Degrading gay bondage group sex invades Quality Inn

August 26, 2006

Guest Post by Morbo

Apparently, some people, when they check in to hotels, view pornographic movies in their rooms.

I know, I’m shocked too. People like to watch porn? You could have knocked me over with a feather boa!

You’ll be happy to know that Focus on the Family is going to put a stop to it. A recent story on the FOF website quotes Daniel Weiss, senior analyst for media and sexuality at Focus on the Family Action, the group’s more political 501 (c)(4) arm. Weiss says several religious right groups are joining forces to demand that the Justice Department investigate hotel porn and determine if it violates federal obscenity laws.

According to FOF, many people are under the impression that porn movies offered in hotels are soft-core. The group says nothing could be further from the truth.

“We’re talking about hard-core pornography these days,” Weiss said. “It’s really some of the vilest, most degrading and disgusting activity portrayed anywhere. This is exactly the kind of material that the Supreme Court ruled is obscene, and therefore it has no First Amendment protection.”

He added, “The material that we’re talking about involves group sex, bondage themes, homosexual sex – all kinds of vile and degrading stuff. There’s nothing neutral or soft-core about this material at all.”

The FOF story helpfully points out, “Even the titles of the offerings are so disgusting we can’t quote them here.”

Oh, come on!

Can’t we just have a couple of titles? I for one would like to know what options Clarence Thomas has these days.

I have one other concern: Exactly how did Mr. Weiss determine that “Naughty Nurses Spankathon VI” was hard-core as opposed to soft-core? How does he know that hotels are offering the full range of porn from gay stuff to bondage flicks? How does he know it’s really and truly degrading?

I assume he had to check it out for himself. I’m assuming FOF gave Weiss a credit card and told him to hit the road for a full-frontal investigation in the field. I have this awful image of him sitting on the edge of the bed in front of the TV in some anonymous airport Marriott with his mouth hanging open. He has the remote in his hand, and he’s turning his head kind of sideways, trying to get a handle on what exactly is going on.

The poor man. He’s been working too hard. He needs a vacation. He needs to get out of the office — you know, maybe take a hotel room somewhere. I suspect he knows the best ones.

They’re such busybodies. Why can’t they relax and be normal like everyone else?

  • It reminds me of a song I heard years ago, I don’t even know where it came from or what it was called; it was a favourite drinking song. The chorus went like so –

    “We’re the self-appointed censors of the nation
    and we’re pledged to fight a never-ending fight;
    We just love to get our hooks
    into pornographic books,
    And we watch a dirty movie every night”

    I used to play the guitar accompanient to this, but by the time we got to the end I was usually laughing too hard to do anything but hold onto it. The guitar, I mean.

    It’s an old military maxim that good leaders lead by example. I therefore recommend Focus on the Family produce a demo movie of its own, setting the standard for “acceptable” porn. I mean, they seemed to be amenable to so-called “soft core” porn. Grudging acceptance, I guess, would be more like it. But they recognize that people need some sort of titillation (Ha, ha, I said tit) from time to time. So, then, what sort of liscentious entertainment would be suitable?

    I think we can assume some guidelines: the…ummm…. act would involve one man and one woman – any donkeys would be out on the back forty where they belong. Nobody would have outsize or otherwise freakish organs. The only feathers in the bed would be in the pillows. The woman would keep her face averted during much of the…ummm…act, and maintain a neutral expression. Any shrieks of “Oh, GOD!!!!” would be reserved for the after….ummm…act prayer asking forgiveness for having once again given in to base lust.

    But feel free to expand on that, FOF.

  • The poor man. He’s been working too hard. He needs a vacation. He needs to get out of the office — you know, maybe take a hotel room somewhere. I suspect he knows the best ones.

    Wait til he finds out how much porn, much of it free, is in those internet tubie thingies. He’ll never leave his house.

  • it’s amazing to me how, for all the smarts they display, it never occurs to any of the puritan hypocrites to switch the TV off.

  • Considering that these guys get upset about the things they secretly yearn the most, Daniel Weiss is one freaky guy. Most hotels provide Skinemax, er Cinemax for free these days so why would most lonely bidnez men want to pay extra for that? XXX movies are a big money maker for the chains. It would be silly to assume that they would give it up on simply for moral reasons. Besides if travellers wanted hymninal videos, they would have ordered them.

    Sung to the Tune of Daniel Boone:
    Daniel Weiss was a man. Yes a horny man.
    With an eye like an eagle and as prim as a preacher was he.
    Daniel Weiss was a man. Yes a horny man.
    He was prude, he was fearless and as stiff as a mighty oak tree.

    From the blond wig and mask on the top of ol Dan to the hair on his sweaty plams
    The rippin’est roarin’est leather’est man the Hilton ever did billed.

    Daniel Weiss was a man. Yes a leather man.
    And he fought for America to make all Americans porn free.
    What a Weiss. What a tool. What a stupid believer truer was he.

