Pornography is available just about everywhere. It can be accessed via televisions, computers or telephones; however, some people think it subjugates women or is morally wrong. Others think it expresses freedom of speech.

EX.C.E.L. Campus Activities will host "The Pornography Debate," featuring adult film star Ron Jeremy and author Susan Cole at 7:30 p.m. in the University Center Bluebonnet Ballroom.

"Anything that's addictive is not too good," he said. "I look at porn and sex as the same thing. Sex is a healthy thing. You don't measure it like a drug addiction; you measure it in what you should have been doing."

The star said that if a person missed an exam because he or she was watching pornography, the person went "overboard," but that if the person waited until after the exam, then viewing it would be fine.

Cole said she finds it odd when women wear shirts that have "I want to be a Porn Star" written on them, because it's like saying they wish to be blonde and big-busted.

"It's ironic to me that a country who celebrates individualism is eager to swallow everything pornography shoves down their throats," she said.

"I think that we are living in a culture where a manufactured sexuality is being pimped to consumers in extremely large numbers," she said. "I use the word ‘colonizing sexuality' because it perpetuates the way men and women think they need to be in sex."

Regarding the relationship between porn and sex crimes, Jeremy and Cole believe that just because people watch it doesn't mean they will all commit an offense.

"I'm not prepared to say that if you use porn you will commit a sex crime," she said. "All we can do is make a correlation. It's like tobacco companies saying [smoking] doesn't cause lung cancer, but it's hard to show cause and effect."

"[Eastwood] is on a Western film saying ‘make my day' and shooting them in the head," he said. "You can't restrict freedom of speech because of criminals. You should indict the criminals."

Jeremy said that adult-film production companies do have certain regulations they follow, such as using condoms or habitual testing for diseases. The movies that follow those regulations are the ones he supports.

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