 He also called for the NC-17 rating to be removed and have the X rating revived.He felt that everyone understood what X-rated means, while fewer people understood what NC-17 meant.<ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref>

MPAA chairman Dan Glickman has disputed these claims, stating that far more films are initially rated NC-17 for violence than for sex, but that these are later edited by studios to receive an R rating.<ref></ref>

Despite this, an internal critic of the early workings of the ratings system is film critic and writer Stephen Farber, who was a CARA intern for six months during 1969 and 1970.In "The Movie Ratings Game",<ref name="Farber1972"></ref> he documents a prejudice against sex in relation to violence.