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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

i didn’t take them and i didn’t consent to them existing either. Neither did i consent to them being shown to anybody.

Based on that reasoning, I should not show anyone any photo of my child until they were old enough to consent to them being taken.

You can have your naked baby photos, you just also have to be in the photo and naked as well.

I'm not embarrassed by my body and if that's what her partner really wants to see, I don't care.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Based on that reasoning, I should not show anyone any photo of my child until they were old enough to consent to them being taken.

This is actually solid advice, especially as far as social media is concerned.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We're not talking about social media, we're talking about the significant other of my child. Or even relatives. I didn't get my daughter's permission to take her photo when she was a baby, so I shouldn't have sent a photo to my father on the other side of the country based on this reasoning.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're (wisely) backpeddling now but you said:

used to torture children in front of their serious romantic partners brought home for the first time.

Things were different when we were kids. It's a fucked up thing to psychologically abuse your (presumably) teenage kids like that and objectively people know that. (Your daughters) consent in the subject is the only thing that matters. The only reason anyone is giving you a pass is because you're FlyingSquid, but maybe leave those pictures in the closet until closer to the wedding.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Oh please. It's not psychological abuse. It's "torture" the same way telling the story about the time they told a lady in the checkout line, "I came out of my mommy's bagina!" when they were three to an adult child's partner is torture.

You show me an example of anyone suffering PTSD because their parents showed their partner baby pictures.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You show me an example of anyone suffering PTSD because their parents showed their partner baby pictures.

Ah yes, because everything is ethical as long as the other party doesn't develop a mental illness because of it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The claim was it caused trauma. That is something that is evidence-based. You are changing the subject.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (29 children)

I'm sorry, you can't have experienced trauma unless you've had someone clinically analyze and diagnose you?

What kind of absurd bar is this?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (29 children)

Yeah saving it for their long term partners (if you have to) is probably a better idea than showing them during the first meeting.

And please don't dismiss other peoples trauma because you didn't experience it personally, childhood trauma takes many different forms, some we're only just becoming aware of.

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