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Not a love story : 40 years later, what remains of this feminist film on pornography?

Prostitution et Pornographie

April 17 2025

Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre et Johanne Jutras

In this shocking documentary, Klein explores the sex industry through the eyes of Lindalee Tracey, a stripper. When it was released, the film sparked a mixture of censorship and controversy: it was a divisive cultural object. Forty years later, what remains of this film? How do today's feminists perceive it? What does it tell us about the way women's bodies are exposed, consumed... and sometimes betrayed, even within feminist struggles?
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Will prostitution remain illegal?

Prostitution et Pornographie

December 02 2024

Johanne Jutras, Marie Wright et Alexandra Houle

On November 12 and 13, the Supreme Court of Canada heard from attorneys general and advocacy organizations in the case of Kloubakov and Hicham Moustaine v. His Majesty the King. These two men were convicted in 2021 of trafficking in human beings, in particular women who were moved around the country to offer sexual services to men in exchange for money.

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Deep-fake pornography: a new sexual weapon against women.

Prostitution et Pornographie

December 02 2024

Johanne Jutras

First seen in 2017, Deepfake Porn is spreading in Quebec. Indeed, teenagers from a high school in Sainte-Thérèse in the Laurentians region were arrested by police in March 2024 for distributing pornographic images of their classmates on social networks; these images were generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Young people face a variety of offenses that could be dealt with under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.