Posting someone’s nude photos on public sites without their consent or knowledge is one of the most disrespectful things you can do to a person. They trusted you and you betrayed them. You were lucky enough to even get pictures from them; why ruin it by completely exposing them after? Imagine going about your day and someone telling you they’ve seen your naked body on the internet. Finding out that maybe your family or boss or just a complete stranger could see it and be able to judge you. Why knowingly make someone feel that way?

There are whole sites dedicated to being able to share people's nude photos while staying anonymous. These sites have photos of underaged girls for the world to see. Fifteen and sixteen-year-old girls being targeted online, getting called sluts and whores because they trusted the wrong boy. Young girls are being humiliated online and it follows them even as they grow up. There are people being exposed because someone doesn’t know how to be responsible during a breakup and think posting their ex will change something.

You post someone’s nudes online and now suddenly they are viewed as a sexual object. It has become normal for people to beg online for a person's nudes because they are too much of a coward to approach the person themselves. They fear the rejection so they try and get them online. Consent no longer matters. It is a desperation people have developed where they will disrespect anyone to satisfy themselves.

And why would you want to share a photo that someone sent you specifically, anyway? You should feel special that they want to share their body with you. It means nothing if you show it to everyone else. It becomes just another ruined trust in the person you betrayed. I don’t even see what anyone gets out of posting someone’s photo. Congratulations on humiliating and degrading someone for no reason? Even if someone is confident with their body, that doesn’t mean they want the entire world seeing it. Nor do you have the right to decide if the entire world sees it. What if that was your little sister someone was posting?

We live in a society where socializing is mostly done through technology. Sexting has become a popular, and normal, behavior for people since apps like Snapchat gained more popularity. It can be a safe and fun thing to do if people don’t take advantage of it. Teachers have lost jobs because of leaked nudes. Teenagers have committed suicide because of the bullying they receive after their nude photos have been leaked. We blame the people who take the pictures but not the ones who can’t respect the other person and refrain from exposing them online.

dost someone’s photos. Those people are more than just their physical bodies. You are damaging the emotional part of them as well. When you post someone’s photo, you are proving to them that they mean so little to you that they don’t care about showing their most vulnerable side to the world. You are proving that you just don’t care about hurting someone.