Exposed on the internet (question to girls)

[Kochanek]

Hi all!

I found sites on the web, where pictures of teenage girls are shown, that guys have shot secretly (downtown, at the pool, on the beach etc.). And I wondered, how those girls would feel, if they knew. :confused:

How would you feel and react, if you would recognize, that someone has shot pictures of you and published on such a site, where it obviously serves men to masturbate?

Would it make a difference to you, whether the pictures would show you in all day outfit like jeans and shirt, or if it was in a tight bikini, even perhaps topless on the beach or in some accidental nipslip, downblouse or upskirt situation?

[patsfan925]

I'm not a girl but i would think that most girls would be really mad and embarassed

[Kochanek]

I guess so too. But would any maybe try the police find out who it was?

[Uniquemind]

I am extremely pissed, but also pissed because it really is out of our control.

I have to be resigned to the fact that with today's technology, if they take a picture of me, they can fantasize whatever and I can't stop it.

So I just acknowledge and assume before I leave home that how I look will be what someone is "saving" in their little pervy collection, and I need to be at peace with how I look in public partly for that reason. (It's still messed up though).


It's why I don't post a gender or picture on these forums.


I control what I can and I choose to not stress about what I cannot.


However nobody is to touch me without consent. If you cross that line the law will come down hard on whomever that person may be.

[The37thElement]

If the pictures aren't inappropriate (too revealing), then I wouldn't be so mad. The way I think about it is that when you go out in public (at least in the United States), you basically sign a contract with yourself that allows people to photograph you without asking you (this 'contract' obviously discludes places like bathrooms). If the pictures are deemed inappropriate or too revealing, then I would consider that harassment.

[pinkgurl16]

Someone took a pic of me peeing in an alley and posted it.I didn't know until a friend saw it and told me.

[Beth]

I am extremely pissed, but also pissed because it really is out of our control.

I have to be resigned to the fact that with today's technology, if they take a picture of me, they can fantasize whatever and I can't stop it.

So I just acknowledge and assume before I leave home that how I look will be what someone is "saving" in their little pervy collection, and I need to be at peace with how I look in public partly for that reason. (It's still messed up though).


It's why I don't post a gender or picture on these forums.


I control what I can and I choose to not stress about what I cannot.


However nobody is to touch me without consent. If you cross that line the law will come down hard on whomever that person may be.
I feel the same way and feel so embarrassed .

[Uniquemind]

I feel the same way and feel so embarrassed .

Yeah it's also why I don't drink any alcohol or take any drugs because I've lost the control I like to have in public and private.

I'm also extremely picky on who I call a acquaintance versus a friend. Certain things I will do during "hangout time" with some and others I do nothing with until they've gained my trust. It's hard to be guarded and not considered cold socially, if you can pull that balance off that's an amazing talent.

I usually blame the parents for me not wanting to hang out with someone I don't want too.

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Also to be fair I've recently learn boys need to be careful too in public because creepers will go after them too or even other kids will take pictures of "funny looking people" at retail stores, and make memes online out of them.



So idk I feel like this is a broader problem but for females it has a sexual connotation to it.

Adults have this problem too my mom and aunt and I all talked about this issue last Thanksgiving with the added context of Drones with cameras being popularly flown everywhere.



I predict photos and privacy will be a much bigger issue in the coming years if not months.

I highly suggest pestering your local congressmen as a entire youth future voting demographic to get this issue solved.



I ask the rest of the members of these forums if they would like to create a new thread to help write and draft new laws which will start a further movement for privacy that also balances the first amendment for artistic expression.



Google just announced they are tweaking their search engine to allow for victims of revenge porn to no longer be found using their search engine so solutions to this issue are slowly being made from a software, algorithmic perspective.

[Kochanek]

I don't know the laws in the USA, but in Germany you have a so called "right on your own image" (I hope I translated it right), which means, nobody (not even newspapers) may publish a photo you can be identified on without your permission unless it has been taken on a public event (like a football match, fair) where the presence of press photographers is expectable, and unless you are not only some kind of accessory on the pic, like someone took a photo of the church while you occasionally were passing by and it is obvious that it's not you being the subject of the picture.

[James Dean]

Nothing at all to do with puberty, and this is also illegal.

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