Controversy
The film was at the center of a Canadian political controversy in 2006: The Canadian federal government enacted Bill C-10, allowing the government to retroactively strip tax credits from films deemed "offensive or not in the public interest" by the Heritage Minister. A special screening was held in Ottawa, which was well-attended by opposition Members of Parliament, although no MPs from the governing Conservative Party attended. One staffer for Cambridge MP Gary Goodyear was fired for reserving a ticket in his name without permission.
Writer/director Gero stated: "I think we're an easy target – we've got a swear in the title —. And also no one's seen it. So it's easy for the pro-C-10 people, whoever they are, I've only met one, to say...this is obviously pornography, we want to shut it down". "Our generation makes an effort to separate love and sex," says Gero. "They're all trying to do this thing, and they're all failing miserably...we're saying, 'Listen, people our age. This is really hard to do without being emotionally involved.'"
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