Why You Shouldn't Send Nudes

So you just met someone and you are smitten! You picture a relationship, and are definitely imagining the sex. You want to impress, and want to stand out from all the others. Maybe if this person had a sneak preview of what they can have, it will catch their attention. Yes…it seems like a great idea, since you’re already talking and texting sexy.

Why You Shouldn't Send Nudes

If you’re a guy, maybe it’s that bathroom shot where your hand pulls down your shorts just enough to see your pubic hair and the head of your erection. If you’re a girl, you could be lying on your bed, positioning your boob just right to let him see how supple it is. Then you take the selfie. You check it out. If it’s not right, you take a new one until you look like someone straight out of a magazine.

*Send*. It’s now no longer yours, but someone else’s to do with what they want. You think you trust the person, and you want them (and only them) to enjoy the photo.

For the first while, this could very well be the case. But why do you disregard the thousands that regret doing this every single day?

An impulsive act meant to impress is so often ignored because so many people just think, “No.. he/she won’t do that to me.” Or, “We’re dating, he/she isn’t going to want people to see it.” Or, “He/she sent me a nude, so we’ve both got ‘something’ on each other.”

Here are some things to keep in mind before you even take the selfie to begin with. I can only speak as a woman who has had some experience with men sending me pictures, and the threats I’ve heard men tell me about nudes they have. So please, if you’re a man and want to express your opinion, they will be welcome.

Why You Shouldn't Send Nudes

Many Things Can Compromise Your Privacy

Notice, I said “things”, not just people. Just because you have a passcode on your phone or your computer requires a password to unlock does not mean devices cannot be hacked. You don’t even need to lose your phone to be worried. If someone wants to do it, software is available to invade your phone or computer. A guest profile on a computer might as well say “Trespass Profile”. As for the phone, Google “how to hack a smartphone” – dozens of sites pop up, including apps. Forums are also available for a network of people wanting to spy on others to get support.

Why You Shouldn't Send Nudes

People You Don’t Even Know Can Compromise Your Privacy

I’ve worked in a mobile phone call centre, and every single account can be accessed by an employee. That means they can gain access to pictures of your dick too. I’ve caught people compromising the security of people’s accounts and they’ve been reprimanded, sure – but the damage was done. Anyone can catch you unlocking your own phone and memorize a simple four digit code. If your phone is easily snatched, a passcode is useless. Popping out the memory chip also has no security.

You Can’t Trust the Person You Think You Can

There is too much of the unknown about the person you are getting to know during the primary phase of the relationship. Sure, they talk sweet and seem genuine. Every psycho out there does before they turn on you, which is why there are enough experiences from people who claim “they didn’t know” or “didn’t see it coming” when the other person turned evil.

People who beg and plead for a nude likely have done this before. Usually people who have never received one or never asked will not have a clue how to go about requesting one without seeming like a fool. People who insist and then create reasons why you should do it are using tactics they’ve used on others in the past. What’s more – the almost-inevitable chance that someone is careless with your photo. All too often, someone swipes through pictures of their cat to share with someone, and instead end up swiping by a photo of your pussy. Oops.

Treat Your Selfies As If They Will Be Shown to Your Boss or Your Parents

Why You Shouldn't Send Nudes

If you do want to send a sexy photo, is it something you won’t really care if your boss or parents will see? Having a nice, inviting shot of you in a bathing suit is one thing, but an erect penis or your pierced clit is another. If you have no problem with compromising your virtue with people whose perception of you is important, only you can decide. Keeping a thought in the back of your brain, “What if Mom saw this?” might make you think twice.

People In Relationships Don’t Need Nudes

If you’ve established a relationship with someone, and have even been with them for a while, is it necessary for them to have a nude when they can see you whenever they want? It makes more sense to have an inviting photo rather than a nude. Your partner should be able to proudly show you off to others on their phone.

It’s More Sexy to Keep It Secret

Why You Shouldn't Send Nudes

Part of the intrigue is to wonder what’s underneath those shorts or tank top. People can easily see if they like the shape of your body and can get a good idea of what you might be like, but it can drive people crazy to want more and pursue you in a good way. If you give up the goods in a nude, it’s game over. Plus, giving up the goods might be an indicator that you’ve sent pictures before and you don’t mind people (sometimes strangers) seeing you nude. Unwittingly, you could be sending the message that sex is easy. I’m-here-if-you-want-me.

It's no wonder why people complain that they can’t find a decent person because they let the sexual component be the front-runner of the relationship, when it traditionally should be the last. The intent is to meet, get to know, then experience intimacy – in that order. When we throw out the sexual component first, it cries out that you are not worth meeting or getting to know, and that you place your nude body as the importance of how you are perceived. When you reserve that part as being the last thing for someone to experience, the more sexy you actually are.

