“Here I am, in the body God gave me, I want to take a picture of my naked self.
Why is that wrong?”
Leaving the “wrong” for later, as a photographer I have the sad duty to tell you photographs of the nude human body are among the most difficult challenges in photography.
Nude “selfies” are even harder. Cull images tend to be either embarrassingly bad or have a whiff of ‘nasty’ about them.
YMMV.
Let me quote my sis-in-law and say “I don’t do naked” but some people do.
I just can’t see saying that a person doesn’t have a right to take a picture of themselves naked, that seems crazy to me.
OK, most of the rest of us won’t want to ever see it, but I can’t say that in and of itself it’s wrong, or it means you’re a sex pervert or something.
Museums are FILLED with naked people.
Here’s a funny bit: when I took my young daughter to the Met she kept covering her eyes at the nudes and muttering “French...French...”
I honestly don’t know where she got that concept from, but that girl is to the right of Atilla the Hun.
This discussion has reminded me of the Seinfeld episode, where Jerry has a girlfriend who’s basically a nudist and this leads to the realization that there’s “good naked” and “bad naked”.
So true, so true.