Yep, I have porn on my computer.
And I took these pictures myself.
From my own back door.
They weren’t aware that I was taking photos of their romantic moment.
And they definitely didn’t give me permission to post them on the Internet.
Then again, I didn’t give them permission to have at it so brazenly on my back porch, with no consideration for my feelings.
Oops, did I just admit to revenge porn?
In response to the photo challenge “Oops“.
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I love the third picture of their romantic moment! Ooh la la! So cute.
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I’m just flabbergasted!
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This is hilarious.
And by the way, TOTALLY JUSTIFIED. You felt violated. You needed to work out your emotions from behind the lens.
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Exactly!
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Porn? I don’t think so. LOL: Because sex-ed is such a big issue, to explicit for some states; would this loving couple be an acceptable example of what the birds and the bees are about? Or are they to naked? Maybe the do not represent the family values of conservative extremes?
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No no no no no! This would be way too explicit. Here they do it with socks. I saw something on John Oliver’s show a while ago about teachers explaining condoms by putting a sock on their foot.
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What was I thinking! Those sock, I think I saw a you tube clip about it! I was just thinking naughty, what if a sock has a hole as during sex-ed will be demonstrated the workings of a sock!
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Well, I suppose the teacher will then compare getting a girl pregnant to having a toe sticking out of a sock. Which makes the analogy even weirder.
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I have a picture like that, only it’s of 3 (three!) raccoons going at it on the roof of my garden shed. (For those who may be wondering, two were engaged in the act while the third one appeared to be waiting his/her turn. It certainly gave me a different perspective on these critters).
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Maybe next time you can make all animals sign a waiver or something giving you total rights over their pics aka great job on the challenge; loved this post! 🙂
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Ha! That would be a cute-looking waiver, with all those paw print signatures!
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If it wasn’t for oops most of us wouldn’t be here!!! Wha ha haa…
PS – I’m South African… of Dutch decent and this post reminded me of how I got my good lady wife in trouble not long after we met. She, not mastering the Afrikaans language, fell for it when I told her a chicken farm was called a “kiepen f*kkery” in Dutch. She went off on the Monday, shared her new found wisdom with her work mates… you can well imagine the mirth! 😈
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