The pics of Johansson hit the web and the internet lit up, trending on Twitter and just about everywhere else. Johansson is one of the most popular and desirable female celebrities around, and has never performed a nude scene or appeared without clothes in a photo shoot.

According to news reports, the hackers who got Johansson are a ring of tech experts, possibly headed by a single leader whose style appears again and again in these celebrity hack jobs.

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So what about us, the voyeurs? I’ve been a fan of Johansson’s for a long time, and, like many people, I find her very alluring. But seeing those pictures today left me feeling a little nauseous. Yes, she’s super hot, but I just felt like a creep seeing these private photos.

Nevertheless, I did click the links and I did look at the pictures. All of them. And then something strange happened.

What started as an exciting moment of scoping a hot star in her birthday suit actually left me feeling complicit in the violation of a woman’s privacy. What do I make of that?

Well, it’s hard to say. When the next star has her private nude photos hacked, I have to admit, I’ll probably look again. And I’ll probably feel a little dirty again.

There’s a temptation to write off the privacy and feelings of big stars, and I think that happens for a couple of reasons. One, they make themselves public figures, so they have to accept that a decreased degree of privacy comes with the job. And two, they are ultra-privileged in ways most of us will never be, so if their asses get shown on the internet, so what? I’d trade the fact that very few people have ever seen my ass for a multi-million dollar acting career.

Those kinds of justifications actually do ease my conscience a little. Am I lying to myself?

No matter what I make of my internal tug-of-war over sneaking a peak at a hot woman’s naked body against her will, I’m somehow much clearer about one thing – I want the hackers caught and punished. It’s ironic, perhaps, but true. I might reap the fruits of their crime, but I wish the celebrity hackers who dug up those nude pics of Scarlett Johansson had never led me into this moral quagmire in the first place. In the end, I know it's wrong to steal someone's private things and show them to everybody. And, even though I do it, I know it's wrong to look. Hopefully the hackers get shut down. Then Hollywood’s starlets and I can both sleep a little easier.

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