Comment by mikece
4 years ago
I worked in a 1 Hour Photo when I was in college. The standing rule we had is that any photos of naked adults were not printed (the customer was given their negatives though). In the case of naked children if it was the typical "kid taking their first bath" it was fine but if there was any doubt we had a manager review it. I think we had to call the cops a couple times (more for passing the buck than making an official decision like that ourselves) but there is/was a policy for things like that.
The point is that there were 2-3 layers of humans applying their best judgement and there was a process in place.
My dad as a teenager worked in one of these photo places with such a policy. Only, his boss printed all the naked pictures anyway and kept them.
Yeah but did you then cut off your customers' phone lines, redirect all their mail, steal all of their previous photo albums...
Why would you not print naked adults?
Puritans.
We “banned” alcohol for 13 years.
America’s greatest battle is with our dark religious past. We claim to be secular but really it’s an aspiration.
I'm an atheist, and I intensely disagree with the sexualisation of everything in our society dressed as a new sexual revolution, and see it as a direct effect of capitalism.
What say you
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eh, I feel like alcohol bans were fashionable in the past. USSR did it, Finland did it...
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You say that as if there is no other reason to ban alcohol than religious belief, and not like alcohol being one of the most negative societal influences in the areas of human health, crime, public safety, and poverty. Just because humans are so cripplingly addicted to alcohol that banning was untenable doesn’t mean it was a bad idea.
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As much as the evangelicals of America screw with the rest of the world in their quest for purity, the better answer seems to be:
How do you know those nudes are taken consensually? And what's your liability for developing ("reproducing") them?
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> America’s greatest battle is with our dark religious past.
Apparently you’ve never been to Baltimore. There is no dark religious past haunting that city, just corrupt politicians.
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One example would be protecting employees from someone just bringing in photos of themselves with the sole intent of exposing themselves to the employee, as they have a captive audience.
This premise was in a Seinfeld episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Package_(Seinfeld)
> Sheila, a clerk at the photo store, flirts with George when he picks up his photos, commenting on a mustard stain that appears in one. He photographs everything, even Jerry taking a screwdriver to his stereo, as an excuse to see her again. A lingerie model's picture is accidentally mixed in with George's photos; he assumes it is a photo of Sheila she inserted as a come-on. Kramer convinces George to return the compliment with seductive pictures of himself.
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This policy does nothing to impede a person with that intent. The employee still looked at the photo.
In fact, the policy was why they examined the photo carefully.
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Being forced to look at people's amateur porn at your job is pretty lame.
I agree, but presumably it's already necessary to determine if it's a picture of a naked adult.
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So don’t work at a place that prints peoples private photos?
The tradition at 1 Hour Photos was to keep the prints of the naked adults for yourself.
When I used to go to house parties and raves I'd take my film to a 1Hour place in San Francisco staffed by two young gay boys. They'd print anything.