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    I’ve seen more skin in a Sears catalogue in the 90s. Yeah I was a teenager shut up. People need to get over themselves.

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      To end this, I will subject myself to being the test image. We’ll crop on my o-face while I’m doing your mom and your dad is a cuck in the corner.

      What? Some people would call that art. And it will just be my face. We won’t see your dad with anal beads and cock cage in the picture.

      If we only see my face in the picture what is the problem? Only you will know that the only time your mom could orgasm was with me.

      You are strong enough to handle using this new picture, right?

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    Meanwhile women nurses doctors and teachers sell themselves on Instagram and onlyfans

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      Yes, let’s just shove everyone into one drawer and completely forget that some do it for fun, some out of financial necessity, and let’s also forget all the problems it can cause when using such an image in lectures, research and similar professional settings. /s

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      And I don’t think any of their nude photos are appropriate for academic papers (unrelated to nudity research) either?

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      So? They can do what they like, just like Lena could for the original image. Hell, I applaud them for it!

      I also think Lena looks beautiful in the commonly used image, and it doesn’t bother ME one bit that the image shows up in research.

      But all of that is completely separate from whether it is appropriate to use a cropped playboy image in professional settings (it should be UN-cropped, am I right fellas? /s). However, if it genuinely offends the people around me, or makes them feel marginalized or less valued, well then it DOES start to bother me a little bit.

      It’s OK to change the world in a way that doesn’t affect you but improves the life of somebody else.

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      I mean, the model in question was quoted as recently as 2019 as saying she had no problem with it, so hardly 50 years.

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        Maybe the mousey girl in class might get uncomfortable knowing its from a porn mag when it’s thrown up on the big screen for the class to see? Maybe it’s about more than just Lena herself? Maybe women don’t feel comfortable going in those spaces because they feel like they’ll be sexualized or worse. Why wouldn’t they expect that when the men involved think its totally appropriate to use the top-half of a nude photo of a woman?

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          Well if Mousey Mina feels squeamish seeing a bare shoulder then I think the problem is elsewhere… literally feels like much ado for nothing.

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            I love for you that what you just said is literally the definition of what I’m talking about. Attitudes like “well what’s her problem” are why women don’t want to be in STEM fields. You even immediately came up with a diminutive nickname for her, to make sure this woman would feel chided and demeaned. Stay classy.

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              Anyone that gets worked up at the sight of a human shoulder needs to reasses themselves, regardless of gender

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                  The point is that the point is stupid. All there is to the image is a girl with a hat and an exposed shoulder. The image came from a porn magazine, so what? All the nudity is taken out. That image doesn’t even impact. A child. It takes a very fragile snowflake to be hurt by a normal portrait that just so happens to be from a nude image.

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                To end this, I will subject myself to being the test image. We’ll crop on my o-face while I’m doing your mom and your dad is a cuck in the corner.

                What? Some people would call that art. And it will just be my face. We won’t see your dad with anal beads and cock cage in the picture.

                If we only see my face in the picture what is the problem? Only you will know that the only time your mom could orgasm was with me.

                You are strong enough to handle using this new picture, right?

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            To end this, I will subject myself to being the test image. We’ll crop on my o-face while I’m doing your mom and your dad is a cuck in the corner.

            What? Some people would call that art. And it will just be my face. We won’t see your dad with anal beads and cock cage in the picture.

            If we only see my face in the picture what is the problem? Only you will know that the only time your mom could orgasm was with me.

            You are strong enough to handle using this new picture, right?

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        As recently as 2019, huh… How does she feel about it since then?

        Exactly the same, I’d assume by your phrasing here?

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        While that should certainly be a bright line, it’s more that from the very beginning of computer graphics, the “perfect” image for testing algorithms and showing off and laboring over and analyzing is a Playboy centerfold. I don’t imagine most of those computer scientists would have been nearly as accepting of a photo with “high contrast and varied detail” if it had been a naked dude hanging dong. It was used specifically because they liked it and thought that anyone who didn’t feel the same needed to stay in their lane and STFU because this is “normal” and fine but any other type of sexual material wouldn’t be.

