Reader Response

January, 1988

Score one for Canadian freedom. Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto has successfully appealed Canadian customs' confiscation of the bookstore's shipment of The Joy of Gay Sex. In March 1986, Glad Day's shipment was detained at the border—despite the fact that the book had been in circulation in Canada for almost ten years. The court ruling could force customs officials to rethink their present practice of prohibiting all materials depicting anal sex from entering the country. Judge D. C. J. Hawkins, wh...