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.
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. 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 the law would have done inhuman things to us.
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 teens behind bars for life 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.
Getting charged with child pornography is worse than any other consequence of sexting.
You people are thinking that you are protecting kids with these laws. Well good job! good job protecting kids from pedophiles by putting them in prison where they will be raped every day by pedophiles. You think that nude pictures they’ve sent will haunt them? well I think that being on the sex offender registry will haunt you pretty badly too. These laws are inhuman.
Plus if the kid is a nudist then what’s the difference if someone see’s them naked in a picture?
Wow. How about you just stop sending naked pictures of yourself? Grow up. You’ll understand when you’re a parent, or even in a few years. You aren’t as mature as you think you are.
These Laws are in place to protect minors. There are often questions here from girls who have sent pictures to their boyfriend of them naked then the boy sends them on to friends. The Law can’t just change for you because you wouldn’t do that.
I don’t agree with the teen sexting laws, even though I’ve never sexted or plan to. Actully, I’ve been on the reciving end of a sext before. It was from a boy in my class. I didn’t know what “image” he was sending me, so I opened it. There it was.. his small dick all over my screen.
I agree, the child pornography laws where invented to protect children from pedophiles, not from their boyfriends/girlfriends. If the teenagers are caught sexting, the law now classifies them as a pedophiles. It’s stupid and being taken way to far. Because two teenagers have semi-nude/nude pictures of their girlfriend/boyfriend on their mobile, they’re pedophiles. Never mind the fact that those pictures are consented. I know, It’s illegal.. but let the kids live a little and learn from their mistakes. When the reciver of these pictures sends them on, It’s very wrong. But still shouldn’t be classified as illegal. Why don’t they catch the real pedophiles who are grooming children? They’re all over facebook, It should be easy enough.
Libertarians usually research their positions more carefully than you have, before launching into public rants.
No teens are put behind bars for life for seeing their boyfriend or girlfriend naked on the phone.
It is not the possession, but the dissemination of child pornography that carries the highest penalty, which is still nowhere near “life behind bars”.
Children and adults are never serving in the same prison. Children are in juvenile facilities. Adults are in adult facilities. So much for your “good job protecting kids from pedophiles by putting them in prison where they will be raped every day by pedophiles”.
Juvenile offenders do not stay on the sex offender registry for life.
So you’ve done an admirable job of making your own arguments ridiculous, especially with your hyberbolic comparison to Nazis. Most of my Libertarian friends would say to you “Get off my side, you ain’t helping.”
Minors can not give legal consent to a number of things, including posing naked. They don’t even have to be pornographic photos or films. There is nothing pornographic about a life drawing class, but no school would hire a minor to pose nude for one. Because the minor can’t legally give consent to the arrangement. See?
i agree im fifteen its to prevent an angry ex from posting them all over the internet. and it is the same as child porn except the photographer or whatever you call them is a child. whats to say it goes to the wrong place hmm?
I agree. I have had long distance relationships in the past which we maintained via some photogaphs and dirty emails.even though i was above the age of consent, i was below 18, which supposedly made this ‘wrong’.
What sort of ridiculous laws allow 16 and 17 year olds to have sex, but not to watch sex? Is it ‘Have sex, but dont look down!’?
And also What sort of ridiculous law would incarcerate a teenage boy with pictures of his girlfriend on his phone, whilst giving a fully grown man caught with actual child porn on his computer a suspended sentance.
When i was growing up, although i never did untill i was of the age of consent, people were sending thease pictures around all through secondarey school. The schools should adress the need in young people to get their kit off, rather than incriminate them.
I believe that there should be a special law made for sexting. I remember in government class I had to read an article on sexting. One group on teens got charged with misdemeanor obscenity and one group got charged with felony production and distribution of child pornography. I believe that the charges with the first group was very fair, but the charges with the second group kind of bugged me. I don’t believe they should be charged with a felony that could potentially destroy their entire lives, but I do believe there should be some kind of consequences. But the laws are the laws and if you decide to break them it is your fault if you get caught and you will have to deal with the consequences whatever they are.
I agree with them. Teens should not be sending each other nude photos
I agree that some of these laws are too strict and the penalties don’t seem to fit the “crime”. I think you exaggerate when you say that teens could spend the rest of their life behind bars, unless you are using a metaphor. A fairly innocent sexting could result in that person getting convicted of child pornography, which does in effect carry a life sentence. The person is required to register as a sex offender every year for the rest of their lives. While this is good for a real pedophile who has harmed children, this seem a bit harsh for a 17 year old who sends her boyfriend a naked picture of herself.
Yes, because you not being able to send naked pictures of yourself all the way around the world is the same as the Nazis exterminating millions of people.
Grow up.
Wait, so if an older guy thinks a high school girl is hot, he’s a pedophile? I thought my question disproved that?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ak04omvIspf5uWKNbw9Q5avsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100831122722AAPHn6C
No I don’t get involved with sexting, but I just wanted to get into that one point…I thought “pedophile” meant attraction to younger than high school?
I agree that we shouldn’t be sending pics to each other, but that’s a typical teenager for you. teens everywhere are having sex and getting pregnant these days; everyone knows that. we don’t arrest or charge a teen couple when they have a kid and obviously had sex in order to do so, so why would we do that when teens aren’t even actually doing anything in person, just talking about it? registering a kid as a sex offender for doing what almost teen does at some point or another, ruins their life. i think sex offenders should be the people who go out and rape kids, not two teens sexting with both of their consent. I mean, most teen couples end up doing something or another; for example I read in a magazine once that this 17 year old boy got arrested for sexting his girlfriend of two years, and he was registered as a sex offender. that’s really too extreme.