Don't Read Porn on the Airplane

[OneFinger]

A man in Cape Town was thrown off a plane for reading "porn". The interesting thing is that the magazine is sold at the airport!! WTF, you can buy it at an airport but can NOT read it on the plane?!?!?!

 

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1685112,00.html

 

I usually travel with a copy of The Advocate and routinely read it on the plane. In fact, I've actually had seat mates and flight attendants ask if they can read it when I finished with it.

 

I've also watched gay-related videos on my laptop while in flight. (The latest one I watched was Latter Days on a coast-to-coast flight.)

 

So, I'm I the only one that's reading and watching gay-related stuff on airlines?

[+ deej]

How often do you fly to Capetown?

 

You can buy cigarrettes at most airports, but you can't smoke them. <shrug> (The backward exception to that rule is Little Rock, where you can't buy 'em but the bar allows smoking.)

 

I loved the airline's statement. "We have no policy against it but we don't allow it."

[eastbayguy]

Apparently, I caused quite a stir a few years ago with my laptop. Had a laptop you could connect up to the power port on the first class seats on United's long-haul aircraft. At that time, I was flying LAX-HKG at least twice and often more times per month. One night, the effects of jet lag, exhaustion and so on caught up with me. I started "Eyes Wide Shut" on the DVD player on my laptop three different times then fell asleep.

 

Upon landing, one of the flight attendants asked me what movie I'd been watching. When I couldn't remember, she sort of chuckled and said it was a touch racy and that maybe I ought to tone it down a bit.

 

After that, I was more careful in my movie selections for onboard consumption. Someone traded me a copy that movie and I really didn't know the plot.

 

--EBG

[Juan Vancouver]

>The interesting thing is that the magazine is sold at the

>airport!! WTF, you can buy it at an airport but can NOT read

>it on the plane?!?!?!

 

Actually, they also sell condoms at the airports, and I have never...

 

Opps... never mind.... :9

[+ deej]

You could solve that problem....

 

http://www.milehighatlanta.com/pages/1/index.htm

 

:+

[+ friendofsheila]

>http://www.milehighatlanta.com/pages/1/index.htm

>

Holy-flippin'-cow. If you've got the money...

 

I traded foot-jobs with a guy once on board American Airlines flight 92 non-stop service from New York to Los Angeles. I wonder if that counts.

[Guest zipperzone]

>I traded foot-jobs with a guy once on board American Airlines

>flight 92 non-stop service from New York to Los Angeles. I

>wonder if that counts.

 

Not exctly sure what a "foot-job" is - care to clarify?

[Steven_Draker]

>Not exctly sure what a "foot-job" is

 

Do you need a picture, Zipperzone ?

 

 

http://www.xfreehosting.com/ebony/blaireau/j03/ffetish08.jpg

[+ friendofsheila]

http: //www.xfreehosting.com/ ebony/blaireau/j03/ffetish08.jpg

 

Thank you Steven! Your picture was worth more than a thousand of my words.

[Guest zipperzone]

>>Not exctly sure what a "foot-job" is

>

>Do you need a picture, Zipperzone ?

 

Not any more - thanks!

 

>http://www.xfreehosting.com/ebony/blaireau/j03/ffetish08.jpg

[trilingual]

>I usually travel with a copy of The Advocate and

>routinely read it on the plane. In fact, I've actually had

>seat mates and flight attendants ask if they can read it when

>I finished with it.

>

>I've also watched gay-related videos on my laptop while in

>flight. (The latest one I watched was Latter Days on a

>coast-to-coast flight.)

>

>So, I'm I the only one that's reading and watching gay-related

>stuff on airlines?

 

"The Advocate" is a newsmagazine. Last time I looked it didn't have sexually explicit photos. "Latter Days" was a general release film, not an epic by Falcon or Kristen Bjorn. "Gay-related" and "porn" are not the same things, by a very long shot. Lots of us, I am sure, have read or looked at gay-related materials in-flight without any problems. I wouldn't play a porn DVD on my laptop in-flight, though, unless the rest of the plane were empty, and wouldn't drag out a raunchy magazine either, except in the same circumstances.

 

Of course, if an airline allows straight passengers to drool over Playboy or Hustler in flight, gays should be able to do the same with Honcho or Advocate Men. However, there's a time and a place for all things, as well as for good judgment, and I'd say this probably wasn't the time or place for his explicit magazine, and this dude didn't exercise good judgment.