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Conservatives try to curtail hotel porn
AP via Yahoo! News ^ | August 22, 2006 | DAVID CRARY

Posted on 08/22/2006 12:04:00 PM PDT by King of Florida

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To: weegee
I go for the middle ground that it is legal to offer it but disgusting to stay overnight at a sex motel.

A brothel? I don't think we're discussing the same thing, here. I was just talking about porn.

202 posted on 08/22/2006 2:01:22 PM PDT by Steel Wolf (- Islam will never survive being laughed at. -)
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To: weegee

Did they place a bag over it or not?


203 posted on 08/22/2006 2:01:59 PM PDT by mgstarr
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To: King of Florida

If you are trying to limit other people's choices and freedom, you are not a conservative but a BIG GOVERNMENT LIBERAL.


204 posted on 08/22/2006 2:02:59 PM PDT by jackieaxe (Democrats are mired in a culture of screwing English speaking, taxpaying, law abiding citizens!)
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To: weegee

Looks to me the statue is signaling "Touchdown!"


205 posted on 08/22/2006 2:05:18 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: weegee

"Maybe the hotels should place some complimentary hand cream and kleenex next the beds as well."

The tissues are in the bathroom in most hotels. I don't often see hand cream in most hotels as a complimentary item.

I'm not sure what your point is, really. People have sex in hotel rooms. Even couples who rarely engage in it at home often get frisky in hotel rooms, from what I hear. Individuals staying alone often do their thing, too.

It's a fact of life. The hotel neither encourages nor discourages sexual activity in their rooms. It's not part of the hotel's business to bother with that.

Hotels exist to provide professional hospitality. If their guests want to watch explicit sex on the television in their rooms, the hotels are happy to provide it, at a cost. They also provide alcoholic beverages and fatty foods. All of these are at additional cost to the guest, and are voluntary.

If you stay in a hotel, you're absolutely free not to induldge in any of those offerings. There's nobody pushing them on you.

I'm a thrifty man. I don't watch movies of any kind in hotel rooms. They're just too expensive. I rarely drink alcoholic beverages in my room either, since I enjoy the ambience of a crowded bar much more that solitude, and room service is just too darned expensive.

I end up paying the price of the room, and that's it. I even use my own cell phone in the room, especially for long-distance calls.

Other guests, I'm sure, do other things in their rooms. Those things are none of my business, nor are they any of your business, nor are they the business of the hotel.


206 posted on 08/22/2006 2:05:30 PM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: Perdogg
"If you don't want it, don't order it."

I agree with you. Two summers ago we went to Mt. Rushmore, and the motel we stayed in had porn on one of the channels. We told the front desk and they said they'd look into it. We just monitored what the kids were watching and didn't return to that channel, so I don't know if they did anything or not.

Personally, I would rather not have it available in motel rooms, but people still have the ability to exercise some discipline.

Sincerely
207 posted on 08/22/2006 2:07:27 PM PDT by ScubieNuc
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To: Protagoras
I wonder if you're being intentionally obtuse or really can't distinguish between the points being made.

Thanks for answering my question - you were being intentionally obtuse. If you destroyed my point I missed the fact that you were even addressing it.

Shalom.

208 posted on 08/22/2006 2:09:47 PM PDT by ArGee (The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
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To: Javelina
Do you keep a blog of all of your sexual experiences?

While I do not keep a blog of all my sexual experiences, I am not ashamed of them.

There IS a difference.

Shalom.

209 posted on 08/22/2006 2:12:24 PM PDT by ArGee (The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
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To: MineralMan

Your points are far too rational and cogent for some.


210 posted on 08/22/2006 2:13:49 PM PDT by mgstarr
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To: MineralMan

Pay Per View Porn in the rooms is an endorsement of masturbation in the temporary abode. The hotel figures they can make a buck off it.

Why don't they offer pay per view sporting events or concert? Why only porn, upper tier movies (fresh from video release but before cable broadcast) and general cable channels?

As to the notion of free hand cream. Every hotel has free soap and almost every hotel has free shampoo. 4 star hotels generally give away body wash and maybe even skin moisturizer.

