Face vs. No Face: A Survey

[Mudbug]

Originally Posted by sweetsydney

Ok, off the soapbox. Thank you. And come find me if you'd like....

I know exactly where to find you... In my dreams, every time I close my eyes!

Thanks for giving your prospective. And know that I fully support your decision
to NOT show your face. After all... posting here should be fun. So, keep posting
and I, among many, will continue to view your contributions.

Mudbug

[Fango]

Originally Posted by sweetsydney

As someone posting my own pics, I just wanted to say that I can appreciate (some of) the reasoning for wanting to see a face. But if I lose out on people looking for my inability to do so, so be it. I think you all have to realize that there are SERIOUS potential consequences to being recognized when you have a career that you have devoted a significant amount of time and effort to. I love being able to post here, but I'm not willing to risk my career or my ability to do my job effectively if certain people knew about this one thing that I choose to do for fun in the free time I have.

Don't look if you don't want to, but you don't need to say some of the disparaging things posted in this thread or act as though this is a selfish choice to deprive you of your enjoyment, while you (to quote the wise Obi-Wan Kenobi) "remain safely anonymous". And I sincerely hope that none of you would be the ones making the judgments if you came across a co-worker here or elsewhere with her tits out. Or when you find out that a woman running for office has naked pictures in her past, or her present, for that matter (not everyone is 20-year-old college student that can, or wants to, write this off as an immature "mistake", I am fully in control of my choices and do it for my own pleasure, but that is simply not acceptable to many people).

That said, I will give the mask a try.

Oh, and to whoever is posting pictures of your wife without her knowledge (and admitting you know she would be pissed), knock it off. It may be a thrill for you, but you're an ass. Ask her, maybe she'd like it.

Ok, off the soapbox. Thank you. And come find me if you'd like....

I've been following your thread for a while, and I've almost asked you why you don't show your face several times, but I never did, both because I didn't want to risk putting you off and because I figured that it was ultimately the career explanation that many women give for not wanting to show their face. Still, I'm glad that you posted in this thread and gave your full reasoning, as you're one of the most active and interesting Ladies of OCC we've ever had, and I did wonder. All that said, I need to see face: it's just the way I'm wired. Consequently, my favorite pics of yours are the few where you do give us a little glimpse of your face, and I'm very much looking forward to the mask pics. Because really, when it comes right down to it, it's really not so much the face I need to see, but the eyes. The mask will preserve your anonymity, but still allow us to see your (I'm sure ) lovely eyes.

BTW, if I was responsible for any of the "disparaging things" posted in this thread (and I fear that I was), I sincerely apologize.

Fango

[john_thomas]

I rarely save pictures with blots or blurs or pixelations. I only do that if they are part of a collection including unobscured pictures. I save pictures where the model has turned her face away or has used a hatbrim or her hands to hide her face.

As someone said above, it is the expression on the face that makes the picture erotic to me. Without it, it might as well be a department store mannequin. The expression of the eyes and mouth, along with the body language makes the picture worth saving. More so than the gynecological shots, although when the lips are engorged and blooming they have a beauty all their own, not sometimes understood by women.

[delt]

Except for some things that were already public, like the "swinger's magazines" and the traded photos that came from them years ago, most of my threads have the photos with hidden faces. Should I feel ashamed?

In every case, the lady involved is for real and has no problem with being shown as long as she cannot be identified. Whether that is my "friend's daughter", or my "nudist neighbor", these are real ladies and I could have easily kept their photos and stories locked up in a drawer OR shared them with hidden faces in this wonderful and entertaining OCC forum for those of us with shared interests. One lady asked recently, "can they see my jewelry?" which she thinks is very distinctive. Of course, I told her that her naked jewelry was completely exposed to all the internet( not to mention her pussy and nipples).

I have thought about putting other person's faces on the bodies, but that would look creepy, besides I don't know how to do it.

Almost everything I have posted has a context and something about the person or the event that makes it interesting, I hope. But if these photos without visible faces are not up to the standards of this group or deemed of no value, I will no longer post any of these and keep them to myself, saving the server space for others.

