Ron Jeremy: Games Worse for Kids Than Porn

heheheheheh
this is just wrong in all kind of ways.

Super Dingling Mario Ballers

I read the title and soon thought "the Hedgehog strikes again!" and wondered what pic they would have of him, then the irony set in that "the hedgehog" is wearing a Mario costume. IMO MTV has a more destructive influence on children than games or porn.

WHAT?

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

Scratching my head and wondering what's going on.

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.

Lulz... I love it...

New game released:
Leisure Suit Jeremy and The Adventures of the Hedgehog

I would rather my kids get on a "HEAD SHOT" on a virtual player than get off on internet porn.

Head shots are a major part of porn as well.

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.

hehehehe

...patently absurd

Some games are very good for kids, and adults to play. The relatively mindless first person shooters still stimulate the brain more than watching TV does. The strategy games involve an enormous amount of thought to win at the higher settings, and that's a good thing.

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.

"[Studies have] found that violent video games are much bigger a negative influence on kids," said Jeremy? [citation needed]

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.

yep i would definitely rather walk in on my kid whacking off rather than playing GTA 4... EPIC FAIL.

Ron Jeremy is not at all biased.

Everybody here is focused on ol' Ron, but I find it far more amusing that the anti-porn guy is named "Gross."

Shift blame.... good idea.....

ugh

I should also mention that, if they are kids, they'll probably look for porn of people their age. Which, in fact, would probably be illegal. Since YOU are paying for the internet service, that means the cops come for YOU, not your kid. Now daddy gets to spend a few years in jail for little jimmy beatin' it to illegal porn. Hurray! Better than Left 4 Dead any day!

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.

Honestly, porn is educational. It answers questions parents don't or wont discuss. We can also thank the whore houses of the late 1800's to the 1940's. Which the hoe's would stand out front of the brothel advertising all day long, kids around or not. Which sparked the invent of the nudiy magazine. I am for both games and porn, hell i remember being 11yo and wanting to play Leisure Suit Larry just because it had better graphics and interactive game play...My hat goes off to porn for bring us the following....VHS over Beta (not happy about that), more in-depth Video Games, DVD's, Blu-Ray over HD-DVD, and internet porn.

Just how does porn influence children ? Well, of course the napkin usage rises, but what else is there to it ?

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.

Ron should have used Soap Opera's as his example not games.
:-)

What kind of studies show the effects of porn on children? Seems highly unlikely that those studies exist at all.

I think children shouldn't be exposed to porn. It's not educational, it's not useful, and a good diagram or educational video that isn't intended to arouse makes a lot more sense. Porn addictions are an unhealthy side effect. Or, men learning sex from porn possibly could lead to them trying to act out unhealthy fantasies on a more innocent partner who then has to live up to the porn. It doesn't teach you the more intimate idea of sex, and it doesn't teach you anything important to a relationship.
I'd rather give my children video games that were of the Nazi death camps than let them watch porn. The first child of mine who does is gonna find himself banned from the internet until it hurts.

-1 to the Hedgehog for trying to dodge one ridiculous debate by hiding behind another ridiculous debate.

I understand the argument however it's like some big wig in the music industry saying that the movie industry is to blame for violence not the rappers lyrics.

I just don't like when people blame other things for which they are just another piece of the problem.

Funny coincidence though on the two shows being there the same time though.

I have to laugh my ass off at Ron Jeremy - well, at any actor without any qualifications (except what they portray on screen or TV) spouting ANYTHING. . . but Ron Jeremy? Come on, that's the bottom of the barrel altogether! What qualifications does he have? He doesn't even portray anything on screen (except a big. . .well. . .figuratively speaking of course) so why would ANYONE listen to anything he says?

Who cares?

Everything and anything can have an influence on people so, unless you start secluding people from reality, they will be influenced in ways you cannot predict. IMO, what makes a difference is the sense of self and the ability to rationalize things over, which, by the way, is probably what differentiates humans from animals. Teach kids to be their own selves and think on their own and they will be able and perhaps they will evolve beyond "evolved monkeys".

“Are you saying the son of a Duke is an animal?”
“On the contrary; I am suggesting you MIGHT be human.”
- Dune

too much of anything can be bad. why not just say candy is bad for children too?

if I had kids, which I'm glad I don't because women sometimes tend to take half the stuff you own and leave if you do, I would strongly supervise them before they reach their teens. I started using dialup and such at maybe around 13 or 14 years old and even with all the porn spam around, I don't think it is that big of a deal for a teenager. there's much worse things to worry about such as alcohol and drugs.

It really doesn't matter, Kids will be kids. If they want to watch porn they will find it, if they want
to play violent video games they will get them as well.

WOW I dont even know where to begin. Your kids are gonna be horn dogs when they get to college. Hope that you dont have any girls. Cause I bet you will have grand babies before you are supposed to. I dont understand all the negative against porn. Its because its so Taboo that americans have problems with it. (yes I am american)

I did teach me the basic ideas of pleasing the ladies and that is one of very first reason why couple brake up nowadays.. (Because after the charms goes away, after your lady stop seeing you as a knight in shiny armor the true hit her face, he doesn't even know how to f... good. He is a good for nothing.. But if you know your ways around the four leg monster in the bedroom. Well also the kitchen, table, the kitchen itself, the kitchen floor, the living room, the bathroom, the back yard, the garage, the car..

well if you knows your ways around sex and you are willing to please your couple, of course beside all the other part the conform the marriage you will have a happy life with a pleased lady that is willing to do everything for you..