FLYING SOLO IN THE MILE HIGH CLUB

[defrog]

And speaking of breasts on airplanes ...



Leave it to Fox News to make in-flight Internet sound like a potential porn haven waiting to infect yr children. Onoes! Porn on airplanes! Save the children! Etc.

Let's assess that risk for a moment, shall we?

Apart from the fact that only a few airlines offer on-board Wi-Fi, and (according to recent stats) 20% of passengers might have laptops and 5% might be willing to fork out an extra $13 for an Internet connection, everyone in this story (including the reporter) seems to accept the premise that people who look at Net porn don’t care if a complete stranger is sitting right next to them at the time – even if it’s a kid.

Okay, there might be a couple, and I can understand why people would complain. Hell, I’d probably complain (if I had kids, I mean – otherwise, it’d depend on whether they were watching anything good). But the point is that I’ll probably never have to complain because I’ll probably never see any Net porn on the laptop next to me. And I fly almost every month.

In fact, I’ll bet five American dollars right now that whenever flight attendants do field complaints over what people are watching on their laptops, it’ll be over things like a nude scene in an R-rated DVD or someone shopping on Victoria’sSecret.com or visiting a site with Arab-looking fonts on it or reading this blog because sometimes I post sexploitation movie trailers.

Like this one.

[Arguably NSFW – viewer discretion advised]

It’s also worth mentioning that this “risk” has existed for as long as people have been bringing laptops on planes. You could just as easily pre-download some porn for viewing on the flight, or bring some DVDs. For that matter, you don’t even an appliance. You can buy the usual mags at the airport and bring them with you. Know how many times I’ve ever seen someone looking at Club International on an airplane in 23 years of international travel? Zero.

Not while the lights are on, anyway.

Adjust yr seat, lower yr tray table and prepare for sexytime,

This is dF

Comments

[jasonfranks.livejournal.com]

More and more aircraft making long-haul flights have on-demand inflight entertainment now. I've seen all kinds of stuff, sitting on a plane, and it's usually uncut (at least, on QANTAS it's not cut). I saw the recent RAMBO flick, featuring hundreds of people beign machinedgunned into a bloody pulp. I watched SIN CITY, 3 hours of strippers, serial killers, torture and nudity. The airline provided this entertainment to me. I didn't hear anybody complaining.

I admit that it's hard to see what's on those personal monitors unless you're int he seat directly in front of them. Maybe that's the solution; pass out those privacy screen things you can pop over a monitor to prevent people viewing it from an angle?

-- JF

[def-fr0g-42.livejournal.com]

I've flown on a number of airlines with personal movie screens, and many show uncut movies (which the Asian version of HBO won't even do), so yeah, there is that. That said, I can see other people's monitors quite easily, though not at every angle. Still, we are talking about America, where people associate any type of nudity in any form or context whatsoever as offensive and pornographic, and it only takes one of them to complain and get an entire TV show yanked off the air. So it's a different dynamic, I guess.