The "Hays Code" on This Day in History

This Day in History: The Motion Picture Production Code was instituted on this day in 1930. The "Hays Code" as it came to be called was a set of moral guidelines of what was acceptable and unacceptable content for motion pictures produced for a public audience in the United States. The Code restricted profanity, sexual perversion, childbirth, mixed-race couples, white slavery, nudity, rape, branding of people or animals, racism, denigration of the clergy, drugs, venereal diseases and married couples in the bedroom either had to have separate beds or the wife had to have one foot on the floor. Perhaps this was too restrictive, but I also feel we went too far in the other direction in modern cinema.