Henry Makow is an interesting, if controversial, guy. The creator of the popular home game Scruples, he now runs the Website SaveTheMales.ca, which is dedicated to his hobby horses: in particular, warning the promotion of feminism, homosexuality and pornography is part of an Illuminati plot to destroy Western civilization. That he links this diabolical conspiracy to the Protocols of Zion would make him an easy target as anti-Semite, if it wasn't for the fact he's a descendant of Nazi Holocaust survivors. In any case, Makow is often dismissed as an anti-woman, anti-gay moral prude, and though the truth is a bit more nuanced than that, these reductions of his writings are not made out of thin air. Furthermore, whatever his own particular views may be, his work is popular among rabid anti-Semites, white supremacists and extreme right-wing Christians that all endorse a very ugly, reactionary politic agenda. If you judge a tree by their fruits, Makow would be a good tree to avoid at all costs.
It would then be real easy for me dismiss Makow and his works as the paranoid scribblings of a man suffering a major persecution complex that any Freudian could write a thesis over. It would be easy to dismiss him, but unfortunately, I can't, even if I don't share the same philosophy as he does. The reason I can't dismiss him is that his writings prove to be way too stunningly accurate.
Take a recent piece by him on the effects of pornography on Japanese society. In Japan, porn is far more prevalent and depraved than it is in the USA, and the results aren't pretty:
"Normally teenage boys are obsessed with sex. So you know something is very wrong when more than a third of Japanese youths say they don't want it!
According to a government survey, 35 per cent of Japanese males aged 16-19 are averse to sex, more than double the 17.5 percent of men in the previous study in 2008."
This little stat underscores one of his main points: that American society's obsession with sex is paradoxically anti-sexual in nature. Seeing what happens in a trailblazer nation on porn such as Japan is a sign of things to come. As Makow states:
"Pornography is a sexual turn-off. This is why the Illuminati have made it ubiquitous.
People get sick of whatever they have too much of. There's too much sex out there. The challenge and mystery are gone. Most males are jaded. They look at porn to see if there is any woman left who can turn them on.
Porn makes available women seem inadequate. It becomes a substitute for sex with a real woman."
Let it be noted that I am strongly in favor of free speech extended to pornography. I am also someone who doesn't hide his appreciation of porn. That said, I have to admit that everything Makow says in the paragraphs above is completely true. And I doubt any friends of mine who are porn appreciators would disagree with me on this.
I'm sure I haven't done Makow justice here, and a writer this unusual can't be given justice in such small of space. So instead let me recommend you his work at SaveTheMales.ca and HenryMakow.com where, even if if you don't completely embrace his premises, you may learn something from his often controversial writings.
Is Porn Killing Sex in Japan?
January 14, 2011
Henry Makow
http://www.henrymakow.com/is_porn_killing_sex.html
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Sunday, July 25, 2010
"Buttman's" porn obscenity trial: Why it matters
http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2010/07/13/trial_of_buttman/index.html
Tuesday, Jul 13, 2010
"Buttman's" porn obscenity trial: Why it matters
John Stagliano faces jail time over his company's fetish films, but his court battle could redefine free speech
Mary Elizabeth Williams
John Stagliano, better known throughout his long career simply as "Buttman," is a pornographer. As a director and the head of Evil Angel pictures, he has given the world such classics as "Nudes A-Poppin 7" and "An American Buttman In London." He is a multiple Adult Video News Award winner, and easily one of the most recognized names in adult entertainment. And today, Stagliano is something else: a defendant. He's facing up to 32 years in prison and $7 million in fines, in the first adult porn obscenity case in Washington, D.C.'s U.S. District Court in over two decades. And you thought the fight against pornography died with 1986's Meese Report. Au contraire, smut-mongers.
Pornography has had its day in court before, notably in 1973's Miller v. California, which established the three criteria for a work to be deemed "obscene." Going beyond the old "I know it when I see it" test, Miller set the standard: that "the work depicts/describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable state law"; that it, "taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value"; and for the kicker, that "the average person, applying contemporary community standards would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest."
