I see naked people

I’ve recently been browsing the Yafro site that I sometimes post pictures on, and I really think it makes for an interesting study. Basically, I’ve discovered that you can make all the societal advances you want, in the end, all anyone’s interested in is sex. Give them a camera and anonymity and they’re going to take pictures of themselves nude.

Of course, this sort of perversion is hardly limited to Yafro, anyone who’s ever been in a chat room realizes this, but it’s more noticeable on Yafro because essentially every other picture is of someone naked, and, well, naked people tend to catch your eye. The point of this is that I find it interesting that as soon as you take your cousin Jim away from his social environment where he wouldn’t DARE pose nude, he immediately does just that. In fact, even Yafro isn’t truly a fair environment, since surely more people would post nudes of themselves if they weren’t fearful of a colleague stumbling upon the picture and creating an awkward situation for all parties.

Of course, the fact that everyone’s a pervert really shouldn’t be earth shattering news to anyone, and I doubt that it is. I’m not even necessarily condemning posing nude, I’m just saying, isn’t it odd that as soon as Aunt Edna is put in a position where she feels that there will be no social backlash, she immediately loses all supposed dignity and does things she has likely previously decreed as improper?

In short, the next time you hear a group of friends complaining about how disgusting magazines like Playboy are keep in mind that, given the right situation, at least half of them would do the same thing and without the monetary incentive. Because as soon as the social mask comes off, so do the clothes.