"Hey, you may not realize this but you're holding your phone so others can see the screen. Please angle it down." And leave it at that. But I'd at least have said that much. Or better yet, go talk to a flight attendant privately and ask the attendant to say this without identifying you as the person who told them. Many flight attendants would absolutely do this for a passenger. (And some would not. But I'd rather at least ask an attendant say it than give this guy any idea I was the one seeing his cruddy screen shots)

The fact some images were grainy might indicate these are photos he took himself. I agree it's gross, disrespectful, and incredibly oblivious that he was ogling this stuff in a public setting, OP. You're not overreacting but there was little you or a flight attendant could have done short of saying something like what I said above. And I'll go there: I'd have kept an eye on him if he seemed to be seated next to a solo female traveler of any age. I'd be immediately thinking of several recent cases where men were caught groping women and teens during flights. (Go on, DCUM porn-lovers and defenders of male grossness, call me a pearl-clutcher. Hope your sister, daughter, wife or mom isn't seated next to a perv on their next flights!)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He was probably just scrolling social media. Newsflash: don’t post photos of yourself on social media.

It was not social media. It was his camera roll, and I am not ashamed that I was being nosy at all! He was a freaking weirdo.

He's probably being scammed by some online "friend" pretending to by the "woman" in the photos, and he's sending "her" money.

Or he's fallen in love with some OnlyFans woman and she sends him private photos.

I have a flight coming up and I was thinking to check out Nabokov's "Lolita" from the library and read that on the flight. Would you turn me in?

I would have used my eyeballs to .... look elsewhere.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He shouldn't be looking at things that offend others or getting himself aroused. I would probably be too intimidated to say anything but I don't think you would have been wrong to do so.

Ok thought police. What’s next, policing movies they have on planes with tons of graphic violence and nudity?

New poster. Are you unaware that there are "airplane edits" of movies already, PP? Virtually no airline shows any scenes related to air crashes; those get re-edited. And depending on the airline and regions where it flies, some movies' violence, and especially sex and skin, are edited or simply chopped out completely. So yes, there is already "policing movies they have on planes with tons of graphic violence and nudity," PP. If you're seeing what you feel are unedited sex and violence, you're likely flying in the U.S. on a U.S. carrier. Plenty of articles explaining all this. Stow your indigation about "policing" since you didn't even realize it already happens.

Anonymous wrote:He was probably just scrolling social media. Newsflash: don’t post photos of yourself on social media.

It was not social media. It was his camera roll, and I am not ashamed that I was being nosy at all! He was a freaking weirdo.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As weird as it was, doubtful anything would be done. Maybe they would move you or him.

Yeah agree... and to be clear I didn't feel like one of us needed to be moved. Just got VERY bad vibes from him that if he's looking at that content on a plane, what is he doing in private with these girls?

As if any of these women would be alone in private with some creepy old dude who has no manners and can’t afford first class. It’s gross what he was doing, but there’s zero chance of what you’re worrying about happening.

Anonymous wrote:I was on a flight yesterday and an older man diagonally in front of me was scrolling through his phone and it caught my eye because a picture popped up of a young woman in a bikini posing in a way that I knew it wasn't his daughter. Well, admittedly I was nosy and continued to watch as he flipped through a ton of grainy photos of this young woman, some other girls (appeared of legal age just decades younger) and pics of the backsides of others in restaurants/bars (looked like someone took those pics w/o knowledge). He was zooming in on some of the backsides, etc. It just felt... off. Would you have said anything to a flight attendant, etc? Not sure what they could have even done. I get that this likely was nothing but if it was a situation like sx trafficking person, who would you report it to?

You sound completely unhinged.

Anonymous wrote:He shouldn't be looking at things that offend others or getting himself aroused. I would probably be too intimidated to say anything but I don't think you would have been wrong to do so.

Ok thought police. What’s next, policing movies they have on planes with tons of graphic violence and nudity?

He was probably just scrolling social media. Newsflash: don’t post photos of yourself on social media.

Anonymous wrote:[/b]He shouldn't be looking at things that offend others[b] or getting himself aroused. I would probably be too intimidated to say anything but I don't think you would have been wrong to do so.

What?? Sorry you don’t get to decide what is offensive to others. No, he shouldn’t be doing this in public but you don’t get to decide what’s offensive.

It's not illegal. He's a disgusting creep, obviously, but given the situation, I don't think a flight attendant would have found grounds to ask him to stop.

I think it's super weird that you monitored him and his scrolling. That's beyond creepy.

Same thing I would do if I saw a woman looking at shirtless men and zooming in on abs.


Nothing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As weird as it was, doubtful anything would be done. Maybe they would move you or him.

Yeah agree... and to be clear I didn't feel like one of us needed to be moved. Just got VERY bad vibes from him that if he's looking at that content on a plane, what is he doing in private with these girls?

Imagine arresting men based on bad vibes.

No offense, but what’s the point of asking that today? You can’t do anything about it anyway.

He was creepy he was wrong you knew that and you still didn’t say anything because it most likely wasn’t illegal. Would you say something next time? I doubt it.