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          Yeah, I remember learning about it in a CS class and, specifically, the claim that it’s an ideal standard candle kind of image. I always wondered if we couldn’t have found a better reference shot of a smooth flower growing in front of a rough stone or something.

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          I don’t imagine most of those computer scientists would have been nearly as accepting of a photo with “high contrast and varied detail” if it had been a naked dude hanging dong headshot of a male model

          FTFY. If you’re going to make a comparison, don’t be fucking dishonest about it.

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            Headshot of a male model selectively cropped so you don’t see the hanging dong, you mean. I wonder if that context has any relevance. Hmmmmm. I wonder how many men might go “ick” if they knew the source?

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              As a dude, I certainly wouldn’t care. As long as the content itself (the crop) isn’t offensive, I don’t really care where it was cropped from, provided they it satisfied fair use at least (or they had permission).

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            Fine, a headshot of a male model cropped from a Playgirl centerfold and making bedroom eyes and visibly shirtless, because it was a shot from a spank mag, and then justified as an ongoing thing because it’s such a “perfect” image.

            It was obscure and tame enough to last for a long time, but it was always creepy and its continued use as a quasi-official test pattern said more about the tech community than people would like to admit.

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          I don’t imagine most of those computer scientists would have been nearly as accepting of a photo with “high contrast and varied detail” if it had been a naked dude hanging dong.

          No shit, but apparently all the fellas in this thread seem to think it would have totally been the same. Either that or they just continue to ignore that as an option.

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      Yeah, you’re right.

      But I’m a little optimistic. The image being widely used for decades is a symptom, not the cause of women being unwelcome.

      With it being finally banned, it seems like this is changing. Hopefully this means the root cause, misogyny in tech, is at an all time low.

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      I don’t think it would be in humanity’s best interest for scientific journals to be in the habit of quickly banning research just because someone has uncomfortable associations with a safely cropped photo (or a drawing, or a quote). Perhaps it makes sense in this particular case, after careful consideration. I hope it’s an exceptional case. Censorship is a slippery slope.

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        Censorship is a slippery slope.

        So I take it you think the Washington Commanders should have stayed the Washington Redskins because not censoring is more important than it being disrespectful to a large group of people? My eyes would fall out if they rolled any harder.

        No one’s censoring the history or saying it never happened, we’re just saying “Maybe there’s a better, less controversial image to use for this purpose.” Which really shouldn’t be a very controversial take at all.

        It’s not like you can’t see the old Redskins logo on Wikipedia, or that the Wikipedia entry for the Lenna image would disappear. That would be censorship, not this. This is just “don’t use this controversial image in professional documents like science research.” Literally, specifically, IEEE journals.

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          Uh, a consensual photograph of a naked woman, especially a cropped headshot of her, is not the same as a racial slur.

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          Since you obviously feel strongly about this issue, you might consider your bias as a reason to read more carefully. Please don’t put words in my mouth.

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            Censorship is a slippery slope.

            I read it very carefully. I’m sorry you aren’t capable of backing up what you said in the face of someone pointing out that isn’t actually censorship.

            Further, as many have pointed out, there are plenty of similar reference images available. Not using this image will not impede scientific progress, as you have so implied. (Honestly after 50 years, it’s arguable that we have much better reference images now.)

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              censor

              2 of 2

              censored; censoring
              ˈsen(t)-sə-riŋ

              transitive verb : to examine in order to suppress (see suppress sense 2) or delete anything considered objectionable

              also : to suppress or delete as objectionable

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          It’s not like you can’t see the old Redskins logo on Wikipedia, or that the Wikipedia entry for the Lenna image would disappear.

          Give it time.

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        IEEE have the right to decide which papers to accept. They aren’t obliged to publish anything they aren’t comfortable with. There are much harder conditions to get your research published in IEEE than avoiding the use of a single image.

        Lena herself has also the right to oppose the use of the image.

        If you’re unhappy with their decision you can find some other publisher.

