fyi I am 17 & live in Texas.
Now the child pornography laws were originally created to protect little kids from being exploited to basement dwelling pedophiles. But these laws were created as strong blanket laws as not only the no good pedophiles were getting arrested but teen couples messing around on their phones were also getting arrested & charged with the same thing.
These teen sexing laws make me sick. I view the creators/supporters of these laws no differently than how you view the Nazis. Both are inhumans that destroy innocent lives.
I’ve engaged in sexting before & if I was caught my life would be completely over. I wouldn’t see the light of day again. I didn’t even know child porn was illegal until I was 15. The schools don’t even teach us about these inhuman laws. When I was 14 I had a long distance British girlfriend that I would have sexted with if we had cellphones at the time & if we were caught our lives would have been over.
Who made these laws? when were they made? does anybody know the names of the sadistic draconian congressmen who thought it would be a good idea to put kids behind bars for seeing their boyfriend/girlfriend naked on the phone?
People have said before it’s because a naked picture of me might end up in the hands of a pedophile.
Well I would much rather a pedophile get a hold of a naked picture of me than a police officer. The law will do ALOT worse to me than any pedophile or ugly person could ever do. & honestly if some unwanted person gets a hold of a naked picture of me & fantasizes about me & I don’t ever meet them I don’t give a crap. It’s not hurting me.
Getting charged with child pornography is worse than any other consequence of sexting.
You people think that these laws are protecting kids? Well good job! good job protecting kids from pedophiles by putting them in prison where they will be raped & abused every day. You think that nude pictures they’ve sent will haunt them in the future? well I think that being on the sex offender registry will haunt you pretty badly too. We need to protect kids from these laws. These laws are inhuman & need to be changed. We need to turn these blanket laws into net laws.
Plus if the kid is a nudist then what’s the difference if someone see’s them naked in a picture?
I’m pretty much a nudist. I don’t walk around naked because I still live with my family. But I would be a nudist if I could.
You are not yet a grown up. You need to look at this concept again in a few years and you will understand why we have these laws.
You making the statement that “teen sexing laws make me sick. I view the creators/supporters of these laws no differently than how you view the Nazis. Both are inhumans that destroy innocent lives” demonstrates your level of immaturity. Comparing people who slaughtered 6 million human beings to people who want to protect you from your own dumb self by outlawing teen sexting is absurd.
You seem to obsessed with you, Do you also yell out your name at the special time?
One would think that no one would enjoy a nude picture of yourself as much as you would
I totally agree with you, but your missing the key point. The claim is always that its to make you safer, healthier or for your protection. This is pure propaganda. The real reason these laws are on the books is to extort, imprison, humiliate, and get you into the system paying extraordinary fines and fees.
This is their main concern, they want your money and your obedience.
Trying Not to criticize you like ALL the other posters have ( which is immature on their part- trying to impose their own views is just as bad, they didn’t answer the question, which is spamming). I’m just gonna say it’s okay to have your own views, there are 2 sides to every story. I’m sure there as much more people to don’t like the laws that are passing as to people who favor it.
You are right to have your opinions and yes I do agree with you.
I’m much older than you are, the parent of a teen about your age, and I also despise these laws and many others. The points you raise are spot on; it does you much more harm than good to be thrown in prison for a sex offense. That is likely to be, in terms of total negative impact on your life, as bad or worse than being a victim of sex abuse. And I’m saying that as a victim of sex abuse myself, who has several familiy members who were abused more severely than I was.
Try to understand that when these laws were written, the legislators simply didn’t comprehend that someday teens would be sexting each other. I know that probably seems incredibly naieve to you, but history has many examples of how the law has lagged behind developments in technology.
The time has probably long since passed when it is productive to criminalize the posession and distribution of ALL images depicting minors and sexuality. People have literally gone to prison for posessing DRAWINGS of “underage” non-human monsters engaging in sex acts with other non-human monsters. I don’t think it should be that difficult to revise our laws to allow people who victimize children to produce child pornography to be prosecuted and jailed, without snaring innocent teens and comic book collectors in the process.
But take a look at some of the other responses to your question to see how difficult this will be. This is a very emotional issue, and when emotions run high, rational response is the first thing to go. I mean, just look at them.
You’re a whore. Really? I’ll bet you’ve never committed an act of prostitution in your life.
You’re immature and will think differently about this when you’re older. Really? I’m probably older than the person who posted that, and I still think our laws are just pure flipping nuts. I’m sure that person would be singing a different song about maturity if their teen offspring was being shipped off to prison for sexting their lover.
About the only criticism that is reasonable is the one about you comparing people who pass sexting laws with Nazis. Well, that’s called hyperbole. Yes, you’re guilty of it, but so is just about every person who has ever used the term “Nazi” as an epithet…and there are millions of them. Turn it down a notch…the sexting laws are bad enough that you don’t need to exaggerate to make your point.
Good luck with all this, you’re going to need it. Just understand that someday, all this will pass. I hope you’re still alive when it happens.