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'Spycam' Epidemic Seizes South Korea's Women

posted by chromas on Monday October 22 2018, @08:21PM   Printer-friendly

Phoenix666 writes:

Al Jazeera:

South Korea is in the grip of a "spycam" epidemic with covert footage of sex, nudity, and urination posted online in what amounts to a "social death penalty" for thousands of female victims.

The footage may be taken surreptitiously by boyfriends or captured on covert devices as small as car keys. Daily camera checks are now part of life for cleaners in many public toilets.

The spy camera phenomenon has reached such epidemic proportions in tech-savvy South Korea that tens of thousands of women have taken to the streets to march for action.

Srsly?

Previously: South Koreans Protest Spy Cam Pornography

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by edIII on Tuesday October 23 2018, @12:47AM (1 child)

    by edIII (791) on Tuesday October 23 2018, @12:47AM (#752266)

    Bring back the 1950s when schoolchildren had to shower in the gym naked together.

    So, Co-ed bathrooms? I remember not too long after that having gym class and the showers too. Except, I sincerely do not remember showering, or having the chance to shower, with Rebecca and her huge tits in 8th grade.

    Besides, South Koreans engage in communal bathing where everybody is naked. There are separate sections for men and women, and the shared sections demand some type of underwear from what I understand. That means they're already using to seeing each other's naked bodies, just not the opposite genders.

    You allude to desensitization, but in ways that aren't applicable. This is about South Korean men feitishing young women and their bathroom habits, along with traditional notions of honor relating to a woman's chastity. Obviously, having your cooch seen pissing in public takes away from your honor and makes you unable to marry in the future, in their culture. South Koreans are not the only ones with these attitudes of "women spoiling" and being unsuitable for polite society. Japan has this too.

    Except, Japan doesn't have an epidemic of Japanese men creating upskirt and pissing videos. At least not without consent apparently. The dynamics at play here go far beyond desensitization to secondary sexual characteristics.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Tuesday October 23 2018, @12:58AM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday October 23 2018, @12:58AM (#752275) Journal

    Except, Japan doesn't have an epidemic of Japanese men creating upskirt and pissing videos. At least not without consent apparently. The dynamics at play here go far beyond desensitization to secondary sexual characteristics.

    If they don't (and I'm not sure that's the case), then they are behind the curve and must catch up to maintain the nation's reputation. All able-bodied Japanese herbivores should proceed to Akihabara immediately in order to purchase spy cameras. Do it for Glorious Nip-on.

    That means they're already using to seeing each other's naked bodies, just not the opposite genders.

    If people will pay for spycam videos, we could see women secretly filming other women for some quick cash. Given enough demand, there will eventually be a supply.

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