Comprising three short stories, the film was shot over a two-year period at The Butter Factory, a downtown nightclub in Singapore, whose owners financed the project.

[1] Billed as "three dirty stories from the world's cleanest city", the film is described by its makers as "pitch[ing] political correctness out the window of Singapore mainstream cinema.

In June 2012, Sex.Violence.FamilyValues was acquired by distributor Cathay Cinemas, making it the first short film to obtain a solo theatrical release in Singapore.

However, a day after its premiere on 5 October 2012, Singapore's Media Development Authority (MDA) revoked the film's M18 classification and banned the film following complains from Indians who had viewed the trailer containing the racial content,[3][4] alleging that Porn Masala contained scenes which were offensive to Singapore's Indian community.

[12][13] However, it stopped short of reinstating the film's M18 classification, saying that some references in Porn Masala might still be construed as offensive to Singapore's Indian community.