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Girl pressed for nude photo should wear T-shirt, instead

By Amy Dickinson, Tribune Content Agency on

Dear Amy: My boyfriend and I just finished our junior year of high school. We've been a couple for almost six months and are sexually active.

He recently asked me to let him take nude photos of me.

He is totally trustworthy and I know I can count on him to be discreet, but I still worry that someone else will somehow view them.

You hear stories of "revenge porn," and I've heard from different female classmates that their boyfriends shared their private photos with other boys.

I don't want to be a prude or deny my boyfriend's desire, but I'm nervous about being out there "au natural."

Is this picture-taking-thing normal, or not so much?

 

-- Camera Shy

Dear Shy: First of all, use birth control. Becoming pregnant would affect your life even more than having a nude photo shared. And having a nude photo shared would affect your life in profound ways.

Secondly, if you submit to nude photos, they will definitely be shared.

Here are possible scenarios: Your BF's kid brother gets ahold of his phone and ... boom -- there you are, on Instagram.

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