The actress who said she was the woman in a controversial porn clip scene by many Tucson-area Super Bowl watchers says she can empathize with the outrage expressed by parents of children who saw it.
"I have two kids myself, so I understand where they're coming from," said Tristan Kingsley, 23, an adult movie actress who called the Arizona Daily Star Tuesday to say she understands why so many parents are upset by the incident that affected some viewers of a Comcast broadcast.
Kingsley is the mother of a 4-year-old son and a 3-year-old daughter.
"I've read some comments that parents have left on different blogging sites, and I can understand that they'd get a little upset that their children might be watching it. I would never go and put one of my videos on for my kids to watch."
Kingsley said the movie that was shown was called "Wild Cherries 5." She said the actor in the clip is Evan Stone, 39, who according to the Wikipedia Web site has been in nearly 600 adult films since 1998.
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The porn clip was the second interruption that Comcast's standard-definition subscribers saw, said Kelle Maslyn, a company spokeswoman.
A few minutes earlier, a short clip showing the closing credits of a movie on another adult channel, Club Jenna, was shown. Club Jenna and Shorteez are channels offered by Spice Entertainment, Playboy TV Network's Web site says.
Locally, a child psychologist said parents whose children were exposed to the pornographic clip should use the incident as a chance to discuss sexuality.
"It would offer an opportunity for parents to have some conversations with their children about what that was," said Eric Schindler, executive director of Child & Family Resources, a local non-profit organization. "In our society, we tend to be so confused about sex. Very few people know how to talk openly about sexuality."
Schindler said parents considering talking to their kids about the porn clip should base their decision on whether they felt their kids were impacted by the images.
"If the parent is worried, they may want to ask their kids about what they saw," he said. "But if they haven't seen any change in a child, I think they should just let it go."
Comcast should offer to provide counseling to any children who might have been traumatized by the porn, said Bill Soto, chairman of Family & Child Resources' board of directors.
The cable company has had "discussions" on that topic, Maslyn said, but no decision has been made. "I don't know that it's Comcast's place to do that," she said. "It's a parental decision."
Counseling isn't likely to be necessary in most cases, Schindler acknowledged.
"I'd say it's highly unlikely to conclude that a person would be so traumatized from exposure to a few seconds of sexual content that it would do some type of long-term damage," he said.
Meanwhile, any of Comcast's 80,000 local subscribers can collect on the $10 credit being offered as compensation after clips from two adult channels cut into the Super Bowl broadcast — whether they saw the porn or not.
There's no way for Comcast to truly know who was and wasn't watching when the porn clips aired, Maslyn explained.
"We can never determine … did you see it or not," she said.
Comcast is Southern Arizona's second-largest cable provider, with customers in unincorporated Pima County, Marana and Oro Valley.
The company is continuing to investigate how the incident happened, Maslyn said Tuesday.
The interruptions have been labeled by the company as an "isolated, malicious act" that was seen by any Comcast customer who was viewing the standard-definition feed on Channel 4. Those who were watching the Super Bowl in high definition, on Channel 211, were not exposed to the clip, Maslyn said.
Reaction from the interruptions — most notably a 30-second clip from the Shorteez channel that included full male nudity — continued to spread Tuesday, as newspapers, radio and TV networks, comedians such as Conan O'Brien, and online bloggers have taken it global.
How to get your credit
Comcast customers who viewed the porn clips can get a $10 credit on their next cable bill by calling 1-888-315-8219 from the phone number that is listed on their Comcast account.
No registration is needed, as the toll-free number is set up to record the phone numbers that call in.
The $10 can be redeemed through Feb. 28.
Comcast has set up a new e-mail address, tucsonfeedback@ comcast.net, for customers who have questions or who want to voice their complaints about the incident. They also can call 744-1900.
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