If any officer had nude pictures of any subordinate and refused to return them or destroy them upon request that would be, in my mind, a dishonorable act.
If you cannot see the possibilities of the threat, embarrasement and potential harrassment just possessing those photos by this creep could be to the private then you need to refocuse your glasses from the gay issues because they are blinding you. Could the man have worried that once the guy retired he would blackmail him with the photo's ? Put yourself inthe guys shoes a minute and ask yourself how you would feel.
Then imagine the same circumstances and the superior officer is a male and the PVT is a female.
Do we want to send a signal to the troops that is OK for a superior officer to have naked pictures of his subordinates when the sunbordiantes requested their return ?
I have my legal blinders on, as I usually do in such discussion. I'm altogether disinterested in prurient details or emotionalized fixations.. My only interest is in how this case stands or falls on the legal merits.