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Presumably both of you will now go ahead and post naked pictures of yourself since you don't care if anyone sees them?

Perhaps follow up with bank and medical records?

Or do you feel that privacy only applies to things other than nudity?

Oh and I'm sure you wouldn't mind hundreds of people contacting you and your employer and calling you all sorts of names.

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No. Though I obviously can't speak for either of the folks above, I read their reactions as them not caring whether other people saw nude pictures of them. Instead, they care about other folks' reactions to those pictures and that is what the above replies want to guard against. If the latter (the reaction by others) wasn't negative, the former (the posting of nude photos) wouldn't have a stigma that the jerks in the linked article could exploit.

I think the fact, as per the article, a victim teaching at a school was treated like the perpetrator is partially what they are referring to.

Just like the good old days where the rape victims were the ones at fault.

Society has a lot to blame for here as well.

Rape victim-blaming still happens. A lot.

Sadly, we recently saw it on HN.

> victim teaching at a school was treated like the perpetrator

I thought the problem was people calling (i.e. harassing) the school about her?

I would hope they gave her some time to deal with things, then let her back in her job.

>> victim teaching at a school was treated like the perpetrator > I thought the problem was people calling (i.e. harassing) the school about her?

No. People calling was problem of the school. Treating her like perpetrator was her problem and her workplace was at fault there.

In decent societies nudity isn't even something considered worth taking pictures over. Try visiting Austria for example during the summer and taking a swim. Good luck find any non-naked beaches (at least partial), where anyone cares.

Not everyone in Austria takes part in nude beaches, etc, etc ... Is this really where we are at HN? We are going to pretend that big bad America is the only place in the world where there are any people that assign any sort of charge to sexuality?

I do apologise if I generalized there. Just my perspective as a foreigner in Austria, it feels like a wonderland when it comes to the body image.

Noone says it's only America. Only that it's not sane.

> Presumably both of you will now go ahead and post naked pictures of yourself since you don't care if anyone sees them?

Don't get your hopes up. Everyone has a lot to say on this topic and why 'Our culture is bad. Everyone should grow up - having your nudes online is not a big deal', but they'll never deliver themselves.

Well. 12% of the photos of the victims that she was trying to locate were self uploads so there are people who not only don't care if their nudity gets published. They actually want it.

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