Motel sin | Radio-Canada

Sitting on the walks of the motel that his father built in 1962. However, Percy Turcotte relears his memories of a youth deeply marked by what he saw in the bet. However, Memories of a world where sexuality was still like a shameful secret that we whispered.

I no longer know I was what age, but I was still a young child. Therefore, I arrived at the Motel at 4 years old and I left him at 19. For example, One day, I found a vibrator in one of the rooms. Nevertheless, It vibrated. However, I thought it had to be a toothbrush. Similarly, I put it in my mouth. Moreover, When my mother saw me with that, she shouted: loose-moed that! Consequently, And torn off the object of the hands, but she didn’t explain what it was.

What motel sin | radio-canada was it? In addition, One of the multiple secrets of the Motel Pari, where we discreetly satisfied desires reprobate by the Church.

But bet, no S?

Yes. Consequently, Bet no S! Consequently, Because the guy who made the brand forgot to put an S! However, Let me tell you that it made a whole storyrecalls percy still amused with the orthographic blunder. However, So. Meanwhile, not to look crazy, my mother told everyone that it was, that it was not Paris like the city, but a pari In the lifting direction.

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Today, the Motel Pari is for sale. Meanwhile, The office is deserted. In addition, The dilapidated building. Similarly, Percy Turcotte sticks his nose on the closed, dirty window. For example, It is in this room that we sat right with my sisters to watch televisionhe recalls. Furthermore, You understand. Similarly, as customers could see us, we should not be evacuatedsaid the 67 -year -old man, looking in the rear view mirror of his life.

When it was my mother who held that, it was impeccable. Similarly, She was proud, Alice. Meanwhile, And she presented herself like that: Hello. Madame Turcotte du Pari Motelhe motel sin | radio-canada sighs, the sudden voice knotted by emotion.

Phew, it brews business to come here. It’s been years that I hadn’t seen the motel again and it reminds me of my mother. He marks a break before adding: She worked so much, Alice. Holding a motel is 7 days a week and 7 nights a week.

The Motel Pari is located a stone’s throw from the Notre-Dame-du-Cap sanctuary. an important Catholic pilgrimage location in the corner of Trois-Rivières. The devotees were going to sleep at the motel that belonged to the Turcotte. But there were other types of customers.

In addition to pilgrims, there were travelers of commercial and local customers. We had 12 rooms and we praised 30 a day … if you understand what I meantells Percy Turcotte, smirk.

Thanks to the Quiet Revolution, religious practice will decrease in motel sin | radio-canada Quebec. A change of mentality that takes place in just a decade. But we forget that in the early 1960s. the influence of the Catholic Church was still immense and that almost 85 % of Quebecers were still practicing. Cardinal Paul-Émile Léger still animates The family rosary On the waves of the CKAC radio station. The program will be broadcast until 1967 at 7 p.m., every evening.

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At the time. homosexuality was always perceived as a vice unnatural or a mental illness by the Church and a large part of the population.

Homosexual people had to hide their sexual orientation for fear of losing their jobs, friends or family. Worse still: homosexuality is illegal. It was not until 1969. with the adoption of bill C-150, the bill Omnibus of the federal government, which is described the homosexual acts committed in private between consenting adults.

My English teacher came with his chum at the motel and my mother told me to hide myselfrecalls Percy Turcotte.

The same omnibus law will also decriminalize adultery, which was previously considered as a criminal offense.

The women called to the motel and asked motel sin | radio-canada if their husbands were there. We had the instruction to never say anything. So we said: “No Madame”. and we called in the gentleman’s room and we told him: your wife is looking for you, tells Percy Pensive. It was not ideal for a child. It marked me a lot.

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It is here that the history of architecture. regional planning marries the little history of social changes, as Luc Noppen, architecture historian and professor at UQAM rightly emphasizes in the Department of Urban Studies.

Motels were built on road axes outside cities, therefore outside the parishes. They therefore escaped the authority of the priests. It is not for nothing that the most severe criticism of motels, it is the priests in the parishes.

There are very few priests who. on Sunday, were not going to warn their parishioners in the pulpit that the motels were places of perdition.

If the authority of the clergy motel sin | radio-canada is now combined in Quebec in the simple past, if adultery is no longer an offense, this does not prevent motels have remained in the collective imagination a place associated with a certain lubricity.

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The most popular price. I would tell you, is the price of 4 hours, because it allows you to rent at any time in the motel sin | radio-canada dayexplains Vania Larose, wisely seated on the bed of a bedroom of any Motel Chamber of a discreet establishment from the north of Montreal, offering a refuge at a reasonable price for lovebirds of all genres.

Vania Larose likes motels. It is like an anonymous place. it is a neutral place where you can forget your daily life and the outside world. A bubble.

For ten years, Vania held a blog. The blog. let us remember, was a bit of the ancestor of social networks, a sort of logbook published on platforms like Blogger and WordPress which has become a very popular means of expression at the turn of the millennium.

The blogs dealt with everything and nothing. Politics, cooking, etc. That of Vania focused on female infidelity and was judiciously titled: The infid’e!

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His blog was very popular. She spoke about emancipation, sexual freedom, female desire. I assumed my desires through my lovers. something that I could not do in my daily life when I had a husband or that I did not allow myself to live with him. Having lovers, it gave me a feeling ofempowermentshe confides to me.

Vania’s adventures have become quite popular. We liked to follow his dating stories. his reflections on the passion, the ardor or the disappointment that come with such exploration. And, quietly, she became de facto, without realizing it, a review of motels.

Readers said to me: I go to this or that region, do you have advice to give me?she explains, laughing. I pointed out the places that were clean and those whose hygiene appeared to me doubtful. I commented on the most often ugly works of art on the walls.

Vania even tells that one day. in her favorite motel, she was surprised to find the room renovated to her taste. I think the owner had to read my blogshe said, laughing.

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It’s all of the past, all this. Vania is no longer married and no longer frequents motels, she no longer writes. But on this small bed. in this small room with an anachronistic decor where she gives us an interview, a little nostalgia slips into her big brown eyes.

There is energy in motels … There is something special in there.

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