Please Don't View Porn in Public

[Jake Featherston]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...ail/components

Publicly, a whole new lewdness: Everywhere you look, porn is suddenly inescapable


Quick poll. Watching porn while on public transportation is:

A. Acceptable.

B. Not acceptable.

On a recent cross-country trip from Los Angeles, Jana Matthews thought she'd lucked out when her friendly seatmate cued up a cartoon on his laptop. Her four children were enthralled; she hoped listening in might keep them occupied. Then the cartoon characters started doing things that cartoon characters should not be doing. Naked things. Naked, noisy things, unfettered by the restraints of human anatomy because the participants were, after all, hand-drawn.

After unsuccessfully trying to divert her kids' attention, Matthews asked the guy whether he would mind watching something else. After a little grumbling, he put on some headphones and turned the screen away. But he was still watching. She knew he was still watching.

Porn vibes. In public. Flooding the recycled air of the plane.

The thing that skeeved out Matthews, an English professor, is that she'd had such a pleasant conversation with Porn Man before the plane took off. They'd talked about his Ivy League classes, about the math conference he'd just attended. "I had a significant amount of information about him," Matthews says. They'd developed a little travel-size friendship. Then came the porn. And she was trapped.

It's practically a human rite of passage to have a roommate -- a slobby college one -- who loves Jenna Jameson. This, we know how to deal with. ("Dude, turn it off. My lab group's coming over.")

But the increasing popularity of laptops and handheld devices, and the prevalence of wireless Internet access, means there's a greater chance of becoming a bystander to a complete stranger's viewing proclivities. Like being exposed to the cigarette smoke of a nicotine addict on the street, people are inhaling secondhand smut.


{the article is too long to post in full; check out the link if you're interested in its entirety}

[Anni M]

Hahahahahaha!! You make a good point and decorum is a must for such things, but I got this picture of a guy, a laptop and a crowded subway...

[NathanStrickland]

But the increasing popularity of laptops and handheld devices, and the prevalence of wireless Internet access, means there's a greater chance of becoming a bystander to a complete stranger's viewing proclivities. Like being exposed to the cigarette smoke of a nicotine addict on the street, people are inhaling secondhand smut.

Great. The objectification of women is going mobile.

I don't consider myself a prude, but this stuff is getting a little out of hand.

[Natjen26]

It's rather unpleasant when someone is watching porn in public! So not acceptable.. I wouldn't know how to react when encountering it. Is ignoring the answer, or being offended?
Hmmm, and the one being caught..
Well, something like this is indeed becoming a reality

http://www.i-grmbl.be/bureau.WMV

[peaceluvnsploosh]

I totally agree---- it bothers me when kids are around specifically , i was in the apple store once at the mall recently and someone open a pornsite on one of the computers and i saw a little girl peeking , it was like she couldnt turn away, Theres no reason she should have walked into the store when something was up like that... Especially now porno's are getting more and more hard core the poor little girl was probably petrified!