The Hedgehog says games can be worse for kids than porn.
It's an interesting coincidence that the Consumer Electronics Show and the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo happen in Las Vegas at nearly the same dates every year.
Thankfully, there was a bit of a melding of the two events this year, as famed porn actor Ron Jeremy along with Craig Gross, an anti-pornography media activist, met for "The Great Porn Debate," according to PC Mag.
Gross posed that porn has become sexual education for children, and, "The Internet has changed the game completely. What we used to have to work hard to find, you now have to work hard to avoid."
Jeremy clarified, "We don't want kids to watch porn," he told the crowd, and added that there are far worse influences out there on kids than watching porn.
"[Studies have] found that violent video games are much bigger a negative influence on kids," said Jeremy.
Of course, until there is a Ron Jeremy video game, we expect the Hedgehog to be on the side of porn.
Head shots are a major part of porn as well.
It's easy to criticize games, but, in reality, I don't know that it is always the substitute for more active endeavors. It probably replaces a lot of TV watching, which is very mind numbing and does not stimulate the brain in a meaningful way.
Active thought is very good. Passive interpretation not nearly as much. Porn? I certainly have nothing against it, but I don't know how you can say definitively violent games are better or worse than it. How do you measure this? And how can you say universally one is worse than the other, when the effects on individuals will vary.
One thing is clear. If people can distinguish that porn is just entertainment and not meant as a suggestion for what they should do, the same could be same of games. People can distinguish between reality and fantasy. Most, anyway.
this is just wrong in all kind of ways.
Super Dingling Mario Ballers
Are they saying that We'll go Blind if we Play Too Many Games NOW!?
Reminds me of the the 1977 movie Can I Do it 'till I Need Glasses
Personally I like the NFL approach - 60 minutes of outdoor play everyday. The kids need to exercise. Sitting in front of a pc won't cut it.
New game released:
Leisure Suit Jeremy and The Adventures of the Hedgehog
Head shots are a major part of porn as well.
hehehehe
It's easy to criticize games, but, in reality, I don't know that it is always the substitute for more active endeavors. It probably replaces a lot of TV watching, which is very mind numbing and does not stimulate the brain in a meaningful way.
Active thought is very good. Passive interpretation not nearly as much. Porn? I certainly have nothing against it, but I don't know how you can say definitively violent games are better or worse than it. How do you measure this? And how can you say universally one is worse than the other, when the effects on individuals will vary.
One thing is clear. If people can distinguish that porn is just entertainment and not meant as a suggestion for what they should do, the same could be same of games. People can distinguish between reality and fantasy. Most, anyway.
You've obviously never played BoneTown.
Clearly parents actually being engaged with their sprogs, and aware of what they get up to on the net is obviously far more important than voting for which particular digital art form is most harmful.
ugh
LOL WAT?
Having first hand experience (having spent 4 years as an internet-dwelling minor), youths don't go looking for porn 'their own age' since any ol porn will do nicely, and it's almost always better than the illegal stuff. If kids these days are specifically hunting for underage stuff, we have a real problem.
I know that some games take it a bit further than they should on gore and "evil", but there is one thing that gory games teach- that life isn't a goddamn garden of roses, which a lot of the facebook society and disney chanel outcasts think it is.