 The film was rejected for a UK cinema certificate by the BBFC in 1976 and  only passed in 1981 after 4 minutes 47 secs of cuts with heavy edits made to  a woman being bound and whipped, shots of abrasions after a man is whipped  and subsequently probed with a needle between his buttocks, and a scene where  a male client has his foreskin nailed to a plank of wood and his nipples  pierced. The cuts were fully waived for a UK 18 DVD certificate in 2003.