Friday, May 06, 2011

The Naked Truth

OK, here's a question for you - what if you were looking at one of those web sites where people post pictures of their wives and girlfriends naked, and you recognised one of them? How would you react? Would you keep on looking out of curiosity, (after all, you'd probably always wondered what she looked like naked)? And if you looked at the pictures, would you ever be able to look her in the eye if you were to meet her again, particularly if you found the pictures arousing? An even worse scenario: what if you Google 'My wife naked', (obviously, you'd use their real name in the search), and the top three positions of the results were occupied by web sites showing graphic nude pictures of said spouse, pictures you hadn't taken?

Now, I think I need to make clear at this point that I've never actually faced either of these dilemmas. Not only am I not married (so the second scenario wouldn't apply), but I've also never come across any naked pictures of female friend online, (or anywhere else, for that matter). I don't Google their names, with or without thew 'naked' suffix, either, (I'm too scared of what I might find). However, it is one of those questions which I sometimes ponder in the wee small hours of the morning, when I can't sleep. In part, it all comes down to our rather hypocritical attitude toward porn - we have no problem in admiring the naked form of some model we've never met, she's just an object. But if you substitute a real live woman you have genuine feelings for (whether of love or friendship), instead of the anonymous model, then it's a different matter. It suddenly becomes awkward and voyeuristic. It turns from harmless fun to exploitation. Especially if those images are publicly available and you know that thousands of other pervs like you are also ogling them. Porn is fine as long as it isn't your wife/girlfriend/daughter/sister/friend posing naked, but someone else's. Someone you don't know. So, how would you react to those pictures?

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