Chalk me up as another who doesn’t register anything wrong with naked newborn pictures. Pardon the comparison, but newborn genitals are like dog genitals: they just aren’t something you worry about people seeing (but you might make a crack to good friend if they are really dramatic).
I might have filtered out the genital shots out of concern that someone else would have sensitivities, but it would never bother me to see such photos.
Oh good grief, it’s a newborn baby! What they have barely count as genitals!
Whatever you do, don’t go to beaches in Europe. Nekked babies and toddlers running all over the place there.
Naked baby pictures are okay in context, and I’m not going to avert my eyes and call the authorities. I just think it’s a little weird to use a naked photo for a birth announcement, or to show off at work or online. When you’ve got tons of photos of your new baby to choose from, why use a naked one?
My first reaction was this. It’s extremely unlikely that you are seeing the vagina, but of course if you are then it is highly inappropriate. 
Having said that - I would not send out a photo of a baby’s (or in fact any person’s) genitalia. It’s the face of a baby that counts.
On the third hand …, wait …, that’s not right. On another consideration, I had a work colleague who returned to work very soon after the birth of one of his children. He was trying to pick a photo to send out to the company, and thankfully I was looking over his shoulder. He was about to send the photo to about 50 people when I pointed out that his wife’s uncovered breasts were visible. Bless him, his focus was so much on his new child that he didn’t even notice.
Similarly I could understand a new parent not thinking twice about publishing a photo of his/her new baby without even noticing that genitalia is visible.
C’mon, it’s a babby!?
Seriously, as long as Mom’s muff isn’t in the background, the pic is just a babby. 
I’m pretty modest as these things go, but I wouldn’t think twice about pictures of a naked baby. Thinking its a big deal seems to be oversexualizing a baby. To me, it’s a really normal, natural and nonweird thing. It’s the epitome of innonocence.
Eta: American, born and bred.
They’re babies. People that get offended of the sight of nude babies are overly sensitive.
Dang - and I thought it was bad when a coworker brought in an album of photos of the birth! Fortunately, I wasn’t a close enough friend so he didn’t approach me with the book, but several others were somewhat disturbed by the sharing. TMI, dude!
Nudity doesn’t bother me. But certain things one might do nekkid do not need to be shared as a Kodak moment. Privacy and decency are not anti-social - they’re actually becoming a lost art.
I wouldn’t be offended, but I’d kind of go WTF, dude? I mean, it’s not like you have no choice about photos these days - you have unlimited “film” and can see all of the image choices, edit photos, crop on the spot, etc. I’d think you’d want an image of a nice, clean, swaddled baby with a cute close-up on the face, so that everyone can coo over how the baby looks like mommy/daddy/Yoda. I’d really rather not see your baby naked unless I’m on diaper-changing duty.
Seriously - naked does not equal sex. Parts is parts as they say, and I’m not offended by any normal nakedness at any age.
To feel that about a baby - you’re the weird one.
I don’t have any problem with baby/toddler nakedness, but for a widely distributed photo, I’d personally go for a non-genital shot over a full frontal.
It’s one thing to let your 2 year old skinny dip in the backyard wading pool (the neighbors may see :eek: ), it’s another thing to send shots of it all over the planet. Share it with your close friends and the grandparents, but people you are merely acquainted with?
I’ve seen something similar in the wild, where some grandmother put a star sticker over her grandson’s parts, and it was disturbing as hell. Cripes people! We all start out that way and it’s a baby. If people are seeing something inappropriate in such an innocuous picture, that’s on them.
That is *really *weird.
Pictures of a naked baby are not weird, but it’s weird to send them out to a bunch of acquaintances. You wouldn’t think you’d be sending them super-personal pics of any kind, like the mom exhausted and disheveled after the birth, even if she’s all covered up. For people you’re close to though, no problem.
I don’t think that’s weird, because you really can’t see much in an ultrasound.
As I wrote, I’ve seen pictures of naked babies in many other contexts and wasn’t bothered in the least. I was bothered in this case, for the reasons I stated. If all naked kid photos bothered me in all contexts, that would be prudishness, I suppose. Eye of the beholder and all that.
And contrary to what have some written, I never said I was “offended.”
nearwildheaven, thanks for the Onion link. Good stuff.
For gods sake, its a newborn baby.
I genuinely cannot even begin to fathom how you could look at those pictures and have even the slightest thought occur to you that its somehow not covered up enough. What a very, very strange thing.
Considering how many people have gotten in trouble for taking film in to be developed that had pictures of naked babies, I think many people would be cautious about having pictures of unrelated-to-them nekkid babies on their hard drives.
I just zoomed in on his upper half, which also left the newly-cut umbilical cord out of the picture.
Frankly, I assumed that many of the people to whom I’d be showing his picture weren’t really going to be all that interested in him and were just going to be polite, so I figured I’d keep the picture low-impact and focused.
Another thing to keep in mind about a full-frontal picture is what people inevitably say to a new father: “Aww, he looks just like you!”
I’d probably look at it a bit oddly, simply because I don’t like babies in the first place and sharing the supreme nakedness of your newborn child just seems a bit too…personal for someone who doesn’t like babies and isn’t an immediate family member. Considering that half the people you show it to will probably not care a whole lot about your baby, picking that sort of shot is kinda weird. The same sort of weird I’d get if you tried to show me crowning photos or videos, or your wife the second after birth, or the umbilical cord still attached. Most people want to have a few degrees of separation between all the pain, blood, and poop of birth and the photo of your baby.
Yeah, I mean, a naked baby really annoys that many people? I’m not even a parent and it’s not weird to me.
This, on the other hand, is weird. And hilarious.
:smack:
Are they still married? What would ever make someone think that all their coworkers wanted to see it?
And I thought a woman taking 54 pictures of her daughter getting her hair cut for Locks of Love, and having to get talked to by the boss because she was forcing everyone to look at them, was OTT.