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Sexually explicit images viewable on a video screen in a nearby vehicle. Also: drive-by pornography, drive-by smut.
Example Citations:
"It was like when a friend tells you too many details about their personal life," says Jess Mortimer, who spent an eternity stuck in a Beltway traffic jam behind some guy watching really acrobatic stuff on his SUV's television. (This type of secondhand viewing is prevalent enough to have earned its own terminology: Drive-By Porn. Several states have passed or proposed legislation dedicated to preventing it.)
—Monica Hesse, "Publicly, a whole new lewdness," The Washington Post, November 12, 2009
—Monica Hesse, "Publicly, a whole new lewdness," The Washington Post, November 12, 2009
But always-on access will occasionally expose us — in some cases fleetingly, and in others in a more intrusive manner — to the communicating and viewing habits of others. A few years ago I recall reading news reports about "drive-by porn" — the visible display of pornographic images on video monitors inside vehicles.
—Timothy Zick, "Porn Air," Concurring Opinions, September 2, 2008
—Timothy Zick, "Porn Air," Concurring Opinions, September 2, 2008
Earliest Citation:
Andrea Carlton hadn't planned on telling her daughter about the birds and bees until she was 8 or 9. But that changed the night 4-year-old Catherine spotted a porno movie flickering on a screen in a minivan nearby.
—David Runk, "Drive-By Porn," The Canadian Press, March 10, 2004
—David Runk, "Drive-By Porn," The Canadian Press, March 10, 2004
Notes:
A slightly older variation on this theme is porn that you see while driving by a shop that has a salacious window display:
You won't be able to miss Object. In fact, it fairly well jumps out at you from its street-side glass display. No wonder. It was voted best "drive-by porn" in last year's City Paper, you can go inside to find all the fetish wear you could possibly want (and probably a lot you don't want).
—Liz Steinberg, "Mount Vernon features hip shops, posh restaurants and wicked bars," The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, September 6, 2001
—Liz Steinberg, "Mount Vernon features hip shops, posh restaurants and wicked bars," The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, September 6, 2001
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