The Catholic News Agency reports that Travelodge Hotels have taken the decision to stop supplying pornographic TV channels in their hotel rooms. Here is the Press release from Travelodge. Their Chief Operating Officer, Guy Parsons said:"We have an ever increasing number of families staying with us and it's appropriate that we remove adult TV. Our other customers tell us that they would prefer to use a hotel without adult content available so we have responded to meet their needs."This is very good news. My suggestion to any hotel chain announcing similar moves would be to drop the term "Adult" for this stuff; there is nothing "adult" about it. Just call it "pornography" or "sexually explicit" if you want to be coy. The decision not only makes the hotels more "family friendly" but also helps cut down the exploitation and abuse of women by pornography and the degradation of men with consequent damage to their relationships.
I have written in thanks to the Press Office contact and encourage you to express your appreciation to Travelodge. I will also be seeking to use Travelodge in preference to other hotel chains when I am travelling. Their prices are very reasonable and when I have used them in the past, I have found their rooms well-equipped and comfortable. For a family, they represent even better value. They do family rooms and cots at most hotels.
We need to support this kind of initiative so I do encourage you to think about using them and leaving a comment card saying why you have chosen their chain.
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Favourable comment sent. I pointed out the fact that they might reduce the exploitation of women sex workers, as that might apear in their annual report, and possibly be copied by others.
i'm constantly telling my gym that their TV channels already tuned in offend me..if anything the problem's got worse & this is in the ladies gym! This post of yours encourages me to persevere...if one practices 'custody of the eyes' one could fall off the treadmill! lol
Thank you for passing on this good news.
Market forces are very powerful - and we should 'vote' with our money wisely. How uplifting when consumer sovereignty reflects (rather than contradicts) the Kingship of Christ.
Except don't stay at the one near Hell-A-EX. (That's LAX - Los Angeles, to the uninitianted) -- the room was musty, looked like it hadn't been "redecorated" since about 1958 (the couch was certainly that old, if you had thrown it in the street beggars wouldn't have slept on it) - the bedding was clean, but that was about it. The fixtures were antiquated. Don't get me started!!! Oh, and what "service" there was was lame and unprofessional. the kiss of death.
Far from having hookers on TV you got the impression that you might have had some in the next room.
Worst "Bang for the buck" EVER.
The Hyatt in Wichita (my final destination) more than made up for it. And since I was sharing...at half the price I paid in Hell-A.
If there was so-called "adult" content on offer, I sure didn't notice it. At any rate the staff treated us as if we owned the place...even throwing in free high speed internet and a bottle of wine after they mucked up picking me up from the airport. They REALLY made it "right."
Excellent news, and favourable comment sent.
Gem of the Ocean -
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OK you found a bad hotel. But can you see that it is still good that they have got rid of the porn? Do you understand the damage this stuff does? A parishioner of mine, retired Police Officer, spent many years in the vice squad in London. What he told me of of the damage done to women (I'm talking physical damage, aside from the psychological damage) from the things that they had to do in porn movies made me pretty nauseous - and I have heard confessions for many years.
Are you aware of what porn viewing does to men, the epidemic of sexual addiction, the link between porn viewing, rape and child molesting?
Free bottle of wine made it right?! Flamin 'eck! Buy a bottle of Claret for a tenner and use a family-friendly hotel.
Pah!
Somewhere I saw a cartoon depicting a section of book store magazine display labled "Erotica."
The cartoonist crossed this out and substituted, "Filth." Probably the best appellation of all.
We make a grave error in adopting the euphemistic language of our opponents. BTW, how did they become the "moderates" and we the "extremists"? It was all done with linguistic sleight of hand, but it introduces a logic into real arguments that results in real damage to real people.
I am convinced that one of the overarching realities in all of this is that we Catholics and Christians are pickled in human respect. We don't want to offend. We want to be pleasant. Above all, we want to fit in. We adopt the conventional vocabulary so that we won't seem antiquated, stiff, or Christian, but in doing so we give the game away.
An atheistic friend of mine says, "Sex without marriage is exploitation." Putting that simple truth on a bumper sticker in this society would probably be anough to get you killed, or your tires slashed. Yet, if the West is to survive, the idea has to make a comeback. Yes, uttering such a simple truth would be quite sufficient to get one martyred. Maybe there is a softer, kinder, more euphemistic approach which would salve my conscience while accomplishing...nothing.
Will do. I love their address - Sleepy Hollow!
I believe that the porn channels offered in Hotels/Motels are specifically targetted at the male sales executives that spend long hours on the road all over the Country and then find themselves in these places on their own in the evenings tempted by porn. It's so obvious the devil is working hard to break up marriages and destroy any semblance of moral objectivity.
If the pornographic channels are not there then the neither will be the temptations and the sales exec can watch some of the other (hopefully less damaging) movie channels - or perhaps read extracts from the Bibles left by the Gideons!
I will always be grateful to a hotel in Grand Junction Colorado where I stayed some years ago on a business trip. Not only did they NOT have porn channels but it was there that I discovered EWTN!!!! The Country Music Channel also offered wholesome entertainment - plenty of family type songs to make tears roll down my cheeks as I missed my wife and kids like anything!
Good on you Travelodge. I hope many other hotel chains will follow suit. Surely the time has come to kick all this damaging stuff into the garbage can. You can make heaps of money in so many positive ways.
This is good news and thank you for passing this on Fr.
Oh Fr. Tim,
Yep. Got the point about the no porn. I think it's probably the worst scourge of mankind that one comes up against in day-2-day living.
Just was pointing ou that the one particular Travelodge was absolutely foul! That's why I said "except."
Ref the Sales exec (George) - the other alternative is for him to get a job that dosent take him away from his family so much.
Good move by Travelodge
Paul - not an unreasonable comment, but the world needs sales reps and good Catholic ones at that!
God Bless.
This is good news. But surely British hotels don't allow porn channels, do they? I thought they were illegal in this country. Pornography is detestable because it gets into people heads and sticks. The less the better.
And a very nice reply I've had too!
"Thank you for your email regarding our recent decision to remove pay-per view television from our hotels.
"Your feedback is greatly appreciated and I will ensure I pass your comments on to our Chief Executive.
Once again, many thanks for getting in touch
Best wishes"
Anon - glad you have not come across this stuff. Most chain hotels offer "Adult" channels - i.e. porn.
Ttony - I got a nice reply too. They were very pleased to be mentioned on the blog!
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