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posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday September 30 2014, @11:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the nobody-calls-anymore dept.

It’s time to face the naked truth. According to the New York Daily News the latest celebrity phone hacking scandal hasn't stopped or even slowed people down from taking naked selfies. In fact the McAfee security company’s 2014 Love, Relationships & Technology survey reveals that 54% of their respondents regularly send or receive intimate photos, videos, texts and emails, and that number spikes to 70% when it comes to those aged 18 to 24. "I can only think of two people my age who haven't done it. It becomes like a sort of weird correspondence. If I snapchat someone a pic, they would send one back," says Julia, a 22-year-old English student, "It's sort of like a flirty thing, you meet a boy on a night out, you'd snapchat him a picture instead of texting him."

“If you’re taking selfies on a regular basis, that is going to get boring,” says John Suler, a member of the editorial board for the journal, Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking. “So it becomes more risque, and that eventually leads to nude photos.” The desire to capture the naked body and share it with others is nothing new. “Every new medium that comes along, from cave paintings onward, no sooner does the medium get invented then people start using it for nudes,” says Robert Thompson, a pop-culture historian at Syracuse University. “We’ve found very explicit nude paintings on the walls of Pompeii.” While abstaining from taking nudies altogether is the only way to guarantee they won’t leak, it’s not a realistic approach for many. It’s more practical to password protect your phone and photo storage, doublecheck the recipient before hitting “send,” and to only sext someone you trust completely. “We have decided that the things we like to do online are things we like so much that we’re willing to take the risk,” says Thompson. “I know my credit card is not totally secure anywhere online... but I am willing to take that chance because I want to be able to order things online.”

 
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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by hoochiecoochieman on Tuesday September 30 2014, @11:57AM

    by hoochiecoochieman (4158) on Tuesday September 30 2014, @11:57AM (#99949)

    Just legalise nudity everywhere. Problem solved.

    I hope the vision of some naked hot chicks on the street can clean my eyes from the inevitable legions of walruses.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by AnonTechie on Tuesday September 30 2014, @12:01PM

    by AnonTechie (2275) on Tuesday September 30 2014, @12:01PM (#99954) Journal

    Even if they legalized nudity ... will somebody please think of the children !

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    • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 30 2014, @12:17PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 30 2014, @12:17PM (#99959)

      I think children are already legal, so you don't need to legalize them.

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by VLM on Tuesday September 30 2014, @12:45PM

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 30 2014, @12:45PM (#99974)

      Not just the kids, someone please think of the "people of walmart" website. Not thinking that would be improved much by lack of clothing.

      A lot of this is stereotypical journalist pablum where the only people that matter culturally are young hot white blond women, selfies are just like abductions or missing persons or crime victims in that way. Other cultural groups don't exist per mass media.

      Have to be realistic that no one wants to see most nude selfies, or most nude beaches, although the journalist fixation will be solely on the hotties.

      Nude soylent news. Yeah, Obi Wan waves his hand and says "we're not the sausage fest you're looking for".

    • (Score: 2) by EvilJim on Wednesday October 01 2014, @01:58AM

      by EvilJim (2501) on Wednesday October 01 2014, @01:58AM (#100228) Journal

      There's nekkid pics of me as a kid floating around in some old Nudist mags... is that 'think of the children' enough for you? :)

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by kaszz on Tuesday September 30 2014, @12:16PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday September 30 2014, @12:16PM (#99958) Journal

    The problem is people enforcing negative behaviour against individuals or groups that happens to be or do something that some people doesn't fancy. After all if someone is found to be naked on photo.. what is the problem really?

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Sir Garlon on Tuesday September 30 2014, @01:59PM

      by Sir Garlon (1264) on Tuesday September 30 2014, @01:59PM (#99997)

      After all if someone is found to be naked on photo.. what is the problem really?

      Agreed. Being found naked in a photo should be about as embarrassing as being found naked in the shower. Yeah I only want my wife to see me naked, but if a nude photo of me were to exist and to get circulated around the office, it's more shame on my co-workers for peeping than on me for being seen.

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      [Sir Garlon] is the marvellest knight that is now living, for he destroyeth many good knights, for he goeth invisible.
      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 30 2014, @03:05PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 30 2014, @03:05PM (#100014)

        > more shame on my co-workers

        It's not the shame so much as the PTSD.

        • (Score: 2) by Sir Garlon on Tuesday September 30 2014, @03:26PM

          by Sir Garlon (1264) on Tuesday September 30 2014, @03:26PM (#100028)

          I guess there is a nude photo of me that has been circulated around!

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          [Sir Garlon] is the marvellest knight that is now living, for he destroyeth many good knights, for he goeth invisible.
        • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday September 30 2014, @10:23PM

          by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday September 30 2014, @10:23PM (#100139) Journal

          What is the connection with PTSD?

        • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday September 30 2014, @10:46PM

          by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday September 30 2014, @10:46PM (#100149) Journal

          Wait ... you say, he's the Goatse guy? ;-)

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Sir Garlon on Tuesday September 30 2014, @02:02PM

    by Sir Garlon (1264) on Tuesday September 30 2014, @02:02PM (#99998)

    I forget where I read this but it rings true. "The female body is a thing of beauty that has been a focus of the arts since the dawn of civilization. The male body is lumpy and hairy and should never be seen by the light of day."

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    [Sir Garlon] is the marvellest knight that is now living, for he destroyeth many good knights, for he goeth invisible.
    • (Score: 2) by Kromagv0 on Tuesday September 30 2014, @05:57PM

      by Kromagv0 (1825) on Tuesday September 30 2014, @05:57PM (#100064) Homepage

      lumpy and hairy and should never be seen by the light of day

      I work hard at this and I think at this point I could take of shirt off and the glare would could be seen from outer space.

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    • (Score: 2) by umafuckitt on Tuesday September 30 2014, @10:47PM

      by umafuckitt (20) on Tuesday September 30 2014, @10:47PM (#100150)

      "The male body is lumpy and hairy and should never be seen by the light of day."

      The ancient Greeks would likely have disagreed with you there.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 01 2014, @06:00AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 01 2014, @06:00AM (#100317)

      Male gaze [wikipedia.org], anyone? There's approximately an equal proportion of women that heterosexual men would want to see nude as men that heterosexual women would want to see nude. Actually, the latter category is likely significantly larger because men tend to only be attracted to young (early 20s) women while women tend to be attracted to men near their age according to data recently released by OKCupid [fivethirtyeight.com]. The proportion of "attractive men" gets even larger when you consider that statistics tend to show that men being attracted to men is more common than women being attracted to women. I'll accept that both proportions are low, but if anything, there's more people who would like to see nude men than nude women.