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Hotels dump bibles for condoms

http://www.dazereader.com/24001072.htm A Newsweek trendspotting story on the decline of Gideon bibles in hotel rooms notes some of the "hipper" and "edgier" alternatives on the rise.

Edgier chains like the W provide "intimacy kits" with condoms in the minibar, while New York's Mercer Hotel supplies a free condom in each bathroom. Neither has Bibles. Since its recent renovation, the Sofitel L.A. offers a tantalizing lovers' dice game: roll one die for the action to be performed (for example, "kiss," "lick") and the other for the associated body part. The hotel's "mile high" kit, sold in the revamped gift shop, includes a condom, a mini vibrator, a feather tickler and lubricant. The new Indigo hotel in Scottsdale, Ariz., a "branded boutique" launched by InterContinental, also has no Bibles, but it does offer a "One Night Stand" package for guests seeking VIP treatment at local nightclubs and late checkout for the hazy morning after.

And of course, pay-per-view porno has long trounced free bible study in the ratings, despite the best efforts of religious right prohibitionists.

 

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