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...suppose that even pornographic movies must be judged contextually. Unfortunately, their context, if it exists, lies somewhere outside the scope of conventional criticism. What, after all, is good porn? Does it stimulate you? Does it make you (as some puritan souls seem to think) run out of the theatre mad with lust, ready to violate the first female body that comes along? Ironically, if pornographic films had this effect, perhaps one could ascribe some specious artistic quality to them. Good art, as they say, possesses the power to make you ruminate, react, and reach...
...should have known better. This bit of cinematic diarrhea runs about 80 minutes. The "plot" is merely an alternation between the cocktail room where the heroine (played by ample Renee Bond) makes $50.00 dates and the bedrooms where she earns her pay. The camera-work and editing are so porn-sloppy that they soon destroy any illusion of real intercourse, and any erotic value quickly dissipates...
Channel 79 delicately calls its Friday-midnight show The Baby-Blue Movie, underlining the fact that it draws the line at hard-core porn. "We try to come by material that is mildly salacious," says Managing Director Moses Znaimer, "yet still carries a bit of a story line and a touch of production value." Indeed, the Friday-night movie is only a small part of 79's programming, which leans heavily on coverage of community affairs and controversies...
...Canadian law prohibits obscenity on TV, but fails to define it, and Canadian officials, like the viewers, seem unconcerned by the Toronto movies. Station officials, meantime, are happy with their soaring revenues-but a little uncomfortable with their risqué image. "As soon as people regard this as the porn station," claims Znaimer, "then I'll cancel the blue movie...
...people who claimed to have been corrupted or made criminals by sexual material. One 17-year-old boy, for example, after seeing a sex film, "rushed round his home in a frenzy and then went out and sexually assaulted a girl of five." Longford, who was dubbed "Lord Porn" by the London press, agrees with critics of his methods that "it is not always or even often possible to produce conclusive evidence that any social factor leads to a particular result." However, he and the majority of his committee believe that the weight of evidence points to the clear...