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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: madprof98

See post #142.


161 posted on 08/22/2006 1:30:08 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: MineralMan

My work is done! Up up and AWAAAAAYYYYYYYY....


162 posted on 08/22/2006 1:30:55 PM PDT by TheBigB (And ON the 8th day, HE spaketh and said, "Letteth there BE more cowbell!" And it was good.)
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To: Joan Kerrey

"The adult movies were always more than the regular movies so the company made it known that premium priced movies would not be reimbursed."

Gee can I work for you. My company wont pay or ANY movie...


163 posted on 08/22/2006 1:31:22 PM PDT by Syntyr (Food for the NSA Line Eater -> "terrorist" "bomb" "plot" "kill" "overthrow" "coup de tas")
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To: King of Florida

Is there a law somewhere telling people they have to order porn when staying at a hotel or a motel?

No? Ok, then why bother at all trying to ban something. Freedom of choice is a wonderful thing.

Choose not to order.....it's really simple.


164 posted on 08/22/2006 1:33:46 PM PDT by Dazedcat (Dear God, please make it stop)
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To: Revolting cat!
Why would anyone not want it?

'cause they're getting it on for real with their wifey.

165 posted on 08/22/2006 1:33:49 PM PDT by AtomicBuffaloWings
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To: MineralMan

Some hotels don't encourage the guests to masturbate (with porn channels). Maybe that should be the ad campaign the competition should use.

"And remember, we don't rent our rooms by the hour to prostitutes..."


166 posted on 08/22/2006 1:34:57 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: King of Florida

"Would you mind identifying that chain..."

Whoever they are, I think they've been sending me a lot of unwanted e-mail recently, apparently concerned about some of my....private functions, e.g.
`Hey there, want a party in your pants?'


167 posted on 08/22/2006 1:37:20 PM PDT by tumblindice (Magic Fingers? Sure, I got a fistful of quarters.)
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To: Always Right
But the Hotels share some of the responsibility as the distributor of porn to make sure they are not selling it to minors. Hotels can easily take this step and a couple posters indicate that some already do. If I am going to sell alcohol, I have to do everything I can to ensure I am not supplying it to minors. The same should apply to Hotels distributing porn.

First, I have yet to see "porn" in any hotel. While some of the stuff might come close, it is not porn, at least not based upon the community standards in most of the places I travel. Second, the hotels are not selling those movies to minors. They are selling them to consenting adults who have to go the extra mile to order the movies so as to minimize inadvertant exposure. If a minor is able to watch porn, then its because mommy and/or daddy aren't doing their jobs.

168 posted on 08/22/2006 1:38:36 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: weegee

"Some hotels don't encourage the guests to masturbate (with porn channels). Maybe that should be the ad campaign the competition should use."


Hmm...I'm not quite sure how they'd word an ad like that.

Welcome to Marriot! All Rooms Are No Smoking. Masturbation is Forbidden in All of Our Porn-Free Rooms. Check Us Out with Our Complimentary Blacklights in Every Room. Marriot Is Not Just Smoke-Free! Now We're Semen-Free, Too!


169 posted on 08/22/2006 1:38:46 PM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: MineralMan

Nah, I don't see that ad pulling in the guests.


170 posted on 08/22/2006 1:39:42 PM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: Gabz

Worthy of the Nanny State Ping List? I don't partake in porn, but then I don't smoke after sex, either. ;)

Either way, this is still WRONG. Maybe some of the Smoke Gnatzies that show up on our Smokers Rights Threads will "get it" if they can see where taking away ANY legal adult commodity leads?

Nah. Probably not, LOL!


171 posted on 08/22/2006 1:40:33 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Labyrinthos

Is it still porn if condoms are used? /s


172 posted on 08/22/2006 1:40:46 PM PDT by jdm (I gotta give the Helen Thomas obsession a rest.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
but then I don't smoke after sex, either. ;)

So...you've looked? ;-)

173 posted on 08/22/2006 1:41:06 PM PDT by TheBigB (And ON the 8th day, HE spaketh and said, "Letteth there BE more cowbell!" And it was good.)
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To: TheBigB
Strangely enough, I think that's actually a line from the film Hot Secretaries IV

Pure happenstance. Err, yeah... that's the ticket!

174 posted on 08/22/2006 1:41:12 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Steel Wolf
We've got bigger problems in the world than people procreating on video.

You hit the nail on the head - it is the nanny state. See it's bad when the libs are in charge, but good when so-called "conservatives" are.
Let's spend our energies on porn, putting bags over DOJ statues, creationism and ignore the fact that Islam is again at the front gates.

175 posted on 08/22/2006 1:41:53 PM PDT by mgstarr
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To: jdm

I don't think its porn unless there's a money shot.


176 posted on 08/22/2006 1:42:19 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Charles Martel
Don't lie...

YOU STAYED AT A HOTEL LAST NIGHT, DIDN'T YOU???

177 posted on 08/22/2006 1:42:36 PM PDT by TheBigB (And ON the 8th day, HE spaketh and said, "Letteth there BE more cowbell!" And it was good.)
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To: Always Right
Of course kids shouldn't get access to porn, innocence is the most valuable commodity on earth, it only lasts 10-15 years and is gone forever.

Drug prohibition, nah go ahead and enjoy your taxes being used to enforce a blackmarket monopoly that makes men like Pablo Escobar rich, fills our prisons so that there's not enough room to keep pedophiles incarcerated, promotes violence and funds the Taliban. It's only been going on for 30 years and has been wildly successful in preventing drug abuse. We don't need that tax money for the WOT or social security or border defense.

178 posted on 08/22/2006 1:42:55 PM PDT by TheKidster
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To: MineralMan

Sanitized for your protection.

It is one thing to prohibit such activity, it is quite another to encourage it.


179 posted on 08/22/2006 1:43:01 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: MineralMan
<>Hmm...I'm not quite sure how they'd word an ad like that.

Welcome to Marriot! All Rooms Are No Smoking. Masturbation is Forbidden in All of Our Porn-Free Rooms. Check Us Out with Our Complimentary Blacklights in Every Room. Marriot Is Not Just Smoke-Free! Now We're Semen-Free, Too!

LOL! Well, I know what the circle-and-bar "No Smoking" sign looks like. As for the other, perhaps they could use a pic of Bill Clinton with the circle and bar.

Hey, he WANTED a legacy...

180 posted on 08/22/2006 1:44:11 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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