• Flying Squid
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    915 months ago

    Eh. I have plenty of pictures of my daughter naked as a baby. The weird part of this is showing off the naked picture to a stranger on the bus and making mention of the genitals in specific.

    Anyway, everyone knows that naked baby pictures are used to torture children in front of their serious romantic partners brought home for the first time. This has not happened in my 14-year-old daughter’s life yet, but I hope to one day have this privilege that comes with parenting.

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      485 months ago

      My response, when my mom showed my first partner naked baby pictures was to nudge my partner and say "don’t worry, I’ll send you some more recent ones.

      My mom super didn’t appreciate the joke, but she never pulled out baby pictures for future partners.

    • @[email protected]
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      235 months ago

      That second paragraph is pretty creepy actually, I think you’ve missed the point of the comic.

      • Flying Squid
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        275 months ago

        I’d say it’s okay to show someone your child’s genitalia when they’ve already seen it anyway.

        • @[email protected]
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          225 months ago

          Yep, my wife has seen my little baby wiener. The awkward teenage pictures were far more embarrassing though. Hers are buried in a hoarder house so I might never get to see her embarrassing school band photos.

          • @[email protected]
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            195 months ago

            I wouldn’t want to see naked photos of a significant other as a minor, but maybe that’s just me.

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                45 months ago

                Yeah, definitely. At best they’re arguing tooth and nail for embarrassing their child in front of their partner, if not outright CP.

                Major ick.

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              43 months ago

              Normal people don’t view children as sexual beings, so their junk just isn’t any different than their foot. Parents especially. I see my daughter’s vagina several times a day, frequently covered in poop. It doesn’t register any differently than any other part of her that needs cleaning.

          • Flying Squid
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            75 months ago

            Right? All you’re doing is saying, “when I saw it last, it was a lot smaller than when you saw it.”

        • @[email protected]
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          165 months ago

          Seeing someone naked as an adult isn’t the same thing as seeing them naked as a minor.

          You do see that, right?

          • Flying Squid
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            245 months ago

            Dude, this has been a traditional way for parents to embarrass their adult children in front of their partner for decades. My wife has seen my naked baby pictures without my parents even showing them to her. And I’ve seen hers. What’s the big deal? It’s not like either of us found them sexy.

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              205 months ago

              Chopping part of your child’s dick off has also been traditional for decades, that’s a very poor justification for that behaviour.

              • Flying Squid
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                205 months ago

                They’re baby pictures. We’re not talking about something erotic here. Naked babies are not some sort of scandalous thing. In most cultures, they’re normal.

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                    i didn’t take them and i didn’t consent to them existing either. Neither did i consent to them being shown to anybody.

                    Based on that reasoning, I should not show anyone any photo of my child until they were old enough to consent to them being taken.

                    You can have your naked baby photos, you just also have to be in the photo and naked as well.

                    I’m not embarrassed by my body and if that’s what her partner really wants to see, I don’t care.

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                  45 months ago

                  Taking photos of naked children isn’t, and shouldn’t, be normal in any culture I’m familiar with, and you definitely shouldn’t be showing them to anyone.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    25 months ago

                    Well you should get familiar with Finnish culture and then start berating the Finnish guy who chimed in and said it was totally normal.

                    You know what an immoral, shithole country Finland is though.

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              115 months ago

              Tbf child marriage is also traditional, Muhammed had a 9yo bride (it’s “ok,” he didn’t have sex with her until she was 11.)

              Defending things based solely on tradition can get pretty weird sometimes.

              • Flying Squid
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                45 months ago

                That’s a tradition that ended a long time ago. I’m talking about traditions that are ongoing. Also traditions that, despite someone else’s claim, probably don’t cause any psychological harm, at least most of the time.

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                  135 months ago

                  I think you may be surprised and hopefully disturbed by this UNICEF article.

