Minnesota Senator Tarryl Clark is sponsoring a bill that will ban state workers from using public money to stay at any hotels that sell violent pornography on their pay per view TV system.

In the bill, provisions are made for the State Department of Administration to keep a directory of approved facilities.

Now, I don't know about you, but I'm not entirely sure how the state plans to compile this directory. One option would be to have the hotels email or fax a monthly "menu" of their porn offerings, which would require a state worker to determine whether the porn is violent or not. Who decides whether "monster cock 12" is violent or not? That doesn't sound like a very nice job.

Whatever happened to trusting their own workers not to order violent porn? Or perhaps the best option would be for the state to mind its own business?

Nobody is forcing anyone to watch pay per view porn when they are on the road. But most importantly, who gets to decide what is violent, and what is not? I'm not up to date on the latest trends in porn, but I'm pretty sure that even the porn industry has some limits on what they'll sell to hotels and I doubt hotels offer anything that is so violent that it could be considered illegal.

Thankfully, the bill does offer an exception for employee's who can't find a porn free hotel on their journey.

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