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In reply to the discussion: Creepshots and revenge porn: how paparazzi culture affects women [View all]bemildred
(90,061 posts)53. Not much chance of that.
You can do some consciousness raising about it, as here now, but you are not going to get guys to stop paying attention to girls, or vice versa, that stuff operates much lower down.
Demystifying sex would work in the long term, that's where it all comes from. There are billions of copies of both men and women on the planet, it's not like human bodies are rare or mysterious.
It's sort of like the drug war, you are better off to treat it as a health and education issue, broad-based coercion does not improve the result.
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Wow, one of the best articles I've read in a long, long time redqueen. So, so much info here
riderinthestorm
Sep 2012
#2
They weren't. Unless that person was using a very powerful telescopic lense.
Curtland1015
Sep 2012
#8
You couldn't have possibly read the article to have made this statement
riderinthestorm
Sep 2012
#12
He could not have taken her photo with a regular camera. To get those shots in a private
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#37
If you are on private property, even a back yard, and a neighbor sneaks around taking
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#58
Please read the first two paragraphs at the link, and tell me how to avoid those situations. nt
redqueen
Sep 2012
#19
Please explain how people can avoid telephoto-wielding photographers 800m away. (nt)
Posteritatis
Sep 2012
#48
I would go one step farther and say part of the blame goes to those who seek this content
Major Nikon
Sep 2012
#25
But there are literally millions of pictures of sexy, naked people on the net...
redqueen
Sep 2012
#56