Pastor Craig Gross and porn star Nina Hartley met Thursday evening in the Student Center to debate the merits and demerits of pornography in front of 450 students.
The event, hosted by the Kennesaw Activities Board, was initially supposed to feature porn star Ron Jeremy, who is recovering from recent operations to correct an aneurysm near his heart.
Gross asked porn actress Nina Hartley to stand in. He and Hartley debated the event once before.
Gross is the founder of xxxchurch.com, a website dedicated to helping people overcome pornography addictions. He started the website after realizing that many of the people he knew struggled with porn in their personal lives.
He and Ron Jeremy started The Great Porn Debate about five years ago, and the two began touring the country speaking at churches and universities.
Nina Hartley, a legend in the porn industry, has starred in more than 800 films in her nearly 30-year career.
Students began lining up outside the Student Center University Rooms 45 minutes prior to the event start time. The debate was delayed nearly 30 minutes as more chairs were brought in to accommodate the crowd.
In his opening statements, Gross argued that the porn industry creates unrealistic expectations in people’s current or potential sex lives.
“These people are sexual athletes,” Gross said. “What they do on camera, you shouldn’t be able to do. Some of you shouldn’t even ask to do those things!”
“Exposure to porn can make men less inhibited sexually,” Gross continued. “They’ve seen it all. It can also make them more inhibited because they’ve never been involved with a real person who has needs and feelings. An Internet woman never says, ‘No.’”
He said that young men who grow up watching these images and seeing them as ideal will be disappointed with real women and real experiences.
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