What is your opinion on sexting?

I've been watching a series about problems with sex education and how to improve it. One episode was about sexting. One side wanted to teach students to never take any photos you don't want to become public because leaking is common. The other side wanted to teach recipients to keep intimate photos between them and the sender, and that it could then be a fun and exciting addition to a relationship.

I'm ideally for the latter, combined with prosecuting the perpetrator and supporting the victim if a photo gets out anyway. But society isn't currently like that. People who share someone else's photo get more praise than heat, and people in those photos get more blame and shame than support. As long as that's the reality, I tend to agree people shouldn't take any nudes, but that it should become possible with very low risk.

The first form of education prolongs victim blaming, but the second form isn't safe until everybody attended those classes and most people alive will not do so anymore. So I'm not sure what's best.

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Elessar · 26-30, M

Just omit the face or other potentially uniquely identifying details.

Good luck to anyone willingly to show a random dìck picture around, claiming it's mine, without getting all the weird looks pointed at themselves.

NerdyPotato · M

@Elessar that's a good middle ground for the moment, but it also makes it less meaningful for the intended recipient. And it won't change the views of society on nudes either, which is urgently needed regardless. With the rise of AI, people's nudes with face and tattoos can even be leaked when they never took any. We have to move to a common mindset where that doesn't reflect poorly on the subject, whether real or fake.

Elessar · 26-30, M

@NerdyPotato The raise of AI is at the same time a scourge and a miracle. If a legit photo of yours leak, you can claim that it was faceswapped or generated with AI, send the whole thing to one of those TV programs for boomers looking at the first excuse to blame technology for everything, and let literal mediatic hell unfold upon them.