Posted on 07/03/2007 8:22:42 AM PDT by AFA-Michigan
LodgeNet, the top vendor of hardcore pornographic movie channels for hotel rooms, is the target of a campaign aimed at cleaning up summer lodging for traveling families.
You’ll find no mention of porn movie options on LodgeNet’s website, but Phil Burress with Citizens for Community Values has uncovered that more than 60% of LodgeNet’s profits come from illegal, pornographic movies it sells through pay-per-view channels.
“Our question is why is LodgeNet permitted to deal in hard core sexually explicit, clearly prosecutable material according to Miller vs. California when the US Supreme Court set down the guidelines for what is prosecutable?”
LodgeNet is based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. John Paulton with Focus on the Family Action says that’s a hard reality for some to grasp.
“Sioux Falls is a conservative, Midwestern town of about a 150,000 people and most people are surprised that a leading pornographer would be located in this city.”
On August ninth, family advocates will meet with former prosecutors of hard core pornography and call on the Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute LodgeNet. Daniel Weiss with Focus on the Family Action says there’s a lot riding on the outcome.
“If they brought this material to trial to determine if it was obscene or not and their jury, their community standards prevailed, you would see communities across the country clean up overnight.”
Family groups have been trying to clean up LodgeNet since the 1990’s.
Freep thread on Romney connection: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1859880/posts?q=1&;page=1#1
I checked into a hotel once, turned on the tv, and there was a softcore film showing. To say the least, I was rather suprised. I'm guessing the person before had recently checked out, and had time left on his purchase. Wouldn't have been a good thing for a 10 year old to see though.
Just dont pay for it. Its that simple. Its not going to leap out of the television at you.
I don’t get this.
When I check into a hotel with my family, one of the first things that I do is call up the Hotel TV menu and click the option marked “Block Adult Titles.”
This eliminates the chance of one of the kids hitting a button and seeing something that I believe they shouldn’t see.
End of the problem.
See post #2.
You mean that * gasp *, the market has already solved this problem?
tempest in a thimbil for “outrage” mongers.
You have a lockout system for those with minors.
You can ONLY watch if you actually pay for it.
AND this comes up every election cycle to try and energize the prominance of some politician or talking hairstyle.
Limited thinking, obviously.
Hotel industry alone is estimated to distribute half a billion dollars worth of pornographic material, much of it potentially prosecutable as obscenity.
It’s proven to be addictive, to break up marriages, and be a motivating factor in sex crimes against women and children.
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights calls it “a form of violence against women.”
But you think it’s all O.K. just because you hit the “block” button...and then send your wife and kids down to share the pool and public restrooms with all the guys who don’t?
If that happened to me, I’d be on the phone to the front desk in a heartbeat and I wouldn’t let it go until the problem was corrected AND they reduced my rate for the entire stay as an apology.
Then perhaps you should expand your thinking to include making these decisions for yourself instead of having some government agency handle it for you?
Since they go to work, school, and the grocery store with those same guys every day of their lives, somehow I think they will survive. ;)
hmmm, ugly women upset their husbands might have their memories jogged into recalling the proper shape of the female form?
On a recent trip to LA I was staying at a major chain hotel at LAX. I turned on the TV and flipped the channel, on came a woman on woman porno movie. It remained on for about three minutes, then switched to the regular channel.
I turned the TV off and then back on again. Same thing, three minutes of porno, then the regular channel.
This outrage continued, unabated. 17 times I turned the TV on and off and each time I got porno!!
It finally stopped when the next movie was 'Bob and Henry's Excellent SF Adventure'. That was when I realized if I did not turn the TV back on, it would not happen again.
;)
Some people would be better off building a personal fortress and never having to face those who might have seen a naked woman at some point in their life. They’d have to be wary of the mailman, though; he might have glanced inside an issue of Playboy at some point.
I really wished we could return to the days of Puritanism with all of its trappings.....
Really. A lite flavor of Islamic Law wouldn’t be so bad would it?
Illegal?
I guess motel 6 new policy is to leave a little more than the light on for ya!
Not good enough.
“Fundamentalism: the terrible, pervasive fear that someone, somewhere, is having fun.”
H. L. Mencken
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