Gay Male Pornography

The 2000 case of Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. CustomsCanada provided Canada’s highest court with its firstopportunity to consider whether the analysis set out in R. v. Butler --in which the Supreme Court identified pornography as an issue of sexdiscrimination -- applies to pornography intended for a lesbian or gaymale audience. The Court held that it did, finding that, likeheterosexual pornography, same-sex pornography also violates the sexequality interests of all Canadians. Christopher Kendall supports thisfinding, arguing that gay male pornography reinforces those socialattitudes that create systemic inequality on the basis of sex andsexual orientation -- misogyny and homophobia alike -- by sexuallyconditioning gay men to those attitudes and practices.