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THE approach was full-frontal: the man messaged a woman on Facebook, offering her US$5,000 if she would send him pictures of herself naked. He didn’t know her beyond the photo on her profile. But he wanted her pictures.

It’s a modern, skeevy Internet version of the film Indecent Proposal, where Robert Redford offers a man a million dollars in return for a night with his wife. Except it was real; it happened a week or so ago, though it surely happens more often. Why did the man want a stranger’s naked pictures? To add to his collection of naked photos of other women, including celebrities and (so he claimed) athletes. She, unimpressed, told her partner.