Blue Borders
June, 2000
Different nations have different attitudes toward sexual expression. Take our neighbors to the north. In 1985 Canada drafted a detailed obscenity statute that covers books, drawings, paintings, prints, photographs and representations of any kind. The law targets works that are characterized by "the undue exploitation of sex" or that link "sex with crime, horror, cruelty or violence."The Canadian law also forbids "depictions or descriptions of sex with submission, coercio...
