Latest antiporn target: hotel-room TV

LATEST ANTIPORN TARGET: HOTEL-ROOM TV
[SOURCE: The Christian Science Monitor, AUTHOR: Matt Bradley]
It's a business that has become quietly entrenched in America's corporate culture: pay-per-view pornography in hotel rooms. Most large chains provide the service, along with standard-issue films. The pay-per-view service has brought hotels millions of dollars a year. But these days, the US hotel business is also attracting moral outrage and vitriol - on a scale that pornography insiders say amounts to one of the largest organized assaults on the skin business in recent memory. A consortium of 13 conservative groups has created CleanHotels.com, a website that provides listings and reservation services for US hotels where travelers can rest safe from taint or temptation. The conservative groups have also run a series of full-page ads in USA Today, urging authorities to prosecute hoteliers under federal and local obscenity statutes. While the financial extent of hotel porn is hard to estimate - hotels keep statistics to themselves or don't keep them at all - the adult pay-per-view and video-on-demand businesses, both in hotels and private residences, will bring in an estimated $1.6 billion in 2006. In 1996, that number was $593 million, according to California-based Kagan Research.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0906/p03s03-ussc.html