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Ladies and Gentleman Stop Sending Explicit Photos

Unless you're okay with everyone seeing them

Jennifer Pitts
Beloved
5 min readSep 24, 2024

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The culture of sending nudes has become more common, especially in the digital world.

I will tell you right now I have seen more explicit photos than necessary.

It happens unexpectedly, in the workplace, at dinner or sitting casually in my beautiful backyard when someone I know decides to flip up their phone screen to show me a pair of women's breasts that his friend sent him.

Even though it's not me in the picture, it makes me feel uncomfortable and empathy for the person who is naive enough to think that no one will ever see their explicit pictures.

Perhaps they need to be educated, or perhaps they don't care.

Recently, I was out with a colleague for a drink and asked to see a picture of his ex-wife. He had the nerve to pull up a sprawled-out nude photo of her on his phone.

I was horrified and angrily asked. "Why did you show me that?"

He responded. "You asked to see a photo."

I immediately distanced myself from him due to his lack of moral compass and disregard for his ex-wife and their intimate relationship.

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