Prepare Your Explanations When The Photo is Leaked

Your nude is out there, and sure enough if something bad happens, the person who has it can use it as leverage to blackmail you since it’s the most vulnerable thing about you they have and can hold against you. You might have to prepare what you’re going to say to your boss, co-workers, friends, family, and future boyfriend/girlfriend if things go very badly. Yes, you will be the victim, and no one ever looks good exposing their ex, but you were not a victim at the time you willingly took a photo and sent it.

Even if you are simply looking for sex and don’t care much about it today, doesn’t mean that you are going to be the same person a few years from now. Circumstances can change. Photos of you now are not just reminders for the person you’re sending them to but a reminder for yourself that you didn’t just respect your virtue, but you valued your security.

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  • Sounds like you covered all of the bases. I remember in high school, this girl was doing sexual favors for guys and allowed them to record her. When they exposed her, she committed suicide. I've never understood why anybody would hand out such private content for any reason. A genuinely good guy/girl can hit a dark point in their lives and lash out. I also like how you pointed out that once a photo is taken and stored on your phone, it's up in the cloud and accessible by your provider or anybody with knowledge on how to access that database. You don't even have to send the pics, once your phone backs up, it's a wrap.

    • Yes, I think that's what people need to know is it's not how careful you are - it doesn't matter. The photo on the device can be accessed, even deleted photos.

    • Thank you for writing this Take. I wouldn't have known how vulnerable my "private" devices are if that girl in high school hadn't killed herself. They told us all about how easy it is for our information to be leaked. They tried to cover all aspects on how to be safe and protect our information online. People get "exposed all of the time" and like you pointed out, subtly can be very sexy and it really get's people hungry for the real thing. It's just not worth your reputation.

    • I agree with most of what you said about nudes always being a bad idea, but I think someone who exposes someone else like that wasn't a genuinely good guy or girl..

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  • Welcome back Aunty Ozanne !! Surely the contents of your take should be common sense? Nudes = unlimited blackmail ammo supply , especially nowadays !!

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  • ddont do it! respect yourself enough you will find out if they respect you

  • This was a great mytake. I especially love the beginning relating to us 👌

  • I've never been fond of sending/receiving nudes and I definitely agree with all of the points that you made. It just doesn't make sense to me to send something so intimate so people you can't truly trust. By sending a nude you give that person potentially a lot of power over you.

  • Nudes if done correctly could work well for some relationships.

    For example, if I wanted to test the water, I'd send a shirtless picture over snapchat and its screenshotted then I know it's a no-go. Anyway, i think nudes work well over long distance relationships because it keeps that sexual spark going and makes the receiver want the other person more.

    Again precautions must be taken and most of all trust, if someone is asking nudes 3 months into a relationship, he's just looking for sex. Trust needs to be built. Tbh I prefer writing Literotica it's more fun and can really turn someone on ;)

  • They can't win someone over with their brains so use their body. It's pathetic! Besides, can you really trust anyone with them? Or maybe it turns you on if everyone sees you. I repeat, how pathetic.

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  • I have some male friends and the send tons of nudes from girls they know in a group-chat. I think that's so disrespectful, while I also think these girls don't even have self respect.
    A girl once irritated my friend, he send a nude from this girl in the class group chat. I didn't like what he did, but I became 100% sure that I will never make a nude myself.

    • Someone told me there are websites out there that are designed for sharing nudes and shaming people if they've "wronged" someone. So I guess since some people take breakups horribly, then that's an outlet for them. I was in a relationship with someone like that who just itched for information on me while he was exposing other girls. I thought, "Yeah, I'm not that stupid, you're doing all this shaming while I'm with you so I can get a sneak preview of what you're going to do to me?" When we broke up and he had nothing on me, all he could really do was harass the hell out of me instead of just moving on. Some people are riddled with issues and absolutely feel there is some need to ruin people even after something as simple as a relationship not working out. In our case, we didn't have problems, I just didn't like the person I was finding out who he was. That made him destructive enough with me, so I can only image what people can resort to if they do feel there is a "right" to.

  • I've been saying this forever. Two words: Networked Device. As a Net Engineer for 20 years, I can tell you that your phone is not private. If you want your lover to see you naked, just whip out your nibblets in front of them. Way more fun (and funny) than sending a picture, and you won't end up on the internet with your ass out, when you're looking for a job, years later.

  • Thank you! A real intelligent person! Nudes are stupid. I don't get the point of them.

  • I believe sending nudes is another step towards a trusting relationship. It should be used more as a sign of trust rather than to attract someone to yourself. Besides, if one can only use their body to attract other people, they're really not winning at the dating game.

    • Are there not other ways to show a sign of trust? :/

    • Definitely. But everyone has their own way of showing it. Letting someone in on your secrets, telling your SO about your fears, sharing your account details, etc. To each their own, really.

    • None of those things leave an imprint of some kind to be tracked.

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  • Your absence has been noticed and I'm glad to see you active on this site once again.

