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Am I the only one who doesn't care about this?
Photoshop has existed for some time now, so creating fake nudes just became easier.
Also why would you care if someone jerks off to a photo you uploaded, regardless of potential nude edits. They can also just imagine you naked.
If you don't want people to jerk off to your photos, don't upload any. It happens with and without these apps.
But Instagram selling apps for it is kinda fucked, since it's very anti-porn, but then sells apps for it (to children).
Imagining and creating physical (even digial) material are different levels of how real and tangible it feels. Don't you think?
There is an active act of carefully editing those pictures involved. It's a misuse and against your intention when you posted such a picture of yourself. You are loosing control by that and become unwillingly part of the sexual act of someone else.
Sure, those, who feel violated by that, might also not like if people imagine things, but that's still a less "real" level.
For example: Imagining to murder someone is one thing. Creating very explicit pictures about it and watching them regularly, or even printing them and hanging them on the walls of one's room, is another.
I don't want to equate murder fantasies with sexual ones. My point is to illustrate that it feels to me and obviously a lot of other people that there are significant differences between pure imagination and creating something tangible out of it.
Oh no, hanging the pictures on your wall is fucked.
The difference is if someone else can reasonably find out. If I tell someone that I think about them/someone else while masturbating, that is sexual harassment. If I have pictures on my wall and guests could see them, that's sexual harassment.
If I just have an encrypted folder, not a problem.
It's like the difference between thinking someone is ugly and saying it.