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By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer Tue Aug 22, 1:58 PM ET

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.

Though porn is now cheaply and readily accessible on the Internet, and through many other outlets, the activists chose to target the hotel industry in part because of the well-known brands of corporations that cater to family vacationers as well as business travelers.

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Read it here.

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Originally posted by Phred:
God doesn't like pr0n so neither should anyone else...

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Originally written by arborman:

I have seen no evidence about whether god likes or dislikes it. He has a lot on his plate, I imagine he just ignores it.

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Actually, the bible is the oldest Dear Penthouse letter extant:

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# How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the
# joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy
# belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies. Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
# Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in
Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.

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Well if you keep reading the sexual behavior of David and Solomon is something that God held against them. Solomon curtailed the 18 wife limit for kings by having 1000 concubines. Apparently, he wanted 20, 000 children.

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What, do you think Abraham's descendants were going to take care of themselves? God does not reward sloth, though He cherisheth he who laboureth in His name.

Recall Genesis, Chapter 26, Verse 4: "I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring of 10 000 concubines all nations on earth will be blessed."

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Originally posted by arborman:

I have seen no evidence about whether god likes or dislikes it. He has a lot on his plate, I imagine he just ignores it.

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"These are places that you take your family — these are respectable institutions," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. "Anything that brings porn into the mainstream is a concern. It just desensitizes people."

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Since they won't actually NAME the hotel chains they're talking about for fear of lawsuits then we don't know who they are and what the FRC considers a "respectable" hotel. Is it ok for fleabag motels that rent by the hour to have porn. Wait! Don't these folks realize that their is ACTUAL REAL SEX going on in these hotel rooms as well! And some people aren't even MARRIED to each other!!!!

I think what they might want is "Orwellvision" where the TV watches you. That way, the morals police can make sure that only married people are having sex in "respectable" hotels - check their marriage certificates on check in!

Geez O Pete! Sex, Sex, Sex! That's all they think about - the poor kiddies. Geez, how DID those kids come to be anyway? Oh, yeah.

From now on all hotels and motels in God's United States will be SEX FREE except for married couples without kids ('cause if you have kids, you would have them with you 'cause you believe in FAMILY VALUES and you certainly wouldn't do the nasty with them IN THE ROOM right!

We've got to protect American morals right?

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The recent newspaper ad mentioned no hotel companies by name because of legal concerns, but it did target the two major suppliers of in-room adult movies — South Dakota-based LodgeNet and Denver-based OnCommand, a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corp. The ad accused both companies of distributing hardcore pornography to their hotel clients, and it provided a link to a list of X-rated movie titles.

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Um, I don't know how to say this, but. . .its not "hardcore" in hotels. Basicially, its "pizza delivery guy" type porn. Don't ask me how I know this.

I guess any porn is "hardcore" to the FRC types. Beach volleyball is probably too much for them to let the kiddies watch.

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"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."

Conner said none of the programing offered by Marriott is illegal, and he depicted adult movies as a standard part of today's hotel business.

"In-room movies are a revenue stream," he said. "This is a business matter."

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Yeah, what are these fundies anyway, a bunch of Communists?!? Porn is as American as apple pie and cluster bombs!

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The leader of the campaign against in-room porn is Phil Burress, a self-described former porn addict who heads the Cincinnati-based Citizens for Community Values.

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Just like its always the reformed smoker who is the most zealous about bugging others to quit. . .

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Though unable to cite specific cases, Burress contended that the availability of in-room porn is making hotels more dangerous.

"As more and more of these (hardcore) titles become available, we're going to have sexual abuse cases coming out of the hotels," he said. "Hotels are just as dangerous as environments around strip joints and porn stores."

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I honestly think the most danger will be posed to the workers who strip the beds. Anyway, yeah, I'm sure that its way easier to rent a $100 a night room, buy way overpriced porn and then get violent than just going driving down to the video store for $2.99 tape and bringing it home where the beer is in the fridge not the expensive mini bar. This is idiotic reasoning.

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Burress said he was "cautiously optimistic" that Justice Department officials — whom he and other anti-porn leaders confer with periodically — would seriously consider investigating hotel-based pornography.

Justice Department spokesman Bryan Sierra said federal authorities are committed to toughening enforcement of obscenity laws, but he declined to comment on specific targets for investigations.

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Um, I don't know how to say this, but. . .its not "hardcore" in hotels. Basicially, its "pizza delivery guy" type porn. Don't ask me how I know this.

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Many people, both men and women but more commonly men, use pornography to provide stimulation for masturbation.

Many people are not ashamed of that fact and do not keep it as a 'dirty little secret.'

Whether it's a secret or not probably depends on how you were brought up.

I sometimes wonder why, given the preponderance of free porn available on the Internet, people still pay for it.

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Originally posted by Stargazer:
Why is progressives in quotes and why would it matter where people watched porn? I'm pretty sure most people have viewed porn at least a couple of times in their life.

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