Quote Originally Posted by blythespirit View Post
Perhaps not to you, but to some it is a big deal. This is freedom of choice, no? I had a mental image of you, Tom, from your posts, then I saw your pics.

I think it's wonderful that you have an open and honest relationship with your daughter. And I'm sure she's proud of your most recent photo shoot. The pics are amazing and so are you; however, not all of us are as free and open with relatives, friends, co-workers. It's not that they might be browsing this site, but someone they know might be and... "hey is this your mom, aunt, friend, teacher, mayor, etc?" Again, not posting a pic is freedom of choice.
Which was exactly my point. I wrote this: "If you have issues about posting your picture here you are hiding something. It could be shame about your perceived ugliness, shyness or something similar."

You just said it yourself. You fear any repercussions you might experience from it getting out where you live that you're into hanky panky sex. Fine. I wasn't reacting to that. If I was a hot submissive chick in Afghanistan I wouldn't post my picture on-line no matter how much my Master commanded it. I mean... it's dangerous.

What I reacted to was those pretending like it wasn't. As if not seeing someone's picture was better somehow. I strongly doubt that anybody living in a western country could suffer any repercussions from posting pics here... but what do I know? I've never been to the Bible belt. For all I know the Christian Talebans might be as bad as their Afghani counterparts!?! If the wrong person accuses you of having posted your picture here.... just deny it. They could have found that picture anywhere. There's no extra brownie points for being truthful to morons. Again... this is assuming its an innocent picture.

...and your kids will always think you're silly and your sons friends will always think you're super hot, (if you're a lady). Who cares? At worst it'll be educational for them. But maybe I'm being overly modern now again? What seven year old today isn't already bored with seeing pictures of Japanese school girls spraying diarrhoea in each other's mouths? These are modern times. If you think any pics of you, (not specifically you) would be news worthy enough to be spread over the net, I think you're overestimating yourself.

Anyway.... you have to own up to the fact that the reason you don't post your pics is largely down to irrational fear. Nothing wrong with that. I've got an irrational fear of loads of things. But don't pretend like it isn't. We're all adults here. If you're not comfortable about something... don't do it. It's as simple as that. You don't have to make up some stupid cover story to hide behind. We all know the truth anyway.