| Quentin |
07-18-2012 10:24 AM |
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. ;-) |
