Ron JeremyTells Kids Not To Watch Porn

Industry veteran Ron Jeremy is featured in a new commercial intended to keep children away from pornography. Jeremy plays himself in the minute-long public service announcement for Christian group XXXChurch, telling his sidekick "Pete the Porno Puppet" to stay away from porn.
"Pornography is for consenting adults... not for kids," Jeremy says. "We don't want kids to see our videos."
"We do a public service announcement with me and a puppet saying, 'Don't watch porn 'til you're over 18 years of age. It's for adults only, and it's rated XXX'," Jeremy told AVN. "I say, 'We don't b.s., we don't use record labeling, we don't sneak sex through advertising, we tell you exactly what it is from the very beginning. We're the most honest industry-- you should appreciate us, rather than giving us a hard time.'"
"Pete" was conceptualized in 2003 by XXXChurch.com founder Craig Gross and adult director James "Jimmy D" DiGiorgio, who created the educational spots for cable television.
Gross and Jeremy have toured college campuses, debating the issues that surround pornography.
"We're going on a bus tour starting in August," said Jeremy. "We'll be hitting a bunch of cities by bus; they're shooting it for probably HBO, and we did a wrestling thing where me and Craig Gross, we go into a ring and we flip each other on the ground, we stamp on each other, the religious boy vs. the porn star. It's very funny, we're getting a lot of mileage out of it. It's on YouTube like crazy."
"Through our debates, Ron and I have struck up a sort of friendship," said Gross. "It freaks people out, but even though we have many differences, we have found one thing we agree on, and we're working together on it."
On the subject of Gross, Jeremy told AVN, "He's actually a great guy; he doesn't agree with my profession, and I don't happen to agree with some of his. He's never beaten me in a debate. We've faced 5,000 kids at some of the colleges in America -- he cannot beat me. I hope he reads this. Craig Gross, you cannot beat me in a debate. At best, we'll tie, but you can't beat me. He admits it! On his own website, XXXChurch, he admits that he never beat me in a debate."
"He feels that the business is bad for people, 'cause our girls are not treated fairly, it's a bad thing, it's bad for those who watch it," Jeremy continued. "But he's also against all forms of masturbation. I slam him so bad on that point, that we don't even bring it up, 'cause I don't want an easy victory. 'Cause we're debating in front of college kids -- you tell a college kid that masturbating's not good, he's gonna lose the debate before it starts. I want it to be more fair and square. He tries to avoid asking me that famous question, 'So what if your daughter wanted to do it?' That's the Achilles heel for me. Thank god the people I debate -- I've always said this, it's so funny -- thank god Craig Gross; Susan Cole, a feminist, a graduate of Harvard; and Michael Leahy [of] an organization called Bravehearts for recovering sex addicts; thank god these guys have never seen or heard of Donkey Punch or Pink Eye, or I'd be so screwed. I can defend anal, I would even defend a bukkake. I'll defend double anal. Defending blowing myself, that's a tough one, but I'll be damned if I could defend Donkey Punch or Pink Eye. Who the fuck in porn is alright to shoot that stuff, either, you know?"
"I don't mind what Craig does," Jeremy concluded. "That's why it's an interesting debate. If can get girls in porn who don't want to be in the business, and they want to get out, they want to find a spiritual path, then let him go for it! I have no problem with what he does for a living. There's some girls who do not belong in porn. If Craig Gross weeds them out, and gets them to do other things, then more power to him. If a girl feels bad about what she's doing, McDonald's is better. When he tries to go for those who are perfectly happy and content, and making a ton of money, I think he's wrong. So he has his place, I think, in the industry. He still can't beat me in a debate. Not even close."
XXX Church plans an additional series of PSAs in which Jeremy and "Pete" discuss porn films, set to debut online in August.
from AVN

Condom-Free Porn A No-No

PARIS - The days of condom-free porn on French cable television are nearing an end.
Starting next year, channels will no longer be allowed to air porn with scenes of unprotected sex because it sets a dangerous example, the official French broadcasting watchdog High Audiovisual Council, or CSA, announced Wednesday.
"The risks actors take by having unprotected sex during filming are real," Aids awareness organisation Act Up wrote to the CSA in January, pressing for the change.
"These films trivialise and possibly glorify risky sex."
The CSA agreed with the activist group, moving to classify unprotected sex in pornos as "delinquent behaviour", noting that the films rarely showed sex between partners in committed, lasting relationships.
The new rule will affect nine cable channels licensed to air porn.
Movies on demand, however, won't be affected because they aren't regulated by the CSA.
from News 24

