Why would this 'Alice' chick send her pic to her 'friend', if she did not think the pic was pornographic? Also, why would she call these people who stole her picture perverts if she did not consider her
pic private **because its pornographic** Duh!
If Alice sent pictures to her friend of herself naked then there must be a certain level of trust and loyalty between Alice and her friends that they would not spread her pictures out into wider society without her consent.
Yet, I'd have to agree that even in this relationship of "trust," her pictures would be pornographic if some of her friends are male and they get an arousal from looking at her pictures.
But it isn't impossible even for there to be an Alice who has nothing against her pictures getting out into wider society. This is an Alice who has nothing against the general public seeing her naked. This seems to be the Alice that Nick_A seems to be talking about.
I suppose the problem is that society doesn't share Alice's values. The rest of the people in society don't want pictures of themselves naked available to the general public. Alice's nudity to these people is just rude and offensive, that someone would just expose themselves to such an extent. There is certainly a risk of Alice's pictures becoming child pornography, but apparently, Alice doesn't care. Alice's standard of modesty is far more relaxed than the rest of people in society.
Let's suppose, for example, that you went to a Muslim country. In Muslim countries, anything less than wearing a hijab or burkha is considered to be immodest or even a kind of nakedness. A woman who shows her arms, legs and hair is considered to be trying to be seductive.
I am sure that the reaction that a lightly-clad Western woman would get in a Muslim country would be similar to the reaction you get in Western countries toward child pornography and paedophilia. In a Muslim country, to omit a hijab is to be naked. This isn't to say that Alice's actions don't lead to child pornography and that it's ok.
I'm not talking about the paedophile here. I'm talking about Alice. I wonder if this is what Nick_A wants? The OP wants to talk about the risk of paedophilia. Nick_A just wants to talk about Alice. Alice's standard of modesty is more relaxed even than the mainstream Westerner.
There's not much you can do about this Alice, the Alice who has nothing against her nude pictures getting into the general public's hands. However, I can't say the same for the Alice who entrusts her pictures to a small circle of friends. That Alice is foolish. She shouldn't be sending pictures like that at all if she can't trust her friends.
If we ignore the risk of paedophilia, I think it all comes down to your personal values as well as your personal standard of modesty. The Alice who doesn't care if her pictures get out into wider society is obviously an extreme case.
I can't condemn that Alice if that is how she thinks. Actually I can't condemn any Alice there could ever be, because Alice is Alice. It's a case of moral relativism.
And by the way, this does not make God anything! It makes humans sexual creatures. That's all. God created us as such, but commanded us to be modest with our sexuality. Get it Nick??? Modesty, mean anything to you???
Apart from pictures of naked people, there are other kinds of pornography, pornography that isn't illegal, even in public. Take for example, a man and woman kissing in public, or the Song of Solomon in the Tanakh/Old Testament.
Who doesn't love an erotic romance or love story? Kissing in public is something some people enjoy watching. That is pornography and it isn't against the law. Pornography is the imagination and fantasy of something sexual that you want or want to do yourself. Who doesn't like a wet, sloppy, passionate kiss, exchanging the juices in each other's mouths as a way of exchanging souls?
Maybe while they're doing it the tongues start reaching over to the other side . . . wet and slippery, sliding back and forth, back and forth, as if, all of a sudden, life was a roller coaster ride. They want to keep doing it, as if there's no letting go, until you go weee weee weee . . . all the way home. You find a new universe, a new reality, in the mouth of another person.
How's that for pornography? Do you want me to write a novel about this? Have a think about that tonight before you go to bed. It may be a new source of extraordinary entertainment. It's going to be an adventure of a lifetime. Making love was never so good.
Maybe you'd call it immodesty, and pornography, but it's legal isn't it?
What about M15+ movies with adult themes? That's legal for adults. Sex scenes depicting intercourse, depicting the night of passion you'd like to have for yourself. The funny noises men and women make when they're making love.
This content is out of bounds for little kids. I suppose, obviously, it goes both ways. Not only do you not want people having pictures of kids naked, but you don't want kids watching adults naked and having sex.
It's human nature spilled out into the open for eyes that are too young.
