Speaking at “The Great Porn Debate” panel at CES 2010, sponsored by InternetSafety.com, adult actor Ron Jeremy said that videogames are worse for children than porn. The man known as The Hedgehog declared:
We don’t want kids to watch porn. [Studies have] found that violent video games are much bigger a negative influence on kids.
Connoisseurs of adult movies might remember that Jeremy starred in a Super Mario Bros. parody called Super Hornio Brothers. (Would that make this a case of biting the schlong that feeds you?) While it’s annoying that another public figure is denouncing videogames, Jeremy’s comments will be unfairly dismissed simply because of his profession.
You say "his comments will be unfairly dismissed simply because of his profession" as if that's a bad thing. He's a 'porn actor' (which is an oxymoron, in my opinion), does anyone really, honestly care what he has to say about anything? And of course he's talking trash about gaming. He'll talk bad about anything that takes the limelight off of his profession.
@redd
Pretty hard to take the limelight off of porn.
Then again…I don't think I can take the word of a man who can auto fellate.
@ Smartguy
Don't be jealous. How do you know I can't auto-fellate? Are you challenging my manhood?
Maybe I should have said "anything that tries to take the limelight". Jeremy simply sees a whole bunch of money being made, and he's whining because he's not a part of it.
@N8R- Should one of us start counting down from 10 for you?
@N8R
Normally I would say "prove it" but if you say you can…then I believe you lol.
9
8…
DAMN IT! Premature again!
@N8R
Keep on trying man, I'm sure you can make it!
On the subject:
Gary Coleman wants his full-frontal scene removed from his upcoming film "Midgets vs Mascots" :
http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=1636…
@Redd75 I've met quite a few people in the adult-film industry that are very sharp and geeky cool. What someone does for a living doesn't always reflect what they're like.
@ray. Perfect example, I'm a full time student and school is nowhere near a reflection of what I'm like. Lol
Ray, I apologize for seemingly 'judging a book by it's cover'. Mr. Jeremy, along w/ anybody else in the porn industry, could be the nicest person/people in the world, for all I know. But at the end of the day, when I look at him, all I see is someone who has sex for money. And that profession's been around for a very long time, if you know what I mean. I simply can't respect that. When he or others make statements in the context of a porn actor, I can't respect what they say.
Question- is that the only time in the debate where he brought up gaming? Did he mention what 'studies' had linked violent games with violent behavior? Or was he simply using gaming as an easy scapegoat to make porn seem that much less unsavory?
@Redd – Not to start a weird debate, but what don't you respect about the "oldest profession in the world"? In the end, literally sometimes, Porn/Prostitution is a service industry. While you may not agree with the choices they make, every member of that industry, from the actors (which while they may not be Oscar worthy, do work and act, some better then some more mainstream actors) to the production staff, deserve, I believe, even more respect then the mainstream movie industry because they go against the ridiculous social norms that our purtain country tries to maintain.
So what isn't respectable, the act, or the fact that they make a living doing what everyone else does for free?
@Larcenous- Did you mean 'puritan' when you said purtain?
Both. I believe porn/prostitution is a sin. I can't put it any simpler than that.
@Redd75 No need to apologize. I'm just saying there are a lot of people in that business — and in any business really — that know their games and know their geek toys. As for Mr. Jeremy, I think he was making an uninformed excuse and wasn't really aware of what he was talking about on anything more than a cursory level.
@Redd – Yup, meant puritan.
Can't say I agree with your position, but I certainly know where you are coming from.
That being said, is it possible to respect someone even if you don't agree with the decisions they have made with their life? Is it possible to see something as wrong, acknowledge that you don't approve, and yet still feel like they are able to contribute their opinion to a conversation without degrading them for their choices?
I believe that Puritan ideals are a sin. I think that life is too short to tell someone else how to live theirs.
The entire thing comes from rules that stem off of the 10 Commandments. 1 of them is (roughly) "No Adultery". The word "adultery" has a very loose definition. So loose, it convinced the same people who touted them originally to start dismembering the penises (penai, pene) of their little boys.
Other than that… the first 3 commandments are strictly rules to give the other 7 more "umph". After that, I can pick apart each one except for "don't kill" and "don't steal". George Carlin said it best when he said there should only be one commandment which roughly is the same as the Golden Rule. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
Well, I think that showing a kid a hardcore film of a woman taking a dump on a guy's chest to be a bit more negative influence than Call of Duty.
But hey, that's just me.
-M
P.S.- This weeks' Steeler's pic is a nice fan pic I found. Almost makes you want to move up to Pittsburgh for the honeys… until you realize that you live in South Florida where smoking hot women are as common as water.
@ Iceman and the subject
I actually have a Steeler based pron on my HD. It's just some chick with a Steelers shirt giving an HJ saying "Go Steelers" every 3 minutes.
It's pure comedy.
To answer your first question Larcenous, yes, as long as that person has earned my respect. Your second question though, I honestly don't know. You could plug a large variety of different people and situations into that question. For me, it would depend on who and what.
Three minutes, huh? That sounds just about right.
-M
@Redd – precisely. And just like a logic equation, if you can answer yes to one, then you have to answer yes to all of them. You might not like them as a person, you might not like what they do, but their opinion, even if disagreeable, deserves as much respect as yours does.
Ex. I can't pretend to believe that sex is a sin, whether paid for or otherwise. Personally, I think people have selfishly used religion and corrupted the idea from a way to look at the world to a system of control that creates an artifical us vs them mentallity. However, that's the not the case for everyone, and I believing that I have the ability to choose my road for myself, I have to believe that you do as well. That being said, while I disagree with your beliefs and why you believe them, I respect them and your ability to make those choices based on them.
@N8R – that's priceless.
@Iceman – depending on the kid, you may have just saved him time experimenting. The first time I saw something like that, I knew from that moment forward that I did not want anyone taking a dump on my chest.
To quote Boondocks – If I don't want someone to pee on me, I'll move.
@Bedroom rules – My wife has three general rules and one overarching bedroom truth.
Rule 1: No dead things
Rule 2: No animals
Rule 3: No waste products
(caveat* – No kids is not included because that is not an option we believe should ever be brought into a bedroom.)
Overarching truth (her opinion on what other people): "I don't care if you want to be hung upside down by your toes and peed on by an elephant, as long as the elephant is of the age of consent and has given his approval"
@ Larcenous
Does "no dead things" include battery operated aids"? Because if not, rule #1 and #2 kinda bleed together (no pun intended).
Thank you, Larcenous, for being mature about the fact that we disagree. Some might not have.
Now enough about Ron Jeremy, let's get back to gaming…
My wife and I have only one rule: Lock the door. Don't want our son seeing anything that can scar him for life…..
You guys scare me. But it also got me thinking; what if you paid a midget (over 18, of course) to dress up like a little kid but just to do the camera work. Would that be a violation of the rules?
-M
@iceman
very fine line there.
@ Iceman
My wife is 4'8''.