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Burress said his group has met with U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez to discuss this hotel pornography issue and said he was met with a great response. There are plans for more national ads in newspapers in the future and the group has a rally scheduled for Sept. 22 and 23 in Washington, D.C. And where will their members stay during the visit? "Omni Hotels is getting all the business," Burress said.

Since 2000, Omni Hotels has done away with adult movies in all of their North American properties.

"Our owner  Robert Rowling, felt he should not make money from adult movies. People have choices about where they stay but for us-- from a pro-family standpoint--it wasn't right," said Caryn Kboudi, head of corporate communications for Omni Hotels.

A guesstimate is out there that Omni lost about $1.3 million from the adult-movie revenue but Kboudi said the hotel never kept close records on this type of revenue before the 2000 decision so there's no real answer about the loss the hotel chain suffered. However, Burress said that hotels make about $2.50 a movie with more cuts going to the service-provider and the film-maker.

So far, other hotels aside from Omni have met the demands of the CCV group and other activist groups with the attitude that it's the customers choice to watch what they want to watch. And they can do so in the privacy of their own room. Burress countered that point by saying, "It's not a privacy issue. This is about selling porn, not buying it. The hotels can debate privacy all they want. That's not what we are talking about."

Yet with hotels unlikely to waiver in this amenity offering, Burress said his group would be satisfied if hotels, especially family-friendly hotels, who offer porn would at least require guests to phone the front desk to turn on the adult movies option from the in-room movie menu. This way children or others averse to porn can avoid seeing the images while flipping through the menu or worse, turning on the TV to find an adult movie previously ordered by another guest, in progress.

"If they are a family-friendly hotel, out of conscience, please why don't you make customers have to turn it on, rather than turn it off," he said.

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