For business travelers and defense contractors of a certain age, the only real reward at the end of another crushing day of airport security and ulcer-causing plates of casual-dining-chain fat globules and the constant fear of getting fired is the pay-per-view porn on the hotel teevee. But various Christian wingnut groups who should mind their own goddamned business have been pressuring Marriott for years to end its profitable porn business. And now that pretty much everybody but the oldest, most confused business traveler has figured out how to watch pornos on the internets, Marriott is “giving in” to the wingnuts and phasing out the in-room adult video-teevee stuff.
The moves comes two weeks after likely GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s resignation from Marriott’s board. During the 2008 presidential campaigns, Romney was criticized by family-oriented interest groups for not pressing Marriott to drop the adult movies offered in its rooms.
Haha, of course this involves Mitt Romney. [Washington Post]
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Exactly. As long as they have in-room wi-fi, this ban is toothless.
True, but so are the people who'll be missing their pr0n.
Well, there's a mental image that's going to linger. Thanks, DZ. Thanks a lot.
Have you ever tried to watch internet porn on a hotel's wifi bandwidth? It takes a half hour to just load a crappy Fleshbot video. So I've heard.
A post that combines Mitt Romney and porn? Ewwww.
Why is Mitt Romney a supporter of online pornography?
You try having four wives, each expecting to get serviced on her nite.
So, the GOP is officially done with their 'Big Tent' pitch?
Fortunately, they'll still sell some old-timey paper porn products in the hotel's lobby store. I don't entirely understand how Swank survives the internets, and Newsweek can't, but there it is.
Stupid Mormons maybe? Utah has the country's highest rate of paying for porn.
To borrow from Patrick Leahy, during the kerfuffle over Napster, but I think it's appropriate here, too: "Artists are entitled to recompense. & are not sword-swallowers artists, in a way?"
sure, that makes sense. porn is more exciting if it is FORBIDDEN! adds to the pleasure of the ignorant sanctimonious religies who run this United States of Jesus…. also known as The Theocratic States of America. take yer pick, mormons.
Mitt Romney puts on his magic underwear and all your hotel porn disappears. That's the magic.
Asked for a comment, Clarence Thomas said nothing. Because he is, technically, a ficus.
However, his wife has called up the Marriott, demanding that they apologize.
Because he is finally paying attention to conflict of interest rules.
Porn is one of the few growth industries in the economy we have left!!! Why do these bible thumpers hate American ingenuity and innovation?!?
You mean "Book of Mormon thumpers"?
I stayed in a Marriott over the weekend. They charge $14.95 per day for internet service, but I tether internet service from the cell. Marriott also provides a dock that I can plug a laptop into the TV.
Just try and keep me out, Mitt.
And WIFI is nothing. Want your type-A hermaphrodite picture? Type "chicks with dicks" and you get a picture of Lynne Cheney with her husband.
Hooray! Now all the business travellers will have more time to devote to that Book of Mormon so discreetly tucked in the top drawer of the nightstand…
They're particularly likely to find it at a Marriott, too—JW wears secret undies his own self. Elsewhere Hilton, Starwood and Intercontinental do handsprings
Mitt and Porn, Porn and Mitt. Nope. Does nothing for me. Palin and Porn; now yer talkin!
How my dictate? Fucking conservatives.
Hello Hilton, eh?
As long as that chain funnels money to the granddaughter that makes the world's shittiest porn, I'll happily not stay there.
I see a mob of angry guests bearing something other than pitchforks protesting this.
Ewww.
The only thing the On demand porn could do to stay in business is real niche stuff.
I suggest they consider Mormon Porn. And I offer this forum for those of you who wish to suggests plot lines.
Top Hat Peep Show?
Republicans are so selfish. Just because the Marriott did not show porn with young boys, or with big fat lobbyist Broke Back Mounting congressmen, now no one can have porn.
Not to mention the jobs this is going to destroy. Who will speak out for the poor porn actor who will have one less blow job because of this action? Or the poor illegal immigrant who will not be able to work now that the furniture is no longer all covered in spunk.
And won't somebody think of the drug-addled, abused runaways?
The porn workers will be fine – the ones losing their jobs are those poor film editors who took that hard core porn and edited into a softer, more family friendly version. Now it'll just be a bunch of us streaming and fapping to the uncut and unedited raw version…thanks Mittens for letting me escape the soft core trap!
Can you still get vibrating beds and those mirrored ceilings?
Space Jesus wept.
isn't there any mormons-for-porn protest group in utah?
Very interesting. My attorney was looking to purchase a residence at one time and was shown a development originally built to be marketed to Mormon families. Roomy plasterboard tract houses with all of the usual features seen in every anomic American suburb with just one fascinating difference. In the master bedrooms, there was always a raised platform for the bed and a mirror attached to the ceiling over it.
Too soon!
Sandra Buttock is going to be very angry at this development.
You have rather, uh, specific kinks.
If it's not specific, it's not a kink.
Business travelers across America are rushing to log in to their corporate travel system to change their hotel chain preference.
"I'll be God damned if I'm going to spend three nights in Akron without porn," they mutter to themselves.
Well done, Marriott board. Another sticky situation avoided.
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