Every time a local nudity picture or video clip is leaked on the Internet, there is some incomprehensible excitement on social media; almost everybody is keen to watch other people’s private moments and, thereafter, share what they think about the piece.

There is also a temptation to judge the subjects as morally decomposed, although, unfortunately, that decree is mostly heaped on female subjects who are most of the time let down by disgruntled exes who cannot handle the fact that the woman they “loved” has taken a new turn in her life without them.

Little do people consider that at the moment these pictures are taken, it was just as simple as two lovebirds recording a moment they want to remember probably for the rest of their lives. Regrettably, the facts that relationships do breakdown, and that love can sometimes evolve to hate when a relationship collapses, are rarely put into perspective.

It is with a total sense of love, trust and belief that the pictures will remain the property of the two people involved that the subjects pose for the camera in that compromised state.

While some of these recordings are made with the full knowledge of both subjects, in other cases one partner has no idea that they are being recorded. But even where somebody gives their consent, their partner has no right to publicise such recordings to millions of people who have no business whatsoever with the ‘issues’ that were transacted between the two.

Nevertheless, when the pictures go viral, very few people who consume the material are mindful of the private circumstances in which they were taken. Very few realise that the women in the photos or video clips are most of the time not whores, as they are easily branded, but victims of selfish men who cannot handle the fact that they have become irrelevant in somebody’s life.

Very few actually know that by circulating and feeding their eyes on the pictures, they are playing into the hands of this selfish individual who, after failing to keep a relationship, embarks on a mission to abuse and degrade a woman who has made an innocent choice of not being with the evidently offensive man.

Why people choose to record these private activities may not be comprehensible to many. It could also be that many people cannot agree with the act of taking nude photos, but the truth remains that these are individual choices that have no bearing on other people’s lives.

If recording of these private moments is unfitting, how morally right then is the person who feasts their eyes on other people’s nakedness and spends time analysing the pieces?