- The German version includes a unique prologue and epilogue in a psychiatrist's where Severin's sadomasochism is judged to be the result of insanity. These scenes were probably added to justify some of his behaviour in-between, to the German censors, although confusingly the German version is much more explicit than versions that don't carry this intro and outro.
- The film was initially rejected for UK cinema in 1969 before being passed with cuts the following year, and the 1993 Redemption video release suffered 2 minutes 32 secs of cuts with heavy edits to a rape scene and shots of a boy watching a couple making love through a keyhole. The 2007 Shameless DVD restored some cuts though the rape scene was again cut by 1 min, due to BBFC policy on 'pleasure rape' scenes.
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