I think it depends on how embarrassed you would be if someone you did know came across it. My wife is less worried about what other people think, and it's just a little nudity so who really cares. Unless you are planning on running for office, I feel like it's just innocent fun. nobody is hurt and especially in these times we all need a little excitement. That's part of the fun too. Maybe someone you know will see you?

I kind of think it depends on how young and fit the gal is. Mature women are reposted plenty I’m sure, but it seems to me that the pics that get shared far enough to actually risk being discovered by friends and family are chicks in their sexual primes with their faces clearly showing.

I’ve been wondering about “clothed/unclothed” pics. I have a feeling that when nudes of these women are shared for the first time, they probably aren’t shared side by side. I think more likely, when a nude pic makes it far enough to be discovered by some random hornball who lusted over the girl in high school, he then takes it upon himself to match the pictures up.

Why am I thinking about it at this depth? Clearly, because I am the aforementioned random horn-ball. Know-thyself, young grasshopper.

Faces
 

I recognized a lady that posted all the time on another very popular adult site for years,we passed each other in a super market and talked about her post,we became friends she even told what town she lived in and where all the outside public area photos were taken.I asked her if anyone besides me ever recognized her and she said only once at home depot and the guy asked her if she was Judy,she said yes and he walked away and would not say anything,,this friend did 1000's of photos for years..

Perhaps?
 

Perhaps the question is - if we post a naked face pic of our wife or GF, should we also have to do the very same with our anonymous faces, granted that hardly anyone would want to see our naked portly bodies and unremarkable faces?

I think that answers the very nature of this question

I know of a woman whose husband, with her permission, posted nude pictures of her without her face. As it happened, one of her coworkers recognized her from the background of the picture as well as some jewelry she was wearing. He immediately approached her for sex. When she declined, he became aggressive, obsessive, and indiscreet. She wound up having to quit her job and move out of state to start over just to get out of the situation.

I agree that the chances of being recognized in this day and age are rather slim. However, the downside can be huge. I think most women over the age of 20 recognize the danger of the crazed admirer and most men don't. The crazed admirer is more common than most men think. The woman discussed above was concerned and a bit frightened of the coworker. Some people are just crazy and good at covering it up.

Personally, while I appreciate the people who do take the risk, I think the downside of the slight risk is just too high.

Every picture posted of my wife is either from not in out home or an unidentifiable background. I've also blurred her jewelry.

It's not worth it. Worst case scenario is just too bad compared to the pay off for mine.
But it all depends on the couple and the situation and the lifestyle etc.

I think the more and more people post online, the lower the risk becomes. There's just so much of it now, that there is less of a chance of being discovered.

However, that chance is not zero. There is always some risk. The large majority of photos we post either here or on Reddit are either not showing face, or at least a masked face for plausible deniability.

I do share some photos and videos of her, including hard core (with her knowledge) with some friends that I trust.

I posted nude with hidden face pics
 

no harm was done but there is a senior contributor on another adult site that checks out every photo and if deemed worthy he will save the photo. My photos on Fl..kr were set to block people from saving them so this person used the snipping app to cut and paste the photos.
Don't think that if you block others from saving your photos that you are safe. There are people out there that don't care about copyright rules. Just saying......

new technology - don't rely on hiding in the mass of images
 

You cannot untell a secret.

Assuming you are still together: no complicating new partner or inlaws. No new job, colleagues, working abroad (eg a Muslim country), neighbours where this could be a problem. Would your (adult) children and partners be stigmatized?

New Technology.
Consider the vintage pictures here. Smartphones and the internet were not imagined. Many naturists/nudists willingly posed for print magazines and friends with film cameras. Distribution was limited. Family/friends/neighbours/colleagues unlikely to see it, especially for foreign magazines.

Don't count on hiding in the mass of images.
Current technological developments include facial and location recognition eventually available to all. A prospective employer might put the candidate's image through one and find your nude or sex pics. Or a doxxer, puts the nude picture through facial recognition and up comes your Facebook page.

OK this is planning for the unplanned - maybe I'm just paranoid.

I think it is very risky to show your face in pictures. I have loads of nude pictures of my good lady and have posted them on another site. Never with her face showing. I did trade pictures with a guy on another site with faces showing, it was a huge turn on but to be honest I regret it now. My wife knows about the posting and trading but we have agreed not to do it anymore.
A good few years ago she was going to pose for a readers wives magazine , but she backed out, in those days it was all printed material so it seemed safer. I wonder what would have happened if she had gone through with it.

This is very rational and not paranoid AnonJohn. You're living up to the promise of your icon, lol.