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          Lena herself has the right

          No she doesn’t. Playboy owns the image and have the sole right to control how it is used

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          My comment was not about being unhappy with their decision. (I’m not.) Rather, I was offering some perspective to someone who expressed anger over IEEE not making that decision sooner.

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        To end this, I will subject myself to being the test image. We’ll crop on my o-face while I’m doing your mom and your dad is a cuck in the corner.

        What? Some people would call that art. And it will just be my face. We won’t see your dad with anal beads and cock cage in the picture.

        If we only see my face in the picture what is the problem? Only you will know that the only time your mom could orgasm was with me.

        You are strong enough to handle using this new picture, right?

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      It’s not like they were using the uncropped centerfold. There’s nothing wrong with the headshot. It’s a woman in a hat.

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        But the image is from a photoshoot for playboy so its inherently dirty and offensive, even if they only use the cropped version. /s

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        To end this, I will subject myself to being the test image. We’ll crop on my o-face while I’m doing your mom and your dad is a cuck in the corner.

        What? Some people would call that art. And it will just be my face. We won’t see your dad with anal beads and cock cage in the picture.

        If we only see my face in the picture what is the problem? Only you will know that the only time your mom could orgasm was with me.

        You are strong enough to handle using this new picture, right?

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          As long as the cropped picture contains the required colour variety, fine by me.

          Now, the real remarkable thing is the fact that you think those two settings are comparable, or that it somehow makes a valid argument.

          edit or that you posted this argument so many times. You might have some repressed issues. Honestly, as long as all parties involved are consenting adults, it’s okay to like what you like.

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      They shoud use the picture of some ugly-ass motherfucker now in the name of inclusivity

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      TBH from article it seems that woman on photo (Forsén) decided that’s enough of sharing her photo.

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        To me, that’s a perfectly fine reason to stop accepting the image.

        But that’s not why they did it.

        They did it because “eww female sexuality icky”

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    On Wednesday, the IEEE Computer Society announced to members that, after April 1, it would no longer accept papers that include a frequently used image of a 1972 Playboy model named Lena Forsén.

    An uncropped version of the 512×512-pixel test image originally appeared as the centerfold picture for the December 1972 issue of Playboy Magazine.

    In 1997, Playboy helped track down Forsén, who appeared at the 50th Annual Conference of the Society for Imaging Science in Technology, signing autographs for fans.

    It is also a sexually suggestive photo of an attractive woman, and its use by men in the computer field has garnered criticism over the decades, especially from female scientists and engineers who felt that the image (especially related to its association with the Playboy brand) objectified women and created an academic climate where they did not feel entirely welcome.

    The comp.compression Usenet newsgroup FAQ document claims that in 1988, a Swedish publication asked Forsén if she minded her image being used in computer science, and she was reportedly pleasantly amused.

    In a 2019 Wired article, Linda Kinstler wrote that Forsén did not harbor resentment about the image, but she regretted that she wasn’t paid better for it originally.


    The original article contains 732 words, the summary contains 200 words. Saved 73%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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    Are they published by Elsevier? Just tell them it’s AI-generated and they’ll be happy to publish it.

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      To end this, I will subject myself to being the test image. We’ll crop on my o-face while I’m doing your mom and your dad is a cuck in the corner.

      What? Some people would call that art. And it will just be my face. We won’t see your dad with anal beads and cock cage in the picture.

      If we only see my face in the picture what is the problem? Only you will know that the only time your mom could orgasm was with me.

      You are strong enough to handle using this new picture, right?

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      I mean, since she wants the usage retired, I’m all for it. But even she is proud of the picture, and I’m definitely not sick of seeing it, few times though I have.

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      You should risk reading the article before you sound like you don’t know what you’re talking about.

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      I mean, yes you can? You can inform authors that papers that include the image will not be published. How is that not a ban?

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      Well you can refuse to accept papers that contain it. No problem with that. It’s their internal guidelines.

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    Huh, I am sorry, I feel too dumb but I don’t want to live with the doubt, I read the article and the Wikipedia links and I still don’t know how this is a thing, this is the first time I know about it.

