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Personals Drama: Naked Photos

Posted by airheadgenius

 

Today, I was winked at by a naked man. Well, naked half man to be more accurate.

Clearly his photograph was taken in the bathroom mirror.
I am not mad at that in principle, especially since one of mine is too, but his face is entirely obscured by the camera flash. This makes me wonder if that was a compositional device or just bad planning. I opt for the latter only because the shot contains a none to elegant glimpse of towel on one side and doorknob on the other. Not an aesthete in other words.

An athlete though - for sure. Complete with athletic shots of his athletic body doing athletic things. No clear face photo which is always a little troubling.

What to do though?

To me, bare chest photos are just not that appealing. Even gorgeous ones - as this one undoubtedly was, right down to the chiseled outline of a lower torso. The D'Angelo shot.

It smacks of superficiality of course, but I can't really get upset about that either given my regularly stated preference for beautiful men.

I briefly had a cleavage photo on my profile - it was back on the old blog and was part of an ongoing joke. I kinda forgot that it would also be for public consumption and wasn't prepared for the slew of emails I got that week offering me all kinds of extra attention.

I am certainly not averse to a hook up, but it seems that a tit photo doesn't exactly scream "seeking long term relationship". Of course, I am projecting but I tend to assume that the naked folk are on hooksexup.com for it's infamous appeal - just to get laid - and so I don't take those guys seriously. Maybe I am mistaken though and there's a deeply sensitive, evolved and interesting man hiding, shirtless, behind the flash of the camera.

How do you people feel about it? Semi-naked photos - yay or nay?

 

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Comments

zeitgeisty said:

Women are worse than men!.. I've seen profile photos JUST of a pair of tits... That REALLY makes me wonder what they expect by way of a response...

I remember contacting one chick who's profile was just a pair of tits in a bikini top, when we were going to do a segment on here called 'profile of the month' (before that got scrapped) asking her if I could use her profile ... She said no, because she didn't want to be made fun of  - which of course I was going to do...

Obviously on some level she knew it was ridiculous, but she enjoyed the attention on another level...

April 22, 2009 4:40 PM

airheadgenius said:

Aside from this example, naked tits or just cleavage?

Would you take a cleavage chick seriously?

(as much as you are able to take anyone seriously I mean)

April 22, 2009 4:55 PM

zeitgeisty said:

She's probably still there if you want to peruse the profiles...  just her jusgs in a bikini top...

Would I take cleavage seriously?? Of course!!!...

April 22, 2009 5:05 PM

Jason A. said:

If a woman posts a partially unclothed photo, or a clear sexual come-on photo, I assume she's just looking for a hookup, and probably inundated with requests.  Or else it's a fake account just looking to gather men's email addresses to spam them.

On the other hand if it's a reasonably tasteful photo of her in a bikini, even if it's clearly posed and not just a snapshot taken at the beach, if her profile seems genuine in all other respects, then I just figure she's unashamed of her body and her sexuality, and I'm certainly happy to get a preview of it.  Though she's probably inundated with all sorts of propositions.  Photos like that may get in the way of finding a LTR.

I remember 1 profile of this woman that was really into the beach.  Most of her photos were of her carrying a surfboard, water-skiing, etc.  A lot of wetsuit or bikini shots.  But that was just showing-off her life.  Probably still got her a lot of propositions, but at least it was clear to the viewer that if you want to date her you better be into [clean] watersports.

April 22, 2009 5:54 PM

casualencounters.com/blog/ said:

Every morning I go through all the newly-submitted photos for our adult dating sites and accept/reject them.

At LEAST 10% of the dude ones are close-up shots of penises. And I'm not just talking "hung like a beer bottle check this monster out" penises. They're like as not to be tiny, shrunken things overhung by the pendulous beer bellies of middle-aged Lotharios. I'd also say that at least 40% of the guy pictures are torso-only with full stomach-suck and ab-flex action going down.

In my (considerable) experience, the chicks are nowhere near as bad. Nine times out of ten, if a chick is getting naked in her submitted profile picture, she's a hooker. Which that->delete.

I'm yet to figure out why fat, old, under-endowed dudes think that the best way to land a hottie is to regale them with images of their naked selves in all their hirsute, diminutive glory. I'm open to considering explanations.

April 22, 2009 7:19 PM

zeitgeisty said:

yeah, but your place is called CASUAL ENCOUNTERS!!!

April 22, 2009 8:26 PM

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