Bodies on the line

GLQ

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 59-65

  Daymond, K ^a  

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EID: 33646677812     PISSN: 10642684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/10642684-4-1-59     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. nice girls don't do it (1990) is a thirteen-minute, 16 mm, black-and-white film produced and directed by Toronto filmmaker K. Daymond. An experimental documentary film (some have called it "docu-porn"), nice girls explores and demonstrates female ejaculation and features Shannon Bell as its ejaculating subject. The film is distributed by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre in Toronto, Chicago Filmmakers in Chicago, and Cinenova in London.
2. The "Butler decision" refers to a 1992 ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada in an obscenity appeal trial launched by Donald Butler, a Winnipeg, Manitoba, sex video retailer. This ruling expanded the legal definition of obscenity to include considerations of "harm." The Supreme Court ruled that pornography causes harm to women, both by promoting physical attacks by men and by promoting inequality and discrimination against women. Hailed as a "stunning victory" for feminists (which feminists?), the Butler decision's impact was felt almost immediately when Project Pornography seized the lesbian porn magazine Bad Altitude and laid charges against Glad Day Books, a Toronto lesbian and gay bookstore. Since the Butler decision, seizures of gay and lesbian literature by Canadian customs officials have escalated and subsequent legal rulings have applied the broader harm-based definition of obscenity in order to censor representations of queer sex.