    What exactly was the meaning of this image in the tech fields? “What image processing tests”?

    I understand the model is tired of it already, but this won’t disappear from the Internet, how is this article gonna benefit her?

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      Computers are dumb and need to be told how to take the data of an image (stored as a long series of 1s and 0s in memory) and draw it on the screen so you can see it. The people writing the software to do that needed an image to test with, just to make sure everything was working right.

      Either because they were a bunch of lonely geeks in the 70s or they didn’t have any other good photos to scan in, they used a headshot of a PlayBoy model. They couldn’t have known that it would effectively become one of the first digital memes, meaning it’s still semi-frequently used by graphics programmers (professionals and enthusiasts).

      I can’t claim to speak on the model’s motives, but it’s not hard to imagine that having their headshot used in perpetuity without consent would make someone uncomfortable.

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        Just to add a bit of clarification, the image wasn’t just a headshot, yes that’s the part that was originally scanned and used, but it’s a cropped in section of the centerfold, a 3-page fold-out image in the magazine. If I remember the story correctly, they needed a large image to scan, and several people brought in images to scan in, and one guy brought a Playboy.

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      i think i’ve seen it used to demo different image compression algorithms, things like that. it was used as an easy example test image, but this journal has now banned papers from using it because it is weird and creepy to be using cropped porn for that. this won’t benefit the model, but she was only pushing to ban it because she wants more women in IT fields.

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          To end this, I will subject myself to being the test image. We’ll crop on my o-face while I’m doing your mom and your dad is a cuck in the corner.

          What? Some people would call that art. And it will just be my face. We won’t see your dad with anal beads and cock cage in the picture.

          If we only see my face in the picture what is the problem? Only you will know that the only time your mom could orgasm was with me.

          You are strong enough to handle using this new picture, right?

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          If you thought that making this comment was a good idea, you may be too misogynistic for life.

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          It’s the sample image and dozens of other things. For example: people telling them they’re too sensitive for life because they’re feeling uncomfortable looking at softcore porn while doing their work or research.

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            The full picture is never used in academia, let me assure you of that. If it weren’t for articles like these, most people would not know where it even came from or that the model was nude in the first place. Not defending the use of the picture, strange choice of a test picture for sure, if you know where it comes from but wanted to give you some context.

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        This is not porn; it’s an art. There is nothing creepy about it. Moreover, if this picture is the reason why women aren’t in this field, then there is definitely a more serious problem, but it’s not where you are looking.

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          To end this, I will subject myself to being the test image. We’ll crop on my o-face while I’m doing your mom and your dad is a cuck in the corner.

          What? Some people would call that art. And it will just be my face. We won’t see your dad with anal beads and cock cage in the picture.

          If we only see my face in the picture what is the problem? Only you will know that the only time your mom could orgasm was with me.

          You are strong enough to handle using this new picture, right?

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          It’s both. It’s artsy softcore pornography.

          I certainly don’t think the full version would be appropriate, but I’m ambivalent about the cropped version.

          I don’t think people should get their knickers in a twist about sex in the first place.

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          Full picture (NSFW) https://mypmates.club/1972/Miss-November/Lena-Soderberg

          It’s art, but it’s also porn. Those aren’t mutually exclusive. It’s from Playboy, which is a porn magazine. Look at it all you want, but it isn’t appropriate for research papers. There are plenty of alternatives.

          Edit: Part of the reason more women aren’t in the field is because they’re often seen as pieces of meat. They’re objectified. They don’t use any cropped male nude photos for test images, because the men weren’t lusting over them. It’s used because it was a field ruled by men, and women were often treated as objects.

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            The thing is, there is no universal definition of pornography. It varies from country to country. In my country, it doesn’t fulfill some of the criteria, in particular because:

            • It does not depict human genital organs in their sexual functions
            • It does not solely focus on the technical aspects of sexuality and sexual life, completely detached from the intellectual and personal layers

            The more important thing is that the cropped version of the picture (which was used in the research papers) does not fulfill any criteria to be classified as pornography or even as nude art. Some don’t even know that this is only part of a nude photo. I saw this cropped picture in the 90s and was surprised later in the early 2000s by the full version.

