Why were some images in Eyes Wide Shut digitally altered after Stanley Kubrick's death?

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American director Stanley Kubrick — Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick during the filming of *Barry Lyndon* (1975).

Following the death of Stanley Kubrick, Warner Brothers digitally altered several sexually explicit images in his final film, Eyes Wide Shut.1

The studio made these modifications to avoid receiving an NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. Warner Brothers believed that such a restrictive rating would have negatively impacted the film's commercial performance at the box office.1