Career
He is best known for his six books on diverse subjects and legal work in sexual human rights. His latest book, Joyshift: the journey to primal happiness was published in September 2015. With three others, Ince in 1979 founded Trekspeditions, one of the first travel agencies in Canada focusing on the then emerging ecotourism industry.
They sent clients to hike Mount Robson, kayak Haida Gwaii or canoe in the Yukon and represented pioneering ecotour businesses such as Ecosummer Canada.
Ince began practicing law in the early 1980s focusing on environmental issues but gradually moved to the human rights field, specializing in sexual issues. He represented performers and individual citizens fighting sexual censorship laws.
One of his cases, Luscher v. Canada, was successful in striking down as unconstitutional a federal law that had prohibited sexual material from entering Canada for over one hundred years.
He represented the Canadian polyamory community in the 2011 constitutional reference case concerning Canada’s polygamy laws.
In 2002, Ince opened The Art of Loving, a sex shop in Vancouver, Canada. lieutenant sells art, instructional books and videos and pleasure products. lieutenant also produces almost one hundred sexual seminars a year, some led by Ince.
He produced an erotic event at The Art of Loving that garnered international media attention in 2003.
Ince was party leader from 2005 until 2012. He and others ran as candidates in two provincial general elections in 2005 and 2009.
In 2010 Ince and Marke Brunke founded VancouverMensGroups.org to facilitate the formation of groups of men who are interested in connecting at a deeper level than usually occurs at social events. Ince and Brunke have a combined thirty years of experience participating in men’s groups.
