Welcome to Canadian Porn Stars - Public Beta
A Brief History of Porn in Canada
In 1973, a Vancouver building contractor named Clarence Neufeld had a tax problem. His accountant had a solution: invest in a film. The Canadian Film Development Corporation was offering a 100 percent capital cost allowance on film investment, and sex, the accountant noted, was an easy sell.
The result was Sexcula – a horror-comedy about a nymphomaniac vampire named Countess Sexcula, a mad scientist called Dr. Fallatingstein, a man-made creature who can’t perform, and, for reasons the film never fully explains, a gorilla. It screened once in 1974 at Vancouver’s Panorama Studios for cast, crew, and industry professionals who were expecting something rather different. Then it disappeared into the National Archives for nearly 40 years.
Canada’s adult entertainment industry has always been like that – hidden in plain sight, shaped by tax codes and court cases, thriving despite (and sometimes because of) the people trying to stop it. This is that story.
