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[Funkdafied]

[Young FRANKenstein]

[petethebrick]

Well I for one know that my parents family albums have a fair few photos of me bounding about in the nip as a toddler....embarrasing? yes a bit lol....but anything wrong with it....of course not!

[caniff]

[peppermint]

Taking pics of your new naked baby and boring the neighbors and coworkers to tears with them is a normal natural part of being a parent, isn't it?

It seems a little creepy though, when the point of the photo is to show off the baby's genitalia. That seems to be making the child into a sexualized object, and feels similar to the child beauty pageants you hear about sometimes. Both will have their defenders, and both could be described as part of a local culture. All I can honestly say is that I'm relieved that no (theoretical) child of mine will be raised in those cultures.

[Geckoman]

Actually, it is a common practice in Korean traditional culture to show of your baby boy's special organ.

Traditionally Koreans would pull down their baby boy's pants and undies to proudly show off his male organ to viewers. Viewers could see and hold this proud part of the baby's body.

They were still doing this as recently as 1989 when my father was teaching English in Korea. That's how I learned about it.

Things have changed a lot in Korea since then. It's a totally different universe today.

When my old man came back to Korea in 2001 he was like: "My god! Korea has changed!"

And indeed things have.

I do not know when they stopped doing this practice. I supose it sort of quickly fadded away as Korea modernized.

So I think those photos found in that cell phone are connected to this traditional practice.

As for baby girls, I don't know if their special organ is showed off as well. I really doubt it as Korean culture traditionally, and still today, favors boys.

So as for those pictures in the cell phone, it's a cultural thing.

[tomato]

Here are a couple of desk lamps for sale at a local store:



Isn't that cute?

[bacasper]

[Neil]

[caniff]

[bacasper]

[tomato]

Have you noticed that nude and semi-nude children in Korean cartoons usually wink at the viewer?



I wonder why that is.

[poet13]

"My wife does this to me when we meet her friends. I was initially disconcerted by this practice, but I'm now starting to get used to it."

Mine too. Now, when I know we're going to meet new people, I wear stretchy track pants. Saves on the whole unbuckling, unzipping, pulling down, flopping out and then in reverse.

[crusher_of_heads]

[RACETRAITOR]