Difference between screen and reality
Is there a difference in keeping your eyes open in the “real” world and the virtual world? In other words, we see that many people, God bless them, are careful to keep their eyes open in public, but it seems that most people have no problem being exposed to the leisure culture of movies and series that feature immodest things that they would not dare to risk seeing on the street. Besides the fear of uniqueness and novelty that exists in the outside world, are there other halachic differences between something immodest in real life and something immodest on screen?
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That which arouses forbidden thoughts is forbidden. Although in the case of seeing a person’s covered parts that are forbidden halakhically, there is perhaps room to see this as a formal prohibition (not only if and when it leads to thoughts), then only the sight of an actual person was forbidden (such as seeing hair or hearing a voice when it does not lead to thoughts). The Ritva saw this as the end of Kiddushin, which wrote that everything is forbidden only because it leads to thoughts and depends on each individual.
As for watching movies like walking down the street, there is the rule “it is not possible and it is not permissible,” and I have already touched on this here before. See for example here:
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