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ThePQ4:
I attended "The Great Porn Debate" last night, featuring Ron Jeremy and Craig Gross. Here's an exert from my Campus Daily Life Newsletter about it:

--- Quote ---"The Great Porn Debate" -a moderated debate about pornography and its effects on society such as: is it healthy, addictive, destructive, or a window to fantasy?  Featuring Ron Jeremy, the Guinness Book of World Records holder for "most appearances in Adult Film", starring in over 1,900 films and directing over 250 more, and Craig Gross, pastor from Southern California and founder of XXXChurch.com, the largest anti-porn website on the internet. The XXXChurch.com has been featured on Time, The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS Evening New, and the New York Times.
--- End quote ---

It was a very interesting, spirited debate. As far as debates go, Gross obviously had very good points and was a very good speaker. Jeremy tended to go off on tangents, but it was very lively, and I left feeling a little more educated about the porn biz --both the good and the bad.

So, first: has one seen this debate? It was done at Yale and featured on an episode of Nightline on ABC, but they are also doing a tour (I think they are at Minnesota State tonight, for any forumites there). If you have, what were your thoughts.

For those who haven't, what are your thoughts on the "The Porn Debate", pros and cons.

muteKi:
There was actually something similar going on here at W&M last night primarily related to the Sex Workers' Art Show, but I had a couple important assignments and so it slipped my mind.

The debate you're talking about I certainly have not seen and I don't know that it would even go this south.

In terms of having such a debate I'm glad to have it though I would wonder about how well Ron Jeremy could represent the industry. Certainly he's not notable for his charming and bubbly personality from things I've read in this subforum about him.

ThePQ4:
Well, my roommate and I were first in line to meet him. He seemed rather bored, and not over-all pleased. The line to meet him was HUGE (we happened to have seats near his table, so it wasn't hard to get to the front). I got a couple of pics, and he was cordial, but it wasn't like he overly chatty.

Craig Gross on the other hand, had a much shorter line to meet him of course, but he was very nice, very chatty. He obviously likes what he does, and is proud of the work he's done. XXXChurch.com is actually very interesting and has a very interesting layout/format, I guess is how to say it.

My overall opinion of porn is that: if you want to watch it, watch it. If you don't, then that's fine too. I personally feed into more gay porn (my friend Lauryn and I had some VERY impure thoughts about how well the good Pastor would be in a gay film...) and the like, but I don't like anything overly hardcore, but I'm also not obsessive about it either. I don't need to watch it, I find it more amusing then erotic most of the time. So, while I think Pastor Gross had good ideas, I'm not going to stop watching porn.

I'll see if I can find a youtube link or something to a peice from the Nightline Debate... I'm sure it exists. It just aired as recently as last week, I think.

Edit:
Nightline Part 1
Nightline Part 2

SeanBateman:
Yo this is totally an interesting thing deserving of its own thread.

jhocking:
I'm not sure this event really merits the descriptor "great." I mean, a longtime porn star and an evangelical preacher disagree with each other's morals, STOP THE PRESSES

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