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Saturday, February 12, 2011

What the heck is 'uniquely Canadian' porn?: Never mind the iPad ... porn needs the Canada position | guardian.co.uk

In April it was announced that the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission approved the licensing of Canada's first porn channel. Known as "Vanessa", it will begin to air in October and will be required to adhere to Canadian content regulations, which mandate that programmes featured on the channel include "equitable portrayals" of the sexes and uniquely Canadian themes and settings. If it proves to be profitable, Vanessa could set the tone for the production of more culturally relevant and socially progressive pornography. If it's a flop, at least anyone out there with a Canada fetish will no longer have to subsist on decades-old Kids in the Hall skits.

Read the full article & ponder: what the heck will 'uniquely Canadian' porn be?

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