While making out with my girlfriend in a room filled with family pictures, I made the comment about how in the world of Harry Potter, parents most likely do not keep any family photos in their bedroom. She understood what I was saying. When pictures are in a sense a copy of the person's soul, that can interact with you as well as display the full range of emotion, you're gonna be cautious as to what pictures you have in areas where you get intimate or undressed. Family photos in the bedroom, any bedroom really are just not going to be a regular thing and could actually serve as a sign of questionable perversions. Of course if you're into voyeurism, there would be an interesting kink to pictures of yourself by the bedside.
This whole idea takes us to some interesting places when it comes to decorating one's house. You would actually do an interview process before buying a piece of art, in order to make sure those in the art are of the proper state of mind for the room you intend to display them in.
I could see a bachelor looking for paintings of women who are flirtatious, with no issues about nudity for his bedroom or office. A planned out bachelor pad would most likely have strategically placed pictures. You could have a live band always available.
Adult magazines would be a whole different thing. There wouldn't be the need for as many pictures, just different angles and costumes. You could actually direct the models and create your own story with them. The models could also play the roll of censor, covering themselves up and refusing to put on a show for underage boys. Would make muggle magazines highly desirable in the magical world for teenage boys.
Then we would almost have to break away from the stereotype of the teenage girl covering her walls with posters of her crushes. In the Harry Potter universe this would be highly problematic. Twenty-something men watching young girls in various states of dress, as they explore their bodies or as they sleep. High creep factor there. And reading your teen magazines in bed or the bath presents the same problem. In fact any magical magazines or newspapers present such a situation, as bringing them into the restroom with you, has all manner of issues.
In a world where your pictures are living, thinking, feeling beings, there should be all manner of moral considerations for that society on how you treat them. The possibilities for perversions would seem limitless in that world. Someone who was into real kinky stuff would most likely find new ways to explore those kinks. And privacy would be noticeably harder to control when you are literally being watched wherever you go.
Just one more twisted area of the Harry Potter universe that was clearly there, but never explored.
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