I remember living in Amman (Jordan) as being some of the best years of my life. With the current coverage in the media it would be hard for most people to imagine any place in the Middle-East to be "a great place to live" but Jordan was (and I hear, still is) fantastic. Living there had it's perks: the weather was great, the food was great and people were so overly kind and hospitable they would lead you to believe it was the law. Everything stayed open late and it seemed like the city would start buzzing as the evening set in. The smell of roasting and spices would fill the air while crowds filled the shops and streets; everything would feel so alive you'd be forgiven for forgetting it was well past 8PM. But I digress... There were some disadvantages but I have to admit I even remember those fondly behind this veil of nostalgia. I can still clearly see women's lifestyle magazines with partial nudity covered roughly manually by black marker. You could get everything the west was producing, movies, magazines, books, comics but devoid of anything that could be perceived as "offensive". An impressive amount of man hours was put in daily as to allow western media to peacefully coexist in a predominantly muslim country. As a compromised it seemed to work and while people moaned most understood and respected. Being a kid I surely didn't mind, the cinemas were filled with Hollywood movies (which were mostly filled with ever acceptable violence at the time). To everyone's amazement 9 1/2 Weeks was shown, it ran a full 45 minute. Stumbling upon CleanFilms.com, ironically, reminded me of those days. Popular Hollywood DVD titles that have been professionally edited to remove nudity, sexual situations, offensive language, and graphic violence. Jordanian video rental shops would sometimes have a collection of "clean" films but then that meant uncut and unsensored. Don't we live in a strange strange world?