For over a decade now, the boudoir photography scene has experienced a resurgence , seeing more and more people (women in particular) taking to getting professional photos taken of them in their most intimate states .
And while it can be an empowering move , it’s also quite vulnerable . Especially when the photos you take are intended to be given to someone else.
A Utah woman who had posed for boudoir photo albums years prior is now being ordered to surrender it in a divorce.
Earlier this week, Lindsay Marsh came forward with her story, stating that a judge is ordering her to give the albums to her now ex-husband, Chris Marsh.
This is complicating an otherwise smooth divorce process.
Lindsay and Chris began the divorce process in April after 25 years of marriage, and have settled the division of their shared property easily. That is, apart from the albums that Chris wants to keep, but Lindsay wants to destroy.
The photos were taken years ago, and intended as a gift from Lindsay to Chris.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune , Chris wanted to keep the albums because of the messages Lindsay had written to him .
2nd District Judge Michael Edwards ruled that Chris can keep the albums, but Lindsay must modify and censor the photos first.
In August, the judge ordered Lindsay to return to the photographer who took the photos in the first place. But the photographer refused to modify them.
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At that point, the judge ruled that the albums were to be taken to a third party.
Seeing as the original photographer was not willing to modify the photos, a third-party editor was to be contacted to make the modifications.
Of course, this led Lindsay to feel violated.
The graphic designer, who was chosen by the judge, was a man Lindsay did not even know. She recalled calling the judge’s clerk’s office and asking, “The judge has ordered me to give nude photos of my body to a third party that I don’t know without my consent?”
Lindsay also took issue with the fact that she had to surrender the loving messages.
She felt that this was an additional violation “because these are things that were sensual and loving that I wrote to my husband that I loved. You’re my ex-husband now.”
Chris released his own statement on the matter, disputing just how “intimate” the photo albums were.
He told the Salt Lake Tribune that some of the photos from the albums had been hanging in their house during the course of their marriage.
He also said he simply wants to preserve the memories from the books.
“I cherish the loving memories we had for all those years as part of normal and appropriate exchanges between a husband and wife,” he said.
But that doesn’t stop Lindsay from wanting to be rid of those memories.
She later admitted to having mixed feelings about the books in the first place, stating that she wants to burn them once she is allowed to do so.
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h/t: Salt Lake Tribune
