Aylo
Montreal-based technology and media company behind a portfolio that includes Pornhub, YouPorn, Brazzers, Men.com and Nutaku. Canada did not simply watch the adult Internet grow. A major part of the modern industry was built here.
Homegrown adult business
Made in Canada
Canada is not new to the adult industry. Technology, streaming, creator platforms, production, retail, manufacturing and sexual wellness all have substantial Canadian stories, and an improbable amount of that history runs through Montreal.
Montreal Knows Adult Entertainment
Montreal is famous for restaurants, festivals, hockey, nightlife and winters that periodically make people question the wisdom of Confederation. It is also one of the most consequential adult-industry cities on the Internet. Aylo and Pornhub are the obvious names, but Gamma Entertainment, ManyVids, Bellesa and other companies make the story considerably broader than a single website.
Ontario adds major Canadian retailers, manufacturers and distributors. Vancouver has its own long adult-retail history. Canada did not merely consume the modern adult economy. Canadian companies helped build the technology, manufacture the products, operate the stores, produce the content and create the platforms through which the rest of the world consumes it.
Canadian Adult Companies
Meet some of the Canadian companies contributing to adult technology, entertainment, creator commerce, retail, manufacturing, distribution and sexual wellness. Each profile explains the Canadian connection and provides direct access to the company, its brands or its consumer properties.
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Bellesa
Montreal-founded sexual wellness and adult media company with a consumer-facing approach to pleasure, products and content. It is one of the clearest examples of a Canadian adult brand growing beyond the traditional adult-store model.
BMS Factory
A 100% Canadian-owned and operated adult novelty manufacturer and distributor based in Brampton. Canadian adult business is not only websites and retail. We make things too.
Boutique Séduction
Boutique Séduction is a long-running Quebec erotic retailer with several Montreal-area stores, including the large Saint-Léonard location on Boulevard Métropolitain East. Its own website describes the business as a family-owned Canadian company, giving Eat Beaver a very literal brick-and-mortar example of Canadian adult retail in Montreal.Séduction…
Come As You Are
Toronto’s worker-owned sex shop co-operative, operating since the 1990s. It brings a distinctly Canadian co-operative-business angle to the adult retail landscape.
Gamma Entertainment
Gamma Entertainment has been part of Montreal’s adult technology and media business since the 1990s. GammaStats identifies Gamma as a Montreal-based company and lists its Montreal office, while Gamma’s corporate site describes a large portfolio of adult websites and brands that reaches well beyond a single…
ManyVids
A Montreal creator platform built around independent adult creators and direct-to-fan commerce. It represents a different side of Canadian adult business: individual entrepreneurship at Internet scale.
Mile High Media
Mile High Media is a long-running adult production and distribution name with a substantial Montreal connection. Current Mile High releases continue to be announced from Montreal, and Gamma Entertainment’s corporate portfolio lists milehighmedia.com among the sites Gamma says it owns and operates.The profile keeps Mile High’s…
Northbound Leather
Canada’s long-running leather and fetish fashion house, with garments handmade in Toronto. Canadian manufacturing becomes a considerably more interesting subject once leather harnesses enter the trade discussion.
PinkCherry
A Canadian-founded adult retail and sexual-wellness business serving consumers online from Ontario. It demonstrates that Canada’s adult economy is not confined to Montreal or to streaming media.
Please Toys
Canadian-owned and operated adult toy and accessories distributor based in Toronto. Another homegrown business quietly contributing to the national pleasure economy.
Stag Shop
Canadian-owned adult retailer with roots reaching back to 1972 and stores across Canada. Long before “shop local” became a slogan, Canadians were already shopping local for considerably more interesting things.
Ultra Love Products
A 100% Canadian-owned Vancouver adult-products wholesaler with roots dating to 1972. Its history is a reminder that Canada had an adult retail industry long before the Web arrived.
Canadian entrepreneurship
Support Canadian Small Business. Better Yet, Become One.
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Canadian leaders keep telling us to encourage entrepreneurship, increase productivity and create new sources of income. We finally found an economic-development program that people may actually enjoy participating in.
Export strategy
Some Canadian Exports Travel on Their Own.
Steel gets tariffs. Lumber gets tariffs. Aluminum gets tariffs. Independent Canadian entertainers can pack a suitcase and discover a new market before the trade negotiators have finished lunch. Canada has spent years talking about export diversification. Beaver was apparently listening.