    I recently posted a poll about sending nudes. Approximately half of the respondents said they had never sent nudes. Of those who had done so, only a very few admitted that there had ever been a problem and not one respondent admitted that they had shared with friends nudes that they had received from a girlfriend or boyfriend.

    This subject seems to bring out the utmost denial in young people, I presume because they are not string enough to withstand the peer pressure to conform to this expectation.

    I concur with everything you said on this subject. The most arousing and seducing thing that a lady can do to me is NOT to take off her clothes, take a picture, and hit the "send" button. She can seduce me with her smile, with her words, with the way she puts her hand on my back as we are walking, by the choice words she whispers in my ear, by telling me how much she looks forward to a physical relationship when the time is right.

    • Thank you, and @abundantlyrich for the nice welcome back. :) Let me tell you - it was crazy looking for pictures for this Take! I had to type in to Google "almost nude female" or "guy with shirt open" (for the delicate reason that real nudes wouldn't have been acceptable to show on this site) and I still was bombarded with hundreds of teens and young adults who were naked. Had I just typed in "nude selfie" I would have had thousands to choose from within a few seconds. That tells me that people's nudes are out there, and Google was ready to give them to me. I'm pretty sure that many of those people do not know which site their nude is on and would be horrified to know they're out there. For this reason, people who believe their nude wasn't shared are not being realistic!

    • I currently have a client in a paternity case whose ex-boyfriend has nude photos and video of her. He is advertising on craiglist for a couple for wife-swapping and offering to send pictures of himself and his "wife" (my client) in exchange for nude pictures of the other couple. He has also posted the video to a porn site. But, of course, this stuff NEVER happens or it happens, but MY GUY would never do that to me. Experience is a cruel but efficient teacher.

    • Do you remember the BBS set up before there was the Internet in the 1980s? I was in my teens chatting with other teens and young adults on local boards and I remember even back then, trouble was brewing with people. When the internet came out in the 90s, I had gotten spooked by a computer virus that compromised my resume, and someone in another country got a hold of it through my email. (I had been in touch with him on an Andy Warhol fan forum.) Well, shit.. my resume has everything about me, short of a nude on it! When he badgered me on my house phone and sent things in the mail, then I could safely say that in my mid-20s, birth of the internet, I knew enough that you are absolutely vulnerable online no matter how careful you think you are! It taught me NOT to keep my resume on my hard drive and never have anything on my hard drive that I don't want escaping into the abyss of the web. Talk about the cruel but efficient teacher!

  • So what if you're in a long distance relationship? It can quite hard to see each other so you send nudes to each other for example on snapchat where you send your boyfriend the nude but he has't saved them or screenshotted it. Is that still a problem?

    • Can people also not hurt your reputation from afar? I see what you're saying, but I think it's still a bad idea.

  • If a woman trusts you to send you nudes, don't be a douche and show your friends. That's an asshat move and you'll find yourself in a shit storm. Also, women love to brag about assholes, so you'll be left in the cold for a very long time once word gets out.

    • Women who send nudes aren't deserving of trust now are they? Surely women know that men aren't the only ones with acess to the nudes she sends, once you send a nude any app makers or even hackers may be on your phone are looking at it.

  • I think of nudes as a way people try to get unnecessary attention! It's one thing if you're in a committed relationship and that's your deal but I don't get the appeal of sending naked pictures to a virtual stranger!

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  • Anyone stupid enough to send nude photo's with their face showing deserves to have them posted. Unfortunately, many men and women are not decent human beings. Even with the ugliest of break up's I would never post a picture a woman gave me. But that is me, I am a gentleman. But a lot of guys, AND WOMEN, would. I have had a lot of women ask for nude pictures. SO it isn't just guys that ask for them. I have always sent them. NONE have had my face or any other distinguishing items in the picture that would let someone who knew me identify it as me. Probably the only person in the world would be my ex wife who could probably identify a picture of my dick. I really don't know. She spent thousands of times over 25 years up close with it. Do you ladies look that close? Pussy all looks the same... dicks really don't

    • Out of all the guys I slept with in the past who I spent some decent time with, meaning, we had sex on a regular basis for a few months or more, I could probably identify their dicks in a picture. If the pubic hair is included in the shot, it makes it even easier to identify. This is to assume a guy doesn't have a dick-twin out there somewhere. One of my exboyfriends had a birthmark that covered the entire head of his penis and part way down the shaft. Never seen that in my life before or after, in person or in pictures.

  • This is something I've told countless young people. They just don't seem to understand that once you put something out there, it's *out* there. Like you can't call it back. You have to deal with that the rest of your life.

  • I like your take. Even if you trust the person and have been together for years, it's still a risk no one should ever take.
    I definitely like "keeping it sexy and secret". It adds more to the mystery.

  • I once send a dick pick - at request - and she did put it on her tumblr. Turned out she was a lesbian who enjoyed to play with men and humiliate them. I actually strangely enjoyed it.

    But I guess you must be into it and it would certainly be another story if the picture included my face.

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