 The original UK cinema version was cut by the BBFC to edit the sex scenes  including a vaginal cigarette smoking and a masturbation sequence, and the  film was recalled and cut further in 1978 by the newly appointed censor James  Ferman to heavily edit a scene where Emmanuelle suffers a gang rape in an  opium den at the suggestion of her husband. Some of the original edits  (totalling 1 minute 25 secs) were waived by the BBFC in 2001, though the rape  scene was still cut by 38 seconds. The film was finally passed fully uncut in  the UK in February 2007.