Morality in Media Confronts Marriott

LOS ANGELES – It's one of corporate America's dirty little secrets – porn pays and it pays big for hotel chains seeking to satisfy the demands of the majority of its customers, and the profit requirements of its shareholders.

What many travelers, investors and the Marriott hotel chain want, however, is being targeted by faith-based organization Morality in Media.

In a recent letter, Morality in Media's Robert Peters once again asked Bill Marriott, Chairman and CEO of Marriott International, to remove adult video pay-per-view services from all Marriott hotel guest rooms; appealing to Marriott's religious beliefs:

"The other reason that I am writing is because you profess to be a Mormon; and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is 100% against pornography, which gives me at least a faint hope that you may some day come to your senses and disassociate your family name and faith from pornographic films with titles like these, which were offered at the Marriott hotels in Massachusetts and California where my wife and I stayed during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays:"

Peters then listed a wide variety of adult entertainment video titles he claims were offered on pay-per-view at the Marriott hotels, including "Housewives Need Cash," "Sticky Young Sluts" and "Eighteen and Corrupted."

This is the second time Peters has expressed his concerns about adult content to Marriott.

Peters discussed his objections to adult entertainment in detail; linking pornography with violent sex crimes and the destruction of marriages, addiction, the loss of jobs and more – including making fathers desire their own children for sex.

"Another concern that wives have about their husbands' addiction to pornography is the effect it may have on their children. Children may see their father viewing pornography. They may seek out or stumble into pornography that their father views. They may become an object of his sexual desire."

Peters' letter to Marriott covered a litany of perceived, exaggerated, and legitimate issues; but beyond its appeal to the hotel owner's sense of decency, the bottom line remained a threat of further action.

"I don't say this to frighten you, but so that you may have another reason to ask your Board to adopt a policy that, at minimum, prohibits distribution of sexual materials that may be or are obscene," Peters wrote. "If a judge determines that there is probable cause that a hotel has distributed an obscene movie, those responsible can be prosecuted for violating a federal (and in many cases a state) obscenity law."

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