Humans on the Internet: About Privacy and Nudes

Medteck Thiam
5 min readAug 20, 2020
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Should you send nudes to your crush ? I can help you answer yourself.

Before we go any further, I want this to be clear. This article is not judgemental. I’m not telling anyone to do anything because this is my point of view and I strongly believe everybody has 100% right on his own body.

Let’s start with some stats from EndRevengePorn.org:

  • 83% of revenge porn victims said they had taken nude photos/videos of themselves and shared it with someone else
  • 90% of revenge porn victims were women
  • 57% of victims said their material was posted by an ex-boyfriend

Why do people take nude photos ? And why do they send them to other people ?

People have different behaviours, beliefs, and see things with different approaches, so it’s impossible to determine one common reason. But the most related one is about couples sending photos to each other. These people usually say they do it to fill the void created by the distance separating them to their lover.

How do they send nudes ?

Usually, people will send those compromising photos using apps like Snapchat (for those who want to feel safer) or other apps like…

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