                  Despite a steady decline in this harmful practice over the past decade, child marriage remains widespread, with approximately one in five girls married in childhood across the globe. Today, multiple crises – including conflict, climate shocks and the ongoing fallout from COVID-19 – are threatening to reverse progress towards eliminating this human rights violation. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals call for global action to end child marriage by 2030.

                  So no, it was not “a long time ago.” It’s “hopefully by 2030.”

                  Also traditions that, despite someone else’s claim, probably don’t cause any psychological harm, at least most of the time.

                  Oh, so as long as you don’t believe the person and can therefore invalidate their feelings without guilt, and it only psychologically hurts “some” people who you I suppose arbitrarily believe over the ones you don’t, it’s fine?

                  Not sure I can agree with you on this one.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    35 months ago

                    Believe what person? Hurts some people?

                    I have asked for evidence that it hurts anyone and have not received it.

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              You do understand that to cultures where this isnt the norm, it sounds ridiculous to show naked pictures of your child when they were an infant to, well anyone?

              It being a tradition has no bearing on it being awful or not. Circumcision is a tradition.

              I’m sure you can find a more modern way to embarrass your child without resorting to CP?

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                Which cultures? And why do they get to decide what is right and what is wrong?

                Also, naked photos of children are not child porn. Do you think they come out of the womb with clothes on?

                I had to clean shit out of my daughter’s vagina regularly when I changed her diapers. Was that, similarly, sexual assault?

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                  I personally have no use for pictures of baby genitals, but you really do huh? It even makes you upset we want to take away your baby genital pictures huh?

                  Is this some perverse form of individualism?

                  Edit: if you took a picture of you cleaning your daughters vagina out, and showed someone, yes that would be child porn and child abuse.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    45 months ago

                    Again- they don’t come out of the womb with clothes on. Are parents not supposed to take a picture of their newly-born child or should they put a fig leaf on them?

                    I’ve asked several times- if this is child pornography, find me an example of someone getting in legal trouble for having a naked photo of their own baby on their phone. One person.

          • Flying Squid
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            25 months ago

            Dude, do you think I would intentionally cause my child actual pain? My god.

      • @[email protected]
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        195 months ago

        It’s all fucking weird. I never took photos of my child naked. I don’t get the idea at all.

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      75 months ago

      Torture? Why people have such trouble with their romantic interest seeing pictures of you naked when you looked totally different?

      • Flying Squid
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        155 months ago

        It’s not actual torture. It’s just embarrassing your kid over something that most people would consider trivial as a form of ribbing them.

          • Flying Squid
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            185 months ago

            You’d sure think so from some of these responses.

            But I do enjoy the person who thinks you need to get consent from a baby to ethically take its picture.

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                So many of you think babies come out clothed.

                You also have this absolutely ludicrous idea in your heads that having a naked photo of your baby is child pornography. And yet none of you have an example of a parent facing legal repercussions for it. And somehow that doesn’t clue you in that it is, in fact, not child pornography.

                And then there’s the Finnish guy who is telling you all what prudes you are. One of the few sane takes.

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              35 months ago

              We’re talking about in the nuddy here, in which case you really should have a good case for taking that photo.

              • Flying Squid
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                95 months ago

                The good case is that the child was just born and didn’t come out clothed. Something many of you don’t seem to understand.

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                65 months ago

                If it’s child porn, you show me one single parent who has gotten in trouble for just taking a picture of their baby when it’s naked and showing that picture to their adult child’s partner.

                One single parent.

          • Flying Squid
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            55 months ago

            I keep asking for evidence that anyone, anywhere has had lasting mental health damage from this and congratulations, you’re the latest to just assume it happens without evidence.

      • Flying Squid
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        65 months ago

        Sorry… taking pictures of a child is weird?

        Do you think cameras steal the soul or something?

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      Oh ew that’s some borderline pedo shit. “Here’s the person you’re fucking as a baby. Hahaha you’re sexually attracted to a baby. I created child pornography just to make you uncomfortable because you’re a normal, non-pedophilic person”

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        85 months ago

        Sorry, you think taking a photo of a baby when they’re born is done with the express purpose of doing something decades later?