The silliest of sexual encounters ws overshadowed by the sleaziest of reactions – photographing it and spreading it around the Internet.
And the media joined in by promoting the story to a huge audience. Shameful, but unfortunately that’s what our media have become.
Sure if something like that happened in front of them would have a look. For a short time. But to perv, take pics and then purvey it around social media looks sleazy.
And there’s quite a lot who seem to think it was an awful insight into our modern modem linked society.
Pam Corkery at NZ Herald writes Pub’s patrons took this way too far … shame on them
What a creepy display from the patrons of the Carlton pub in Christchurch who group-watched and broadcast a free live sex display to the world.
Obviously it must have been amusing. You’re having a few beers and a bit of a yarn then suddenly there’s horizontal folk-dancing happening right across the road in a well-lit office building.
Most of us would have nudged, winked, laughed and possibly even given words of encouragement. It’s just sex, it’s fun, and it’s a bit risque.
But after a few minutes it’s also fair to expect that at least one watcher would have raced across the road to alert the pair – even if it meant heaving a brick at their window.
If the man and woman having such public sex are exhibitionists they would have been spurred on, and grateful.
If they are private people, things would have been nipped in the bud, uncomfortably but still with gratitude.
If they are married people who are married to other people, or boyfriend and girlfriend – but not to each other – people, they would thank you for the rest of their lives.
Instead, the patrons of the Carlton bar filmed and photographed the pair and sent out images which will bounce around social media forever.
Pissed people often don’t give a stuff about how their actions might impact on others but even after the event there were people willing to laugh about it on national TV news.
Already the pair face grief at work. Jobs could be at risk. But there are far worse scenarios. This couple who surrendered to the age-old rush of blood to predictable extremities could be parents, partners, and certainly family members.
New Zealanders kid ourselves that we are good neighbours, Samaritans, and legends who do what a mate would do.
Friday night at the Carlton Bar gives the lie to that.
I can understand there will always be some people who will be pervy purveyors without any consideration for consequences for others.
The media is another thing – why did they pick it up and publicise it like they did? They publicised the perverts, which makes them a party to the shame that Corkery talks about.
The media were willing pervert publicisers, because that’s what promoting this on the internet will have achieved.
