Apparently my favorite movies when I was 2 were Terminator 2 and Pretty Woman. I used to watch Pretty Woman every day for like a year. I have no memory of this, but I also have no memory of watching these movies for the first time. They're just ingrained into my consciousness.

I was gonna say Poltergeist, but apparently that’s PG? Honestly, there are episodes of Are You Afraid Of The Dark that should be rated R. 

I also tried to get into Deuce Bigelow Male Gigolo when I was 16, but got blocked by a movie theater worker. He probably was just trying to save me from myself, though. 

I wouldn't have said it before seeing this, but mine is T2, too, apparently! That's R-rated?! I could have sworn it was PG-13. 

My other guess was The Cutting Edge, but, in looking that up, I'm realizing that was actually PG. I remember there being a sex scene that I thought was REALLY graphic as a child, but maybe I was just 7 and got confused. 

Wow, I can't believe I thought T2 was more kid-friendly than The Cutting Edge. 

I remember watching Dances With Wolves when I was too young. It's PG_13 so not that bad, but it do remember being very scared. 

My mom was super strict on the shows I was allowed to watch but then idk why I watched so many r rated movies LOL. I have a faint memory of that One Hour Photo movie with Robin Williams and then of course the culturally relevant Friday. Both at home with my mom!

I grew up in a pretty lax household when it came to entertainment. We were allowed to watch The Simpsons and MTV, things I came to found out were forbidden in other kids houses. (The one show banned for us was Married...with Children, which I took no issue with.) 

However, the first R-rated movie I watched was, as tradition goes, at a sleepover at a friends. The movie was Terminator 2 and I knew I probably shouldn't be watching it without permission/supervision (it was SO violent and I was...8?) and the nuclear apocalypse scene terrified me to my very core and it. was. AWESOME. 

That movie still holds up and whenever I watch it as an adult I'm immediately transported back to that sleepover and how cool/grown-up it felt to watch an R-rated movie. 

So, what about you? What was the first R movie you watched? Did you sneak into see it at a movie theater? Watch it through your fingers with your parents? Share in the comments!

First R-rated movie you saw as a youth 

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