On 1 June 2012, the FPB announced that the classifiers assigned to " The Spear " had rejected a complainant's call for the painting to be rated X18 ), but had decided on a 16N rating for the original, undefaced and uncensored, painting, meaning that measures should be put in place to prevent access to it and to images of it by those under the age of sixteen, and to advise " sensitive adult viewers " over sixteen that it contains nudity ( but not explicit sexual content, which would have been designated by an S in the rating ).
