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A 26-year-old Tampa, Florida, woman is suing a company whose film developing technician allegedly showed a nude photograph of her at a party.

The photograph is one of almost 300 photographs of nude women which the former employee of the film lab allegedly acquired in his work, placed in an album, and circulated.

The story, as told in Associated Press dispatches in the Miami Herald, suggests that a mammoth amount of home-made nude photographs exist in America; the 300 pussy prints in the Tampa album are merely some of the prints made by one lab during one two-year period.

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The story also suggests that a lawyer stands to clean up on the dirty deed. No less than 100 women have contacted him to enquire if their nude likenesses are among those shown m around and about and if so, what can be done juridically about it.

"The crux of it," says an assistant state attorney, "is that it's a civil matter." The other main kind of lawsuit-- criminal-- could be filed "only if the photos themselves were proven obscene. Simply a photo of a woman's nude body probably wouldn't be."

A nude photograph of a woman may not be obscene but the circumstances under which the 26-year-old complainant's snapshot was taken seem obscene. (Her boyfriend "snapped" her, as it were, as she stepped out of a shower.) It is no big deal when two men are naked together; ever since boyhood they have been surrounded by thousands of naked pricks in locker rooms, barracks, dormitories, and public toilets. Moreover, those who want to play with another's dick, balls, asshole, and the erogenous zone betwixt the balls and butt hole know exactly how to do it effectively from many hours and even years of playing with their own. But when a woman and a man are naked together, it is a jarringly obscene occasion, starting even before they are naked, with the dramatic difference in their lingerie and ending with the startling differences in their bodies.

Thus homosexuality is just a natural and inevitable extension of the routine male nudity men and boys live with, while heterosexuality is a shocking display of two bodies that are foreign to each other-- a display that I would think would alienate both women and men.

Author Profile:  Boyd McDonald

Born in 1925 in South Dakota, Boyd McDonald entered Harvard as a high-school dropout after serving in the army in World War II. Jobs with Time, IBM, and several Wall Street firms preceded Boyd's career as a chronicler of gay sex. He was the founder and editor of Straight to Hell (alternatively the Manhattan Review of Cocksucking), and later published a number of anthologies of true sex histories. Boyd died in September 1993, two months after completing his final book, Scum.