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Monday, August 14, 2006

The Fundies Just Can’t Say No

Posted by on August 14 at 15:21 PM

To porn, it would seem.

First there was CleanHotels.com, a service that informs travelers where they can find porn-free hotels. Now a coalition of fundamentalist organizations (including the Family Research Council, Citizens for Community Values, the American Family Association and Exodus International) is fighting the scourge of hotel pornography by taking out full-page ad in USA Today urging the Justice Department to “immediately investigate” the companies that distribute hotel porn. The ad also includes a screen shot of “actual in-room hardcore sex videos” available at an Arlington, VA hotel, including “MILF and Cookies After School,” “Spank the Secretary” and “Dirty Housewife Sex” (the “e” in “Sex” is blurred out, of course, so USA Today’s readers don’t get the wrong idea.)

According to the ad, porn videos “promote the degradation of women as sex objects… encourage sexual voyeurism, and present often extreme antisocial behavior as normal.”

Are the fundamentalists really so addicted to porn they need the government to tell them not to order it?


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They're just tired of being embarrassed when they have the hotel block the adult channels and then have to call down later that same evening and have them unblocked so they can watch "Bangkok Ladyboys".

OK, that was funnier when Alan Partridge did it.

Porn is not the problem. Mindfucking people through religious context into thinking the penis is the sword of the devil is very problematic.

Well you can't spell fundies without "fun".

Someone in the "industry" should take note of this and start producing porn that is directed at a fundie audience.

"porn videos “promote the degradation of women as sex objects… encourage sexual voyeurism, and present often extreme antisocial behavior as normal.”

Ah, I see, as opposed to the Fundies practices of degrading women as procreative objects, encouraging sexual domination, and presenting often extreme religious mania as normal.

Yep, now it all makes sense.

I'd protest hotel porn on the grounds that it is SO lame and soft-core, and only San Francisco has gay or bi porn.

Was just in Chicago, and the Knickerbocker Hotel actually has a 2 page selection of gay porn under "Alternative Lifestyles". Unfortunately the flick had been edited to oral only...

I should clarify (especially with the goofy name), that the Knickerbocker is part of the Millenium chain, and a real hotel, not a seedy den of some sort...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933317434/sr=8-1/qid=1155607914/ref=sr_1_1/002-6128899-0944863?ie=UTF8

note that both authors live in...Utah. 2 guesses what affiliation they most likely are.

You have, of course, seen the nasty site "Jesus Loves Porn." "Free quality porn approved by Jesus himself."

http://www.jesuslovesporn.net/

It occured to me just reading this just now that every day, Erica sounds more like Josh Feit. This is almost more alarming then the Josh sounding like Knut Berger in a way.

Um, don't you have to actively order porn to get it in your hotel room? And IIRC many hotels don't even offer porn with their cable programming, not even pay-per-view. So it's not even like it's present in your hotel room against your will.

I'm lost as to why this is a necessary cause.

@Longball: actually, you can't spell fundies without "undies". Meaning, keep that sword of the devil in your pants!

"MILF and Cookies after school" -- lmao

Gomez, what you're not getting is that it's not their OWN access to porn they object to - it's that ANYONE has access to porn. They hate the idea that anyone, anywhere, is actually watching nekkid people onscreen and possibly enjoying it, having nasty thoughts and tingles in their naughty bits. It destroys their worldview if we don't validate their delusions of righteousness.

Their parents had to get freaky once to have them.

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