Just saw avn on the news

you would not believe what happens in hotel rooms

That's cool with me. It means more people on the web searching for porn

I suspect Paul Markham is behind it. It is a big conspiracy to boost magazine sales.

reading versus watching a pounding video

What use is a hotel room without porn channels ?

The only reason any hotel would pay any attention to the open letter from the two anti-porn professors (assuming that's what the news story you saw AVN on was about) is if its porn PPV sales are circling down the drain already.

If a hotel is still making good money off PPV porn, it is going to ignore that letter; if a hotel isn't making good money, then its managers might opt to drop porn and then issue a press release saying, essentially, "look at this good, moral thing we have done" to generate a little goodwill with (gullible) social conservatives.

Marriot received pressure for years from groups like Morality in Media to drop porn from their in-room offerings; when Marriot finally did drop the porn (in some hotels, at least) is was very clear that their reasoning was that the porn simply didn't make enough money anymore to make it worthwhile to withstand the anti-porn lobbying and boycotts threatened by socially conservative organizations.

This isn't some lobbying effort to get porn banned in hotels; it's just a letter from a couple of professors who thought the novelty of the fact that one of them is a Muslim and the other a Christian would get the media excited, and cause various pundits to pay more attention to their missive than it otherwise would have received.

Looks like they were right. ;-)

what is a night club without a bar? people go there to meet the opposite sex and drink if it's legal they have no right to take the option of the room

Groups have been trying to pressure hotels into dropping their porn channels for as long as I've been in the business. Some hotels cave. Some don't.

Marriott also did this with casinos. They vowed to never have porn or casinos on Marriott grounds as the owner was Mormon.

In Vegas there is a casino pretty much in the hotel but they separate the front entrance out and call it something different to get around the Marriott name.

Thankfully they provide free wifi. All the porn you could ever want!

Stop picking on Magazines. Sales are up for us.

They are destroying the industry!