The AP/MSNBC on one brave man’s fight to take the sin out of the Holiday Inn.
The leader of the campaign against in-room porn is Phil Burress (above), a self-described former porn addict who heads the Cincinnati-based Citizens for Community Values.
Burress and his allies have had some success regionally, pressuring about 15 Ohio and Kentucky hotels to stop offering adult movies. But he says a nationwide pressure campaign would be difficult because nearly all the big hotel chains have similar policies ” porn is available at some but not all of their affiliates.
Though unable to cite specific cases, Burress contended that the availability of in-room porn is making hotels more dangerous.
“As more and more of these (hardcore) titles become available, we’re going to have sexual abuse cases coming out of the hotels, he said. “Hotels are just as dangerous as environments around strip joints and porn stores.”
I hate to admit it, but Burress might be on to something. The next time I go down the hall to the ice machine, I shouldn’t have to worry about being run over by Eddie Griffin.