In a recent Australian election, one of the candidates had an old boyfriend sell a set of semi-nude pictures taken in the 1970's into a paper. The paper, of co

In a recent Australian election, one of the candidates had an old boyfriend sell a set of semi-nude pictures taken in the 1970's into a paper. The paper, of course, ran them as a front-page news and everyone was left questioning the moral issue. Basically : so what? End of the story was: she didn't get elected, but then she was unlikely to be elected anyway. And eventually she produced evidence that the photos were fake (by releasing a photo taken around the same date which showed her with a different haircut), and the papers had to retract the story and officially apologise, which they of course did after the election. What I am saying here is that you don't need digital cameras and the internet to get nude photos circulated, and that I think it will become the norm for just about everyone to have embarassing photos lurking under the closet, and will become a non-issue for employment, politics and more. As long as it is plain-vanilla pics in your underwear, I doubt it would cause any long term effects.