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Conservatives try to curtail hotel porn
AP via Yahoo! News ^ | August 22, 2006 | DAVID CRARY

Posted on 08/22/2006 12:04:00 PM PDT by King of Florida

NEW YORK - 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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adultmovies; churchlady; cwa; frc; harridans; hotels; mrsgrundy; nannies; obscenity; porn; puritans; toomuchfreetime
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To: Always Right; HIDEK6
When I register for a room, the hotel gets my name (and credit card) and asks how many people are going to be in the room. They do not ask if there are going to be any minor children staying there. I do not believe that minors are supposed to be able to register for a room themselves, but I can imagine some trying for various reasons...

As a wiser FReeper than me said that if young people are renting hotel rooms, they are making porn not watching it.
121 posted on 08/22/2006 12:57:48 PM PDT by RebelBanker (If you can't do something smart, do something right.)
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To: MineralMan

Just remember that you aren't the only one using that room, that bed, that table, that toilet, that sink, that shower/bath...

And then there are the sex hotels with hot tubs in the rooms....


122 posted on 08/22/2006 12:58:03 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: ArGee

Exactly, adults can choose to harm themselves all they want and as long as they don't harm others against thier will. If a chick wants to get rich selling her fanny, fine she'll probably end up spending the money on rehab and shrinks later on anyway.


123 posted on 08/22/2006 12:59:11 PM PDT by TheKidster
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To: Protagoras
I wonder what the population of the country would be if all children had to be conceived in full view of the public.

I wonder if you're being intentionally obtuse or really can't distinguish between watching porn or making love to your spouse.

Shalom.

124 posted on 08/22/2006 12:59:11 PM PDT by ArGee (The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
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To: MineralMan
Pssst! Pssst! They're using birth control....keep it quiet, OK?

What? They do? Uh, in that case, it's an abomination, and should be banned immediately. Fines should be levvied against anyone who watches it. Those who make, produce, or distribute it should be put to ths sword. The sword, you hear me?!

(Thanks for the heads up on that. Boy, am I embarassed! I had no idea.)

125 posted on 08/22/2006 12:59:35 PM PDT by Steel Wolf (- Islam will never survive being laughed at. -)
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To: Steel Wolf
People worried about this stuff should really take some time off.

You got that right. Conservative groups should spend their time on really important issues rather than acting like whacked out morality police. Acting nutty just reinforces the perception that all conservatives are extremists.

126 posted on 08/22/2006 12:59:58 PM PDT by vox humana
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To: durasell
Is anyone with me on this thing?

You BET I'm with you. 100%.

That is, unless you want to take out a full page ad in USA Today. Those suckers are expensive.

Shalom.

127 posted on 08/22/2006 1:01:00 PM PDT by ArGee (The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
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To: ArGee
I wonder if you're being intentionally obtuse or really can't distinguish between watching porn or making love to your spouse.

I wonder if you're being intentionally obtuse or really can't distinguish between the points being made.

It was boringly predictable that you would try to make the connection something that it wasn't because your point was destroyed.

128 posted on 08/22/2006 1:02:59 PM PDT by Protagoras ("Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists." - Walter Williams)
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To: Steel Wolf
Yeah, they do. Usually it's that oral contraceptive stuff. I've heard, though, that some porn films use the less-effective coitus interruptus technique.
129 posted on 08/22/2006 1:03:32 PM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: Protagoras
I wonder what the population of the country would be if all children had to be conceived in full view of the public.

I don't know what the population would be, but it would certainly cut back on the number of ugly people having kids. ;-)

(Ugly people with some degree of shame, that is. It's not gonna stop all of us.)

130 posted on 08/22/2006 1:03:42 PM PDT by Steel Wolf (- Islam will never survive being laughed at. -)
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To: weegee

"Just remember that you aren't the only one using that room, that bed, that table, that toilet, that sink, that shower/bath...

And then there are the sex hotels with hot tubs in the rooms...."




Well, that does it! I'm never going to stay in a hotel again. The very idea!


131 posted on 08/22/2006 1:05:06 PM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: ArGee

You analysis is dead on.


132 posted on 08/22/2006 1:05:13 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: MineralMan
Lalalala! I can't hear you.

What, now that activity makes you go blind *and* deaf? ;-)

133 posted on 08/22/2006 1:05:15 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Steel Wolf

Where in the bible does it say I can't fire off a few Knuckle Children in the privacy of my neighbor's home because I can't afford a DVD player??!!


134 posted on 08/22/2006 1:05:42 PM PDT by TheKidster
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To: Perdogg
If you don't want it, don't order it.

We had hard-core porn available in our hotel room without ordering it, and boy was I surprised while flipping the channels. So I went down to the front desk and asked to have it removed. The clerk told me it came with the broadband subscription and they had to take special action to remove it... and they did.

I requested broadband the next time we stayed at the same hotel and specifically requested the hard-core porn channel to be removed. I was satisfied when the clerk said she would take care of it... but she didn't. While flipping channels our two young boys were introduced, albeit quite briefly, to close-up hard-core porn in our hotel room. Talk about getting miffed...The clerk saw me coming and took care of it before I hit the front of the line.

So hard-core porn is available for free (when you order broadband) in at least one hotel chain.

135 posted on 08/22/2006 1:05:54 PM PDT by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: ArGee

I submit the following list of movies that should be banned in hotel rooms:

Anything with Meg Ryan, including but not limited to, When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail, and Kate & Leopold (especially KATE & LEOPOLD!).

The Wedding Crashers

Beast Master

Anything with the word "vacation" in the title, including all Chevy Chase movies.



136 posted on 08/22/2006 1:05:57 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: em2vn
Does that make it any less destructive to those who watch it and to our society? The liberals say it isn't destructive and endorse your very positon.

Ironically, that's exactly how the Liberals sell their nannyisms.
137 posted on 08/22/2006 1:06:02 PM PDT by A Balrog of Morgoth (With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the RINOs in terror before me.)
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To: Charles Martel

"What, now that activity makes you go blind *and* deaf? ;-)"

I'll get back to you on that. I have to shave my hands again....


138 posted on 08/22/2006 1:06:27 PM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: weegee

Those places, "Sybaris" here, better come with three taps:
1. Hot
2. Cold
3. Bleach


139 posted on 08/22/2006 1:07:22 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: Mr. Mojo
I don't believe it is really that simple and if you took the time to investigate the groups that are protesting "porn" you would see that it is not just a matter of self control etc. It's easy to believe that these groups just want to govern what you watch but the issue is much more complex than this. I don't believe we need the government to regulate us but porn is perversion and has/does do tremendous damage to families and in particular men.
140 posted on 08/22/2006 1:09:18 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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