Well!
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Posted on 10/23/2009 2:22:48 PM PDT by Colofornian
The locally based AIDS Healthcare and Pink Cross foundations have organized a boycott of Marriott hotels over porn. The protest is not about the Mormon-founded chain's in-room, X-rated offerings. No, that's just fine. The problem, according to the groups, is the hotel company's palette of on-demand smut that features actors who do not use condoms.
"Marriott is certainly not alone among major hotel chains that promote and profit off the sale of unsafe, condom-less adult films to their hotel guests," AIDS Healthcare Foundation president Michael Weinstein states. "However, we want to highlight the brazen hypocrisy--the Mormon Marriott's moral masquerade--of such a so-called family-oriented hotel chain profiteering off adult films that endanger the lives of the performers acting in them."
The groups organized a "porn-in" last night at the Marriott on Figueroa Street downtown to launch the boycott. As we speak, the organizations contend, some businessman in a dark Marriott room somewhere across America is watching Just Explicit Sex, Naughty Office Workers, Mothers Do It Better, or Daddy's Girl Takes it All -- titles they say are offered by the chain, titles that feature condom-free sex.
The groups have been emboldened by two HIV outbreaks in the industry in 2004 and last summer. The former outbreak was likely facilitated by condom-free sex during film shoots in Brazil. The isolated incidences have inspired state and county health officials to threaten to force the industry require condom use in the name of health and safety, but so far they've shot blanks.
The San Fernando Valley-based industry, however, has made pains to virtually require regular HIV tests among its actors, and boosters claim that its HIV rates are much lower than those of the general public.
Former porn actress Shelley Lubben says that's not good enough. She founded the Pink Cross Foundation to help "victims" of the industry -- the talent -- "recover." Pink Cross claims that, while HIV might be under control in the industry, chlamydia and gonorrhea rates among performers are ten times those of 20- to 24-year-old in Los Angeles County.
"I fully support the campaign to require condoms in all porn production, and believe putting public pressure on middlemen such as the Marriott--latter day purveyors of porn who are profiting richly off the depiction of unsafe sexual activity--can only help the health and safety of performers who are forced to work in unsafe and hazardous work conditions every day," Lubben states.
Mitt Romney left the Marriott Board while he was campaigning, but then returned.
According to a press release of this protest -- MormonMarriott’sMoral Masquerade:HotelChainProfitsoffofUnsafePornSaysAHF :
9:15pm—Press Availability and ‘PORN IN’ (Penthouse Suite #1427) Officials from AHF and Pink Cross Foundation will speak to the media while a ‘porn in’ showing the Marriott’s unsafe porn (films without condom use) will stream on the hotel room television in the background
So they showed actual porn films that the Marriott, as an active business w/in the porn industry, profiteers off?
Also from this linked news release: GO LIVE at 10 pm or 11 pm from CONDOM PROTEST in front of Marriott L.A. Downtown - Protesters will be carrying signs, banners and three foot wide condoms
i thought hotel porn was the version where they didn’t actually show genitals. what do I know.
It is beyond belief how far this nation has sunk in the last 20 years.
“Protesters will be carrying signs, banners and three foot wide condoms”
Hey, finally one big enough to fit over POtuS...
If these rump-rangers and carpet munchers parents would have used a condom, we wouldn’t have to put up with their crap.....
Eventually people have got to get sick of smut, don’t they?
When the full story is known, it will be said that Russia tried for several decades to destabilize the United States; that Russia supported and convinced many people to act in its interest without their knowledge; that Russia seeks — continues to seek — military advantage by sowing economic and social discord here.
I say we respond, in kind. Fifty-fold.
I figured they were boycotting because they didn’t offer gay porn, in addition to regular porn (and I’m not talking about just the chick-on-chick kind of porn)
Ditto.
...(and I’m not talking about just the chick-on-chick kind of porn)...
Plenty of that around...
The Ventura Beach Marriott doesn’t offer any adult movies.
Apparently the owners (some are franchised, some are owned) are rather devout.
But they do offer HBO, so it isn’t all that bad.
I don’t bother with those movies anyway — after 10 or 15 seconds the titillation wears off and it is just boring and a bit sad.
It’s amazing isn’t it? These people aren’t upset about poornography as such, and they are not really upset about hotels showing it. They are upset that a hotel would show it without use of condoms.
So if the hotel showed this with the use of condoms, then everything would be ok.
Amazingly sad reasoning.......................
I agree. America’s slide into the sewer continues.
We are succeeding in keeping up with the rest of the world.
It is beyond belief how far this nation has sunk in the last 20 years.
Actually it has been better. You don’t need porn in your hotel room...just take the laptop. /sarc. I think the country is the same as twenty years ago. I think the worst time in America was the 50’s only because of the sneaky ways that husbands bashed their wives heads in...people were molesting children...alcoholism was hidden...drugs were hidden...etc. Nothing is good in putting your head in the sand.
Porn pimp:
“It’s a great privilege to be asked to rejoin the Marriott board and I look forward to serving once again in that capacity.”
- Mitt Romney, January 2009
Well!
Isn't THAT special!!
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