Ruining The Fun

[A_Wanderer]

Pornographic movies now seem nearly as pervasive in America's hotel rooms as tiny shampoo bottles, and the lodging industry shows little concern as conservative activists rev up a protest campaign aimed at triggering a federal crackdown.

A coalition of 13 conservative groups -- including the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America -- took out full-page ads in some editions of USA Today earlier this month urging the Justice Department and FBI to investigate whether some of the pay-per-view movies widely available in hotels violate federal and state obscenity laws.

The coalition also is trying to draw attention to CleanHotels.com, a directory of hotels and motels nationwide that pledge to exclude adult offerings from their in-room entertainment service.

Though porn is now cheaply and readily accessible on the Internet, and through many other outlets, the activists chose to target the hotel industry in part because of the well-known brands of corporations that cater to family vacationers as well as business travelers.

"These are places that you take your family -- these are respectable institutions," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. "Anything that brings porn into the mainstream is a concern. It just desensitizes people."

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Very dodgy.

 

[Angela Harlem]

I dont really think porn should be readily offered anywhere. It is more than available, so why place it in hotels and other relatively public places? If you want to watch it, go buy it or download it or whatever. Why on earth would anyone kick up a major stink about this? If you want to get your jollies, go ahead. Keeping it out of hotel rooms is not going to stop you.

I also fail to see how this becomes another conservative/liberal issue. It's more about appropriate access of something which is a personal choice than politics.

 

[A_Wanderer]

Protests against porn in hotels is great, boycotts are great but getting the government to step in and take away both personal choice and a potential income stream is wrong.

 

[Angela Harlem]

protests and boycotts might very well be great, but they are essentially ineffectual.

 

[A_Wanderer]

So?

 

[Angela Harlem]

so nothing. you want to get your creepy rocks off, then do it in your own home. being exposed to porn is, and should always remain, a choice. that's what adults do. get used to it. management and control of the industry, and distribution of, should not be accidental.

 

[Macfistowannabe]

Porn is a societal nuisance, and I don't understand how it makes any sense to have strip clubs and pornography legalized, yet prostitution is barred in most civilized nations.

But would I protest? No, because I have to spend my time making a living.

 

[randhail]

Perhaps these hotels are just catering to people that make up a sizeable portion of it's business who go to hotels specifically to rendezvous with another person.

 

[Salome]

the hotels should take the responsibility themselves and stop offering porn in their rooms

i've never been a fan of the government getting involved in (random parts of) business

 

[Macfistowannabe]

I think the idea is wrong, but rather than forcing them to stop offering porn, I'd rather let their hotel fall on its own when people choose to stay with a much more civilized competition.

 

[randhail]

Is anyone forcing these people to buy the porn and then watch it? It's not like kids are flipping through the channels and all of a sudden they see Jenna Jameson going at it - you have to buy it. If you flip through the channels and see the option to buy a film, what is wrong with saying nothing and moving along?

 

[Tania]

When will these people ever learn?

If you advertise something is wrong/immoral/bad/you can't or shouldn't have it or whatever, people's interest is going to be piqued and they will wander over to find out what all the fuss is about. Hotels which provide the porn must be rubbing their hands with glee.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Is anyone forcing these people to buy the porn and then watch it? It's not like kids are flipping through the channels and all of a sudden they see Jenna Jameson going at it - you have to buy it. If you flip through the channels and see the option to buy a film, what is wrong with saying nothing and moving along?

ding ding ding... we have a winner.

 

[Salome]

When will these people ever learn?

If you advertise something is wrong/immoral/bad/you can't or shouldn't have it or whatever, people's interest is going to be piqued and they will wander over to find out what all the fuss is about. Hotels which provide the porn must be rubbing their hands with glee.

I do definitely believe this

but I feel it's wrong for the government to step in and put an end to it while not interfering in other businesses that basically do the same
whether it be with porn or something else

 

[verte76]

Boycotts don't work.

 

[martha]

You have to buy the porn in hotel rooms. It doesn't just come on when you're flipping channels. This sure seems like a market issue. If the demand weren't there, the hotels wouldn't offer it.

Some people's panties are so easily wadded up.

 

[FitzChivalry]

Is anyone forcing these people to buy the porn and then watch it? It's not like kids are flipping through the channels and all of a sudden they see Jenna Jameson going at it - you have to buy it. If you flip through the channels and see the option to buy a film, what is wrong with saying nothing and moving along?

Thank you!

 

[Angela Harlem]

[BSome people's panties are so easily wadded up. [/B]

Tell me about it! You'd think people would just say "whatever, I'll just take my own porn with me when booking a hot weekend away. no skin off my nose! govt cant do squat in the long run" (etc)

 

[martha]

Portable dvd players

 

[Liesje]

I don't get why they're going after hotels?....

You can get porn PPV from any cable service, regardless of whether you're at the hotel or at home.

 

[A_Wanderer]

so nothing. you want to get your creepy rocks off, then do it in your own home. being exposed to porn is, and should always remain, a choice. that's what adults do. get used to it. management and control of the industry, and distribution of, should not be accidental.

But porn is beyond the home, this is a service offered to c

Watching hardcore pornography in a hotel room may be seedy and dodgy but I sure as hell am not going to bust in and ruin other peoples right to do it or the right for the hotel owners to make money off this service or for the porn industry to loose access to a market.

 

[Maggie1]

The Family Research Council needs to keep their noses out of other peoples sex life and hotel rooms.

 

[AussieU2fanman]

The Family Research Council are a bunch of uptight ultra-conservative old hags who wouldn't know reality if it bit them in the uptight ultra-conservative old hag ass.

 

[martha]

I hate to burst your misogynist bubble, but 6 of the 7 people on the FRC "leadership team" are men.

 

[MrBrau1]

I hate to burst your misogynist bubble, but 6 of the 7 people on the FRC "leadership team" are men.

you left out 1 important bit of info:

I hate to burst your misogynist bubble, but 6 of the 7 people on the FRC "leadership team" are evil men.

 

[A_Wanderer]

They are righteous to themselves.

 

[Ellay]

A - No-one is being forced to buy and watch porn.

B - You can't turn on a movie channel or even mainstream channels these days without seeing someone getting killed.

C - Whats preferable, sex or violence?


Personally I'd feel too embarrassed to pay the bill after watching porn in a hotel, but I don't see any point whatsoever in stopping other people from doing so.

 

[Maggie1]

C-I prefer sex

 

[Ellay]

C-I prefer sex

Yeah, So do I.