

In the Wild West of social media, online dating, and youthful text-messaging, plenty of folks do post earnest requests to send nudes. The dating app Tinder and messaging app Snap both started in 2012, unsurprisingly corresponding with a rise in send nudes-though not necessarily giving a rise to success rates. We can find some dudes issuing send nudes to anonymous women on Twitter as early as 2007. The late 2000s created the perfect storm for send nudes: social media, online dating, cellphone cameras, and requests.

In the 2000s, send nudes spread to anime, manga, and video-game forums, where users would ask for people to send noodz or n00dz (in the deliberate disorienting jargon of leetspeak) of fictional characters they were crushing on.

Requests for nudes were already common enough on the early internet that posts seeking casual sex also included whether or not they would send nudes. Around this time, send nudes was a request on message boards and chatrooms to other men for any naked pictures (e.g., nudie mags) they had. Back then, you went to an art studio to see a nude-sending not available.įast forward to the 1990s when nude emerges again. The art world has used the word nude for “a portrait of a subject who is naked” since 1700s.
