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"When Universal Studios premiered the first footage of Fifty Shades of Grey at CinemaCon late last month, the consensus among journalists was that the movie seemed relatively tame. (&amp;quot;The film looks to be more romantic than sexual,&amp;quot; wrote The Hollywood Reporter; &amp;quot;the studio went against expectations and highlighted the romance between the two leads,&amp;quot; said Entertainment Weekly.) Had director Sam Taylor-Wood ever read E.L. James? Well, of course \u2014 but if she wants to keep the movie from getting slapped with the box-office-killing NC-17 rating, she has to toe some tricky lines. (Producers are insisting that the final product will be rated R.) What can viewers expect from this adaptation, then? Below, Cosmopolitan.com looks at eight of the book&amp;#039;s sexiest scenes, and speculates which will make it onto the big screen unchanged, and which will be tamed down for theaters. (Editor&amp;#039;s Note: Because the Motion Picture Association of America \u2014 the trade association that rates movies \u2014 is notoriously secretive about its ratings process, we gamed the ratings based on what sex scenes the MPAA has approved/not approved in the past.) 1. The Elevator Makeout The book version: Anastasia waits more than 50 agonizing pages before Christian finally kisses her, but the wait is worth it: He pushes her against the wall of an elevator, pins her hands above her head, and pulls her in. When the elevator doors open a minute later, he breaks off the clinch as suddenly as he began it. The R-rated version: This is one of the most intense scenes in Fifty Shades, but with so much left to the imagination, it&amp;#039;s not only R-friendly \u2014 it&amp;#039;s practically PG-13. The movie is off to a good start. 2. The First Time They Bone The book version: Anastasia, 21, has never had an orgasm. The first time she&amp;#039;s with Christian? She has three. But the scene is strictly vanilla: Christian undresses her slowly, caresses her all over, then puts on a condom and takes her virginity. That all happens in a bed. The R-rated version: Anastasia&amp;#039;s multiple orgasms are likely to be an issue with the MPAA, even if they&amp;#039;re shot from the waist up. Kimberly Peirce, director of Boys Don&amp;#039;t Cry, was famously instructed to shorten scenes of Chloe Sevigny&amp;#039;s face during orgasm. Scenes of Tara Reid&amp;#039;s O-face were also cut from American Pie, and last year, director Jill Soloway was told to tone down the female pleasure in Afternoon Delight. Sadly, to get an R, Anastasia might have to enjoy herself a little less. (Also, the line, &amp;quot;I want to fuck your mouth, Anastasia,&amp;quot; probably won&amp;#039;t make the cut.) 3. The Bathtub Blow Job The book version: In the book, this is the first time Anastasia really sees Christian naked. A sensual bath turns into something more when he rubs her the right way, and she returns the favor \u2014 orally. The R-rated version: Bathtubs are a great trick for escaping an NC-17 rating; the filmmakers can always add more bubbles to hide the naughty bits. The question is, how much will we see of Anastasia&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;very own Christian Grey flavor popsicle?&amp;quot; The MPAA doesn&amp;#039;t object to full-on male nudity if it&amp;#039;s a comedy punch line, as in Forgetting Sarah Marshall or The Hangover. But because life isn&amp;#039;t fair (and often is sexist), the ratings board considers a naked man far more obscene than a naked woman. An R-rated version of Ana and Christian&amp;#039;s bathtub scene would probably resemble the swimming-pool sex between James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens, and Ashley Benson in Spring Breakers \u2014 lots of tangled limbs underwater. Or it may just be Anastasia&amp;#039;s head ducking down, while Christian delivers the line, &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t you have a gag reflex?