Do People Still do That?

This morning on the subway, a mid-forties aged man in the seat ahead of me decided to pull out a copy of Penthouse magazine and started flipping pages... As if that wasn't creepy enough on its own, next, he pulled out a piece of paper started to write an erotic story!

I positioned myself so I could read what he was writing and it started out like this:

"It had been a long time since we'd seen each other, so I really wanted to make the most of the evening... You were wearing some sexy new lingerie and I couldn't help but notice-"

At that point we arrived at my stop so I wasn't able to read any further, but I have a pretty good idea about the artistic direction his story was headed... But the question that I keep finding myself asking is, what the fuck is this guy doing still buying dirty magazines and handwriting erotic stories?

I don't think I've even bought a porn magazine since the internet was invented, and I can't even imagine leaving physical paper evidence that I was writing porn!

On the one hand, if you can't stop yourself from checking out porn during your morning commute then you must be a pretty hardcore addict... but then again, the magazine, the stationary? That's pretty amateur. Even the occasional porn consumer knows that you need to either create plausible deniability ("Oh, Moe Greene must have been using my computer earlier in the week, and you know what a perv he is...") or total "Black Ops" secrecy, (Like hiding your erotic writing under unassuming file names in folders that nobody would ever open)... But if you get caught with a magazine or worse yet, an erotic story written in your handwriting, there is no explaining yourself out of that situation.

These are the basic, fundamental rules to being a man in this century... Yet somehow, this guy never adapted! Part of me felt like staging an intervention for him, but another part of me felt like I was seeing porn-Darwinism at work. Because of the internet, streaming videos, and free websites cluttering the internet, this is the golden age of porn we're living in... And if this guy can't figure it out, then maybe he doesn't deserve it?




*I found it particularly creepy/interesting that he was using work stationary to write his "story". Apparently he works at Howard University Hospital. I'm not sure how I feel about that.