The fine comes more than eight months after the “immoral” incident in question took place, when Montreal stripper and porn star Marie-Andrée Lauriault, aka Tangerine Dream, let 177 men and women penetrate her with a sex toy during a live show at Bubbles Gentlemen's Club.
Lauriault had returned to the club in April for a repeat performance and was met by local police, who charged her for violating the seldom-referenced Section 167, which holds liable “everyone who commits an offense in an immoral, indecent or obscene performance or representation in a theater.”
Charges were later dropped against Lauriault, who was candid about her performance from the beginning.
“It's just theatre,” she told local press in April. “I'm an artist and I give out a sex show. There's no contact whatsoever. No risks. There's no sex, so there's nothing wrong with it.”
Lauriault’s attorney Bob Simmonds said he had not seen someone charged for violating section 167 since he began practicing law in the 1980s.
The club’s director was fined for a related part of the code, which also holds “the lessee, manager, agent or person in charge of a theatre” responsible for “an immoral, indecent or obscene performance, entertainment or representation.”