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#NormalizeNudity

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It's kinda fun to think how different cultures view different things as immoral or obscene. One thing with us Finns and other Nordics too, is that we're not that much afraid of nudity.

For example, it's not uncommon for families to go to sauna together, girl and boys too. This introduces us to non-sexual nudity from the start - there's nothing 'questionable' about your naked body. This does mean we as a nation walk dicks and tits hanging out in our normal life, it's just that there's no 'OMG! I saw a glimpse of auntie Nana's tit' kind of stories being told.

Things really got weird when I in my 20s travelled across the US and visited many bible belt places. When I told I had been in sauna with my sisters and brothers, people acted like it had been an incest orgy. I was told I was abused and was so traumatized I didn't even know it was abuse.

This just weirded me out so bad. I'm okay with my body and aren't shamed of it. That doesn't mean I post spread eagle pictures of it either.

It occurs to me that as non-consensual nudes being generated with #AI become more common and harder to differentiate from real ones, we will have an effect of normalization for people having naked pictures of themselves up on the internet. Eventually, it will be very easy to just go get pictures of anyone you want naked, and post them anywhere, and as that happens, it will also become more easy to claim that any picture of you naked that someone finds on the internet was just #AIgenerated, regardless of whether it actually was.

Perhaps this will be some weird step on the path to #NormalizeNudity, once again?