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Sex on-demand over hotel entertainment systems not likely, says hotelling magazine

Tuesday, 23 January 2007

On-demand pay-tv has been a regular fixture in top hotels around the world for a years and, while many have and continue to dispute it, pay-per-view pornography has become an accepted part of this hotelling service. Now some are taking that extra step and are suggesting that sex live over hotels’ entertainment systems may become a regular service offered in the hotels of the future.

It was commented during a panel discussion at annual sex entertainment industry trade show Internext that Americans spent USD1.6 billion last year on-demand and pay-per-view video and estimated that about a third of those sales were for sex films. It is according to these numbers that they have seen the popularity of sex films in hotels and hope to expand to sex live and on demand.

According to live-action company Video Secrets owner Gregory Clayman, “We feel that live, right now, is coming of age. We are planning to make the jump to hotel rooms.” Clayman sees no reason why this could not be a possibility with some existing websites now already allowing customers to send text messages to direct the performers. He feels that this could translate onto pay TV and big dollars for hotels.

Managing editor of Lodging Magazine Anne Taulane disputes this theory saying that it “would be a hard sell to the big hotel companies.” Even today, hotel chains require sex films to be edited in such a way that no groups would oppose any of the films. This difficulty means that Taulane believes that major hotel chains would never go along with this concept.

“The port offered now is a little more acceptable to the mainstream.” Live action sex films would be unpredictable and uncensored, meaning that hotels would have little control to the outcome of the matter if the situation were to get out of hand. While the idea may be fun, it is unlikely that it will pull through.

 

 

Source = e-Travel Blackboard: J.C