Adult Star Ron Jeremy Talks Porn at CES

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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."

Sasha Gabor, 1945-2008

Sasha Gabor, 1945-2008
Robert Sterling, Konformist.com

I've just learned an old dear friend, Sasha Gabor, died in June. I hadn't spoken to him in awhile, but had kept in good contact with him over email since he moved to Norway in 2001. I had helped him move out of a bad living situation he had in Venice back in 2000, and he did crash at my pad for awhile. He was also a good pal of my friend Chris Dolan of Indoortan.com. He will be missed. From the Wikipedia bio on him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasha_Gabor

Sasha Gabor

Birthdate: June 6, 1945(1945-06-06)
Birth name: Gabor Sarközi
Date of death: June 27, 2008 (aged 63)
Penis size: "7 inches (17.7 cm) on a good day"
Hair color: White
Ethnicity: Hungarian-Jewish
"Sasha" Gabor Sarközi (6 June 1945 -27 June 2008) was a Norwegian pornographic actor. He came to Norway from Hungary as a refugee in 1957

Born as Gabor Sarközi in Hungary, Sasha Gabor started his career as a pornographic actor in 1983 as a 38 year old in USA with the movie Every Woman has a Fantasy. He quickly progressed to become a pretty popular actor, much due to his physical similarity to Burt Reynolds and Sean Connery.

Besides working in the porno industry, Sasha Gabor worked as a musician, pilot, writer, and as a Burt Reynolds- and Sean Connery-look-alike. He also spoke eight languages; Norwegian, English, Hungarian, German, French, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Gabor always wore a necklace with a Star of David (including his movies) because of his Jewish origin. It is likely that his name is inspired of the Hungarian-American actress Zsa Zsa Gabor. Sasha is a common nickname for Samuel, his birth name.

Gabor moved back to Norway in 2001. He died from cardiac arrest while on holiday in Thailand, having suffered from heart problems for some time.

He was a close personal friend of fellow pornography actor Ron Jeremy.