Anna N of Jezebel has some information for your Half-Nekkid Thursday “I told you so” files.

Carrie Prejean may have called her sex tape “the biggest mistake of my life,” but according to Salon, we are totally over watching celebrities bone.

Salon’s Mary Elizabeth Williams writes that “it was a big freaking deal when Rob Lowe had a romp with underage girls or Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee enjoyed connubial bliss,” but that after the creepy night-vision of “1 Night in Paris,” the cultural relevance of the sex tape began to wane.

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It’s true that it’s hard to imagine one of the main tragedies of Trainspotting — Tommy’s life is basically destroyed after he and his girlfriend make a sex tape — taking place today.

She said it here.

It’s not that there are zero consequences and so everyone should just start taking and/or sharing their half-or-more-nekkid photos.

It’s more the opposite, actually.

It’s that the more people who take and/or share their half-or-more-nekkid photos the fewer consequences there are likely to be.

It’s sort of like women wearing pants. When I was in 7th grade the first girl, ever, to wear pants to school was marched right back down to the office and sent straight back home. That she was a “good girl,” with excellent grades, high participation in school activities, and was generally recognized as an exemplary student carried no water at all for the scandalized administrators. For whom all her redeeming qualities only deepened their disappointment with her deportment. (Aside: Do school administrators ever use the word “deportment anymore?”)

Never mind that it was record-breakingly cold. Standards are standards, conventions are conventions, and pants on girls are scandalous, sexualizing, gender-bending, and unladylike.

She was back the next day. In the same pair of heavy wool pants. Something about her mom and a lawyer and a decision that time could change even in public middle/junior-high schools.

I believe it’s now almost completely noncontroversial for girls to wear heavy wool pants (if not entire tuxedos... yet) to school. Even though not all that long ago it was transgressive and “career-ruining” enough warrant suspension or expulsion.

Same with photos. It’s not yet soaked in but it turns out people have bodies, and cameras, and libidos. It’s still transgressive, if considerably less career-ruining enough that I don’t think everybody should jump online in their altogethers. But before my 7th grader reaches my age I suspect it’ll be roughly as controversial as women in winter pants.