Narcissism Meets Voyeurism

Ananova reports on the "reflectoporn" trend sweeping e-Bay: Auctioners post photos of shiny items in which their own nude bodies, captured in the act of taking the photo, are reflected.

Comments

[mother]

Go to bed Julian.

[nm156]

And leave a light on, would ya. How pathetic do you have to be for this crap to make sense?

[Plutarck]

I would think a better question would have to be, "How pathetic do you have to be for this NOT to make sense?"

Social recognition, showing off, fame, humor, self-expression...uh, money, novelty, intellectual/spiritual fufillment, quirkyness, doing something crazy on a lark, risk-taking, seeking acceptance...is there really anything else required? The vast majority of impulses that drive human behavior is present here, so isn't really so hard to understand - at least, considered in the light of the various fact of human behavior.

[Jim]

Give it a rest, you humorless bastards. Personally I find this hilarious.

There was a picture going around on the web, of some guy who had presumably done thin unintentionally. One has to wonder now, if this was done intentionally by some smart ass, or if it was done unintentionally and spawned a bunch of smartassed imitators, or if it just happens by accident fairly often due to a significant number of closet nudists out there selling their stuff on the internet. Who knows but either way it's good for a laugh...