Editing Hays Code (section)

===Be Carefuls===
"Special care [must] be exercised in the manner in which the following subjects are treated, to the end that vulgarity and suggestiveness may be eliminated and that good taste may be emphasized":<ref name="donts" />

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# The use of the Flag;
# International Relations (avoid picturizing in an unfavorable light another country's religion, history, institutions, prominent people and citizenry);
# Religion and religious ceremonies;
# [[Arson]];
# The use of firearms;
# Theft, robbery, [[safe-cracking]], and dynamiting of trains, mines, buildings, et cetera (having in mind the effect which a too-detailed description of these may have upon the moron);
# Brutality and possible gruesomeness;
# Technique of committing murder by whatever method;
# Methods of smuggling;
# [[torture|Third-Degree methods]];
# Actual [[hanging]]s or [[electric chair|electrocution]]s as legal punishment for crime;
# Sympathy for criminals;
# Attitude toward public characters and institutions;
# [[Sedition]];
# Apparent cruelty to children and animals;
# [[Livestock branding|Branding]] of people or animals;
# The sale of women, or of a woman [[prostitution|selling her virtue]];
# Rape or attempted rape;
# [[wedding night|First-night]] scenes;
# Man and woman in bed together;
# Deliberate seduction of girls;
# The institution of marriage;
# Surgical operations;
# The use of drugs;
# Titles or scenes having to do with law enforcement or law-enforcing officers;
# Excessive or lustful kissing, particularly when one character or the other is a "[[villain|heavy]]".
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