Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n Roll

Wolfman Productions, Inc. presents four debates guaranteed to generate lively discussion on your campus and draw huge crowds. The Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll series features high-profile personalities vigorously debating pornography, prostitution, legalization of marijuana, and music piracy.

PORNOGRAPHY: Ron Jeremy vs. Susan G. Cole

Pornography. It titillates, it inflames, and it's getting bigger. A $12 billion per year industry in the US alone ($57 billion worldwide), porn revenues exceed the combined revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises and exceed the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and NBC networks.

Ron Jeremy, one of porn's most visible stars, has appeared in over 1,000 adult movies. As a former high school special education teacher from New York City, Jeremy entered the burgeoning adult film industry in the late 1970s and has become one of its most memorable icons.

At the same time Jeremy was launching his career in the porn industry, Susan G. Cole was actively protesting the movie Snuff and becoming a leader in the anti-pornography movement. Ms. Cole toured Canada in the 1980s, debating Screw Magazine Publisher Al Goldstein.

Ms. Cole has written countless essays and articles on violence against women. Her first book, Pornography and the Sex Crisis, is required reading in Women's Studies courses across the country. Click for more info...

HEADS vs. FEDS: Bob Stutman vs. Steve Hager

College students love to party! Alcohol and marijuana are their drugs of choice. Yet, while alcohol is legal, marijuana can put you behind bars and ruin your life. Should marijuana remain illegal? The argument rages in this great debate.

Robert Stutman made a 25-year career as one of America's highest profile drug busters. Approximately 5,000 investigations were launched during Mr. Stutman's tenure with the DEA, leading to more than 15,000 arrests. One of the nation's experts on drugs, Mr. Stutman has received numerous awards from law enforcement agencies throughout the country.

Steven Hager was Editor-in-Chief of High Times magazine for over 16 years. He created the Cannabis Cup, the Academy Awards of marijuana, which is held every year in Amsterdam. His book, Adventures in the Counterculture: From Hip Hop to High Times has just been released. Steve's goal is to establish the counterculture as a legitimate minority group whose basic rights of freedom of religion and pursuit of happiness have been denied.

Heads vs. Feds has appeared at 100 colleges since 2000, consistently selling out huge auditoriums nationwide! Click for more info...

MUSIC PIRACY: Thomas Dolby vs. John Perry Barlow

College students love music and can easily download and share it for free. The Recording Industry of America (RIAA) has undertaken a major campaign to stop the online music pirates. They have subpoenaed many universities and have filed thousands of lawsuits against individual offenders. As a result, college students are facing tougher restrictions and sterner warnings from their schools to discourage the swapping of copyright-protected music over campus Internet connections.

Music and technology pioneer Thomas Dolby Robertson believes that pirating a copy of your favorite artist's CD is no different than looting that artist's house, and distributing the ill-gotten gains. Dolby believes this variety of theft makes you a criminal, not just in the eyes of the RIAA, but also in any resonable person's definition of what's moral and fair. Dolby became known for his groundbreaking 1980s platinum-selling albums including "She Blinded Me With Science." He has played with David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, and Eddie Van Halen, and has received five Grammy award nominations.

John Perry Barlow co-wrote songs with the Grateful Dead. As the co-founder and vice chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - defenders of freedom in the digital world - he is a recognized commentator on information economics, digitized intellectual goods, cyber liberties, and virtual community. Barlow believes that the non-commercial sharing of music online is no more a case of theft than is listening to it on the radio. He brings to bear his experience as a songwriter for the Grateful Dead, whose success was largely attributable to their allowing fans to tape and reproduce the concerts.

This timely debate stirs up fundamental questions about our freedom to enjoy music and art, and asks the big question, "Are the copyright laws still relevent in today's technological society?" Click for more info...

PROSTITUTION: Susan G. Cole vs. Wendy McElroy

Prostitution: the world's oldest profession. This issue is about freedom versus exploitation, the right to regulate and make safe versus publicly condoning the lowest moral depth to which people can sink.

Susan G. Cole, senior entertainment editor and books editor at NOW Magazine in Toronto, is the author of Pornography and the Sex Crisis. She is an expert in the area of violence against women and makes frequent TV and radio appearances on various panel discussions. Additionally, Susan is a sportswriter and a pioneer in women's music.

Wendy McElroy is the author of several books including XXX: A Women's Right to Pornography, and Sexual Correctness: The Gender-Feminist Attack on Women. She interviewed hundreds of women working in pornography and prostitution. She is also an active member of Feminists for Free Expression.


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