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I find all this hard to believe.
What if I was reading "Mein Kampf" ? Interesting thought experiment there....it`s got no pictures, as far as I`m aware. If it was spotted whilst on board an El Al flight, I might be in for a rough trip (unlikely, as my Palestinian lapel badge wouldn`t get me past check in). What about any other airline whose nosy CC saw it?
I`d more likely be reading International Marxist Review, or Das Kapital....would that get me into trouble? Unbelievable!
Of course if I was seen reading an Arab newspaper (once I`d worked out which way up to hold it), all hell would no doubt break loose (but is that fair/ reasonable?)
What if I was reading "Mein Kampf" ? Interesting thought experiment there....it`s got no pictures, as far as I`m aware. If it was spotted whilst on board an El Al flight, I might be in for a rough trip (unlikely, as my Palestinian lapel badge wouldn`t get me past check in). What about any other airline whose nosy CC saw it?
I`d more likely be reading International Marxist Review, or Das Kapital....would that get me into trouble? Unbelievable!
Of course if I was seen reading an Arab newspaper (once I`d worked out which way up to hold it), all hell would no doubt break loose (but is that fair/ reasonable?)
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I guess I'm the odd one out here.
Sure there's a lot of naked flesh on the tv, and of course Playboy is 'in good taste'. But when it comes to watching tv or buying a porn mag, I have a choice.
A choice I do not have when, to serve the chap in 2A, I have to reach across the chap in 2B 'reading' Hustler. Or watching some Russian hard core on his DVD player.
It all depends on the demeanour of the passenger in question, but there have been a few times where I've felt seriously uncomfortable.
Personally I do not think passengers' right extend to making serving staff feel that way. But again, that's only my opinion.
I've only once spoken up, and that's when one of my younger FAs was loath to go into the cabin because of a group of male pax who kept ringing the call bell and who went out of their way to make sure she got an eyefull of wide open vulva every time she served them something.
I didn't ask, but calmly informed them that they were now putting away their magazines and their DVD-player. Their English wasn't that hot, but they reacted with alacrity & sheepy looks and were sweet as sugar the rest of the flight.
The other FAs then fessed up that it had bothered all of them. Months later my boss showed me a letter the crew had written; the fact that the matter had been dealt with firmly but without fuss had made them feel 'looked after by the company', and it had meant a lot to them.
Motivation comes from the strangest incidents.
Sure there's a lot of naked flesh on the tv, and of course Playboy is 'in good taste'. But when it comes to watching tv or buying a porn mag, I have a choice.
A choice I do not have when, to serve the chap in 2A, I have to reach across the chap in 2B 'reading' Hustler. Or watching some Russian hard core on his DVD player.
It all depends on the demeanour of the passenger in question, but there have been a few times where I've felt seriously uncomfortable.
Personally I do not think passengers' right extend to making serving staff feel that way. But again, that's only my opinion.
I've only once spoken up, and that's when one of my younger FAs was loath to go into the cabin because of a group of male pax who kept ringing the call bell and who went out of their way to make sure she got an eyefull of wide open vulva every time she served them something.
I didn't ask, but calmly informed them that they were now putting away their magazines and their DVD-player. Their English wasn't that hot, but they reacted with alacrity & sheepy looks and were sweet as sugar the rest of the flight.
The other FAs then fessed up that it had bothered all of them. Months later my boss showed me a letter the crew had written; the fact that the matter had been dealt with firmly but without fuss had made them feel 'looked after by the company', and it had meant a lot to them.
Motivation comes from the strangest incidents.
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Breast Feeding too?
Another case where events surpassing a crew members personal comfort zone creates conflict..
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/...ding_passenger
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/...ding_passenger
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What if I was reading "Mein Kampf" ? Interesting thought experiment there....it`s got no pictures, as far as I`m aware. If it was spotted whilst on board an El Al flight, I might be in for a rough trip (unlikely, as my Palestinian lapel badge wouldn`t get me past check in). What about any other airline whose nosy CC saw it?
i have no prob with mens magazines.. (infact, i advocate them over cleo and cosmo and those other crappy female directed magazines that bend girls' minds into thinking that they should all be anorexic thin to get a boyfriend.
I have however asked a passenger to put away a porn magazine, this featured naked ladies with errhum, 'objects' and male companions. i advised him that perhaps a daytime flight wasnt the best place to be reading such material as it was in full view from the aisle. he huffed at me and put it in his bag.
i do not care what people read, and pics of girls in bikinis are so commonplace nowdays that there is nothing wrong with it. However, when it goes past the 'art' stage and into the 'porn' stage, thats when it becomes inappropriate.
17th century paintings of naked cherubs are ok. Hell, the Karma Sutra paintings are okay, but when they are photographed purely for the porn aspect, and stand out a great deal, thats when its not okay on my plane.
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aw come on guys as long as no one is offended....certainly not me!!!!..... and their are no little people around to see who cares! personally if it was naked good looking men in the mag i would be reading over the pax shoulder!!! seriously though....i think u have to look at it on an inividual level....if pax is behaving oddly then u may want to ask them nicely to put mag away but generally i dont see a problem...its healthy!!!! 