  • In 1915 the United States Supreme Court ruled (Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio) that the First Amendment didn’t apply to motion pictures, opening up the possibility of governmental regulation.

    In 1922 the Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors Association ( Motion Picture Association of America, 1945) was established. It was headed by Will H. Hays, 1920 campaign manager for President Warren G. Harding. The written Production Code appeared in 1930. The Catholic Legion of Decency was founded in 1933. Neither the Code nor the Legion were taken seriously in the movie business or among fans. Being condemned by the Church was like being “banned in Boston” — it was great for box office.

    The first major action under the Code was removal of the nude swimming scenes from “Tarzan and his Mate” (1934). The Code did make it possible for state and local censorship boards — which could really have done damage — to shut down. And, in the 1950s, the Code spurred an interest in foreign films.

    America took a long time to grow up about sexuality. Many say it still has a long way to go, especially in the “red states”. Busybodies like Focus on the Family can’t undo human nature. Like the Code and the Legion, they may even hasten growth precisely where they mean to retard it.

  • I wish I could dig it up, but I remember an article from a year or two back which looked at the ownership of these companies, and found that they were under good, solid conservative Republican ownership. Despite the ‘moral’ issues of selling porn, the chance to make a buck was way too lucrative to pass up… Kinda funny, that the conservatives would actually be policing their own people, not some wide-eyed Liberal, if they managed to pass restrictions…

  • Ed Brayton and commenters have a good discussion on this over at Dispatches from the Culture Wars.

    “money quote” (TM-Andrew Sullivan)

    “Although, ironically, there was a report from a hotel manager a few years back whose hotel hosted a big religious right conference. He said that the hotel actually set a record for most money made on hotel room porn that weekend. I’m sure it was just for research purposes.”

  • LOL on Dan’s song.

    These fundies have obviously heard too much about The Last Supper and not enough about The Last Orgy.

  • Weiss knows about these things because he once appeared in porno movies. He was a stuntman.

  • It’s well-known that when business conventions are held at hotels (let’s assume the majority of those folks are Republicans) that the renting of porn on the hotel’s system goes waaaaaaaay up. And the average play of the movie is under 7 minutes.

    In other words, no wonder Republican women go around with that “unsatisfied” look on their faces all the time.

    It’s also well-known among the porn industry (out here in the movie business in the San Fernando Valley, the capitol of porn, it’s hard to not meet people in Das Biz), that conservatives are the ones who most like what’s done in pornography (submissive women/dominant men, everything aimed at the male enjoyment). I remember back when Ed Meese was going after the porn industry in the 80s, a friend of mine told me his boss (of a porn company) had decided to quit the Republican Party as a result.

    What will be really funny is when FOF gets theDoJ to do that, and all the users who are busted are Republicans, as well as the buyers who put it in the hotels.

  • I assume he had to check it out for himself. I’m assuming FOF gave Weiss a credit card and told him to hit the road for a full-frontal investigation in the field. I have this awful image of him sitting on the edge of the bed in front of the TV in some anonymous airport Marriott with his mouth hanging open. He has the remote in his hand,[…] — Morbo

    I didn’t know it was called “remote”…

  • I’m telling ya’, everything they hate/protest against is about sex. They are against sex…..

    I also note that they don’t ever seem to be “for” something. No positivity from these “guy” always hating on something. They need professional help. All that hate can’t be good for their blood pressure or their mental faculties.

  • And the war on sex continues. While I’ve never really enjoyed porn (I’m probably one of the few people in the US with a high speed internet connection and no porn collection on the computer), I’ve never seen a problem with other people watching it. When you buy a pornographic movie in a hotel room (and off of cable movies on demand, for that matter), you have to go into the special ‘adult movie’ section. It’s not like you’re going to accidentally find Sorority Sex Kittens next to the Disney movies. You don’t have to watch the porn. It’s in its own seperate section and the kids shouldn’t find it unless they’re looking for it.

    But that’s not the point of Focus on the Family. They view hardcore porn as bad (and interesting enough, sotcore porn is not so much of a problem). It bothers them that some people might enjoy sex, or at least watching others engage in sex. It really is a war against sex, and all things relating to sex.

    Which brings us to an interesting ‘inteligent design’ argument. If God didn’t want us to actually have sex, then why is it so enjoyable?

  • At $15 a pop (Marriott, roughly Houston), the right will never win.

    They keep forgetting that they are teemed up with the right and in the cage match of Jesus and profits, Jesus always gets his ass handed to him. Profits will never bow to Jesus under any circumstance.

  • I wouldn’t worry too much. For the same reason that the immigration legislation will go nowhere. WHen there are monies interests involved the GOP always sides with the money. I love watching the fundies and lunatic conservatives try to influence the GOP. They haven’t understood that the GOP is about money: how to get it and how to keep it. The republicans aren’t going to damage a profitable industry like porn. Lets hope for more ideological splits. It great.

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