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October 22, 2014 | Sex & Society

Teacher fired for vintage erotic films

A 73-year-old instructor at a Montreal private high-school has been fired after it was discovered that she appeared nude in several films in Europe -- over forty years ago.

Laurent-Auger’s early films date back to to the 1960s and ’70s when she was a struggling young actress who had just graduated from theatre school in Montreal and moved to Paris. The dismissal occured after students discovered some of her films online.

Brébeuf College defended its dismissal of Laurent-Auger, stating "... the fact that these films were shot 40 years ago doesn’t change their bold and suggestive – even explicit – character.” The archival power of the Internet had brought the “erotic portion of her career into the present,” and the students’ discovery of their teacher’s films affected the atmosphere in class, the school claimed.

“This is petty and small-minded,” Laurent-Auger responded. “We’re in the year 2014, not 1950.”

She said the films in which she performed were not porn, but part of an artistic trend of openness in the film world in the 1960s and ’70s. “I would never do pornography,” she said. “We called them light, erotic films, and they have nothing to do with the kinds of things you see today.”

It does seem somewhat heavy handed to us. What do you think?

Montreal teacher, 73, loses job over film nudity more than 40 years ago [Globe and Mail]