Geez the Fappenning on 4chan and Reddit just released its third big release of naked celebrities. Poor Jennifer Lawrence must have three dozen photos out there. Kate Upton has some hardcore posted. I think over a hundred celebs have photos posted. Just incredible.
Lets assume this trend is representative of the general population ages 35 to 18. How many millions of people have nekkid photos on the cloud? :eek: Kind of staggering to think about that much rosy pink flesh.
I recall taking maybe 3 or 4 Polaroids of a couple of my gf’s tits in college. Tame stuff. They weren’t nude. Just pulling down a swim top or lifting a shirt.
Hats off to this new frisky and nude generation. Is this really a big thing for the millennium generation?
Been married over 25 years and I have **zero **nude photos of my wife. I know better than to even suggest it. An IPhone crammed up my posterior would be uncomfortable.
Everyone needs to remember to destroy any hard copies if you get terminally ill decades later, finding Polaroids of your parents having sex is NOT pleasant.
Apparently Apple automatically uploads anything you put on your phone to the icloud, so these photos could have been deleted years ago from the celebs iphones.
I guess its the availability of having a camera in your phone. Feeling bored? Take a selfie. Bored and adventurous? Take a nude photo. Camera is always right there inches from people’s hands.
Imagine taking a Polaroid camera with you on a date in 1981. WTF is that for?, your gf asks. Today everybody carries a camera everywhere they go.
ISTR the Master himself once wrote a column back in the day about how impossibly difficult it was to get your film developed by a reputable business if it had nudie stuff in it.
Not to mention, Polaroids are bulky, and the film is expensive. Any other camera, before the invention of digital, required the intervention of a 3rd party to get the picture developed.
I’m pretty sure that it was just the limitations of the technology that kept previous generations from doing this when they were young and impulsive.
I’ve noticed that personally, the older I get, the less I want to be the center of attention. I loved attention in high school. I loved it as a kid, but I don’t think ever as much as about age 14-17. It was still pretty cool in my 20s, but I didn’t embarrass myself as much seeking it. In my 30s, I could take it or leave it. Now I’m in my 40s, and I’d be happy living under a rock. I’m pretty lucky that most of what I did as a teen was ephemeral. Teenagers today are not so fortunate.
Yea, to repeat myself from another thread, with everyone now carrying miniature cameras on their phones that allow one to instantly produce and send pictures without involving a third party, it’d be weird if humans didn’t immediately start using them for sexual purposes.
I think a lot of it is when couples are far apart for a long period (something I imagine is true for actors and musicians a lot of the time). Emailing each other nudes is a good way to stay sexually intimate when you can’t physically get it on.
I am over 50 and could never imagine risking access to anything naked of me.
But, to get all deep and stuff, I think this acceptance of nudity and taking pics of yourself naked is part of the new internet/film everything culture. When the camera is always on, and folks are always talking about what they see, some longstanding Unspokens are going to get Spoken. I think the increased support we’ve seen over the past decade for women, for rooting out inappropriate racism, support for gay marriage, etc., are all related to pointing the internet’s camera at what we see everyday and doing the math.
Same thing with nudity - folks have sex on the brain. If the camera is always on, just accept it - and use it in today’s social media to your advantage.
Freaks me out, but not surprising to see among folks who grew up in an always-on world.
ETA: I hope that doesn’t come across like I am supportive of the pics getting leaked. No way - completely unacceptable. I am only saying I am not surprised that people in their 20’s have pics on their phones - it’s part of their world, I guess…
While I have no empirical data to hand, I would be astonished if the truth were not that people take way more naked pictures of themselves, and each other, now than they used to. This would be for the reasons previously articulated; namely, that it is easier, safer, cheaper and quicker than it ever was before.
Perhaps the more interesting question is why?
A few guesses off the top of my head…
Young people in relationships get horny and miss each other - photos and videos are good ways of mitigating said lonesome horniness (as previously speculated here).
People are more narcissistic these days; they take nude selfies and stuff because they want to be adored and adore themselves
It’s all because of the patriarchy: girls are coerced into taking naked pictures of themselves because men are evil
Every other aspect of young people’s lives is filmed, photographed and recorded - why would it be any different for the nudie bits?
Who knows, perhaps in the future it will be totally normal for everyone to see everyone else naked…
I’m in my early 30s so I guess I’m part of the generation in question.
Dropbox archives every photo I take with my phone, some of which happen to be on the sexy side of things. I use the same Dropbox account for work so I don’t like having my h0t n00dz saved there, so I delete the ones I don’t like and move the ones I do onto my PS3’s NAS. I can access that from my phone if I am away from home and really need to see/show some homebrew porn.
This is definitely a factor. And it’s not because kids are less connected, as some people like to say, but because they are more connected (by their phone that’s always attached to their hip), so being out of touch seems longer.
While some do do this, I don’t think there’s any more narcissism than before. Most such uploads are for the opposite reason, seeking validation and reassurance. While not nudes, I’ve seen many of my younger friends post sexy stuff on Facebook, and it’s almost never about “look at how hot I am” (except from the occasional guy) but “I feel ugly. I’m not ugly, right?”
It’s the same attention seeking that leads young girls to dress provocatively around that same period of their lives.
Only in the sense that the patriarchy is involved in the ridiculous overglorification of female beauty and unrealistic beauty standards.
Sorta. It’s more like the idea that their phone is a part of them. Filming is just something they do. It seems weird not to use it all the time. It would be like leaving out a part of you.
Other issues: privacy is not as highly valued as it used to be. This has to do with the connectedness before, plus the rise of platforms where sharing is just the norm. Sure, there’s some backlash to how far places like Facebook go, but the overton window has been set further away from privacy by a significant amount.
And let’s not forget changing attitudes about sex, especially with how much women can publicly endorse it. Slut shaming still exists, of course, but no longer is someone who isn’t a virgin automatically a slut.
Plus sex is talked about a lot more openly, and pornography is just a click away. Some level of sexuality is part of the norm. Sure, modesty still exists, or there wouldn’t be a problem at all with these leaks. But it’s not high enough to offset these other factors so much as to prevent people from taking and sharing nude photos, even knowing it’s easier than ever for such stuff to leak out.
I can pretty much guarantee you that most of the celebrities did not choose to no longer take such photos. They just decided to take more precautions.
How can I get my, uh, hot photos developed? Actually, the problem was with the typical mass-market outlets; plenty of reputable businesses could be found to do the job. (“All you’ve got to do is find an independent photo processing lab, of which most large cities have several. Try looking in the Yellow Pages under “Photo Finishing — Retail.” Most of these guys will print anything.”)
Anyway, the answer is pretty much “yes”, as suggested by a few other posts – ready availability of a camera means that fleeting impulses are more likely to be carried out. This has its share of negative (embarrassment) and positive (increased concern for security and privacy) results.
Actually these young actors celebrities represent the current 20 years quite well. Over a hundred people have had private photos exposed and I’m pretty sure they are all highly successful young adults. They got hacked just like anyone else. Usually a phishing scheme they fell for and gave away login info. Or weak easily guessed passwords.
They are just normal people in their private lives. Same foibles as anyone else. I’m not criticizing them at all. They are simply living in a different tech world than I experienced.
An IPhone crammed up my posterior would be uncomfortable.