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The only place to rent anime VHS in Toronto in the 90s was Suspect Video, which specialized in hardcore pornography. Anime and porno. That says it all about anime's cultural cache in those days.

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Totally. That said, there was a lot of sex and nudity in direct-to-video anime of the era. The stigma remains today among a certain subset of people who really think "anime" is a synonym for "porn." This reminds me that I interviewed Toshio Maeda, the pioneer of "tentacle porn," at length for Pure Invention, but only a tiny fraction made it into the book. Maybe it's time to run the full conversation...

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