It's the "community standards" part, which dates even further back, to Justice William Brennan's decision in 1957's Roth v. United States, that's the stickiest of wickets. The obscenity test, which Judge Richard J. Leon has instructed Stagliano's jury to apply, remains unchanged, even though, in the four decades since Miller, cable and the Internet have redefined our concept of community. Your cable system, your phone provider and that nice Marriott you stayed at on your last business trip, after all, do brisk business bringing you naked people engaged in sexual congress. (According to one estimate, half of all hotel guests buy in-room adult movies. The road really does get lonely.)
But why go after respectable multinational businesses when there's an outspoken guy with an ass fetish out there? And that's how, in this sex-riddled day and age, John Stagliano found himself in court.
The story starts in 2005, when the Bush administration created the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force dedicated "exclusively to the protection of America's children and families through the enforcement of our Nation's obscenity laws." And enforce they have, successfully prosecuting fetish filmmakers like Max Hardcore and Ira Isaacs. But Stagliano is big game. So in December 2007, an FBI agent paid $57.48 for "Jay Sin's Milk Nymphos" and "Storm Squirters 2: Target Practice," and watched the trailer for "Fetish Fanatic 5" -- none of which, by the way, Stagliano directed. On April 8, 2008, he and his production company Evil Angel were indicted on federal obscenity charges.
In her opening statement Tuesday morning, prosecutor Bonnie Hannan told the jury, "This case is about crossing the line," saying the material in question "exceeds the bounds of decency." Court papers describe the films as containing "numerous scenes of urination, use of enemas and violent bondage. In a number of scenes, participants ingested urine and excretion from the enemas."
But while enema excretion may not be your two girls, one cup of tea, the notion of sending a guy away for something anybody with Internet access can find in under two seconds seems ludicrous -- something clearly defined as explicit content, from a man who says, "I don't want porno to be in the faces of people who don't want to see it." Yet as the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force helpfully explains, "The welfare of America's children and families demands the vigorous enforcement of obscenity statutes." Because what goes on between consenting adults over the age of 18 and is distributed to consenting adults over the age of 18 is threatening the welfare of the family and therefore a crime.
Stagliano, who has said he will take the stand on his behalf, says he thinks the FBI went after him because "maybe I am a bigger pornographer and it will have a greater impact in terms of the battle that the anti-obscenity task force is waging. If they get a victory against me it is more significant than Max Hardcore or animal sex movies or something like that." And, indeed, whatever the jury decides, Judge Leon certainly seems to have a particular inclination -- he's refused to allow testimony from a sex therapist on the films' merits, saying it "would do very little to assist the jury" and is restricting the films from being shown to the jury in their entirety, which pretty much wipes that "taken as a whole" part of the Miller test away.
Is aggressively going after Buttman going to make one of the few profitable industries left in America go away? Of course not. Even a nation founded by Puritans can never tamp down its indomitable desire to get off. But it will be interesting to see what the Obama administration does once these carryover cases from the Bush era are wrapped up. Last year, the Justice Department's move of a porn trial from Montana to New Jersey suggested a quiet push toward more free speech-friendly venues.
Stagliano has said he'll take his case to the Supreme Court if necessary. Whatever the outcome, the moment in our legal history when at last we recognize that community is now everybody with a computer, that "prurience" is in all our cable boxes and our hotel rooms -- and that civilization has somehow managed to continue to exist anyway -- may soon be upon us. Sometimes, the fight for the First Amendment comes down to a movie about milk nymphos.
Tuesday, Jul 13, 2010
"Buttman's" porn obscenity trial: Why it matters
John Stagliano faces jail time over his company's fetish films, but his court battle could redefine free speech
Mary Elizabeth Williams
John Stagliano, better known throughout his long career simply as "Buttman," is a pornographer. As a director and the head of Evil Angel pictures, he has given the world such classics as "Nudes A-Poppin 7" and "An American Buttman In London." He is a multiple Adult Video News Award winner, and easily one of the most recognized names in adult entertainment. And today, Stagliano is something else: a defendant. He's facing up to 32 years in prison and $7 million in fines, in the first adult porn obscenity case in Washington, D.C.'s U.S. District Court in over two decades. And you thought the fight against pornography died with 1986's Meese Report. Au contraire, smut-mongers.
Pornography has had its day in court before, notably in 1973's Miller v. California, which established the three criteria for a work to be deemed "obscene." Going beyond the old "I know it when I see it" test, Miller set the standard: that "the work depicts/describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable state law"; that it, "taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value"; and for the kicker, that "the average person, applying contemporary community standards would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest."
