[haswell]

How and why does this make it a different matter? Photographs capture a moment in time. This moment occurred at a beach. It wasn’t sexual then, and it’s not sexual now.

If someone manipulated the image to be explicit or presented it in an obviously sexual context, that might be a different story, but even then, the original image itself was never inherently sexual.

I’d reframe this to point out the image is very natural, i.e. what could be more natural than experiencing nature in one’s natural state?

Seeing this as something sexual is a choice, and an unnecessary one at that.

[eigenket]

> How and why does this make it a different matter?

Context is important. I've spent time on nude beaches, that doesn't mean its appropriate to turn up to work with my dick out. What is appropriate in one place is weird in other places (it would also be weird to rock up to a nude beach in my work clothes).

[haswell]

Appropriateness is orthogonal to sexualization though.

Yes, context matters, but I fail to see anything about this particular context shift that is inherently sexual.

It’s also worth pointing out that exposing your genitalia is in a different category than taking your top off, and certainly different than implied toplessness.