As to my wife and our experiences dating or when at nudist resorts, they are all real and I am proud of her whether she is 18 or 60. I don't show her face for the obvious reasons, including that I have told friends and neighbors about OCC and they enjoy it like I do. To be blunt, I am less concerned about them seeing her nude or even spread wide open than them hearing of some of her experiences that she would not like repeated in our social circles. I don't think anyone should find that difficult to comprehend. After all, if she went to one of her girlfriend outings and one of her friends mentioned over lunch, "My husband just told me that you like it up your ass", she would not be pleased. If one of them said "my husband has found some porn of a lady that he thinks is you" she would likely say "I will never tell."

Again, if these photos and experiences are not up to others' standards, I can save time and effort by not posting anything unless the face can be shown

Finally, and then I will shut up, I love the amateur photos but I would love to know more about when and where they were taken or the story behind them instead of just "I found these at another site". But even then, I can use my imagination and think about where they are and how this situation developed. I suggest you use your imagination and think of your attractive next door neighbor as my "nudist neighbor" and see if it helps.

[franzine]

As a woman who only ever posts with a blurred face, I can understand why the majority here prefer face pics. It seems to me that many of the pics here are being posted as collections for collectors, rather than by the individuals who created them thus losing some of the original context. The face, the expression, the look, all add that context back, which is missing with an obliterated face.

I love erotic pictures of women and agree that I too prefer them to be unblurred, but I can appreciate them even when blurred, knowing perhaps more acutely why some women chose to do this. In addition, on smaller boards where almost everyone blurs (which is where I tend to post) creating context and developing relationships with the guys there is part of the act of posting, and the pics are just part of that, the back and fore in the chatroom while posting, the naughty responses, that's what those boards are about.

This board is different in emphasis. That's not a problem, just a wonder of the world wide web...

[Come on]

Thanks for the info folks.

[redonmee]

i do not download any pics that do not have a face. it my pet pev when they put up a post and it says showing all and they are body shots no face...

[Fox Mulder]

Originally Posted by Fango

I've been following your thread for a while, and I've almost asked you why you don't show your face several times, but I never did, both because I didn't want to risk putting you off and because I figured that it was ultimately the career explanation that many women give for not wanting to show their face. Still, I'm glad that you posted in this thread and gave your full reasoning, as you're one of the most active and interesting Ladies of OCC we've ever had, and I did wonder. All that said, I need to see face: it's just the way I'm wired. Consequently, my favorite pics of yours are the few where you do give us a little glimpse of your face, and I'm very much looking forward to the mask pics. Because really, when it comes right down to it, it's really not so much the face I need to see, but the eyes. The mask will preserve your anonymity, but still allow us to see your (I'm sure ) lovely eyes.

BTW, if I was responsible for any of the "disparaging things" posted in this thread (and I fear that I was), I sincerely apologize.

Fango

I feel a little tug at my heart at the mention of Sweet Sydney. Sydney knew how to be incredibly sexy without showing her face. She has more personality than any woman who has ever appeared on this forum and that personality drew in everyone lucky enough to view her thread. She actually did show her face...but did so at a time when she was feeling (in my opinion ) a little self destructive. We had long conversations about that choice. Eventually, she closed her account here for many of the reasons she explained for NOT showing her face. I miss her tremendously. I still have all of her pictures and videos, but will never ever share them out of respect and affection for her. I certainly understand a woman's choice not to show her face. However, without a backstory, without the personality, collecting headless pictures is still not my thing.

[lovrman22]

Originally Posted by Fox Mulder

I feel a little tug at my heart at the mention of Sweet Sydney. Sydney knew how to be incredibly sexy without showing her face. She has more personality than any woman who has ever appeared on this forum and that personality drew in everyone lucky enough to view her thread. She actually did show her face...but did so at a time when she was feeling (in my opinion ) a little self destructive. We had long conversations about that choice. Eventually, she closed her account here for many of the reasons she explained for NOT showing her face. I miss her tremendously. I still have all of her pictures and videos, but will never ever share them out of respect and affection for her. I certainly understand a woman's choice not to show her face. However, without a backstory, without the personality, collecting headless pictures is still not my thing.

I like to see their face too. So the ones that don't show it start a mission to find more that do reveal her face. LOL

[daveangel258]

Personally I never save any pics at all.
I enjoy seeing them but I don’t want them in my possession.
Anyone here that posts with full face never had a problem at all with being recognized? As in there are pictures out there nude full face but the lady is still anonymous? I’m sure this happens a lot. If I see a hot lady full face I enjoy it, but have no interest in finding out who that person is via web searches and facial recognition.