The Mull of Kintyre test was an unofficial guideline said to have been used by the British Board of Film Classification in the United Kingdom to decide whether an image of a man's penis could be shown. The BBFC would not permit the general release of a film or video if it depicted a phallus erect to the point that the angle it made from the vertical (the "angle of the dangle", as it was often known) was larger than that of the Mull of Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, on maps of Scotland.

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  • The Mull of Kintyre test was an unofficial guideline said to have been used by the British Board of Film Classification in the United Kingdom to decide whether an image of a man's penis could be shown. The BBFC would not permit the general release of a film or video if it depicted a phallus erect to the point that the angle it made from the vertical (the "angle of the dangle", as it was often known) was larger than that of the Mull of Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, on maps of Scotland. According to Professor John Hoyles of the University of Hull, the guideline was adopted by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) in 1992. Hoyles presented it as "the male performer's penis must never appear more than slightly tumescent". The Scottish lawyer Richard Findlay had previously alluded to it in a 1999 interview with Annette McCann. This test was subsequently adopted by UK television broadcasters and by some print publishers. According to writer Emily Dubberley, the rule hampered the 1990s trend toward feminist pornography; since "you couldn't show a man in a state of arousal", the allowed depiction was "hardly a turn-on", and she criticized it as a double standard that was permitted due to the perception that women did not respond to visual erotic stimuli. In 2000, a BBFC spokeswoman commenting upon the criteria that the BBFC uses for classification denied that this test existed. By 2002 the BBFC had largely abandoned its restrictions on the depiction of a tumescent penis. The rule is thought to have first been broken on UK television by a 2003 Channel 4 series entitled Under the Knife with Miss Evans.
  • Le test du Mull of Kintyre était une directive non officielle utilisée par le British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) au Royaume-Uni pour voir si une image d'un pénis humain pouvait être diffusée. Le BBFC ne permettait pas la diffusion d'un film ou d'une vidéo s'il contenait un phallus en érection dont l'angle à partir de la verticale était plus grand que celui du Mull of Kintyre, sur les cartes de l'Écosse. Selon le professeur John Hoyles de l'Université de Hull, la directive fut adoptée par le BBFC en 1992. L'avocat écossais Richard Findlay en avait parlé dans une entrevue avec Annette McCann en 1999. Ce test fut ensuite adopté par les chaînes de télévision britanniques et par quelques maisons d'édition. Selon l'écrivaine Emily Dubberley ce test empêcha la tendance vers une pornographie féministe dans les années 1990, parce qu'il n'était pas permis « de montrer un homme en état d'excitation »; les images permises « n'étaient pas excitantes ». Elle dénonce le test comme un deux poids deux mesures permise dû à la perception que les femmes ne répondaient pas érotiquement aux stimuli visuels. En 2000 une porte-parole du BBFC niera l'existence de ce test. En 2002 le BBFC avait largement abandonné ses restrictions sur les images du pénis en érection. La règle semble avoir été brisée en 2003 par une série de Channel 4 appelée Under the Knife with Miss Evans.
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  • The Mull of Kintyre test was an unofficial guideline said to have been used by the British Board of Film Classification in the United Kingdom to decide whether an image of a man's penis could be shown. The BBFC would not permit the general release of a film or video if it depicted a phallus erect to the point that the angle it made from the vertical (the "angle of the dangle", as it was often known) was larger than that of the Mull of Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, on maps of Scotland.
  • Le test du Mull of Kintyre était une directive non officielle utilisée par le British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) au Royaume-Uni pour voir si une image d'un pénis humain pouvait être diffusée. Le BBFC ne permettait pas la diffusion d'un film ou d'une vidéo s'il contenait un phallus en érection dont l'angle à partir de la verticale était plus grand que celui du Mull of Kintyre, sur les cartes de l'Écosse.
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  • Mull of Kintyre test
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