It's the "community standards" part, which dates even further back, to Justice William Brennan's decision in 1957's Roth v. United States, that's the stickiest of wickets. The obscenity test, which Judge Richard J. Leon has instructed Stagliano's jury to apply, remains unchanged, even though, in the four decades since Miller, cable and the Internet have redefined our concept of community. Your cable system, your phone provider and that nice Marriott you stayed at on your last business trip, after all, do brisk business bringing you naked people engaged in sexual congress. (According to one estimate, half of all hotel guests buy in-room adult movies. The road really does get lonely.)
But why go after respectable multinational businesses when there's an outspoken guy with an ass fetish out there? And that's how, in this sex-riddled day and age, John Stagliano found himself in court.
The story starts in 2005, when the Bush administration created the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force dedicated "exclusively to the protection of America's children and families through the enforcement of our Nation's obscenity laws." And enforce they have, successfully prosecuting fetish filmmakers like Max Hardcore and Ira Isaacs. But Stagliano is big game. So in December 2007, an FBI agent paid $57.48 for "Jay Sin's Milk Nymphos" and "Storm Squirters 2: Target Practice," and watched the trailer for "Fetish Fanatic 5" -- none of which, by the way, Stagliano directed. On April 8, 2008, he and his production company Evil Angel were indicted on federal obscenity charges.
In her opening statement Tuesday morning, prosecutor Bonnie Hannan told the jury, "This case is about crossing the line," saying the material in question "exceeds the bounds of decency." Court papers describe the films as containing "numerous scenes of urination, use of enemas and violent bondage. In a number of scenes, participants ingested urine and excretion from the enemas."
But while enema excretion may not be your two girls, one cup of tea, the notion of sending a guy away for something anybody with Internet access can find in under two seconds seems ludicrous -- something clearly defined as explicit content, from a man who says, "I don't want porno to be in the faces of people who don't want to see it." Yet as the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force helpfully explains, "The welfare of America's children and families demands the vigorous enforcement of obscenity statutes." Because what goes on between consenting adults over the age of 18 and is distributed to consenting adults over the age of 18 is threatening the welfare of the family and therefore a crime.
Stagliano, who has said he will take the stand on his behalf, says he thinks the FBI went after him because "maybe I am a bigger pornographer and it will have a greater impact in terms of the battle that the anti-obscenity task force is waging. If they get a victory against me it is more significant than Max Hardcore or animal sex movies or something like that." And, indeed, whatever the jury decides, Judge Leon certainly seems to have a particular inclination -- he's refused to allow testimony from a sex therapist on the films' merits, saying it "would do very little to assist the jury" and is restricting the films from being shown to the jury in their entirety, which pretty much wipes that "taken as a whole" part of the Miller test away.
Is aggressively going after Buttman going to make one of the few profitable industries left in America go away? Of course not. Even a nation founded by Puritans can never tamp down its indomitable desire to get off. But it will be interesting to see what the Obama administration does once these carryover cases from the Bush era are wrapped up. Last year, the Justice Department's move of a porn trial from Montana to New Jersey suggested a quiet push toward more free speech-friendly venues.
Stagliano has said he'll take his case to the Supreme Court if necessary. Whatever the outcome, the moment in our legal history when at last we recognize that community is now everybody with a computer, that "prurience" is in all our cable boxes and our hotel rooms -- and that civilization has somehow managed to continue to exist anyway -- may soon be upon us. Sometimes, the fight for the First Amendment comes down to a movie about milk nymphos.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Report: SEC staffers watched porn as economy crashed
Robalini's Note - Quick quiz, guys. You work for the SEC. Do you:
A. Try everything possible to stop the worst economic disaster since The Great Depression from happening
B. Search the Internet for lesbian videos starring Savanna Samson or Teanna Kai
Thought so. So I must defend the SEC on this one...
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/23/sec.porn/
Report: SEC staffers watched porn as economy crashed
April 23, 2010
SEC employees spent hours looking at porn sites on their work computers, according to an internal report.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
SEC investigation: Dozens of employees, contractors surfed porn sites on work computers
Staffers violated government-wide ethics rules, report finds
Report: Incidents occurred while country was teetering on verge of financial collapse
(CNN) -- As the country was sinking into its worst financial crisis in more than 70 years, Security and Exchange Commission employees and contractors cruised porn sites and viewed sexually explicit pictures using government computers, according to an agency report obtained by CNN.
