No Sex Please, We’re Italian

Mark Antony – clothed for Italy. Image from HBO.

The Independent‘s Pandora column carries an interesting note on HBO’s Rome. It seems the Italians have cut twelve scenes from the first episode for being “excessively violent or sexual”. There’s an excellent paragraph:

Although Italian TV has traditionally adopted a liberal approach to nudity, a spokesman for Rai said viewers would have found the sex scenes historically inaccurate.