I’ve got nothing against it, but I do think it’s juvenile. It’s something I would expect from the adolescent - college aged people. My attitude is, if you want to see my goods, get me to really like you and get me in the mood. LOL
I’ve gotten to like you, I’ve gotten you in the mood. I’ve seen your goods (& used my other senses on them, too); maybe multiple times, but now it’s a different night & I’m at my house & you’re at yours.
That’s the only scenario where I’d consider sending nudes; someone I’m in a relationship with & might be able to trust. Though I’ve seen/heard of enough scorched-earth breakups/divorces that I’m not sure I’d trust someone having them at any point.
This thread reminds me of one of my favorite memes:
By now, I suspect everyone has gotten one of these. The first one I got was probably around 2018. That one was interesting as it follows the same general script as all the ones I’ve gotten since (dozens), but that one did include a plaintext password of mine that I last used in the early 2000s. So it started out like: “Hope you’re having a great day, because it’s, unfortunately, going to get worse. I cracked your password, XXXXXX, and was able to deploy malware [described in some detail] and have video of you watching some websites and doing things to yourself. You have good taste. Etc. Please send money, etc.” I admit, it did catch me off-guard, but none of it made any sense, so I ignored it without videos of me being released to my contact list. 
They get the emails and passwords from lists sold via data breaches (or available for free once they get around) and just use it in a template. Seeing your password no doubt adds credibility for a lot of people unless the rest of it is obviously nonsense (don’t have a webcam, never looked at porn, etc). Even if they had a working password, it’s not as though going onto your GMail account lets them install malware on your PC but the average user won’t consider that if they’re already scared.
That’s my impression as well.
The existence of extortion schemes would seem to further corroborate the phenomenon. It wouldn’t make sense to send out generic. “We have hacked your pictures and will send them if you don’t X” messages if most people didn’t have such stuff on their phone.
That’s what I’m referring to. Not kids sending out random pictures to other adolescents they meet online. I’m talking about sending photos to your SO as part of an ongoing relationship.
My girlfriend went out of town last week. I got a photo of her getting out of the shower wearing nothing but the towel on her head. Cute and sexy at the same time.
It doesn’t even have to be explicit. Sometimes a picture of cleavage, or one’s derrière, goes a long way towards foreplay (as a guy, I find that wearing a towel is a better look than being totally naked)
But who took it!
Mirrors, my friend! Mirrors
The generic email extortion messages are “We hacked your webcam and caught you masturbating to weird stuff and are going to show everyone what you were jerking off to.” Not “We got ur n00dz”.
This is certainly the extortion I’ve gotten scores of times. I’ve never gotten, “we found your sexts and will publish them”.
Those scams depend on absolute numbers, not percentages. Even if only 10% of the population has done it, that’s still plenty of people. Compare to the mass-mailed scams purporting to come from a bank: Most people don’t do business with that bank, either.
Marg of Arg and the Headless Man was an early Polaroid-enabled example of this.
At the time Polaroid cameras were cutting edge technology in England and the Ministry of Defence were one of the very few organisations that had them.
This infuriates me. Teen boys have committed suicide over it. God I hope when my son is a teen he knows he can come to his parents with this kind of stuff. I can tell him he can tell me anything, but I need him to believe it.
So you are saying that it has nothing to do with the topic of the OP? Odd, that.
I’m sure you know this but he needs to know about those kinds of scams before he’s a teen.
I wasn’t the first to mention it, either. Wacky, huh?
To answer the question, no way in hell am I putting nude pics in any digital form for any reason. I’ve heard of way too many horror stories.
I’m rather astonished how many people are willing to do it.
Also as some remembered being sent nude pics, I have a foggy memory of some board hiccup where we were all told the normal rules don’t apply and someone started a nude pics thread in the Pit. I did not participate, but I looked. One in particular I cannot forget.
I didn’t dream this, right?
No. They were migrating to a new version of software which happened over the course of two days or so. At some point they froze the board and that database was going to be the starting point. Everything posted between then and the new launch wouldn’t be saved so it was a free for all.
But, yeah, the wizard staff.
Oh thank God it wasn’t just me.
In the days- long ago past- when I looked good in a swimsuit, yes, I sent that. And I got some racy pictures back, but no nudes, etc. Bikinis, lingerie, once a banana in red lips- which is sexy sure.. However, I have been out of the dating pool for two decades.