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Originally Posted by Nicks_Nose
First of all, people take photos everyday of other people without consent. It is photography. General photographing is perfectly legal. Many artistic photographers, painters, drawers, sketch artists etc, like to capture a moment with a person unaware of their being drawn, painted or photographed because it is a more natural moment of human behaviour. If the photographer wished to use that photo for profit, then it would require the consent of the person in the photo to have it displayed publicly. People have to stop thinking of this as a twisted and voyeuristic tendency all of the time.
If you feel uncomfortable, then yes, he must respect it. If you have no issues with it and he is simply capturing a moment of natural human behaviour for personal enjoyment of a partner he cherishes, it could be seen as quite romantic. Just try to see all angles of the issue. It could be artistic expression, romantic attraction, a mild voyeuristic tendency, or something more concerning. Just don't automatically assume the worst.
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I agree with the part that photography is taking pictures sometimes randomly without the consent of people that are in the pictures like in public or what not, but here's where his actions fell outside of that realm. They were photos of someone where it would normally be crossing the lines of privacy. It's not just with photos either, if he were peeking into a girl's room without her knowledge the majority of people at least that I know would call that creepy. It could be easily deemed as invasion of privacy and so taking photos of this nature fall into that category. Now if she had known he did this kind of thing and had given consent and all that's different but she didn't.
And I might add to your other comment about equality, for me at least, I make no lines between if it were a girl photographing a guy, a guy taking pics of a girl or even girls taking pics of girls, it doesn't matter, it's related to privacy more than it has to do with that it was a guy doing it. That's how I see it anyway.