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CCV Launches “Clean Hotels.com” 12/17/2002 Travelers can identify smut-free hotels “We’re going on the offensive, and we’re going to stay on the offensive,” said Phil Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values (CCV), located in the greater Cincinnati area, as he launched a national effort to identify porn-free hotels. Burress said, “In the next six months, CCV plans to have surveyed hotels in every major city in America.”
CCV’s “Clean Hotels” Web site, www.cleanhotels.com, went online December 17, 2002, after surveying 174 hotels and motels in eight counties in the tri-state area - Hamilton, Butler, Warren and Clermont counties in Ohio; Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties in Kentucky; and Dearborn county in Indiana. The phone survey revealed that 98, or 56 percent, of the hotels and motels reported that they do not offer “adult” pay-per-view movies to guests.
The Web site explains that its “first phase” will be “expanded nationwide as research is completed.” According to CCV, “Approximately 40 percent of hotels in America are pandering hard-core sexually explicit pornography (dirty movies) in their rooms through pay-per-view services under categories such as ‘adult movies’ or ‘adult desires.’” The site also advises visitors to be aware that, despite the “clean” rating, some of the hotels may still offer other premium channels such as “HBO, Showtime, or Cinemax, which may from time to time offer programming that includes sexually explicit scenes.”
The Web site explains why it is important to stay in a clean hotel, recommends holding conventions in them, and solicits visitor participation by offering an online form to report a hotel that is either “dirty” or “clean.” The list of hotel chains that are believed to have a policy prohibiting the offering of pay-per-view porn are Crossland, Drury Inn, Extended Stay, Jameson Inns, Motel 6, Omni Hotels, Studio Plus and Signature Inns.
Burress told The Cincinnati Enquirer that CCV is “providing a list of hotels that do offer adult movies to local prosecutors.” This is an ongoing “campaign where supporters check in to the hotels and videotape adult movies, forwarding a copy to authorities and pressuring for obscenity charges,” Burress added. Thus far, the Red Roof Inn in Clermont County, Ohio, and the Marriott Hotel in Butler County, Ohio, are under investigation for showing in-room hard-core movies. The investigation resulted from CCV complaints to prosecutors.
Arnie Creinin, vice president and managing director of the Drawbridge Villager Premier in Covington, Kentucky, told the Enquirer that “he is investigating how the hotel, which has 483 rooms and is the largest in northern Kentucky, can get out of its contract with a pay-per-view company that provides the in-room adult movies.” Bart Hacker, public affairs director for the Ohio Hotel & Lodging Association, told the Enquirer that the “Tristate cases have caused a stir among Ohio hoteliers, who have been calling the association trying to figure out whether to pull the service.”
It’s no surprise that the usual suspects expressed strong opposition to CCV’s newest project. Scott Greenwood, general counsel for the ACLU of Ohio, told the Enquirer that “labeling hotels as either ‘clean’ or ‘dirty’ depending on whether they offer adult movies, is ‘a Taliban-type tactic.’” Greenwood said the campaign resulted from “narrow-mindedness,” and asked whether CCV will start “listing those hotels” that “have bars and even mini-bars in their rooms.”
Maybe it’s time somebody launched a Web site listing “Freedom Cities” that don’t have an ACLU office.
For more on corporate involvement in the porn industry, read Jan LaRue’s paper, “The ">Porn Ring Around the White Collar: Getting Filthy Rich
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