC3 was reprimanded by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) for the channel's failure to add a correct parental advisory of S for sex and a "13" age restriction for an episode of the American soap All My Children which contained a steamy sex scene.

An upset viewer wrote to the BCCSA and complained saying "it's not the first time". "Many children are waiting for kids programmes to start and instead they are watching and learning about adult sexual relations. If these irresponsible broadcasters want to broadcast adult shows in the day, they must edit out the sex out of them. Absolutely disgusting!"

SABC3 told the BCCSA that the broadcaster believes "the segment was broadcast in a tasteful manner".

The BCCSA reprimanded SABC3 and said an age restriction of 13 instead of 10, as well as "S" for sex would have been the correct classification.

"A PG10 does not indicate the nature of the problematic material. Parents and caregivers would then have been in a position to prevent children under the age of 13 to from viewing the broadcast".