How badly are Google invading our privacy?

t06afre

Joined May 11, 2009
5,934
So where are the pictures? You can't talk about pictures of boobs without providing the link. That's just not sporting. :(
He he those pictures were taken with a teleobjective. From about 1 km distance. They are probably more blurry than a much more mentioned ocean picture (at least on this site)
 

atferrari

Joined Jan 6, 2004
4,771
No pictures of female breasts will be hosted in AAC whatsoever. We are rated "A" for all audiences.

Besides, I even saw the pictures twice unintentionally, while reading the news the other day. Right next to the deceased American ambassador. Reporters aren't of the most meticulous professionals.
My thoughts:

One of the very first things that most of us have seen in life were breasts. And for a good reason.

With the so many available everywhere nowadays (what you could have chez vous, staying apart) who cares of an additional pair? I prefer to enter one of my preferred electronic forums instead.

Not watching TV for more than 4 years now, I use to read papers online. I stay away of anything that says "secret" "scandal" "surprise" "best paid" "best model" "viral video" "most famous" and the like. Not worth the effort, no matter Susana, Kate or María. Much less if it involves a poll where you are invited to state your opinion. Oh no! Life is too short.

BTW, I learnt that much of your sensible data could be learnt by an intelligent individual just provided he looks in the right place not even starting Google. And most of it is public. Yes.
 

Georacer

Joined Nov 25, 2009
5,182
I 'm not saying it's unnatural, but naked female breasts are considered a taboo in the western world, for good or for worse, so we play by those rules for now.
 

t06afre

Joined May 11, 2009
5,934
I 'm not saying it's unnatural, but naked female breasts are considered a taboo in the western world, for good or for worse, so we play by those rules for now.
No that is not quite true. In USA they are quite hysterical about breasts. Then Janet Jackson in 2004 showed a nipple during the halftime show of super bowl finale. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) received received nearly 540,000 complaints from Americans. The same show was aired in Canada and the result was a mere 50 complaints. So it is big difference from country to country. In Scandinavia you may see breasts in serious newspapers now and then. Maybe not paparazzi pictures like the ones taken of Kate Middleton sunbathing topless. But a recently picture I can remember was of some girls having a demonstration against Putin. By showing the breasts. Maybe this would have been unseemly in your country , I do not know. However I can perfectly live without breasts in this little corner of internet. And I suspect the site owners will keep it that way.
 

maxpower097

Joined Feb 20, 2009
816
How would you feel if some pervert stalked out your wife for days to take pictures of her naked and sold them to newspapers to make a quick buck, a few years after the same scum killed your mother?

You're perverted if you want to see these pictures, if only for wanting to oogle at a topless women - have some respect for ladies and women.

There is no news or journalism in this at all, just grotesque greed and pervertedness.
That depended how I felt about having my entire life paid for on the countries dime and getting free castles. When your a celeb you must put up with that kinda stuff. Especially when your born into it like a monarchy. Because monarchs get less and less respect and are becoming more and more of show dogs in western society. Even look at all the new reality TV. I'm gonna marry a prince, Royal Dating, etc...
 

maxpower097

Joined Feb 20, 2009
816
How would you feel if some pervert stalked out your wife for days to take pictures of her naked and sold them to newspapers to make a quick buck, a few years after the same scum killed your mother?

You're perverted if you want to see these pictures, if only for wanting to oogle at a topless women - have some respect for ladies and women.

There is no news or journalism in this at all, just grotesque greed and pervertedness.
Not all photographers are the same people sparky.
 

maxpower097

Joined Feb 20, 2009
816
No that is not quite true. In USA they are quite hysterical about breasts. Then Janet Jackson in 2004 showed a nipple during the halftime show of super bowl finale. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) received received nearly 540,000 complaints from Americans. The same show was aired in Canada and the result was a mere 50 complaints. So it is big difference from country to country. In Scandinavia you may see breasts in serious newspapers now and then. Maybe not paparazzi pictures like the ones taken of Kate Middleton sunbathing topless. But a recently picture I can remember was of some girls having a demonstration against Putin. By showing the breasts. Maybe this would have been unseemly in your country , I do not know. However I can perfectly live without breasts in this little corner of internet. And I suspect the site owners will keep it that way.
Or GGW wouldn't be a huge multi million dollar company. The difference between sex in the west and east is in the west many things are taboo but socially acceptable. In the east many things are unacceptable in any country but they don't have the resources to stop it. Places like Asia, India, etc... come to mind.
 

Wendy

Joined Mar 24, 2008
23,429
I suspect most of us are very bemused by the strange obsession of not showing body parts on video, or even live. I am not a nudest, and I do enjoy looking at attractive people of the opposite sex (clothed or not), but way too much time is spent on the subject. It is basically a non issue. At least we don't have burka's.

Part of the problem is our media, if allowed, would show nothing else. One over reaction drives another. And it does sell, there is a reason most malware is baited with various porn, idiots will be with us always.
 

strantor

Joined Oct 3, 2010
6,798
I've got a question; Why do men like breasts? I love them, but not sure why. Outside of only the most creative acts of bedplay, they don't offer me any tangible pleasure like other parts of the female body. I think of people with foot fetishes as being weird; what about feet gets a person off? well, if everybody had a foot fetish then it would be pretty much the same thing as the common boob fetish. Nobody would question it or think weird of it, even though it's equally pointless.

Is it just the taboo aspect of it? Someone decided way back that boobs aren't to be gazed upon so women started covering them up, and once we weren't allowed to see them, it made us desire them?
 

Georacer

Joined Nov 25, 2009
5,182
Breasts are connected to reproduction and maternity. Consequently, they are also sexual areas and men are biologically programmed to be attracted to them. Thus the taboo aspect of them.
 

#12

Joined Nov 30, 2010
18,224
I'm with Geo. Males are genetically programmed to seek healthy breeding partners. Boobs are part of the set of signals that show health and breeding capability.
It seems stupid on an intellectual level, but breeding isn't an intellectual activity!
 

Wendy

Joined Mar 24, 2008
23,429
Actually there are cultures that don't consider breasts taboo. We tend to forget that.

And even among "Western" civilizations Americans are among the most messed up on the subject.
 

Georacer

Joined Nov 25, 2009
5,182
...which was invented by the modern human
If you consider 100AC modern, sure.

The only cultures that don't have breast taboos are ones we consider primitive and are rather isolated from the rest of the world. Amazon and Polynesia tribes, to name a few.
 

THE_RB

Joined Feb 11, 2008
5,438
Well coming from Greece you would probably know in some of the ancient Greek cultures (possibly the most advanced civilisation of the time) that is was common for women to show their breasts, they were prized and rich women especially would show their breasts in their best social event clothing. The island of Minoa(?) now thought to be the real location of Atlantis, has wall murals shwoing men and women in their best high social clothing, the women with bare and very "presented" breasts.

America seems to be going backwards. I see Hollywood movies from the 70's and 80's with topless women, everything from comedies to actions films etc. These days apart from very rare instances you never see a breast or a nipple, it's like some Victorian age BS where the love scenes in movies are all "from the shoulders up". A return to Victorian style BS? It's a joke.

In Australia if there's boobs in a movie nobody really cares, same as on a beach. The idea that a woman sunbathing on an American beach could actually be arrested and dragged off to a cell for taking her bikini top off just sounds totally bizarre to people from more grown up countries.
 
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