Wrong or Right?

Y'know what baffles me? This isn't like a silly little thing. It literally confuses me until my brain starts to throb from non-understanding.

I'll explain myself with a story. Today our self-serve color machine decided to freeze. Legit. Out of nowhere it suddenly became non-responsive  The menu would pop up, but beyond that, it would just sit there and beep at you. No error messages. No warning. Just random inefficiency.

So about an hour before I had the time to call our helpdesk, I had this customer ask for hep with it, 'cause you know, it wasn't working. I went over with a fellow coworker to help try to remedy the situation. When we discovered it wasn't responding to anything (even a hard shutdown and reboot), we offered to make the copies for the customer behind the counter.

Now, before I continue, let me explain this customer. He was an older, squat gentleman. If you saw him on the street, you'd think, "Aw, he looks like a nice old man. Probably very respectable and conservative." You'd never guess he was carrying around a book of nude women and planned to copy them in a very public place. Not kidding in the slightest.

As he tried to discretely hide the front cover (and failed miserably), he said in an abrupt sort of way, "No thanks." He tucked the book under his arm, facing the cover toward himself, and we apologized to him as he gruffly muttered something before he walked briskly out of the building.

Here's what confuses me.

If it's so okay for someone to be into porn or sex or any sort of sin, then why do we struggle so hard to hide it? I'm positing a question I really want an explanation for. So often we're told to be "tolerant" of others and their choices. To accept them and be gracious in understanding and respecting their actions. To allow that our culture has grown "freer" - or a worse description - "more accepting" to a growing (de)sensitizing culture. We're supposed to be okay with the fact that PG-13 rated movies show sex scenes while R rated films garner full on NC-17 material. We're supposed to be okay with homosexuality. We're supposed to be okay with abortion. Because "that's what our culture has matured to."

Then why do we hide it?

Why do we so shamelessly tuck something away that's supposed to be okay? That's supposed to be accepted? Why do we feel the need to not let others - strangers or otherwise - to know about our obsession? Why keep secrets if what we keep secret is viewed as a-okay?

Just going out on a limb here, but could it be because it's wrong?