John Ince (author)

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John Ince
Born
(1952-05-30) May 30, 1952 (age 72)

Canada
Occupation(s)Author and lawyer
Known forSex-positive activism

John Ince (born May 30, 1952) is a Canadian author, lawyer, entrepreneur and from 2005 to 2012 activist in the sex-positive movement.

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Ince began practicing law in the early 1980s [1] focusing on environmental issues but gradually moved to the human rights field, specializing in sexual issues. He represented performers and individual citizens fighting sexual censorship laws. One of his cases, Luscher v. Canada [2] successfully struck down as unconstitutional a federal law that for over one hundred years had prohibited sexual material from entering Canada. He represented the Canadian polyamory community in the 2011 constitutional reference case concerning Canada’s polygamy laws. [3]

Sex-positive activism

In 2002, Ince opened The Art of Loving, a sex shop in Vancouver, Canada [4] It sells art, instructional books and videos and pleasure products. [5] It also produces sexual seminars, some led by Ince. He produced an erotic event at The Art of Loving that garnered international media attention in 2003. [6]

In 2005 Ince and many other erotic arts activists founded The Sex Party, the world’s first officially registered sex-positive political party. Ince was party leader from 2005 until 2012. He and others ran as candidates in two provincial general elections in 2005 and 2009. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "John Ince". CanadianLawList. Thomson Reuters Canada Limited. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  2. ↑ Luscher v. Deputy Minister, Revenue Canada, Customs and Excise, [1985] 1 F.C. 85;
  3. ↑ "Polyamorists want court to declare group love legal". Vancouver Sun. September 9, 2010. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  4. ↑ . "www.artofloving.ca".
  5. ↑ Smith, Charlie (Jul 2, 2009). "Art of Loving unveils planet-friendly sex toy". Georgia Straight. Vancouver Free Press. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  6. ↑ Girard, Daniel (June 2013). "Will sex on stage tempt police to act?". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  7. ↑ Woolley, Pieta (Mar 9, 2009). "Sex Party leader John Ince to run against Premier Gordon Campbell". Georgia Straight. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
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