Just curious to know everyone's opinions on what you think has changed over time and what do you think are the primary causes of those changes?

Something that comes to mind is how all these vintage, black and white, Naturist magazines seem to depict people being for comfortable having their pictures taken than people today. I am far to young to know how it was back then, but I do assume not everyone was fine with having their picture taken. However, from what I have seen and read, it does seem that people back before colour photography were more comfortable with having their picture taken when nude.

I contribute this mainly to the internet and the ease of the transfer of media. Before the internet, it was a whole not harder and more expensive to make and distribute copies of a photo. When someone took you photograph, they would first have to have it developed, which could take days to weeks depending one how frequently they took pictures of people and things. You had to wait until the camera role was finished before taking it in to get developed. Once developed, there would usually be only one set of negatives that could be used to make copies from. The creation of additional negatives is a whole other process. In most cases only one or two copies of a photo would ever be made, one for the family and maybe a copy for any other people in the photo that might want one. If and when you wanted to look at a photo, you would have to search through shoe boxes, or if you were organized, photo albums, to find it. And how often do people go looking through their family photo albums? The point is, that before the internet people had little worry that a photo of them at a naturist resort or club, was going to be seen by anyone but those they would be fine with seeing a nude photo of them. Also there was the size of commercial cameras. It was way harder to hide and use a camera back then than it is now.

Now, we have cameras in that take photos and video, in stylish glasses. We have cameras in every cell phone that people feel naked without. Someone can take a picture of you without you even knowing; and in less than a minute is can be uploaded to a website to be seen by countless unknown people for all eternity. Or until the internet crashes.

It is also well documented and undeniable that people are just plain less comfortable with casual nudity now than in the past. I am in my 40s, and I can remember then it was not uncommon for kids to run naked through sprinklers on the front lawn. Now a days, you would have multiple people call the cops on you and could run the risk of having your kids taken away from you. Parents used to be able to take their kids into public change rooms, and no one would bat an eye. Now every pool and public place needs to have family change rooms separate from anyone else, so on one has to be subjected to the sight of a nude body other than their own or their child's. Change rooms in Schools have changed; they used to be open rooms with showers on the walls. My niece says they don't have to change for Gym class anymore; and when they do, the change-rooms are all small changing stalls so no one can see you and she was shocked to hear that people used to shower at school let alone with other same gendered people.

It is a whole lot easier to take pictures of things and people, today, than it has ever been, as everyone seems to have a camera on them at all times and in all places. Yet people are less inclined to take pictures of their own kids in public, than they ever have been. A friend of mine literally had the cops called on him because he was taking pictures of his son at a public Park. Some prude, "concerned mother" called the cops because she thought he was taking random pictures of children for nefarious reasons. He had no issue showing the police the pictures on his phone as they were all of his son, at the Park, doing normal things kids do at playgrounds. There might have been some other kids in the background, but that should not have been a problem. Even the police thought the prude mother was way off her rocker for wasting their time with something so pointless and trivial as a father taking pictures of his son at play.

So that is my opinion: what is your?

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