            I would say more. This is an example where some random nude photo became something more because it became part of science. So it’s rather an example of “deobjectification” because this picture is focused on her face in the hat, and not her reproductive organs.

            Regarding objectification, the picture of any kind has nothing to do with women being objectified. Any person may be objectified only by being treated by another person or group of people as an object. For example, a cleaning lady may be objectified by one employer who does not treat her like a living, feeling person, but not by another employer. The same applies to sex workers and any other profession. It is our attitude that determines whether we objectify someone, not the picture of a woman in a hat.

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              Pretend for a moment that you’re a woman. You go to the office and the men are openly sharing around a porn magazine with no concern. Does that seem like a safe professional workplace? That’s essentially what this represents. It isn’t what’s happening anymore, but it is the origin.

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      Basically, people working on graphics-related algorithms needed to build a library of standard test images, so that when people published their work in an academic journal, they could easily demonstrate what that algorithm does, in a manner that is fairly obvious to anyone who is familiar with the image.

      So someone, when they needed to pick an image that represents a person, scanned this photograph. And it could be argued that at the time, it was probably an interesting test image for a lot of reasons: person vs background, different textures, areas with soft and sharp focus, etc etc. If you developed, say, an image compression algorithm, those things are going to be headache in all photo portraits.

      It’s probably not the best image by modern standards (being a low resolution scan of a photograph off of a printed magazine - not a photo print scan, not a direct film scan, and not comparable to digital photography). Also, it’s gotten overused to the point of absurdity. (Oh your hot new face detection algorithm works on this image? Well whoop-de-do.)

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    A lot of people in this thread have a lot of really strong opinions without actually reading the article. The model was cool with it, but she herself also thinks it’s time to retire the photo from how it’s being used in image processing, where it likely isn’t even necessary in the first place. Respect her on that. I seriously doubt she cares if it remains accessible on the web for the pervs worrying about censorship. It’ll still be there if you desperately don’t want to lose your opportunity to take a gander.

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      There’s a value to having a standard image or images that are used to assess compression algorithms’ performance. It could just as easily be a picture of a bouquet of flowers, or a bunch of puppies.

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          Yeah, there is, so do not do that and let others do that if they want.

          Everybody can use whichever pictures they like as far as I am concerned.

          FFS, it’s as if there could be only one way for everyone

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            Everybody can use whichever pictures they like as far as I am concerned.

            Not really, it’s a shared data set to make sure colours appear at uniform levels across different media and types of software in order to maintain stable image formats that can be sent over internet protocols…

            …the whole point is to have a catalogue of standard test images to compare transfer and compression results to globally.

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          Seems like this is a much more important than any of the other discussions going on. How many results were tainted by the fact that they were compressing a dithered print image.

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          I remember seeing an interview with the model, who at the time of the interview was in her 70s or 80s, she apparently wasn’t enthusiastic about having become a common test image. But since she had technically consented to be in Playboy (which was only a magazine at the time), there wasn’t anything she could do to stop it. I think in this case it’s probably best to stop using her image specifically, as it does kinda get into a weird messy situation of consent, and how her consent to be in a magazine morphed through technology into something more “permanent” than she originally realized. There are plenty of other models who would absolutely be down for that, and given enough time, knowing how nerds are, there will be other test images of women. But I think it’s probably for the best that this one gets retired from this use.

          And yes, there are people who have tried to use this instance as a “there shouldn’t be images of attractive/implied nude women a standard test images, because it can cause body image issues for women who go into that field.” Which on one hand, I can see where they’re coming from, but also people take pictures of people, and some people do look better than most of us, having more diverse test images would be a good thing, because we don’t all look like that. But some do, and they’re probably going to get more pictures taken of them than the rest if us.

