ONE NEWS NOW--Morality in Media is calling for a nationwide boycott of a coupon business for offering discounts on tours of a porn studio.
Groupon,
an Internet-based "daily deal" company, is offering subscribers
discounted coupons for employee-led, 60-minute walking tours through a
porn company's studio in San Francisco. Dawn Hawkins, executive director
of Morality in Media,
says her group is asking people to contact Groupon and urge it to stop
supporting the porn studio Kink. Groupon, she says, should know better.
"They're just stooping to an all-time low of associating with porn companies," she laments.
What
is coming out of the porn organization is dangerous, according to
Hawkins. "It is extremely violent and degrading, humiliating especially
to women," she describes. "The website [for Kink] advertises that they
specialize in torture pornography." That company describes itself as a
leader in "bondage and BDSM videos."
Hawkins says thousands have already pledged to boycott Groupon,
but the company has responded to Morality in Media's inquiry by stating
that the porn company gives to local youth charities so they feel Kink
is an "active, good community citizen."
"Really the only way to
get [Groupon] to listen is if they lose enough customers to realize that
this is a big deal and that their largest customer base does not put up
with the humiliation of women," states the MIM spokeswoman.
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