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Porn Star Ron Jeremy Says - 'I hate the Internet'

Posted in: Adult Movie News | Jan 16, 2010 - 3:33:05 PM

Despite his portly demeanour, Mr Jeremy is one of the pornography industry's greatest and most recognised stars. When he made the short hop from the Adult Entertainment Expo at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas to the nearby Consumer Electronics show, he caused quite the stir.

"Like most people, I can't live without a cellphone, but I just have this flip one. There's nothing 'smart' about it. I'm a very strange case. I fax back and forth and am not big on e-mail."

Ron Jeremy is, apparently, a legend in his own profession and, as I discovered, very well-known to a certain section of the American population.

Despite his portly demeanour, Mr Jeremy is one of the pornography industry's greatest and most recognised stars. When he made the short hop from the Adult Entertainment Expo at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas to the nearby Consumer Electronics show, he caused quite the stir.

During his visit - to extol the virtues of software filters to prevent children visiting adult sites - there was a steady flow of people wanting to shake his hand and have a photo taken. While I was there, they were all male.

Interestingly, the pornography industry has a reputation for being rather technologically advanced, having embraced at a very early stage everything from video cassettes to DVDs and now 3D - which was of course the big buzz of CES itself. Its leading man, however, told me he was a "dinosaur":

"Like most people, I can't live without a cellphone, but I just have this flip one. There's nothing 'smart' about it. I'm a very strange case. I fax back and forth and am not big on e-mail."

"I'm like a throwback to the old days. I'm old school," he joked. And it turns out that he thinks the internet is "sort of evil":

"My dad predicted years ago that the internet was going to be both good and bad - kind of like nuclear energy. It's got great uses when it is good, and frighteningly awful when it is bad.
     
"The internet has allowed a lot of crooks, thieves and squatters to become millionaires. Normally, they wouldn't get a job washing dishes. I have a lot of problems with the internet and with identity theft. It has happened to me twice with my bank account, so I am not a big fan."

Mr Jeremy heaped further scorn on the net because, he said, it is putting his industry out of business:

"People can download stuff for free these days, so why the heck are they going to buy it? The only ones making money out of porn are the novelty companies. I just hate the internet in general."

Mr Jeremy, with over 2,000 movies under his belt, also happens to believe the web is making people less intelligent:

"I am a former school teacher, I have a masters degree and two BAs, and I think the internet is making people stupid.
     
"It's good because you can research any topic. In my day, we went to the encyclopedia for that. Nowadays, though, kids can't memorise anything. No dates, no times tables, no history. If there is anything you need to know, you just press a few buttons. We could be giving rise to a generation of idiots."

Controversial, perhaps, but Mr Jeremy is far from alone in his thinking.

A plethora of articles has been written on the issue; one very thoughtful example was by Nicholas Carr for the Atlantic Monthly, "Is Google making us Stupid?".

Mr Carr talked about how his way of thinking has changed because of the internet, as well as his seeming inability to absorb long pieces the way he used to:

"What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski."

A former editor of the Harvard Business Review and an adult entertainment star might seem unlikely bedfellows - but do you think they're on to something?

Article source : BBC

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