"During the past five years, the SEC OIG (Office of Inspector General) substantiated that 33 SEC employees and or contractors violated Commission rules and policies, as well as the government-wide Standards of Ethical Conduct, by viewing pornographic, sexually explicit or sexually suggestive images using government computer resources and official time," said a summary of the investigation by the inspector general's office.
More than half of the workers made between $99,000 and $223,000. All the cases took place over the past five years.
"It is nothing short of disturbing that high-ranking officials within the SEC were spending more time looking at pornography than taking action to help stave off the events that brought our nation's economy to the brink of collapse," said Rep. Darrell Issa. The Republican is the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
"This stunning report should make everyone question the wisdom of moving forward with plans to give regulators like the SEC even more widespread authority," he said. "Inexplicably, rather than exercise its existing regulatory enforcement authority, SEC officials were preoccupied with other distractions."
SEC spokesman John Nester said the employees involved have been disciplined or are being disciplined. Some have been suspended or dismissed, he said, adding that the SEC has further increased penalties for misusing government resources in recent months.
"We will not tolerate the transgressions of the very few who bring discredit to their thousands of hardworking colleagues," he said.
The investigation came to light on the same day President Obama gave a speech in lower Manhattan, calling for reform in the finance industry.
On Capitol Hill, the Senate is working on a financial reform bill that would set up regulatory oversight of the financial industry's practices with the goal of preventing another Wall Street meltdown like the one in 2008 that launched the U.S. recession.
The bill includes an "early warning" system intended to spot signs of crisis, as well as a $50 billion liquidation fund created with money from banks and other finance industry corporations to ensure an orderly transition in closing down failing entities. It was recently approved by the Senate's Banking and Agricultural committees. The House passed its version of the bill in December.
The inspector general's report includes specific examples of misuse by employees.
A regional office staff accountant tried to access pornographic websites nearly 1,800 times, using her SEC laptop during a two-week period. She also had about 600 pornographic images saved on her laptop hard drive.
Separately, a senior attorney at SEC headquarters admitted to downloading pornography up to eight hours a day, according to the investigation.
"In fact, this attorney downloaded so much pornography to his government computer that he exhausted the available space on the computer hard drive and downloaded pornography to CDs or DVDs that he accumulated in boxes in his office," the inspector general's report said.
A. Try everything possible to stop the worst economic disaster since The Great Depression from happening
B. Search the Internet for lesbian videos starring Savanna Samson or Teanna Kai
Thought so. So I must defend the SEC on this one...
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/23/sec.porn/
Report: SEC staffers watched porn as economy crashed
April 23, 2010
SEC employees spent hours looking at porn sites on their work computers, according to an internal report.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
SEC investigation: Dozens of employees, contractors surfed porn sites on work computers
Staffers violated government-wide ethics rules, report finds
Report: Incidents occurred while country was teetering on verge of financial collapse
(CNN) -- As the country was sinking into its worst financial crisis in more than 70 years, Security and Exchange Commission employees and contractors cruised porn sites and viewed sexually explicit pictures using government computers, according to an agency report obtained by CNN.
"During the past five years, the SEC OIG (Office of Inspector General) substantiated that 33 SEC employees and or contractors violated Commission rules and policies, as well as the government-wide Standards of Ethical Conduct, by viewing pornographic, sexually explicit or sexually suggestive images using government computer resources and official time," said a summary of the investigation by the inspector general's office.
More than half of the workers made between $99,000 and $223,000. All the cases took place over the past five years.
"It is nothing short of disturbing that high-ranking officials within the SEC were spending more time looking at pornography than taking action to help stave off the events that brought our nation's economy to the brink of collapse," said Rep. Darrell Issa. The Republican is the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
"This stunning report should make everyone question the wisdom of moving forward with plans to give regulators like the SEC even more widespread authority," he said. "Inexplicably, rather than exercise its existing regulatory enforcement authority, SEC officials were preoccupied with other distractions."
SEC spokesman John Nester said the employees involved have been disciplined or are being disciplined. Some have been suspended or dismissed, he said, adding that the SEC has further increased penalties for misusing government resources in recent months.
