March 17, 2015

PSA: Don’t make a sex tape at the library.

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Alexandra Morra, who was accused of filming live sex shows from branches of the Windsor (Ontario) Public Library (via CBC)

Alexandra Morra, who was accused of filming live sex shows from branches of the Windsor (Ontario) Public Library (via CBC)

Making out in the stacks at the college library has never seemed so chaste: Canada’s CBC News reports that 2015 has seen at least two women arrested for filming and broadcasting indecent behavior from libraries.

The most recent incident involves a 21-year-old woman accused of live streaming “more than 50 live sex shows from two branches of the Windsor Public Library” in Ontario. The woman, who used the handle “lilsecrett,” is shown “flashing, masturbating and using sex toys in library branches, sometimes with unsuspecting library users, including children, nearby.”

This allegation arrives on the heels of a case in Oregon, where a (now former) Oregon State University freshman “turned the campus library into her own peep show with a NSFW video what attracted her a citation for public indecency,” The New York Daily News reports. “The clip of her scholastic strip show was uploaded on the popular porn site Pornhub, where it’s been viewed nearly 70,000 times.”

The LA Times citesLibrary Journal’s Annoyed Librarian, who keeps tabs on public indecency in public libraries [and] writes, ‘Young women contemplating making live sex videos set in the library, consider this a public service announcement. Don’t just don’t. It won’t turn out well.’”

Whether or not it’s a good idea, “It is, as they say, a thing,” a reporter for the CBC concludes.

 

Taylor Sperry is an editor at Melville House.

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