Hopeless tilting-at-windmills "issues" like this are usually cooked up to enhance the coffers of some organization, or the electoral chances of some politician. You could call it offline trolling. It's naive to jump into the debate wholeheartedly (on either side) -- you're only feeding someone's ruse, the true aims of which have nothing to do with hotel room porn.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by WHBM: And as PointsGirl seems to be well up to speed on such matters it seems such films cater equally to both genders. </font>
Oh Goodness...now everyone is going to think I am "The Girl who watches Porn"
I once stayed at a respectable airport hotel in a major European city. Boy was I shocked when I flipped on the TV and saw explicit porn (gentalia in clear view along with prolonged sex). I don't think it's that explicit even in the movies that you have to pay for in US hotels!
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Skylink USA: I once stayed at a respectable airport hotel in a major European city. Boy was I shocked when I flipped on the TV and saw explicit porn (gentalia in clear view along with prolonged sex). I don't think it's that explicit even in the movies that you have to pay for in US hotels!</font>
Did you grow up in your basement? Pretty much any hotel in America (well, maybe not Salt Lake City) has full-bore, let it all hang out (pun intended) porno. Tower shots, tunnel shots, it's like an anatomy lesson.
Or so I've been told.
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by BigLar: Pretty much any hotel in America (well, maybe not Salt Lake City) has full-bore, let it all hang out (pun intended) porno. Tower shots, tunnel shots, it's like an anatomy lesson.
Or so I've been told. </font>
"Tower" shots? "Tunnel" shots?
Sounds more like a civil engineering course than an anatomy lesson!
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by KathyWdrf: Having never rented a porn movie in a hotel room, let me ask a naive question: Are such movies "hard-core" or just "soft-core?"
In other words, are they worth renting or not? </font>
There's both, and boy, when you get "soft core" by accident, does it ever make you mad!
BTW, has anyone seen the movie "Rat Race"? Cuba Gooding Jr's check out at the Venetian was priceless.
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Skylink USA: I once stayed at a respectable airport hotel in a major European city. Boy was I shocked when I flipped on the TV and saw explicit porn (gentalia in clear view along with prolonged sex). I don't think it's that explicit even in the movies that you have to pay for in US hotels!</font>
I was with my child in a 4-star London hotel, and boy was I surprised when my child channel surfed and found what we prudish Americans would consider xxx shows. I am all for personal choice, but I wish the hotel had warned me and provide some sort of blocking device.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by BigLar: Did you grow up in your basement? Pretty much any hotel in America (well, maybe not Salt Lake City) has full-bore, let it all hang out (pun intended) porno. Tower shots, tunnel shots, it's like an anatomy lesson.
Or so I've been told.
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See, that shows that I've never paid extra for those movies! I thought that they were only topless in the US.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Sheryl: These zealots want to impose their "morals" where it is completely none of their business and they waste the time and resources of businesses who have to confront this hysteria.</font>
Interstingly, the first time the outcry against someone "imposing their morility" on others occured in the 19th century. That accusation was made against Abraham Lincoln for daring to take a stand against slavery as part of his presidential campaign. Just because something is legal does not imply that it is not a detriment to society....
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by skofarrell: I love porn titles. The Renaissance Orlando had "The Osporns" on their PPV last week.
Right up there with "Shaving Ryan's Privates" and "Crouch Behind Her, Hide The Dragon"</font>
I suspect at a Renaissance these may have been the toned-down "R" versions. I'm pretty sure Marriott has a no-XXX policy chain-wide.
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by gccgrad: Interstingly, the first time the outcry against someone "imposing their morility" on others occured in the 19th century. That accusation was made against Abraham Lincoln for daring to take a stand against slavery as part of his presidential campaign. Just because something is legal does not imply that it is not a detriment to society....</font>
Just because something is a detriment to society doesn't mean it's not protected by the Bill of Rights.
Agree with ChaseTheMiles, and most of the rest of you.
Although our children are not sheltered, and we all understand sex for what it is, (and they can do whatever they want on their own time) I really hate watching porn, which I consider to be sex for shock value, with my kids. They are in their late 30's.
Frequently hotels offer us previews of porn plus cable channels we don't want to watch as a family. The kids are more embarrased than we are.
Soft, hard, I want to be forwarned. That doesn't mean I would want it banished for people who care, just that I want to know beforehand.
That said, I'm talking porn for porn's sake. Many films we've watched together include full frontal nudity, prolonged sex scenes, whatever. But they are not sex for sex's sake.
Okay, Okay, I dont' like the ones with "no redeeming literary value."
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
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