[2] He was later the subject of media controversy in 1995, when several mainstream journalists attacked Ryerson University for employing him as a journalism instructor while he was simultaneously, and openly, working as a male prostitute.

That December, Toronto Sun journalist Claire Hoy began publishing columns attacking Hannon and The Body Politic for promoting child abuse.

[5] On January 5, 1978, the paper and its publishers were charged under section 164 of the Criminal Code with "use of the mails to distribute immoral, indecent or scurrilous material".

The Body Politic ceased publication in 1987, a few years after its publisher (now incorporated as Pink Triangle Press) launched the tabloid Xtra!.

[1] He has won thirteen National Magazine Awards as a freelancer, among them for profiles of Tomson Highway and John Bentley Mays[6] and for a Toronto Life article titled "The Alchemy of Pork Fat".

[9] The investigation resulted in the arrest of 45 gay men, but the alleged child pornography in fact involved not children but male hustlers older than the legal age of consent.

[11] On November 14, Toronto Sun journalist Heather Bird alleged that Hannon had used the press council hearing as an opportunity to prosyletize pedophilia to his journalism students.

[11] Hannon responded by saying the only time he had ever broached the subject in the classroom was within the context of mentioning the obscenity trial within a discussion of journalistic ethics.

Ryerson reinstated Hannon for the winter semester and placed a letter of reprimand in his file, but did not renew his contract at the end of the school year.

[8] The writers concluded the mainstream media's coverage of the Hannon affair was almost entirely based on falsehoods, distortions and selective application of facts.

In addition, he went on to say that while penetration "may be of little interest to most children... [i]t makes good educational sense to push a child's limits, much as we do in sports or academics, by requiring of them things they might at first feel incapable of doing".