FC: Toronto the naughty

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 13:52:53 -0700
> From: Chris Bearchell <seabee () island net>
> Subject: Toronto the naughty
>
> http://www.nationalpost.com/network.asp?f=000122/183674.html
>
> Saturday, January 22, 2000
>
> Toronto the naughty
>
> There's easy money to be made filming a porn video or operating an adult
> web site, which explains why otherwise respectable Torontonians are getting
> in on the action
>
> Constance Droganes National Post
>
> A woman walks into a popular fast-food restaurant in clean-cut, downtown
> Toronto. The "girl-next-door" waitress serves her a Coke, then unexpectedly
> asks, "Have you ever thought about being in a porn movie?"
>
> If anyone thinks that's the plot line to another cheesy pornographic video,
> they should think again. The seemingly farfetched scenario happened
> recently to a reporter in this city. If anything, it's more evidence of a
> boom in Toronto's adult entertainment business -- one characterized not
> only by huge industry growth, particularly on the Internet, but by the
> surprising, unlikely new porn producers jumping on the bandwagon.
>
> "People would be surprised by the growth of porn in Toronto, which I would
> put at tenfold," says Detective Joanna Beaven of Toronto Police's Special
> Investigation Services.
>
> In a market where the lines between the adult industry and mainstream
> entertainment are blurring, it is the lure of big money and a quick return
> on investment that is driving Toronto's flourishing porn trade. Everyone
> from articulate, well-educated, white-collar male and female entrepreneurs
> to the "average Joe" with a camcorder and at-home computer system can cash
> in on this lucrative, albeit questionable, profession.
>
> [...]
>
> "Today anyone can get on the Internet and go underground to do live sex
> shows," says Det. Beaven. "In the past, having people come over to [ ]
> watch live sex shows would constitute a bawdy house. But the Internet is
> now allowing people to view all sorts of sexual events right from their
> living-room chair."
>
> [...]


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