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Exposures from the past By DOUG THOMPSON Jan 15, 2003, 06:56 Email this article Printer friendly page Jennifer Snider was emptying the trash can from her teenage son�s room the other day when she noticed the nude photos he apparently had printed out from his computer. �At first, I was just mad that he was downloading nude photos off the Internet.� Then anger turned to shock. The woman in the nude photos was her. �I couldn�t believe it. Where in the hell had he found these pictures.� The photos, taken more than 20 years ago, turned up on an Internet site called Naked Girlfriends. Jennifer had forgotten about the pictures, taken by a boyfriend who was also an amateur photographer. �We were kids, just playing around. I pretended I was posing for Playboy or something like that. It was the 70s. We were young, a little wild, and having fun.� Jennifer isn�t the only one whose past fun Dr. Laura in wilder days has come back to haunt them via the Internet. Even conservative goody-two- shoes Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who preaches family values through her radio show, found that being young and free-spirited can come back to bite you. Bill Balance, Schlessinger�s mentor and ex- boyfriend, says she was not quite so straight-laced in the early days and liked to walk around his apartment naked. So he took some photos � some topless, some fully nude and at least one downright raunchy � and later sold them to a porn site. At first, Dr. Laura tried to do what all celebrities do when they get caught with their pants (or panties) down. She lied and claimed the young woman in the photos wasn�t her. But when she went to court and tried to get the photos thrown off the Internet, she had to admit the photos were, in fact, of her. �At some point in their lives, a surprising number of women let boyfriends or husbands take nude photos of them,� says behavioral psychologist Donna Ketchum. �It usually happens in their late to mid 20s when women start to become more comfortable with their bodies and sexuality. It�s a little naughty.� It�s also embarrassing, as Connie Wilson discovered when she ran for her local school board, only to find some 25-year-old nude photos of her posted on a web site by a political opponent. �They were some topless shots a boyfriend took while we were in college,� she said. �Nothing pornographic but it sure sank my campaign.� Dr. Ketchum says an ex-lover�s revenge can drive later exposure of youthful indiscretions. Even people who should know better can fall victim. Cable TV mogul Ted Turner owns the film rights to an early Jane Fonda film, Barbarella, a nudie flick made during her days with director Roger Vadim. Fonda hates the movie. When she and Turner were married, Turner would call up the program guys at Superstation WTBS and order them to run the film whenever they had a fight. �You could tell when their marriage really started going south,� says a former CNN technician. �That was the week Barbarella ran four times and it wasn�t on the schedule.� The naked truth can come back to haunt men too. Lonnie Watkins joined some other classmates at Southern Illinois University during the streaking craze in the 1970s. Recently, a full frontal nude photo of him showed up on a web site run by some SIU alumni. �Sort of gives a new meaning to the term �big man on campus,�� Watkins jokes. Although he found the posting funny, his partners at a conservative law firm did not and ordered him to take whatever steps necessary to have the photo removed. �Some people prefer lawyers in their briefs, not out of them,� he adds. New York photographer Mark Helfrich took lots of naked pictures of his girlfriends during the freewheeling 1970s and 80s. �It was no big deal photographing my girlfriends topless or nude, almost all of them were thrilled to pose for me, because they knew I was so into it,� Helfrich says. �It was fun. It was like playing a game. It was like living Antonioni's Blow Up." A couple of years ago, Helfrich gathered the photos up and published them in a book, appropriately titled Naked Pictures of my Ex-Girlfriends, along with a narrative that discussed how good they were, or weren�t, in the sack. Which means Helfrich is on the run from a bunch of angry ex-lovers who want to give him the Lorena Bobbitt treatment, right? Nope. 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