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      It’s a cropped image of a naked woman looking over her shoulder out of a playboy magazine. I think it’s reasonable to stop using it for academic papers. You can still look at it all you want though.

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        It’s an unlicensed picture of a woman who was previously fine with it being used like this, but who recently changed her mind and thinks it’s time to stop.

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        “Her” or “their” are both perfectly correct English grammar. “Their” has been gender neutral since before Shakespeare. It can be used to refer to someone or something gendered or not. Learn English before you correct them for something inappropriately.

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        The shoulder belongs to them, and they are a woman, so it really doesn’t matter in this informal setting.

        Language is about being able to communicate, not whatever trip you’re on.

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    Right… Let’s eliminate every instance of nudity because religious zealots were offended by it in the past, and now leftist zealots are offended. Let’s remove the statue of David and all other art depicting the naked human body. Later, let’s remove anything from public view that could potentially offend anyone.

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      It does not seem like you heard the arguments presented in the article. It isn’t about being offended by any left or right wing politics, but because women engineers and scientists were uncomfortable about it for a variety of reasons. In a field which struggles to attract and keep female talent, this is a pretty big thing. The model herself spoke out and asked to be “retired from tech”.

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        So, I think the only somewhat valid argument is that Lena herself expressed the wish not to use her photo. The real issue is that ‘scientists were uncomfortable.’ Because if someone feels uncomfortable with the human body, it raises questions about their mental condition. Especially in this particular case, the picture is and has always been cropped, showing no nudity. The original source, ‘Playboy,’ has nothing to do with anything, and even if it did, this is still a very tasteful piece of art. Even if there was a man in this picture, I would say the same. This is just a picture showing a pleasing composition of the surroundings and a human female specimen. So, the question that remains is: Why would anybody feel uneasy seeing a woman in a hat? Those for whom this is a problem must imagine things (that make them uncomfortable) in their heads that are not in the picture. The problem is that our culture, including advertisements, fashion, and social media, distorts the perception of human bodies and how people, especially young ones, perceive their bodies. At the same time, young people often aren’t properly socialized regarding their sexuality and aren’t taught that the body is not subject to morality, and there are no ‘good’ and ‘bad’ body parts. They shouldn’t be reinforced in their erroneous thinking by canceling and censoring parts of reality. I’m not saying that those people are the issue. I’m saying that their behavior is a symptom of the real problem with the society that needs to be addressed.

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      To end this, I will subject myself to being the test image. We’ll crop on my o-face while I’m doing your mom and your dad is a cuck in the corner.

      What? Some people would call that art. And it will just be my face. We won’t see your dad with anal beads and cock cage in the picture.

      If we only see my face in the picture what is the problem? Only you will know that the only time your mom could orgasm was with me.

      You are strong enough to handle using this new picture, right?

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      I have a friend who is a sex freelance journalist writing for everyone from the NYT to Playboy and she’s been outspoken recently around a neo-puritan movement by younger generations.

      People aren’t having as much sex, have a lot more hangups about sex, are uncomfortable with sex depicted in media, etc.

      This image didn’t even contain nudity - it’s a crop of the original that’s in question.

      There are broader social impacts for seemingly innocuous efforts like these, and I don’t know it’s all that healthy for us to be constantly self-thought policing when it comes to sex. Those attitudes seem to be moving beyond the immediate focus and into general attitudes and behaviors around sexual hangups.

      We’re seeing “purity culture”-like mentality infecting people who weren’t even raised in oppressive religious contexts.

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        Oh I’d be interested in reading her work, there is absolutely some weird puritan thing in a section of those in their twenties but also an equal group that are kinda sexual obsessive.

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        I can see the same thing, and I couldn’t agree more. Do you happen to have an article of hers to share?

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    Huh I had no idea!

    I’m pretty sure I compressed that image in our computer vision class with some alogrithm we implemented for exercise. I though that was just some artsy over the shoulder picture, but seeing the full version the shoulder does seems supicious in hindsight.

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      In art class it’s not uncommon to hire nude models to pose like Lena. Nothing suspicious except fuckin Christians imposing their prudishm