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Border XXX-ings

Customs officials sift through the smut entering Canada

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Border XXX-ings

JULY 25--There is no governmental report more highly anticipated (at least by TSG) than the quarterly list of "Admissible and Prohibited Titles" prepared by Canada's Border Services Agency.

As we first reported last summer, agents with the country's Prohibited Importations Unit scour DVDs, videotapes, books, comics, and other material to determine whether the titles are suitable for admission into Canada. The nation's Customs Act--stricter than the United States equivalent--bars obscene material, "hate propaganda," and, of course, child pornography.

In an excerpt from the most recent quarterly report, covering the first three months of this year, more than half of the prospective imports were stopped at the border, including "Teenage Transsexual Nurses 4," "What a Pisser," "Bi Bi Daddy," and many works produced by one Tom "Ropes" McGurk. Included among the admissible titles were "Have Some Cannelloni, Tony!" and "Frank and Beans" from the Angry Young Man series, and "Bondage Ahoy!" (17 pages)