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Plenty of people have cited overzealous prosecution, which is awful but fortunately rare. The more likely risk is that the image could be redistributed without
by noident 7y ago
Plenty of people have cited overzealous prosecution, which is awful but fortunately rare. The more likely risk is that the image could be redistributed without your permission, either in the form of "revenge porn" or from someone taking your phone and copying the image (think during an electronic border search, or the more banal case of lending your phone to someone else and they see something they shouldn't have.) If those images get out, you're in a situation where your nudes are floating around the internet forever.
- scarejunba 7y agoSure, but we’ve manufactured the danger here. There’s no inherent danger. Doing backflips off a rock is dangerous, but having your photos on the Internet only hurts you because we choose to have it hurt people. That’s completely changeable. In fact, I think we could stop that being ‘dangerous’ in a generation.
- paulddraper 7y ago> having your photos on the Internet only hurts you because we choose to have it hurt people. That’s completely changeable. I think you are much too casually regarding human nature and millennia of human interactions.
- scarejunba 7y agoAnd I think you underestimate the degree to which social actions are mutable. Street parking, diamond engagement rings, acceptance of homosexuality, “miscegenation”, drug use, alcohol use: these are all things that became default culture within a generation in many places. Human nature is a rapidly alterable thing. Things that were unheard of become acceptable very fast with shifts in society.
- dymk 7y agoThen put your money where your mouth is, and post your nudes to some public forums with your name attached to it. Should be easy if it's no big deal, right?
- scarejunba 7y agoI feel that would prove nothing but perhaps you could tell me what you think I'm saying so I can see if maybe I'm misunderstanding you now or if I didn't put across what I meant clearly earlier. Just to short-circuit some things: * I think we can change attitudes within a generation where having your nudes online isn't harmful * I think being harmful is different from being embarrassed. For instance, I'd be embarrassed if I had my fly open all day or I had a sticker on the shirt I was wearing but it wouldn't be dangerous.
- megous 7y agoOr perhaps talk to people and raise kids in such a way that there's not tabu around other people's nudity? That may have more effect. More nudity on the internet will change much less, certainly.
- dymk 7y agoHow does the way I raise my children keep other people from harassing and ostracizing them?
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- megous 7y agoHuman nature? Cultural or regional or religious artifact, maybe. Ever seen some tribal communities (in hotter climates), walking around half or naked naked all day. They are not human?
- paulddraper 7y agoThere are a number of non-random reasons humans wear clothes. Climate is only one. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160919-the-real-origin-of-clothes http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160919-the-real-origin-of-c...
- ianai 7y agoExactly!!!! I have been thinking similarly and wish to see the thought expressed more often. Just because an actor or actress does a naked scene doesn’t diminish their ability to act. Everybody is naked under their clothes. Get over it society.