C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: Women - Part 3
The Adulterous Behavior 30% Of People Won't Admit To
Back in the day it was considered "unladylike" to talk openly about sex, but in today's world it's as simple as asking someone about the weather. However, as open as we are about sex, does this trickle down to pornography as well?Earlier this year, we told you about a girl who took her own life due to the new teen trend – sexting. And it looks like texting nude pics to your friends or other half isn't the only steamy stuff floating from phone to phone.
With all the technology at our fingertips, access to sexual content or porn doesn't have to wait until you get home to the privacy of your desktop computer.
The Washington Post recently reported that people are no longer waiting until they're alone to enjoy some visual smut. Whether it's watching some graphic cartoons on a laptop on the commute home or catching a clip of two girls going at it on your iPhone at the library while everyone else is studying, this "secondhand porn" is suddenly becoming unavoidable.
If you thought your flight was annoying when your seatmates were talking your ear off, imagine the uncomfortable moments when they put "Busty Babes 24" on their portable DVD player.
While there is hardly any legislation against viewing porn or other sexual content on personal devices, we wonder if publicly watching porn trickles down to public lewdness. And if so, what can we do about it?
Smut has also become a hot-button issue on college campuses. Well-known porn star Ron Jeremy and Craig Gross -- a pastor and founder of XXXchurch.com (an online Christian site that helps porn addicts break their addiction) -- recently went toe-to-toe about whether or not pornography is wrong at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
Putting Jeremy and Gross in the ring would certainly spur controversy but hardly lead to a common resolution. However, their debate puts the issue out on the table and shows just how far we've come in our openness to sex. But how far is too far?
Tell Us: Should people be allowed to watch porn publicly on their iPhones and laptops?
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Thursday 12 November
By ani
When it comes down to what's appropriate in public, what's the difference between live sex and sex on a screen? It is public lewdness, period. Not wanting to have porn foisted on me (or worse, my kids) in public doesn't mean I'm not open about sex, it means I have healthy boundaries.
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Friday 13 November
By Robert
" Not wanting to have porn foisted on me (or worse, my kids) in public"
You know, I feel the same about Religion......
Saturday 14 November
By Ken
word, Robert
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Saturday 14 November
By ani
I agree, Robert. I think people should keep any potentially offensive stuff to themselves, whether it's in real life or on their iPhone. The difference is, if my kids were to see something weirdly religious, racist, or anti-gay, I could use that as a teaching moment - talk with my kids about why prejudices aren't ok. Seeing a sex act in public is a whole different story with, for instance, a five year old who just isn't psychologially developed enough for a sex talk. Even aside from their maturity, will I give them a stifled-sex complex if I tell them it's not something to do in public? It's just a whole different story; any parent knows the difference.
But sadly, I'd bet that a bunch of pervs will be just as defensive about displaying their porn as any protesting religious bigots when it comes to behavior in public.
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Sunday 15 November
By wayne davidson
no porn in public please and i do mean please i view it with my girl friend in private but as usual lets remember 2 respect others rights like you want to be respected !if any one wants to correspond thru e mail cool but be respect ful please
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Monday 23 November
By Dallas Lowe
I just wrote a article on the same topic http://naughtyamericans.com/blog/index.php/news/porn-in-public-places-is-inappropriate-and-unconstitutional/
Porn is only protected by the Firsy Amendment if it is not exposed to unwilling third parties, or children. Watching porn on "Private" devices in public is still public. I'm a huge supporter of Porn. I work PR for the Premier Porn Website Naughty America, but seriously, porn in public is trashy, inappropriate, and unconstitutional.
Thanks!
Dallas
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Friday 11 December
By Bryan
I would not say watching public porn is unconstitutional, and in fact is protected. However, it is on the same page as racist comments. Protected, but not used often because people develop an idea of common courtesy towards each other so that they don't have to be exposed to potentially harmful things.
Monday 07 December
By James
NO. But its all over the television. It is out of control.
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Monday 07 December
By Jim
The kids are going to learn about it someday anyway. Who cares if people decide to watch sex in public? Is it wrong because it's offensive or because it's hard to explain to kids?
How do you think a homosexual feels when they see a person wearing a christian cross or a Muslim cap? To them that cross or cap symbolizes that they should be killed for their lifestyle
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Tuesday 08 December
By Trevor
just saying but your wrong about the christian thing they dont with death on us or anyone else muslims may or may not kill homo im not sure but christains no
Tuesday 08 December
By WoutJCyouburn
The same as a homosexual looking at a cross or a muslim cap, you have got to be kiding me. Just remember this statement ETERNITY IS TOO LONG TO BE WRONG. W/out Jesus Christ you burn W/out God you Lose.
Tuesday 26 January
By Momma
What twisted logic: (1) kids will learn about sex someday anyway so they might as well be exposed to pornography; (2) homosexuals seeing a cross or Muslim religious garb will offend them because they symbolize a desire to execute Christians?
Okay, the second point first: homosexuality is not a capital offense in America (a Christian nation), and in countries where homosexuality is a capital offense, so is pornography.
Now, the issue of kids: what kind of sick, pedophillic impulses are you harboring that you feel exposing little children to pornography is somehow appropriate? Your logic sounds exactly like that of child molesters, who claim that children benefit from getting molested. They also use the "they'll experience it someday anyway" logic that you offered.
It's wrong and offensive to expose children to pornography because they are entitled to innocence in their childhood, you sick freak.
Tuesday 08 December
By Simon
I find the confusion of issues bewildering. Religious emblems are not analogous to porn. They are abstract symbols referencing philosophical and doctrinal systems and constructs that have enriched the public debate, for good and for ill, since before the dawn of recorded history. While porn can lay some claim to being part of the public debate vis-a-vis the first amendment, civil liberties, and fundamental individual rights, its first and almost exclusive purpose is to arouse, titillate, and appeal to the prurient interest. In a society where porn is legal, freely available, and the individual's right to obtain it and watch it is not infringed upon, to do so in public is nothing more than a crass and selfish act. It does not advance the public debate. It does not protect individual freedoms. In fact, it damages these very freedoms by requiring the government to interfere in order set essential ground rules for civil conduct. It is true that society does not owe a right to its citizens to keep them free from obscenity or offense. Nor should it. But society has the right to set minimal standards of public conduct. In short, if public porn is acceptable, why not other public acts, like defecation, sex on the sidewalk, or music blaring 3:00 AM in the morning just because someone felt like it.
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Tuesday 08 December
By Tom
This has nothing to do with religion! The question is do you want your 3 year old seeing a big dick going in and out of someones ass. Would you set your kids on the couch , and have a three way with your neighbor's wife.
Tuesday 08 December
By bmcs1
People are not allowed to fuck in public local civic mores prohibit such behavior. So waching pornographic material in public is just as wrong. It offends the local's sensibilities , However if such party were to reasonably protect the disclosure of the image from anohte offended pary then no one should be alolwed to interfere with his/her right of privacy.
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Tuesday 08 December
By Gdiin
lets keep our moral values
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