Panda Porn Helps Spark Birthing Boom in Captive Breed

After years of painstaking research, scientists say they have unleashed a baby boom among one of the world's most beloved but endangered animals, China's giant panda.
A bit of panda porn has helped too, they say.
"It works," enthuses Zhang Zhihe, a leading Chinese expert, about showing uninitiated males DVDs of fellow pandas mating.
It is one of many techniques tried over the decades to get captive pandas — notoriously poor breeders — to do it, and do it right. The efforts to understand and simulate conditions for mating and raising cubs have paid off in China, the panda's native habitat. Now comes the next test: getting the magic to work outside China.
The big day will come in January, when Prasertsak Buntragulpoontawee hopes to bring off a successful mating between male Chuang Chuang and partner Lin Hui in this northern Thailand city.
The audio-visual approach "is the same idea as chimpanzees seeing people smoke and then copying it," says the Thai researcher.
Zhang, director of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, attributes this year's record high births not to any single breakthrough but to an accumulation of research on panda biology, nutrition and genetics while "trying to imitate nature better."
The result, by his count: In the first 10 months of this year 31 cubs were born in captivity in China, of which 28 survived. That's up from 12 births in 2005 and just nine in 2000. Of this year's births, 14 came through natural breeding, while artificial insemination or a combination of the two produced the rest.
No cubs were born among the roughly 20 pandas outside China, but sperm from Atlanta Zoo's Yang Yang yielded an offspring for Lun Lun in Chengdu, China, Zhang told a conference here of 140 panda experts.
JoGayle Howard, an animal reproduction specialist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., said the goal of raising the captive breeding population to 300 from the current 220 is rapidly being reached. This would prevent inbreeding, widen the genetic pool and enable more captive animals to re-enter the wild, where the panda population is estimated at 1,600 to 3,000.
Howard said the biggest challenges in panda breeding are an extremely high rate of incompatibility and the very narrow window of opportunity — females are ready to mate for as few as 48 hours a year.
"At first people thought that you just put two animals together and they would figure it out. But it didn't turn out that way," she said. "Now we know how to take care of the panda better. We've really made progress. But we're still learning a lot of even basic things."
Captive animals used to lack proper socialization; with no companions around, when the male and female met for breeding "they just freaked out and fought," Howard said. Now enclosures are bigger and contain more animals.
There's also a push to keep cubs with their mothers longer, for up to two years, to give them more natural sex education.
Scientists have also learned more about sex and aggression. In the wild, Howard explains, females in heat will climb a tree while suitors below fight for her. In captivity, with no male rivals around, pandas often take out their aggression on the female.
Adds Zhang: "In the wild they have their own choices when mating. But when we breed them in captivity it's like taking two human beings and forcing them to mate."
But despite the advances, there are still only about 15 captive male adults which breed naturally. Second best is artificial insemination, and after years of study frozen semen can now be shipped around the world and applied according to a comprehensive genetic database.
Prasertsak is prepared to use both methods as he readies his couple for mating at Chiang Mai Zoo, which has rented the animals from China for research and tourism purposes.
The pressure is on. Last year Lin Hui showed promising symptoms but they turned out to be a pseudo-pregnancy, not unusual among pandas.
Will the blue movies help?
Opinions differ on the visuals, but Zhang and Prasertsak agree on the sound track.
"It's the sounds of breeding that stimulate them," Zhang said. "Pandas are just like human beings. They understand everything."
from My Fox DC

Filtering Porn From Wi-Fi

It is with profound disbelief we read that when the municipal leaders of Culver City, Calif. decided to revitalize their downtown by providing free Wi-Fi service, they did not foresee that it would be used--with some enthusiasm--to download music from "illegal" peer-to-peer sites and access pornography. That fine city has now joined with lowest-tier DMAs Adel, Ga. and Corpus Christi, Texas to install filters to block "pirated content" and pictures of naked people in various acts of procreation--or what passes as foreplay with Eastern Bloc nation teenagers.
Which, of course, opens up the dodgy questions of who gets to decide what content is appropriate and if city-driven censorship is acceptable statecraft. Let's face it: One man's Birth of Venus is another man's naked lady on the half-shell barely covering her naughty bits. Obscenity is in the eye of the beholder (check your kid's iPod play list if you don't believe me). And what if the city official with his/her hand on the filter trigger is charged with promoting only local standards of decency? Let's look at some potential examples:
Nothing grosses out LA-LA land denizens more than those who are not size 2 and buff, not to mention silicone-stuffed, botox-injected, and tummy-tucked. So the city of Santa Monica has banned access to photos and blogs of anyone of normal American plus-sized weight and physique. Pinch an inch, and you are Web-nongrata in the Left Coast cosmic black hole of narcissism.
Provincetown had filtered out all Web content that mentioned "faggot," "queer" and "fairy" until local residents complained that it blocked their access to cable TV shows, comedians and gay-authored blogs that used these words as terms of endearment or satire. Similarly, Newark and Detroit downloaders found their access to nearly every hip-hop song blocked when filters kept out various derivations of "nigga."
There is conspicuously no news about the move to ban transfat-sodden food in New York on any Bible-belt Web site. But you can find 2,786 different ways to fry a chicken--or a turkey, Twinkie or grits, although no one is entirely certain what grits are.
You can log on to the Internet anywhere in the Boston area, but can access nothing about the New York Yankees. Which, under the current playoff circumstances, is undoubtedly a sound, proactive civic mental-health decision. Curiously, during the summer when the Red Sox pulled within two or less games of the persistent division leaders, or when Alex Rodriguez went into a slump, access to the Yankees was suddenly restored.
Atlanta has blocked any references to the Civil War (or, as they call it, "the recent unpleasantness") so that future generations of survivors of the William Tecumseh Sherman urban redevelopment project won't be further traumatized. Interestingly, states' rights makes it through the filter; slavery does not.
Real-estate listings are banned in South Florida by a city council that fears they might encourage recent home and apartment speculators to take an 800-foot swan dive off the Four Seasons hotel. Not to mention stop snow birds from hypnotically pouring cash into the local economy.
New York City has cut off all access to anything not having to do with New York. The mayor's office for information technology confirmed: "Who cares what happens outside Manhattan?"
from Media Post Publications