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image of women in the Internet

bule.eyes

bule.eyes

United Arab Emirates

Hi. The subject attracted me, and is in everywhere, and these questions addressed to the boy's .

 Would you accept that your sister put her image on the Internet?

What about the girls who give of their pictures on the Internet?

Is this something normal for you?

 This is something rude, but why you put your photos?

11:08 AM Jun 23 2010 |

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Abd'Arrahman

Tunisia

It is well known that men get sexually excited from just looking at a woman's body. However, a picture of a man does not turn a woman on. Mainly, it is touching that turns a woman on. So, looking at a woman's body turns a man on and in one way or another can contribute in leading this man to commit adultary. Since Islam prohibits adultary, it consequently prohibits distributing or viewing pictures of half naked women. Kindly accept my small explanation of this part of islamic culture. Our friend blue.eyes should have clarifiedthat his questions are meant for those holding the Islamic culture. Regards.

05:41 PM Jun 23 2010 |

julywidiawati

Indonesia

Those questions above are quite strange for me, cause personally there are no big deals of letting your pictures (if you're female) or others on the web, as long as those pictures are on acceptance border.

But if I try to think more responsive to this issue, there is no use of displaying my pictures more over my close up ones cause as a fact they just allure males to get closer and open the gate of some problems up.

03:26 AM Jun 24 2010 |

Ryo

Ryo

Saudi Arabia

Would you accept that your sister put her image on the Internet?I do not have a sisterI'm the only girlAnd if I had it's up to  her    My sister's body woulnot    not  be a disgrace   This is something rude, but why you put your photos     why you put your photos   why  rude?

08:52 AM Jun 24 2010 |

Radunagi

Radunagi

United States

Both of my sisters have facebook, where they put pictures of themselves and their friends online.  It is seen as completely normal here. Modesty is different in different cultures, and if you are raised to see something as normal, that will affect your point of view.  I should point out that I and my sisters have very happy lives, so this lifestyle seems to be working out well for us.  

 

And for no reason, I would like to point out that while research on the subject is a bit hard to come by (In a country where adultery is punished by death, it is hard to get people to be honest about how much they cheat), generally, the RICHER a country is, the more likely they are to be faithful, because cheating, and the divorce and problems that go along with it, have more cost. The more POOR a country is, the more common adultery is because it has less consequences. Rather than religion or rules about what you can show or other moral things, it seems that economy is the most important thing governing rates of infidelity.  

 

10:00 AM Jun 24 2010 |

Nasim

Nasim

India

The de facto de jure stand of Islam on photography is that the photographing, sculpting, drawing or painting anything live is forbidden. If you do, you’ll be asked to give it life on final judgement day.
There’s another factor to be considered in cheating and adultery, the openness of the society. In a more open society often people will opt in for live in relationships rather than a formal marriage. While it is a fact that the institution of marriage has more important dimensions that legal, but such relationships, in general give the spouses more reasons to cheat.

05:01 PM Jun 24 2010 |

Nasim

Nasim

India

Another thing is the sexual drive in women is 20% of that of men. But in adolescents this is less affected by the gender bias. As my biology teacher explained the sexual craving is just like a pressure. Suppose we fille a balloon with air and more air. After getting stretched it’d be harder to blow in more air. If we still continue, it’ll burst. The pressure building up inside is just like the sex drive and the resistance of balloon is like our ability to control ourselves. Sex is a spontaneous thing. If you impose too many restrictions the result could be exploding and disastrous. And while doctors agree that pornography and masturbation is a normal way to relieve his sexual tensions for a young man, the religious clerics disagree. Strain the boy too much…And he’d finally commit the ultimate mistake. Heavy penalty might elongate the carrying capacity, but its a deterrent, not a sure shot preventive measure.

05:11 PM Jun 24 2010 |

Nasim

Nasim

India

On for something lighter
a woman decides to takes his hubby to a strip club for his birthday treat. When they reach the guy at the gate says “how are you doing dave”. His wife is shocked and asks if he had come here. Husband : “Oh no. We know each other cause he’s in my bowling team.” then the waitress comes and says “hi dave. Would you like your regular vodka?” the pissed wife looks at him and he explains “She’s in the ladies’ bowling team. We share lanes.” finally the stripper comes. She puts her hands around his neck and says “How’re ya doing dave? You’ve not been here for long big boy.” Now his enraged wife rushes out, with him following her to explain. She gets into a taxi, and he rushes in too. He’s trying to talk but she calls her all the names in the world. Just then the taxi drivers turns and says “Well Dave, you got yourself a real bitch tonight.”

05:19 PM Jun 24 2010 |

Radunagi

Radunagi

United States

Kobiet.ka: I got the info from a very interesting book, "Lust in Translation: Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee" It is a very long an d pretty well-researched book about infidelity around the world.  Also on how societies will develop exceptions to normally strict rules about infidelity, like, it's ok if you are on vacation/you pay/it's with a foreigner.  YOu can read an excerpt here.

 ABD: In my experience, women can be just as "turned on" by a photo as anyone else, even if they have tremendous social pressure in some countries not to tell anyone about it. Women find some men handsome and some men ugly, they are not blind.  While it is true that women have a different type of sex drive then men, usually, we aren't THAT different.  If anyone wants to know more about it, this article seems good.  

 

And as a man, I have to say, it is a little insulting to me to say that men cannot control themselves if they see a women.  I'm a human, I'm not an animal and I have self-control.  I'm not going to cheat on my girlfriend just because I saw a photo of some woman online.  Maybe I didn't understand you correctly.

 

Nasim:   I don't know what religion you are, but seeing your first sentence, and then seeing that you have a picture of yourself up online, was pretty funny _

 

While it is true that extreme social controls can indeed control what people do, I wouldn't say that they make people more moral.  Adultery was not as common as it is today in 1967 China, yet it is hard to say that China was "better" in 1967.  Secondly, if a society is more open, then people only get married when they freely choose to, rather than under pressure.  They marry people they love rather than the people their family makes them marry.  And if there is cheating in a more open society, then divorce is more likely.  Divorce is more likely because there is less shame in a more open society to be divorced than in a poorer or more backwards society.  In a country where a divorced woman is looked down on, she has more reason to stay with a cheating husband, to avoid shame.  Finally, in a richer country, a woman is more likely to be educated and capable of working.  She does not need to rely on her husband to live and get money, so she is more free to leave if he cheats.  So I would disagree with your assertion that more open countries encourage cheating.  It is not supported by research. 

 

Divorce is very expensive in richer countries.  Divorce because of cheating puts a bad image on the cheater.  This is why richer countries tend to have lower rates of infidelity than poorer countries.  

 

11:59 PM Jun 24 2010 |

javamanju

javamanju

India

As long as it is decent, why not ? 

But again, the website matters as well. I would not recommend any one(male and female) uploading photos on "open sites" , like this. It has it own security issues.

04:49 PM Jun 26 2010 |