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Adult film and video producers are fleeing L.A. in droves. They’re seeking out new homes all over the world — in other parts of the United States, in South America, in Europe.

But one place they are not headed, at least for now, is Toronto. Even the Rob Ford porn parody released last year wasn’t filmed here.

There’s no one reason why Toronto hasn’t become a pornography hub. The explanation for the L.A. exodus, on the other hand, is relatively simple.

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Now, aged 73 and with her last X-rated role nearly 40 years behind her, a prestigious Montreal private school has told Ms. Laurent Auger she is not fit to teach drama after students discovered some of her risqué work online.

On Sunday, Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, a training ground for Quebec’s elite, published a statement on its website explaining why it has not renewed Ms. Laurent Auger’s contract to give the two workshops she has taught there for the past 15 years.

“The fact these films were made 40 years ago does not change their risqué, suggestive — explicit even — nature. Thanks to the Internet, it appears these types of films from the 1970s have come back in fashion,” the school said.

“As educators, we had to ask what message is transmitted to all our students, boys and girls, from the first year of high school to the fifth, by the fact that the teacher of their drama workshops could now be seen on the Internet in the most suggestive of scenes.”

It asked whether Ms. Laurent Auger’s soft-core porn films “are models to follow for high school students discovering the theatre and arts in general?” Now that her porn past is widely known and available for viewing on the Internet, the school concluded she could not continue teaching students “in a calm setting free of allusions or discomfort that is unfavourable to our educational mission.”