"We will not tolerate the transgressions of the very few who bring discredit to their thousands of hardworking colleagues," he said.
The investigation came to light on the same day President Obama gave a speech in lower Manhattan, calling for reform in the finance industry.
On Capitol Hill, the Senate is working on a financial reform bill that would set up regulatory oversight of the financial industry's practices with the goal of preventing another Wall Street meltdown like the one in 2008 that launched the U.S. recession.
The bill includes an "early warning" system intended to spot signs of crisis, as well as a $50 billion liquidation fund created with money from banks and other finance industry corporations to ensure an orderly transition in closing down failing entities. It was recently approved by the Senate's Banking and Agricultural committees. The House passed its version of the bill in December.
The inspector general's report includes specific examples of misuse by employees.
A regional office staff accountant tried to access pornographic websites nearly 1,800 times, using her SEC laptop during a two-week period. She also had about 600 pornographic images saved on her laptop hard drive.
Separately, a senior attorney at SEC headquarters admitted to downloading pornography up to eight hours a day, according to the investigation.
"In fact, this attorney downloaded so much pornography to his government computer that he exhausted the available space on the computer hard drive and downloaded pornography to CDs or DVDs that he accumulated in boxes in his office," the inspector general's report said.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Adult Star Ron Jeremy Talks Porn at CES
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2357912,00.asp
Adult Star Ron Jeremy Talks Porn at CES
01.08.10
by Brian Heater
LAS VEGAS - "Porn King" Ron Jeremy brought a little bit of the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo to the Las Vegas Convention Center and the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Friday for a debate on the ins and outs of pornography in the age of the Internet.
Jeremy and Craig Gross, an anti-pornography media activist, faced off for "The Great Porn Debate," though the event was really more a light-hearted discussion.
Jeremy kicked off his opening remarks by referring to pornography as entertainment, not unlike football games. "World of sport versus world of spurts," he joked to the groans of the crowd."
"Porn is a cheap substitute for sex," countered Gross. "[It] has become [childrens'] sex ed. It's a false expectation."
Jeremy insisted that the industry only caters to the over-18 crowd. "We don't want kids to watch porn," he told the crowd. Though if they do, he added, there are far worse influences out there — like video games. "[Studies have] found that violent video games are much bigger a negative influence on kids."
Gross, on the other hand, argued that even while the porn industry may not be targeting children specifically, the Internet has made adult content nearly ubiquitous.
"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," Gross said.
The filtering, Jeremy argued, should be up to the parents. "Parents better start to learn the Internet," Jeremy said.
Gross, it seems, agreed with the sentiment, telling the crowd, "For the most part, kids are smarter about technology than their parents. That has to change."
Gross did, however, happily take a shot at Jeremy's own tech savvy, adding, "Ron uses a fax machine. If you want to get a hold of him, you have to send him a fax."
Adult Star Ron Jeremy Talks Porn at CES
01.08.10
by Brian Heater
LAS VEGAS - "Porn King" Ron Jeremy brought a little bit of the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo to the Las Vegas Convention Center and the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Friday for a debate on the ins and outs of pornography in the age of the Internet.
Jeremy and Craig Gross, an anti-pornography media activist, faced off for "The Great Porn Debate," though the event was really more a light-hearted discussion.
Jeremy kicked off his opening remarks by referring to pornography as entertainment, not unlike football games. "World of sport versus world of spurts," he joked to the groans of the crowd."
"Porn is a cheap substitute for sex," countered Gross. "[It] has become [childrens'] sex ed. It's a false expectation."
Jeremy insisted that the industry only caters to the over-18 crowd. "We don't want kids to watch porn," he told the crowd. Though if they do, he added, there are far worse influences out there — like video games. "[Studies have] found that violent video games are much bigger a negative influence on kids."
Gross, on the other hand, argued that even while the porn industry may not be targeting children specifically, the Internet has made adult content nearly ubiquitous.
"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," Gross said.
The filtering, Jeremy argued, should be up to the parents. "Parents better start to learn the Internet," Jeremy said.
Gross, it seems, agreed with the sentiment, telling the crowd, "For the most part, kids are smarter about technology than their parents. That has to change."
Gross did, however, happily take a shot at Jeremy's own tech savvy, adding, "Ron uses a fax machine. If you want to get a hold of him, you have to send him a fax."
