First of all, I'd like to say how pleased and surprised I am to see so many of you taking the position you have on this issue, with only 1 poster taking the opposing view that it would be okay to post without explicit position. Whenever this issue has been raised in the past, there has been far less consensus and far more people rationalizing their "post away" position.
I WON'T comment any further on the issue of posting without explicit position since that issue seems pretty much settled (in this thread any way) and because my on position on that issue I've stated many times before and should be well-known to most of you (or at least anyone who have read past threads on this subject). What I WOULD like to comment on and take PARTIAL exception to was this post by ID:
Irish Drifter wrote:
Jamrock60 wrote:
That not a lot different then posting them publicly. Once someone, other then the person who took them, has them you have lost all control of them. If she allowed you to take them for your personal use that means your personal use not for the use of of others.
I think a distinction should be made between sharing them by SHOWING them physically to other guys when you meet with them privately (such as on your digital camera's playback screen or the pics that you have uploaded on to your own netbook at CRT chapter meetings) and sharing them ELECTRONICALLY (such as by sending the image file by e-mail attachment to those other guys).
Perhaps ID feels that even the former case steps over the ethical limit. After all, technically speaking if you want to be precise personal use means personal use. OTOH, if you only SHOW your photos without actually sharing them electronically, at least it can't go any further than the visual memories of the guys you've shared those photos with (and who presumably you know and trust). Personally, I look at this sort of sharing as being more of gray-area/white lie sort of thing. After all, presumably you're only going to be showing those pics to guys you've actually met and know and not to someone who might be say their father or brother, so what is the real harm if there is absolutely no way they'd ever find out. I suppose one of them might tell your chica that you've shown them your photo, but why would they do that and, even if they did, it would just be their word against yours. Or, I suppose, you might wind up showing it (accidently or on purpose) to their gringo novio who THOUGHT she was no longer in that business and thus it might get back to her in that case, but then have you really done such a bad thing or gotten her into hot water that she didn't really deserve anyway?
OTOH, ID is absolutely right that, when you send someone an ELECTRONIC copy of one of your private chica pics, you never really know what they might do with that file (even if it is a guy you THINK you can trust and you made it clear you didn't want that pic reposted). And, if one of those guys went ahead and posted your pic (or forwarded it on to yet someone else who did) and your chica happened to catch wind of it, it wouldn't really matter so much to her WHO posted it as much as the fact that YOU were the one who took the photo and let it out and that, whereever it came from or who posted it, it was out there.
I confess I made that mistake once only to later see that pic posted on-line (on another Forum). I asked him to remove it, but wound up having to contact that site's admin to get everything removed. Thankfully, I don't think the chica involved ever discovered that the photo I took wound up on-line or, if she did, figure out that it was one of the ones that I had taken. OTOH, I will never really know how many other guys I don't even know might have downloaded that photo while it was still up and what they might have done with it further. Needless to say, I'm much more careful now in regards to how and who with I share any of my photos, let alone posting any of them on-line.
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