Teacher on leave after photos from stolen phone post to revenge porn website

[hunter]

49. My cellphone and my laptop are pre-camera age.

But there are naked pics of me on the internet.

Funny thing happened to me a couple of years ago. I still enjoy using film cameras. I was skinny-dipping in a California river and my wife took a few pictures of me. It wasn't one of my more frequently used cameras. Mostly I develop film myself so no big deal. A while later I finished off this roll of film and threw it in with others waiting to be developed. Quite a while later I thought "I'm never going to develop all these..." and dropped the film off at COSTCO.

When I picked up the pictures I noticed the clerks, all women, were acting sort of odd, smirking even, a private joke. I was sure it was something unrelated to me until I got home and saw the prints. Ooops, but hey, the water was cold!

My parents are artists, drawings and watercolors of naked people, the works, and I grew up in a family of largely Scandinavian/Northern California sensibilities.

As a kid I saw plenty of naked people of all ages and there was nothing threatening or unusual or sexual about it.

Two of my great grandma's lived in very rural situations. On bath days the water was heated on the wood stove, there was a big tub in the kitchen, and plenty of casual nudity.

As a kid one of the funniest things I ever saw was when my grandpa had been skinny-dipping in the irrigation canal and my great grandma's meanest rooster decided to chase him when he got out of the water. My great grandma was trying very hard not to laugh and not succeeding. Her expression was the funniest thing.

My mom's a bit of an earth-mother Catholic sort. I have a mess of siblings. My mom would breastfeed a hungry kid anywhere, didn't even have to be her kid.

It would be very nice to live in a society where casual nudity was no big deal and nobody paid any attention at all to photos that were meant to remain private.

The people who are suffering here are the victims of this society's misogyny or homophobia. That these sorts of pictures exist is a human thing and not the moral failure of those who trusted the photos would never be posted on the internet.