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Looks like Manny is REALLY handy after all...
Looks like Manny is REALLY handy after all...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269819,00.html
New Jersey Kids See Porn Instead of Cartoons on Disney Channel
Thursday , May 03, 2007
MIDDLETOWN, N.J. — Children here got more than they bargained for when they tuned into "Handy Manny" on the Disney Channel this week. Now cable giant Comcast is investigating how hardcore pornography was broadcast during a popular cartoon program.
Customer Paul Dunleavy would also like to know. He was stunned Tuesday morning to find his 5-year-old son watching something other than a cartoon about a bilingual Latino handyman, Manny Garcia, and his talking tools.
"It was two people doing their thing, it was full-on and it was disgusting," the Middletown father of three told The New York Daily News for Wednesday newspapers.
"I couldn't believe it," he said. "We try to do the right thing to protect our kids from this stuff, and then they broadcast it on children's TV."
Dunleavy's phone number was unlisted when The Associated Press tried to contact him Wednesday.
Comcast spokesman Fred DeAndrea confirmed the programming error occurred around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. He described it as an "isolated issue in a local New Jersey facility."
"We automatically detected the issue and it was corrected promptly. We apologize to any customer who experienced an issue yesterday morning," said DeAndrea, who said the mistake was made by his company, not Disney.
DeAndrea declined to provide the duration of the pornography broadcast, how many homes it reached, how the mistake happened and whether anyone will be disciplined for the X-rated error.
A Disney Channel spokeswoman said the company has asked Comcast for assurances that appropriate measures were taken to prevent such offensive incidents from happening again. The state Board of Public Utilities, which regulates the cable industry in New Jersey, has made a similar request and has asked to meet with Comcast officials to discuss the matter.
"We value the trust that parents have in our programming and certainly take yesterday's regrettable program disruption extremely seriously," said Disney Channel spokeswoman Karen Hobson. "Comcast has taken full responsibility for this situation, and we understand that they are currently working to determine the root cause of the incident."
Dunleavy told The Daily News that he received an apology directly from Comcast. But he was still disturbed by the incident. "My son was extremely upset because he thought he'd done something wrong, and we're hoping what he saw doesn't become an issue for him."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269819,00.html
New Jersey Kids See Porn Instead of Cartoons on Disney Channel
Thursday , May 03, 2007
MIDDLETOWN, N.J. — Children here got more than they bargained for when they tuned into "Handy Manny" on the Disney Channel this week. Now cable giant Comcast is investigating how hardcore pornography was broadcast during a popular cartoon program.
Customer Paul Dunleavy would also like to know. He was stunned Tuesday morning to find his 5-year-old son watching something other than a cartoon about a bilingual Latino handyman, Manny Garcia, and his talking tools.
"It was two people doing their thing, it was full-on and it was disgusting," the Middletown father of three told The New York Daily News for Wednesday newspapers.
"I couldn't believe it," he said. "We try to do the right thing to protect our kids from this stuff, and then they broadcast it on children's TV."
Dunleavy's phone number was unlisted when The Associated Press tried to contact him Wednesday.
Comcast spokesman Fred DeAndrea confirmed the programming error occurred around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. He described it as an "isolated issue in a local New Jersey facility."
"We automatically detected the issue and it was corrected promptly. We apologize to any customer who experienced an issue yesterday morning," said DeAndrea, who said the mistake was made by his company, not Disney.
DeAndrea declined to provide the duration of the pornography broadcast, how many homes it reached, how the mistake happened and whether anyone will be disciplined for the X-rated error.
A Disney Channel spokeswoman said the company has asked Comcast for assurances that appropriate measures were taken to prevent such offensive incidents from happening again. The state Board of Public Utilities, which regulates the cable industry in New Jersey, has made a similar request and has asked to meet with Comcast officials to discuss the matter.
"We value the trust that parents have in our programming and certainly take yesterday's regrettable program disruption extremely seriously," said Disney Channel spokeswoman Karen Hobson. "Comcast has taken full responsibility for this situation, and we understand that they are currently working to determine the root cause of the incident."
Dunleavy told The Daily News that he received an apology directly from Comcast. But he was still disturbed by the incident. "My son was extremely upset because he thought he'd done something wrong, and we're hoping what he saw doesn't become an issue for him."
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