Is it OK to watch porn in public?

[holzz]

FYI it's "Glesga"...

it is ? i don't care. your aspergers/amusement and selection of how i can express myself is comical.

[Stavros]

It's also good to remember that many things are illegal in most countries that you'll never get prosecuted for... for example:

'It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down'

This is not true, it is a myth.
http://mentalfloss.com/uk/law/27306/...on-upside-down

[Laphroaig]

it is ? i don't care. your aspergers/amusement and selection of how i can express myself is comical.

Do you know what I find most amusing about all of this? My 7 year old niece is going through exactly the same "it's not my fault, you all hate me" phase, whenever she's caught misbehaving and told off. The difference is that already she's capable of putting together a more coherent argument than you and eventually she'll grow out of it. Sadly, it appears you've reached a stage where you'll never change and will remain an ignorant manchild for the rest of your life.

By all means carry on with your trolling, but don't complain about the inevitable ridicule that will result. Alternatively, grow up. The choice is yours...

However, if you choose to label myself or anyone else as being Aspergers or Autistic again, then I will report your posts.

[Laphroaig]

On the one hand the Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981 appears to make the public display of pornography illegal, but does allow for the display of images or film deemed to be pornographic if it takes place in a public place such as a cinema, a theatre, television and so on; and was the law which forced sex shops to stop displaying material in the shop window and to post warning signs that pornography would be on display in the shop.

On the other hand the Act in 1981 clearly did not anticipate the emergence of technology that would enable an individual in 2017 to watch porn on a mobile device, so in addition to not including this in the Act (one assumes there may be an amendment to the Act to cover mobile devices) it also places the onus of punishment on the producers rather than the consumers:
If any indecent matter is publicly displayed the person making the display and any person causing or permitting the display to be made shall be guilty of an offence.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/42

But even here questions arise- is the person downloading a porn film onto a mobile phone 'causing or permitting the display to be made', or could it be the phone provider if it is a contract phone, etc etc.

Another possibility is Section 5 of the Public Order Act, which governs behaviour such as swearing in public if it leads to say, a violent altercation between one or more persons. If as a result of seeing porn on another passenger's phone another member of the public becomes angry, and for example seizes the device from the owner and throws it on the ground, resulting a fight, that would come under the Public Order Act.

I think morally it is wrong because in a public place one individual should respect the right of privacy of another. For that reason I long hoped that Page 3 of The Sun newspaper would be banned by law, whereas it was allowed to remain until the paper let it die, because I have seen women embarrassed to see someone next to them on a bus open the paper at page 3, and not just women. And incidentally, in the 1970s or 1980s one of the page 3 models was 16 years old, which in the US would have made the paper liable to prosecution for printing images of an underage child.

Thanks for highlighting those, Stavros. I thought there might be something, but (wrongly as it turns out) assumed the BBC would have done a bit more thorough homework before publishing.

[holzz]

Do you know what I find most amusing about all of this? My 7 year old niece is going through exactly the same "it's not my fault, you all hate me" phase, whenever she's caught misbehaving and told off. The difference is that already she's capable of putting together a more coherent argument than you and eventually she'll grow out of it. Sadly, it appears you've reached a stage where you'll never change and will remain an ignorant manchild for the rest of your life.

By all means carry on with your trolling, but don't complain about the inevitable ridicule that will result. Alternatively, grow up. The choice is yours...

However, if you choose to label myself or anyone else as being Aspergers or Autistic again, then I will report your posts.

because you hold no right to tell me off...who are you? haha.. it's just you try and act big and bad, and then tell me how to post..haha. as a father (whether this is true or not, i dunno..) you really should be more responsible than that, eh? i post as i please, not what some old man with a child thinks is good or not. in your social circles, your conduct is probably acceptable, not in mine, or to me. I'm just calling you out, merely since i know your game, that's all.

[Laphroaig]

If someones child under 18 see's it and the parents object, you going to Jail. I think theres another law about public places. But if you're on the Dark Side of the Moon watching porn and someone see's ya, tell'em to fuck themselves.

Tell him yourself, I'm staying where I am...

[nausicaa]

To answer the question - No

[youngblood61]

I would say no.

[gaysian71]

Oh absolutely, porn should not be viewed in public. After all, children could be present. And we all know that kids never ever watch porn at home
Right? Most parents these days are so technologically advanced that they all have the best firewalls setup and configured to block porn, spam, malware, viruses, scam sites and did I say porn.