Conservatives ask FBI to investigate hotel porn
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.
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Precise statistics on in-room adult entertainment are hard to come by. By some estimates, adult movies are available in roughly 40 percent of the nation’s hotels, representing more than 1.5 million rooms. Industry analysts suggest that these adult offerings generate 60 to 80 percent of total in-room entertainment revenue — several hundred million dollars a year.
“Really ultraconservative groups try to target the hotels in their zest to eliminate porn,” Shepard said. “In their zest to have their personal morals prevail, they’re eliminating choice for others.”
Choice died when Bush took power.
These people only want to further their own agenda due to the fact that they are right.
I really hate conservative groups.
They dont believe in freedom.
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Those holy people are just trying to save us from ourselves.
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It’s sickening how a small group of crybabies can pestify and rule a country.
As with Janet Jackson’s nipple, most people don’t care. Yet, those groups made sure the next event were entertained by teethless old guys in wheel chairs. And now they probably want to make Sesame Street and Pat Robertson the only choices in hotels.
Again; I don’t care, but I like the freedom of speech and the rest that comes with it 🙂
Those xristian fundamentals make this country look like it’s run by a bunch of Komeinies.
To foreign readers: Don’t laugh at the American people. The crybabies do not represent the great majority of our population.
I think Dennis Leary said it best in Demolition Man (as best as I can remember) “Their idea of a perfect society is a 50-year old virgin in his pajamas eating oatmeal and singing “I’m an Oscar Mayer Wiener””.
But if that’s the case, why are so many prominent right-wingers moralistic hypocrites?
3 To foreign readers: Don’t laugh at the American people. The crybabies do not represent the great majority of our population
Damn straight!
Industry analysts suggest that these adult offerings generate 60 to 80 percent of total in-room entertainment revenue — several hundred million dollars a year.
Does this “coalition of 13 conservative groups” think those hundreds of millions of dollars are racked-up by families on their summer vacation?
Precise statistics on in-room adult entertainment are hard to come by.
D’uh! Business travelers can’t expense it, and have to hide it from their significant other…
“D’uh! Business travelers can’t expense it, and have to hide it from their significant other…”
Wouldn’t it be better for the wife to see a porn expense so they know hubby wasn’t splurging on hookers?
3 To foreign readers: Don’t laugh at the American people. The crybabies do not represent the great majority of our population
Then please explain to the great majority on how to vote. Until this is done other countries view you by whom you’ve voted for.
Its funny to see people talk about how choices are being taken away…. its clear to me that in a free country not everyone can have their way.
oh, and Jesus does Love porn stars… porn stars are people too, people making choices, choices most people wouldn’t make, but people, nonetheless.
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Uncle Dave…you can’t win either way.
This is silly. It is fairly easy to ask at checkin to not allow access to adult films on the in room movies. The front desk people are happy to oblige. This is a good practice if you are having the youngsters in one room and the parents in another. To me that easy choice blows the local obsenity laws to bits. It is easy to block your access to the movies if you want to. What’s next a firewall for the high speed internet access from your room? (so you can’t access porn on line)
Are these idiots who mind everybody else’s business rejects from some other “movement”? Demagogues have known for years that some people will get excited about (and dig into their wallets to support) just about anything. Anything at all. Anybody remember a “movement” of some years ago to put clothes on zoo animals? As for these OH NO! HOTEL PORN! freaks, if they were on the censorship board they could watch the stuff all day without feeling guilty. I bet there would be no shortage of takers for that.
These freaky xhristians must check what porn is on as soon as they check into whatever sleazy motel they frequent.
Shall we guess what they’re doing in that motel in the first place?
They better disable the hotel’s Internet access as well because now there is xtube and porntube … oh nooooooooooosssssss!
Obviously these people cannot resist watching the PPV porn in the hotel room, so rather than exercise a measure of self-control, they want to take away everybody’s freedom of choice.
considering the fact that you have to **pay** BEFORE **watching** I dont see this as a valid moral argument – at what point does personal responsibility come into play?
#13, do you have a lot of stored up anger?
#14, you make a good point about the futility of such a movement
#15, that assumes the people trying to block it are watching it
#16, as a member of the thought police, you should know that people are incapable of being responsible.
There is ALWAYS someone telling others how they should live. Liberals who think we should be politically correct. Environmentalists who think we should scrap our SUVs. Europeans who think capital punishment is an abomination. Atheists that believe “God” should be purged from our society. Prudes who think porn should be outlawed.
The list is endless.
My rule: 10% of the population has nothing better to do than to try and force their values upon the other 90%.
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I don’t mind SIG’s, It’s Glocks I hate!!
AB
I kind of feel sorry for people that have to hide their porn viewing from their significant other. The few times I have been out of town without my wife she just asked me how many I watched.
Wife: “How many movies did you order?”
Me: “uhhh…two”
Wife: “How long did you watch the first one?”
Me: “About 15 minutes”
Wife: “And the 2nd one?
Me: “Umm…about 20 minutes….then I fell in to a coma”
Wife: “Just like at home…”
hahahahaha… Oh man, that’s funny, prophet. The best comment I have seen in this thread so far!
Mike T
I should have known that DU community wouldn’t need to hide anything from their SO.
But, then again, DU community isn’t quite normal – are we?
Oh yeah…
Raid all the hotels they can as long as it’s not the ones the christians own.
With all the global warming, the fundies should quit blowing all that hot air.