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From: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vince Manis)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: A note to the people of the free world from Canada, about censorship.
Message-ID: <126@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 19:34:02 EST
Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.126
Posted: Fri Dec 13 19:34:02 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Dec-85 01:53:05 EST
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Reply-To: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vince Manis)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science
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Summary: 

''The Joy of Gay Sex'' first faced problems in 1980 when a woman went into
a Coles Books store in Winnipeg and complained because it looked like 
''The Joy of Cooking'' (I'm not making this up!). The police threatened
the manager of the store with an obscenity charge, and he withdrew the
book. 

Canada Customs bans any book which depicts a number of acts, including
buggery; as such, ''The Joy of Gay Sex'' is banned; nonetheless, a number
of bookstores including Glad Day and Little Sister's have imported it;
some shipments have got through, while others have been turned back.

It's also curious to note that Canada Customs' previous list banned
''The Men With The Pink Triangle'', which deals with the Nazi treatment 
of gays.