We’re With Ron
Oct 10th, 2011
Last weekend, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, the porn industry’s most recognizable Hedgehog, the infamous Ron Jeremy, alleged during a panel that violent video games have a more adverse effect on children than pornography, and needless to say, the media went bananas. Claiming that the porn industry does as much as it can to keep explicit imagery out of kids’ hands and that the parents who complain should do a better job of policing their children’s online habits, the porn veteran managed to piss off a whole lot of people (namely gamers) with his comment, but PronInsider.com is wont to agree.
Sure, there’s a lot of things in porn that might not reflect standard (or even healthy) adult sexuality, and some images might be a little frightening, but we venture to guess that the morality deficit in first-person shooter games that rack up points for dead bodies might send a slightly less wholesome message to young people. Of course, the jury is still out on both of these issues scientifically, and nobody really knows if porn or video games have any kind of real effect on kids’ behavior, but we say it’s time the world stop jabbing its finger in porn’s face over “corrupting the youth” and begin thinking about which you’d rather have children understand from an early age: pleasure, or violence? Would you rather have your kid turn into Cassanova or Kazinski? It’s worth thinking about.
