1. Is it safe to text a nude to your new BF, exclusive boyfriend or relationship partner ?
Whenever you transmit something — and it leaves your hands — there is risk involved. The risk of texting a nude photo to your partner has to do with human error and with privacy issues that are part of using the internet. For instance, human error means you accidentally hit “reply all” when you only meant to reply with a nude to your partner. Now, your private image has gone public. With the internet, it’s hard to know who will wind up seeing something that you’re texting as private. Typically, someone other than you owns the system you’re using to transmit — whether it’s an app, an email server or a your office network server. Whether or not those companies and business can gain access to your private photos of your private parts, is hard to say. What is not hard to say is that risk is involved.
The other safety issue has to do with what your partner, who receives that nude text, does with it. An innocent problem might involve your partner leaving his or her phone open and his or her kids, parents, colleagues and friends seeing your private image. A less innocent problem is called revenge porn, and it’s what a partner does with your nude texts, after you break up and your partner is angry, vindictive and looking for revenge, so they post your nude images for the public. While this is illegal in many states, the law doesn’t prevent it from happening. It just punishes the perpetrator, so you may still find yourself with a dilemma.
Lastly, you may send a nude image to a partner — and shock them. They may not be ready for this behavior or this type of gesture. Not everyone is into sharing nude images — or sharing them too soon in a relationship. If you’re sharing the image to move things along, understand that risk. You may be pushing too much too soon. So, try to to figure out if your partner is the right audience for this type of nude image text.
2. Is it safe to text a nude to someone you’re seeing casually?
Texting nudes to someone you’re seeing casually is risky because you don’t have the same loyalty and commitment that you have with someone you’re in a monogamous, committed relationship. Therefore, you don’t have the same security of knowing that they’ll protect your privacy as you’d like it to be protected. When you’re dating someone for longer, you know them better, and you know that you can trust them — or not. Casual dates, you just don’t have the history and knowledge to trust them as much.
Also, when you text nudes to someone you’re seeing casually, you may be sending them a message that is misconstrued. Sending nudes after one or two dates doesn’t really imply you’re in this for the long run — and that’s fine, if that’s what you intend to convey.
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