OT: Am I Just a Prude or are Celebrities Idiots?

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@Mike Olson said:
Because they are people in the end. Just like you and me. 

except for the publicists, nutritionists, life-coaches, fitness experts and hanger-ons. 

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@Mike Olson said:
Because they are people in the end. Just like you and me. 

Maybe you but not me.   No junk photos on my devices.   And there aren't likely people stalking my devices for such material. 

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@Jor-El said:

@KingBash said:

Celebrities are no different than anybody else (for the most part). Every 20 year old wants to share their genitals with their significant others. I honestly can't name a single friend of mine who hasn't done this to some degree.

This will show my age I suppose (Krypton did explode a long time ago..), but...when I was 20 NO ONE had shown their genitals in a photo and sent it to another person. Sure, there is a technology reason, but few would have done it if offered the means. Most girls I dated in the 1980s had NEVER seen any porn; several I dated had their first look at Playboy in my presence. Getting a pornographic photo used to mean buying a magazine at a cash register, maybe going into a pervert room...and seeing video sex? Until the VCR arrived, you had to go into a creepy theatre, and VCR rental wasn't much more discrete.

I'm not saying we were superior or morally better. But today, young adults and younger, of both sexes, have all seen even extreme fetish behavior demonstrated via internet video - and they are desensitized and think it is normal. Maybe it's better, but I think this generation is the poorer for having let their bodies and sex lives become so open that they are less secret and exciting.

Yeah I honestly don't know whether it's better or worse. I think you could make the argument for both. I'll agree that you're right though when you talk about ease of access to fetish porn. And I do believe humans haven't changed at all in 40 years or so from when you were younger. Hell, a girl I've dated was regularly the number one upvote on reddit.com/gonewild. I was genuinely curious why she'd put herself on there in crazy degrading poses (she never showed her face) and she said it was the validation she got.

I think it's all technology and/or culture. Had this stuff been around back then, along with social media, the culture would've adopted a similar attitude and you guys would've been doing the same stuff.

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@KingBash said:

I think it's all technology and/or culture. Had this stuff been around back then, along with social media, the culture would've adopted a similar attitude and you guys would've been doing the same stuff.

I won't argue with you about that - in no way do I feel people born in an earlier time were "better" by nature. But I do think the excessive exposure to porn has changed what people think is normal or acceptable. Young guys look at so much porn and they want their girls to look and act like porn stars. IMO the style for pubic hair (or lack) is definitely an example, but the type of sex expected has also changed because of it. If that's just fashion, so be it, but I fear that the porn actresses pretending to like certain things results in people doing more than they are comfortable with. The actresses are ACTING, after all (maybe badly), and the huge quantity of porn available definitely leads filmmakers to push the envelope to constantly newer extremes.

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If you don't think some celebrities leak their own nudes then your wrong.  

It's the snap chat/ instagram era, lots of people have their nudes floating around.  In every facet of life.

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@Bolstad79 said:
If you don't think some celebrities leak their own nudes then your wrong.  

It's the snap chat/ instagram era, lots of people have their nudes floating around.  In every facet of life.

No,   I know some do, they need it to keep their name in the public,  But some have no reason to and those are the ones I shake my head at.

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@Mike Olson...could you unpin this for me?

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@"BarrNone55" said:
@Mike Olson...could you unpin this for me?

sorry about that,  I am not sure how that got pinned.  should be unstuck now.

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Grab your phone and take a picture of your junk.

It'll pop up and say, "Are you at [insert local business]? Do you want to upload this photo and rate your experience?"

You'll wonder if your junk is their Google Maps cover photo for hours...