Al3- Sunday, November 7, 1982 - North Shore News

AND intending to stay open. Manager Ted ‘Emery
stands in front of sign advertising Red Hot. Video,
refusing to back down to pressure from local op-
ponents. 7

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Vancouver, which sells- -and
‘rents Video tapes of hardcore’
.sex movies and’ which has
been the targétof. outraged
“women’s groups and other
“local.

organizations

“they say are in
* many ‘of the movies.
"Groups such ps the North
_-Shore _Women's Centre say
‘-their “concerns are that
movies depicting rape as a
turn-on can _ influence

certain people to commit’

rape.

. Emery respons: do
incidents, or several isolated’
incidents, but it’s not the

‘norm.”

And he adds: “There are
laws to deal with rape, there
are laws to deal with sex
crimes.

“It's like saying everybody
who takes a drink is going to
go out and kill someone
driving. The solution is not
banning all pornographic
material, no more than a
solution is in banning all
alcohol.

“It is a problem which has
to be dealt with in the in-

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bue to ‘rape is like poaaing alcohol
‘because ‘drinking drivers may kill other road
users, Says Red Hot Vidéo store manager Ted

By CHRIS LLOYD

dividual perpetrating the
saidcrime.”.

Each side in the por-
nography dispute complains
about harassment by the
other.

Opponents say they are
plagued by threatening
phone calls. Emery says the
same. He says he has.

’ received hundreds of calls,

“some of which have been
quite frightening.”

When this newspaper
originally ran a news story
about the opening of the
store, Emery called to thank
“us, saying it had started his
business booming. Now hé
says continued publicity has
backfired on the — store,
creating opposition.

He talks of his fear as a
result of Red Hot's store on
Main Street in Vancouver
being fire-bombed, and of
vandalism incidents at his
own store.

But as to whether keeping
the store open is worth the
heat, Emery says he's
staying.

It's more than just a
question of needing a job at
a time when none are

around, he says.
“At first, I was ready to.

drop out,” he admits. “But

now I'm at the point where it

has become quite personal...

“Have they got the right to
threaten me out of a job,
these people opposed to the
store being in operation? I
don’t think so.”

Store windows have been
smashed and a sign outside
has been vandalized, he
says.

“] find it, quite frightening,
quite frankly,” says Emery.
“That people supposedly
opposed to violence would
resort to such things is
terrible.”

Emery says his store has
almost 2,500 regular rental
customers on the North
Shore, among whom are

concerned citizens who rent

the tapes to view them with
the objective of censorship.

He acknowledges that
many of the movies are not
just of explicit sex but also
include violence in sexual
acts. The only reason he is
able to give for the com-
bination of violence even in
sex movies is that “we live in
a violent society.” However,
he considers the degree of
violence to be less than in
TV movies shown for family
viewing evey night.

As such, he questions:
“Where is the standard? Is it
violence, or is it sex? They
are harping on = about

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violence but this seems to be
a way to attract support.”

Though some of the sex
movies contain scenes of
people excreting and
urinating on one another and
being forced into sex at
gunpoint, Emery says:

“You see far . more
violence in TV movies and
these tapes are for home-
viewing audiences which are _
less than 12 per cent of the
entire North Shore. I just
can’t see the double standard
in it.

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