I will say though, I don't think the concern is employers much so much as it is normal people. If I could put my female friend's faces through a simple search engine and discover nudes of them, I'm pretty sure I'd spend one night staying up til 3 AM systematically searching. There wouldn't be any malicious intent here, I'd just love to see some of them naked...b/c you know...I'm a human male. Multiply that logic by a whole lot of other pervy males, and suddenly, there's a much bigger problem.

Or...who knows. Maybe the U.S. just eventually realizes that everyone is infact naked under their clothes, and nudity starts becoming less stigmatized. That way, people's lives aren't ruined just because they posed for nudes and happened to trust the wrong person.

You never know. There's a thread on here that has reposted a lot of personal adds from old swingers' magazines from back before the Internet. Some people keep stacks of those kinds of magazines in the back of their closets for years.

It is not difficult to find scans of old readers wives so you make a good point. We do wonder what happened to the pictures we sent it, we made it clear that they were for "audition" not publication. They were posed like typical readers wives pictures open leg but not pink.

No face
 

I could very easily lose my job for posting nude pictures of myself on the internet with my face there for all to see. Also with my face as an identifier I could not relate many of my experiences here.

I had quite the adventurous past and I have enjoyed sharing what I have so far, but if my face is shown it would identify some of "my partners" in those experiences. I have been "pressured" into having sex to keep a job as I related before. IIt is not something I ever want to happen again and there are guys that would ruin a woman's life because he thinks he is dealing with a "wh*r* -- in his mind" anyway.

over the years I have been looking round the net , I have found a couple of photos that look like girls I no,
There again, I am still not shore, hair a different way , colour, is it the angle of the photo , is it her ,
Would I say any thing to them no,
could it be them when younger not shore .
Look at flickr pages and pages of nudes how many of them do you see walking down the street, more to the point would you say anything , more than likely no , even with the so called internet girls that post pic after pic of them self's, day after day would you no them,
Unless you were that person that sits next to them at work every day,

To show the face is a risk to pose nude is brave and post it ,
Many have and tried to remove pictures from the net, one springs to mind was at fantasy fest happy to have photos taken and now has got most removed some turn up from time to time ,

When posted photos stay around for years , even if you try to get them all deleted ,
A lot of years in a life time

Greatest Fear
 

I think my greatest fear would be of family finding her posted on some site. I have adult children, both sons and daughter, searching the web all the time. I am not so sure I want them to discover their mom out there, naked and enjoying herself. At least without the face being shown, there is a reasonable amount of plausible deniability.
I would doubt that a random tattoo or small amount of background would be a key factor in recognition. (I don't think anyone is really looking at the surroundings. LOL.) But, seeing a recognizable face would really spark attention.

I am not going to lie, after seeing the post you were quoting the other day I searched for a facial recognition search engine. I did not find one that worked but I have to believe it is not that far away. I have a bunch of people I will search when the technology becomes available. I say "when" not "if" because it will just be a matter of time. I will not say anything to the people but I just have a perverted curiosity.

Personally, I wouldn't chance it. Especially if it's an ex. It could fall under revenge porn laws, and then you have to explain to your neighbors how you're on a list for the rest of your life.

Probably right?
 

Or we wouldn't get such a rise out of it. Scares the hell out of me to be honest and have only done it a few times. That initial rush is usually followed by some intense guilt which is then followed by me taking down the pics and searching to see if the went somewhere else. I know that it's unlikely that someone would recognize her but it they did and caused a stir, my question would be "what were you doing on that sleazy porn site anyway?"

Pieces does it now.

PimEyes!!! Damn autocorrect!

Photos should be shown off
 

I for one feel if I am willing to be photographed then obviously I want to show those images off to as many people as possible. I think the majority of us born after 1990 pretty much grew up in the digital world where very little is private. So no I dont think it is too 'risky' or something to be embarrassed over.
I probably would not post anything to sexually explicit showing my face, for my families sake, but I am perfectly ok being seen naked and almost everybody who knows me knows that. As long as I do my job well I dont see how an employer could be affected negatively because of what I do in my private life.
So there you have it from a woman's side, but then again I am not like most woman lol

why?
 

Would us blokes post our own face / naked pics ?

Pretty sure no one wants to see me naked, with or without face :-)

No need to show your face.

....
 

What is a picture without a face?

Plenty
 

A pic without a face can still be very hot. For example, your avatar barely shows your face.

