Ron Jeremy says violent video games 'worse' than porn
 

Violent video games have "a much bigger negative influence on kids" than pornography, a leading porn star has claimed.

He said parents should be more worried about the harmful effects of such games.

Mr Jeremy's comments were made at a session called the Great Porn Debate during the Consumer Electronics Show, CES, in Las Vegas.

His comments angered gamers, who accused him of "ignorance".

Mr Jeremy's appearance at CES in Las Vegas caused some raised eyebrows.

He took time away from the Adult Entertainment Expo, which takes place in Las Vegas at the same time as the annual tech fest, to speak out on behalf of his profession and promote some practical tools.

"Studies have found that violent video games are a much bigger negative influence on kids," Mr Jeremy said.

'Very disappointing'

The remark has caused quite a stir in the games world.

"It's rather hypocritical behaviour and it doesn't speak up for pornography's merits by merely saying "something else is worse, don't look at us.

"Very disappointing behaviour from a man who should know better," said Jim Sterling of gaming news blog Destructoid.com.


The pornography industry has a reputation for being rather technologically advanced

Maggie Shiels
Technology reporter


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Andy Chalk at video gaming site escapistmagazine.com said Mr Jeremy's remarks cannot be completely ignored.

"While I do think he's (Mr Jeremy) working from a platform of ignorance, I'm not quite as certain that the sentiment is entirely wrong.

"I wouldn't want my kids (the hypothetical ones, that is) playing Modern Warfare 2 or becoming overly familiar with Ron's body of work, but is it really reasonable to say that one is significantly worse than the other?" asked Mr Chalk.

Mr Jeremy also urged parents to play their part in preventing children from accessing adult websites.

He said the industry already does all it can to protect youngsters.

"Parents can block this stuff and need to stop blaming porn for a bad case of parenting," Mr Jeremy told BBC News.

"Parents should watch what their kids are doing online and take some responsibility. Don't blame us. We have disclaimers, age notifications and software blockers. We are doing our bit," said Mr Jeremy.

That view was backed by a critic of the $10bn (£6.2bn) adult entertainment sector.

"Parents are not talking about this with their kids enough," said Craig Gross, who is a former pastor and has set up a website to help people addicted to pornography.

"We have to have these conversations because for the most part, kids are smarter than their parents when it comes to technology. Parents need to do more parenting and be more proactive on these issues," added Mr Gross.

"Safer online"

Mr Jeremy was busy promoting the practical tools designed to prevent children from accessing pornography.


Mr Jeremy in black t-shirt was a bit hit with techies at CES
"Because we make porn, we are the bad guys. We don't want kids to watch porn but yes we recognise that it happens. We are not in favour of that," said Mr Jeremy who has appeared in over 2000 films.

Now the man voted America's top porn actor by the Adult Video Network, has put his weight and influence behind a number of software blocking tools.

These include InternetSafety.com's Safe Eyes family internet management software which will automatically block access to online pornographic content.

"We're not just all about restrictions and rules. We want the family to talk about being safer online," said Aaron Kenny, the chief technology officer for InternetSafety.com.

Coming to the aid of the porn industry is an unlikely figure in the shape of the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection, ASACP, a non-profit group that works to enforce anti-child pornography laws.

"The porn industry has gotten a bad rap," Joan Irvine, the chief executive officer of ASACP told the BBC.

"They are doing so much in order to develop technology or using our systems because they don't want kids out there watching porn, or being in it. They recognise that it isn't good for business and would lead to more scrutiny so they police themselves well," added Ms Irvine.

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He got his name out there, thats all he cares.:2 cents:

i agree. There's a seriously fucked up "twist" on peoples views of what's ok and what's not. It's ok to watch a "good guy" blast away dozens of "bad guys" with an assault rifle, but OMFG SAVE THE CHILDREN FROM THE EVIL BREASTICLES!!!!

Hahaha that's bullshit... the gun doesn't shoot itself...

Politicians and other alarmists claim that playing video games leads to teen violence. Penn & Teller attempt to debunk that theory by handing over a real semi-automatic weapon to a nine-year-old to see if playing video games will turn him into a human killing machine.

Try and find/watch this whole episode

http://www.sho.com/site/video/bright... =28333937001

Ron Jeremy is an ugly fuck, don't listen to him!

With videogames you play with hard phallic objects.
With porn, you play with hard phallic objects.

With videogames, you learn hand/eye coordination.
With porn, you learn, uh..

I think violent porn that involves S&M and maybe tortures of some kind could have a worse effect on a child than violent video games.

we're going to take the comments of ron jeremy, who has stuck his own dick in his mouth, seriously?

I think porn stars can beat up the characters in the video game

because it matters what he says.

Those are some surprising comments from him. You would think he would know better with all the morons saying the exact same thing about porn, movies and even books for that matter.

The hedgehog has spoken people.....

If you are going to defend porn do it intelligently not like Ron.

I guess he didn't give much thought to his words.

Porn is better than violence

agree! There should be more porn games on PS3!

What about violent porn..:upsidedow

*yawn*...as a player of violent video games growing up, it doesn't do shit to non-violent people. I've never been in a fight in my life, but I've probably killed millions of monsters/people/etc. in FPS games among other violent video games over the years. Gimme a fucking break. Ever since Colombine, people have not gotten off this trip about violent video games somehow fucking with the youth of America. I'm sorry but there's plenty of fucked up sources of inspiration for the youth of America. News, politicians, shitty parents, other shitty kids, maybe even rappers. A game is a game...people and actual things happening are what influence kids more.

That is about all I agree with from the article.

who cares what he says, hes a stunt cock

What do you mean by worse? Since when porn was bad?

he's right! Porn doesn't make you want to shoot people or kick them to death or rip their heads off.

hmm, not that interesting :)

What else would he say?

Is everyone here bad parents? Wow... So much ignorance here. One thing that Ron pointed out was the "bad parenting" he is 100% correct about this.

Parents need to filter all media outlets in their homes before it reaches their child.

But saying one is worse than the other is lame as well.
Not many people go out a kill or commit crimes after playing video games or watching porn, again it is the same as the rest of the numbers in the world,
we have 4-6 billion people and less than .001% are serial killers. People wake up

People who go and commit these type of acts are fucked before they watch porn or play video games.

Though I hope I never have to deal with either scenario, I think getting killed must be a lot worse than getting fucked, regardless of any variables that could be imagined.

And to compare consensual sex to non-consensual killing, there is just no way to compare those two things on any level.

So then it stands to reason that fantasy fucking should be overwhelmingly less harmful in every way than fantasy killing.

So, even though I don't think either porn or video games are particularly harmful to anyone, (aside form being a possible huge waste of time) I have to agree more or less with Mr. Jeremy, although he is missing the more important point that people need to shut the fuck up and leave us all alone to do what we want and keep their goddamn kids away from the internet AND video games if they if they haven't been raised well enough to hold themselves back from acting out every fantasy they come across.