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People in here comparing looking at porn images in public as if it's comparable to a smutty book. I dunno, man. It would take effort to read someone else's book in order to know what it's even saying. But pulling up a pornographic image doesn't take any work to comprehend. One requires hovering over someone's shoulder, getting in their space, and actively trying to figure out what they're reading. The other requires no more than a glance around.
As far as being appropriate in public, they really can't be compared.
I think part of it is that the idea of viewing content that arouses you in public is a more horrifying idea for men than for women. Women can be aroused without anyone knowing, whereas the same is not generally true for men. So for men it seems more absurd for someone to be intentionally arousing themselves in public
It is, in essence, the same as viewing porn in public if somehow no one else could easily see it. The underlying point is that its still sexual content
Some of those book covers, though.
Maybe it has to do with the other commenters point. If you took the polarizer off your screen and put it in your glasses so only you could see it, I still think it would be weird to watch porn in public. It is like a social norms thing for me about not intentionally getting yourself aroused in public.