Turn on
 

Hi! As many of u said it allready it s sutch a big kik showing face and then..fear and guilt.
I must say i get v horny with something else, when not showing her face, i love to talk to ppl on local chatrooms so i know they r from the same city as us and it makes me v horny to tell them abt my wifes job. She s a bankemployee and many get v turned on by seeing the nice banklady without clothes.
What abt u? Does this kind of exposure turn u on?

it's your call but...
 

if your wife doesn't work in PR, you're probably fine. My wife got recognized once while we were at an outdoor restaurant - I knew there was something up with the guy as he stared at her non stop. He later contacted me through the site where i posted them (not this one) and we exchanged messages for awhile and i sent some hardcore pics. It was actually fun and a turn on for both us :D

Showing faces
 

We've been posting online since 2006. We started out blurring our faces but for many years without blurring. Even ran our own website for part of the time. Still currently online in various places. Have even seen them pop up places we didn't post them. We have never had anybody we know say anything about seeing us. Of course that can always change. Our close friends know we're nudists so...just saying depends what your comfort level and where you are with your life.

Naturist Photos
 

In fairness your pictures are of you as nudists posing nude. There is no shame there. If any of your friends saw you it shouldn't surprise them. Some of the folks here have sexually explicit photographs, they may prove more awkward if seen by friends or colleagues.

My $0.02.

That is true.

I think for most people the two biggest problems are family and work. My wife would die if any of her family saw her photos and she would lose her job if she was found to have posted photos online. A lot of companies, as well as Gov’t. jobs and jobs with religious organizations have zero tolerance.

Even without a face...
 

Even without posting your face you have to be careful of how powerful image searching is now, and that it will get even more powerful in the future.

I did some reverse image search on faceless photos that I have posted of my wife, and found that a couple have been saved off this site and posted on other pic sharing sites. I also spotted that in the 'other images' section of Yandex that there was another picture, not part of the same set or posted on the same site - in fact the pose was completely different, in one pic lying face down with bottom showing and the other face up. The only similarity is they are both beach photos.

The thing connecting the two very different photos is she is lying on the same brightly coloured towel! AI & image search is getting very clever.
Good job I remove all distinguishing marks & tattoos etc before posting.

Has anyone else noticed this before?

And yet yours show nothing??? Its simple, sorry I have to do this, if you are ashamed of your body dont even think about posing nude, and that goes for guys and girls, you are either comfortable being you in your own skin or you are not...easy as that.
I know, and my hubby knows, allot of guys, and the odd girl, will get off reading my posts and seeing me naked...and you know what it turns me/us on.
Knowing you cum because I show you my vagina, with my face..my eyes showing you my every emotion when looking at the camera..in the picture knowing exactly what effect it will have on thousands of men.
No not just perverts, random normal decent guys who needs a woman that is secure and self confident enough to show them what they crave to see, but are told they are not allowed to without shame.
As a woman I am probably abnormal, but I think it is wrong that so many girls/wives freak out when their hubby/bf looks at naked pics of a girl or a actress naked/nude or being seductive on tv.
If you dont give him grief about it he is going to do to you what he thinks about doing to her, the woman in the picture or on tv he will never have in any case, just like you as a woman who fantasize about random male stars you look at every day, and dont lie we all do it...
You only have one life, live it never be ashamed or afraid, so what if people see you naked???
120% of them wanted to even before they found out about your naughty online side, now they just have a visual image of you while they sexually satisfy themselves...and you know what its a heck of allot of fun knowing that they know but acting all innocent..give it a go 8 Billion people on earth..trust me if you do it and dont want to get caught you wont..and if you are lucky enough to be regodnized among millions...so what, what where you searching when you found me???

Why care?
 

[QUOTE=jonnyx;2926573]Even without posting your face you have to be careful of how powerful image searching is now, and that it will get even more powerful

Jonny, I take it it is your wife on the pics in your profile...if you did not want others to see her naked why post her pucs?,with her consent hopefully. I know Adam gets turned on when men see me and compliment my body, so why should I care when people who knows us see the pictures?? What makes the different from everbody else, besides not having met in person? You have a beautiful wife and she deserves to be seen and complemented! And sure AI already rules the World and knows what you are doing every second of every day so make peace with it and just do what you live and makes you happy. There is really no point in worrying about it...

Work should not be a issue...I firmly believe as long as your work is done your personal life should not matter, family, well there I am stuck in two Worlds as well, nudity should not be a problem...provocative, sexually explicit images I am concerned about certain things a girl doesnt want to show her father/brothers/in laws or cousins. I dont want my dad/father in law/brother/brother in law, to fantasize about me lol ffs thats just weird.

Family
 

If they fantasize about you after seeing your photos, they were probably already fantasizing about you.

That’s fine and probably the way it should be. However, in my wife’s current position, nude photos of her on the internet would lead to her dismissal if found. So she has asked me not to post and I have respected her wishes.