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Upskirt Photography - Legal or Illegal???

Taking an upskirt photo should


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Yes, but as others have noted, panties can be sheer, they can be not "covering" everything, you could have a wedgie (front or back) . . . . Some people CHOOSE not to wear panties . . . .

And if she's commando, he can get arrested. What's the problem?

If she's covered, then it's nothing worse than wearing a bikini at the beach.
 
And if she's commando, he can get arrested. What's the problem?

If she's covered, then it's nothing worse than wearing a bikini at the beach.

Please . . . we all know WHY these guys are taking these pictures. They are NOT comparable to pictures of an attractive woman at the beach. They are strictly crotch and ass shots. Women at the beach are conscious that people are seeing them, and they can take appropriate measures to stay concealed. In these shots, these women are unaware, you are seeing labia majora and labia minora sometimes too. NOT the same thing at all.
 
Do you think it's ok if it's a 13 year old girl getting upskirted?

I certainly don't think that's okay. That's just another disturbing aspect of this.
 
Please . . . we all know WHY these guys are taking these pictures. They are NOT comparable to pictures of an attractive woman at the beach. They are strictly crotch and ass shots. Women at the beach are conscious that people are seeing them, and they can take appropriate measures to stay concealed. In these shots, these women are unaware, you are seeing labia majora and labia minora sometimes too. NOT the same thing at all.
Oh let's get serious here - women don't wear bikinis so guys look at their elbows. And if she's showing some taint, then cuff him.
 
Oh let's get serious here - women don't wear bikinis so guys look at their elbows. And if she's showing some taint, then cuff him.

Lol! They are NOT wearing them for you to look at their crotch either.
 
Do you think it's ok if it's a 13 year old girl getting upskirted?

Once again, I have to elaborate. Should it be "ok"? No. Should it be illegal? No.

I don't think smoking is "ok" either. Maybe we should make it to where if you light up, you get locked up.
 
I think I am on the side of Alec Baldwin on this (not the part about the 'upskirt' legality but rather the response). If someone gets caught doing it, it should be absolutely ok for a mass public beatdown. In fact it should be encouraged.
 
If they are putting the images on the net or in some other way publishing them and making money with them, without a model release it IS illegal, and they are prime targets for litigation.

Without ANY money being made, IE, the website is completely advert free, and no fees, it's "legal". Public domain. However...if I were a cop, and I saw an angry father/brother/boyfriend/sister/passerby nocking the snot outa someone busted for doing this...I probably wouldn't "see" anything.
 
Glad I live in Kansas where the possibilty of someone trying to get close enough for an upskirt is almost an impossibility.
 
Lol! They are NOT wearing them for you to look at their crotch either.

No, they wear yoga pants for that!












Oh, I kid, I kid. I just couldn't help myself, sorry!
 
Should it be illegal to get a crotch shot? Hmmmmn...if it is, how are out of the limelight celebs going to get noticed again?
 
You seriously believe that, don't you?

Hello? I know that. I am a woman who wears a bikini at the beach, and my goal is NOT to have men looking at my crotch area. :roll: Just because that's what you would LIKE to be the case, doesn't make it so.
 
Should it be illegal to get a crotch shot? Hmmmmn...if it is, how are out of the limelight celebs going to get noticed again?

Good point, but it's really not about the people who are "putting it out there" so to speak, but when a man sneaks up on an unsuspecting woman or CHILD and takes a picture up under her dress/skirt. It's just disgusting and perverted. What is wrong with you guys anyway? :lol: J/K!
 
Glad I live in Kansas where the possibilty of someone trying to get close enough for an upskirt is almost an impossibility.

Yeah I give ya that, babe. If there is any appeal, it goes by the wayside when she's packing and it's 4 degrees outside.
 
I think I am on the side of Alec Baldwin on this (not the part about the 'upskirt' legality but rather the response). If someone gets caught doing it, it should be absolutely ok for a mass public beatdown. In fact it should be encouraged.

Yeah, but that IS illegal in Massachusetts. :roll:

So a guy comes up behind me and starts taking pictures under my skirt. What is my recourse? I mean, legally, there is absolutely nothing I could do about it. Does this mean I have to tolerate this and do nothing? Bullcrap! I'm going to go to jail I guess.
 
Hello? I know that. I am a woman who wears a bikini at the beach, and my goal is NOT to have men looking at my crotch area. :roll: Just because that's what you would LIKE to be the case, doesn't make it so.

Might I suggest you wear a wrap around your waist then? Any woman who thinks that bikini aren't license to gawk at tits and taint has some real "country bumpkin" in them.
 
Once again, I have to elaborate. Should it be "ok"? No. Should it be illegal? No.

I don't think smoking is "ok" either. Maybe we should make it to where if you light up, you get locked up.

Well in MA, it is illegal to distribute photography of children in a state of nudity. If you see a picture of a female online with only her legs, underwear, and shirt showing, how do you prove or disprove it was a minor?

Section 29A. (a) Whoever, either with knowledge that a person is a child under eighteen years of age or while in possession of such facts that he should have reason to know that such person is a child under eighteen years of age, and with lascivious intent, hires, coerces, solicits or entices, employs, procures, uses, causes, encourages, or knowingly permits such child to pose or be exhibited in a state of nudity, for the purpose of representation or reproduction in any visual material, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of not less than ten nor more than twenty years, or by a fine of not less than ten thousand nor more than fifty thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter272/Section29A
 
Might I suggest you wear a wrap around your waist then? Any woman who thinks that bikini aren't license to gawk at tits and taint has some real "country bumpkin" in them.

Women in other countries go to beaches with breasts exposed, and the men there aren't perverts like American men (or so I've been told by multiple, multiple people). American men have some kind of weird obsession with breaking women down into specific "body parts" and have a difficult time NOT objectifying a woman as a sexual thing. It's hot at the beach, and just because you are wearing a bathing suit does not mean you want men gawking at your crotch area. It's just creepy.
 
Well in MA, it is illegal to distribute photography of children in a state of nudity. If you see a picture of a female online with only her legs, underwear, and shirt showing, how do you prove or disprove it was a minor?



https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter272/Section29A

It's simple. They cannot. I'm sure this little problem will get cleared up soon enough. It's just ridiculous to suggest that this is "okay" in any way, and it's simply a matter of updating some laws, I'm sure.
 
The problem is how would you write the law? I have a right to capture images in the public domain, and it trumps your right to not be embarrassed. But embarrassment doesn't quite cover it, does it? An up skirt shot goes a little further than simple embarrassment. But where do we draw the line between that and being taken advantage of? Without diminishing my photo journalistic rights?
 
So THAT'S how law works - you have to not be okay with something happening. Thank you so much for clarifying. So if a guy calls my girlfriend a bitch, that's essentially license to whip him within an inch of his life. Refresh my memory - is calling a woman a bitch legal?

But hey - good luck in your quest to make everything you don't like illegal.

I am aware this is "How Law Works"....we are discussing the implications of it. That you completely avoided answering my questions and instead decided to sideline the entire core concept in preference of trying to hijack this into a debate about verbal insult makes it likely you would not be okay with having a female you care about invaded in this way.

From this, I will assume you do not support strangers taking upskirt pictures of women.

Feel free to correct my assumption if required.
 
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