Hugs and the City

I just came back from watching the movie version of Sex and the City and I must tell you, I feel totally ripped off. The version they're showing here in the Philippines is a badly edited 'de-sexed' one. Any of the steamy sex scenes that may have been in the original cut were left out of the cut here. And the way they edited out these scenes was terrible. They must have hired the meat butcher of film editing because the cuts were painfully obvious. Imagine a scene where a couple is about to have sex, they hop into bed and start kissing, all of a sudden the movie's music cuts out abruptly and the couple are lying in bed, sex finished, and talking about something unrelated to the pre-sex conversation. The editor not only cut out the sex scene but all the dialogue that went along with it. I found these slasher cuts very distracting. What I don't understand is why a movie with no swearing and no sex is till rated restricted? I guess the government/church really wants to keep the public away from impure sexual thoughts that this movie may, or may not, bring on. I suppose I'll have to watch the DVD when it comes out to see what I missed. But for now, I think they should retitled the movie here in the Philippines as Hugs and the City.