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. |
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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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