&amp;quot; 4. The Silk-Tie Cunnilingus The book version: Christian restrains Ana&amp;#039;s arms with a gray silk tie (as seen on the book&amp;#039;s cover) before going down on her for the first time. The R-rated version: Here&amp;#039;s where speculation gets tricky. Historically, any extended scene of a man performing oral sex on a woman gets slapped with an NC-17. The film Young Adam is a good example; it was disqualified for an R because the scene of Ewan McGregor going down on Tilda Swinton was considered too long. There are exceptions: In 2010, the film Blue Valentine (which has one very hot and one very sad cunnilingus scene) appealed its NC-17 rating and was released with an R. But just last year, actress Evan Rachel Wood took to Twitter to complain about a scene that was cut from her movie Charlie Countryman, costarring Shia LaBeouf. (&amp;quot;Someone felt that seeing a man give a woman oral sex made people &amp;#039;uncomfortable,&amp;#039; but the scenes in which people are murdered by having their heads blown off remained intact and unaltered,&amp;quot; she said.) On the other hand, Mila Kunis got to experience Justin Timberlake&amp;#039;s tongue skills in the R-rated Friends With Benefits, and she went down on Natalie Portman in Black Swan. There&amp;#039;s reason to believe that Hollywood is getting more open-minded about this particular sex act \u2014 but don&amp;#039;t be surprised if most of the focus is on that stupid tie. If we do get to see Christian going down on Anastasia, it will likely be for a few brief moments. 5. The Red Room Debut The book version: This is the first kinky scene to take place in Christian&amp;#039;s luxury sex dungeon, what Anastasia has dubbed &amp;quot;The Red Room of Pain.&amp;quot; The billionaire orders his prot\u00E9g\u00E9 to strip down, shackles her with chains attached to the ceiling, and makes her come by flicking her body with a leather riding crop. Eventually, they move to the bed, where Christian cuffs Ana&amp;#039;s wrists with plastic cable ties. The R-rated version: Hopefully the cable ties don&amp;#039;t make it into any version, since that could lead to copycat fan disasters. (Those things can cut off circulation, people.) But light S&amp;amp;amp;M is perfectly acceptable in an R-rated film, and nothing here pushes the boundary too far. Also, Christian wears blue jeans for most of the scene, lending it an air of modesty. As long as the scene doesn&amp;#039;t go on too long \u2014 like the original S&amp;amp;amp;M sex scenes in Monster&amp;#039;s Ball and The Wolf of Wall Street, which were shortened to get a pass \u2014 this Red Room scene is ready for theaters. 6. The Deluxe Spanking With Ben Wa Balls The book version: Christian presents &amp;quot;two round, shiny, silver balls&amp;quot; to Anastasia, putting them in her mouth for lubrication before moving them to another part of her anatomy \u2014 her vagina. He proceeds to give Anastasia a good spanking, with the balls creating pleasurable sensations deep inside her. Then they have sex. Again. The R-rated version: It&amp;#039;s possible for a hot-and-heavy spanking scene to get an R rating: Maggie Gyllenhaal had a memorable one with James Spader in Secretary, and Keira Knightley went under Michael Fassbender&amp;#039;s hand in A Dangerous Method. As for the insertion of the Ben Wa balls, that will probably be left to the imagination in an R-rated Fifty Shades. The MPAA tends to frown on foreign objects being inserted in the body, like the infamous butter scene from Last Tango in Paris (rated X/NC-17), the climactic dildo scene in Jared Leto&amp;#039;s Requiem for a Dream (edited out to get an R) \u2014 and even a cut scene from Jackass: The Movie in which Ryan Dunn put a toy car in his butt. (Those were all anal scenes, but the same principle applies.) Regardless, one can only hope that Anastasia&amp;#039;s narration includes the line, &amp;quot;My inner goddess is doing the dance of the seven veils.&amp;quot; 7. The Period Sex The book version: After some foreplay in a hotel bathroom, Christian pushes Anastasia against the sink and pulls out her tampon. Hot period sex ensues. The R-rated version: The MPAA sometimes gets squeamish about vaginal blood \u2014 it was one of the many reasons that Bertolucci&amp;#039;s The Dreamers received an NC-17 \u2014 but director Alan Ball got away with showing a bloody tampon in his R-rated coming-of-age film Towelhead. As long as there&amp;#039;s no close-up shot, it should be R-rated. Do you want to see that close-up shot, anyway? No. 8. The Sensory-Deprivation Sex The book version: In the Red Room, Christian shackles Anastasia to his four-poster bed, covers her eyes with a mask, and puts iPod headphones in her ears. As this song plays on a loop, he caresses her with a fur glove, hits her lightly with a flogger, performs oral sex, then finishes off inside her. The R-rated version: Occasionally, sex scenes are labeled NC-17 simply for being too intense. But there&amp;#039;s hope: Eva Green&amp;#039;s high-energy (and 3-D!) sex scene in 300: Rise of an Empire had no trouble qualifying for an R rating. Given that this is the climax of Christian and Ana&amp;#039;s affair, it&amp;#039;ll likely get its due play \u2014 and it&amp;#039;ll for sure be a highlight.  Photo credit: SplashNews "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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