A raunchy video for the latest single by Madonna has been banned from being seen by under-18s on YouTube.
The video for ‘Girl Gone Wild’ features the 53-year-old singer dancing in black PVC hot-pants with topless male dancers in black tights and stiletto heels.YouTube rules say videos can be restricted if they contain ‘nudity and dramatised or implied sexual conduct’.Fans who want to watch the five-minute black-and-white film on the site have to sign in to website Google – YouTube’s parent company – and confirm their name and date of birth.A spokesman for Google said the video breached ‘community guidelines’. It is understood Madonna has been sent a list of scenes that must be cut if the restriction is to be lifted.Madonna’s video for the single ‘Justify My Love’ was banned by MTV in 1990. The star’s spokesman Liz Rosenberg said: ‘Some things never change.’
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