"The Playboy Club" Canceled - Morality in Media's Efforts Victorious

Thousands Contacted Advertisers    

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NBC "Closed the Club" today as a result of dismal ratings and viewer outrage, cancelling a series that glorified the sexual exploitation of women and the Playboy philosophy that women are to be used, abused and then discarded.

"It is great news that the 'Playboy Club' is cancelled after just three episodes. Clearly viewers are not interested in supporting the brand that normalized pornography and caused immeasurable harm to women, children and to the men who became addicted to porn," said Dawn Hawkins, executive director of Morality in Media, organizer of the site www.ClosetheClubOnNBC.com.

According to Hawkins, key NBC advertisers left the show after receiving more than 20,000 emails through Morality in Media's site.

"The efforts of Morality in Media, Parent's Television Council, Gloria Steinem and many others lead to the public outrage and ultimate cancellation of the show," said Hawkins.

Playboy, once equated with "soft-core" pornography, distributes hardcore pornography on pay TV channels and the Internet. Distribution of hardcore pornography can be prosecuted under federal and state obscenity laws, according to Patrick Trueman, Morality in Media president and a former chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

"We'll use the same public pressure that closed the club to get the attention of the U.S. Justice Department which has not prosecuted one case against pornographers during the current administration," said Trueman.

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