Washington D.C., Sep 5, 2013 / 16:16 pm
Citing connections to human trafficking, a major Scandinavian hotel chain has announced that it is eliminating pornography channels from its hotel rooms.
"The porn industry contributes to trafficking, so I see it as a natural part of having a social responsibility to send out a clear signal that Nordic Hotels doesn't support or condone this," said Petter Stordalen, the owner of Nordic Hotels.
A Norwegian billionaire and philanthropist, Stordalen announced that he is removing pay-per-view pornography channels from his chain's 171 Scandinavian hotels and replaced them with contemporary art.
He said he decided to stop selling the material after he started to work with UNICEF's campaign to help the child victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation, who number over 1.2 million annually, the British newspaper The Guardian reports.