If so many people are masturbating in the rooms, some lube on the nightstand might be another nice offering. Like the mint on your pillow.


211 posted on 08/22/2006 2:15:36 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: MineralMan

It becomes my concern when I sit at that same desk.

I'd rather be in a room that isn't defiled.

When you stay overnight at a friend or relative's, do you masturbate in the bed or shower?


212 posted on 08/22/2006 2:17:19 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: mgstarr

"Your points are far too rational and cogent for some."

Oh, I get rational once in a while, I suppose. Really, though, everyone knows exactly what the point is, from the very beginning. It's just that there is a small group that believes that they know what's best for me and everyone else.

They're very annoying, generally, whether they're trying to get me to quit smoking, or drinking, or trying to peek through my curtains to see what my wife and I are up to in the bedroom.

This group is a pox on the Republican Party, yet the Party caters to them and gives them lip service, all the while laughing behind their backs.

So, I come on these threads, write a few humorous posts, a few satirical posts, then settle down to write something serious.

For all the good it does, I might as well check into a hotel and watch a porn movie....[grin]


213 posted on 08/22/2006 2:17:57 PM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: weegee
lighten up, you know, whichever hotel bed you slept in last - be it at the Ritz-Carlton or the Roadway Inn, chances are, someone before, *** GASP !!! *** had sex on that very same bed.

so go ahead and have some fun and make your own ...

drop a few quarters in the magic finger box and go for it ...


214 posted on 08/22/2006 2:20:40 PM PDT by Republican Party Reptile
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To: jackieaxe
If you are trying to limit other people's choices and freedom, you are not a conservative but a BIG GOVERNMENT LIBERAL.

You get the award for most predicable (and, though the competition is keen) stupidest post. Why not just say, "Hey, man, I really get off on porn!" instead of cloaking your fantasy life in the raincoat of constitutionality.

215 posted on 08/22/2006 2:21:12 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: vikzilla

There are indeed people that want to regulate others' lives on both ends of the political spectrum. I'm going to be staying in a hotel with my wife next week in Wisconsin. I have no interest in watching these type of movies. What's so hard here?

Big nanny government does a very poor job of catching and punishing violent criminals and predators. Yet they are forever concerning themselves with whether people wear seat belts or watch nasty movies in a hotel room. Something is very wrong here.


216 posted on 08/22/2006 2:22:48 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: ScubieNuc
Personally, I would rather not have it available in motel rooms . . .

You do realize that--according to the majority posting on this thread--you have just placed yourself in the company of the Taliban!

217 posted on 08/22/2006 2:23:15 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: weegee

"It becomes my concern when I sit at that same desk.

I'd rather be in a room that isn't defiled.

When you stay overnight at a friend or relative's, do you masturbate in the bed or shower?"

Silly man (or woman, as the case may be). If you stay in a hotel, someone may have stayed there before you. They slept in the bed, used the toilet and shower, and, yes, may well have engaged in sexual activities.

You did not know that? You expected that folks would abstain from those activities because you might be checking in later? You thought the hotel would post notices advising their guests not to have sex in the rooms?

As for staying at friends' or relatives' homes, no, I do not engage in masturbation. Thanks for asking. I shudder at the image of me you must have in your mind.

If I were the previous guest in your hotel room, you'd have nothing to worry about. I don't engage in such solitary activites there, either. Now...if I'm with my wife, look out.

If the idea of traces of someone else's bodily fluids really worries you, I strongly urge you to purchase a motor home of some kind and stay in it. Hotel rooms are really not where you will want to stay. There were many people in that room before you got there, and traces of their presence will remain in that room.

For pete's sake...grow up and recognize reality.


218 posted on 08/22/2006 2:23:49 PM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: Perdogg
Oh, my gosh. Advocating personal responsibility on Free Republic?

Is that even ALLOWED?

219 posted on 08/22/2006 2:27:34 PM PDT by Malacoda (The Posting Police need an enema.)
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To: em2vn

I am a conservatarian, so if porn destroys your life, you have only yourself to blame.


220 posted on 08/22/2006 2:28:00 PM PDT by Perdogg (Democrats = terrorists)
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