Sluts with cell phones
Filed Under (Culture War) by Don C on 05-06-2008
Perhaps it’s time we quit acting like nudity is such a big deal. Technology is making nudity and porn ubiquitous and threatens to rip this moral issue right from the church lady’s hands. With today’s technology trying to stifle people from posting themselves nude, especially teens, is like taking someone to the Nabisco factory and telling them they can smell everything except for the chocolate chip cookies.
It would seem that many of today’s kids and young adults just don’t think of nudity as exploitation. Yesterday a photograph of a nude kid, especially if erotically posed, meant there was a large degree of possibility that some exploitation was going on. Maybe even abuse. Today it just indicates a slut with a cell phone. Both male and female I’m sure. You want to see a photo of my cock, just drop me an email, okay.
Today, nudity is just fun. People, including teens, who get a thrill from being seen naked can choose to make it so. Yesterday, there were many barriers to this behavior, not the least of which were cops trying to put anyone in jail for being nude much less taking and distributing photos of nudity. In the old days an adult was required to work a camera so teen nudity must therefore be categorized as exploitation, right? And since most photographers were male, even erotic images of women must be exploitation. It is completely out of the question that some people enjoy looking at people in the nude and that others like having people look upon their nude bodies.
But what about today? Today everyone has a cell phone with a camera and can choose to self-publish nude images of themselves whenever they wish. Is this self-exploitation still a crime against all those in society who think nudity is a criminal matter regardless of whose decision it was to strip? Can self-exploitation make you go blind?
One thing all these nervous Nellies fail to realize is how hard it is to get anyone to look at anything put on the Internet. Even nudity. Billions and billions of pages of everything imaginable is already available on the web so putting a few nude pics on the Internet is like pissing in the ocean and sending them to friends is nobody’s business.
Personally I have to wonder about people who spend their days poring over the Internet trying to find photos of nude teens and then trying to prosecute someone for it. There is something contradictory there.
