# Legalities of posting nude pics of ex-girlfriends on the net

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 11, 2002, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legalities-of-posting-nude-pics-of-ex-girlfriends-on-the-net/131831 "2002-10-11T15:33:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legalities-of-posting-nude-pics-of-ex-girlfriends-on-the-net/131831/21 "2002-10-12T15:08:05Z")

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OK, fair enough. I should prefaced my post with, “IANAL, but I am in the business of internet erotica.”

Granted 100% of the (tens of thousands of) photos and videos I have published strictly comply with [USC 18-2257](http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2257.html), but I believe there is still a grey area regarding these specific right to privacy issues.

Can anybody provide cites of actual cases where an ex-lover was awarded monetary damages resulting from the posting of nude photos which were taken with a legal aged plaintiff’s consent?

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**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legalities-of-posting-nude-pics-of-ex-girlfriends-on-the-net/131831/22 "2002-10-12T15:13:20Z")

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should _have_ prefaced my post

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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legalities-of-posting-nude-pics-of-ex-girlfriends-on-the-net/131831/23 "2002-10-15T16:27:34Z")

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I don’t have specific cases and I’m really not motivated to go looking for them. To anyone who is in this position, I would say consult your lawyer, your pocketbook, and your conscience before you post nude pictures of someone without his or her permission, regardless of the circumstances in which the photographs were obtained.

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