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. BTW pedophile is an adult that’s sexually attracted to prepubescent minors.
Well I would much rather a pedophile get a hold of a naked picture of me than a police officer. The law will do A LOT 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. What our kids really need protection from are these draconian 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.
Now if you do agree with the sexting laws then just say “yes all teens who mess around on their phones deserve prison time & they should be put on the sex offender registry because they are savages”
while i agree with you on most of it that last statement you made makes me want to slap you.
there was an episode of the simpsons that was making fun of just that kind of argument: “those against say ‘I hate America!’ ”
so while you do have good points please don’t resort to cheap tactics like that because then you’ll be like Glenn Beck and nobody likes him.
i think the laws are there to prevent child pornography from being produced, willingly or not. kids do not understand the magnitude of taking nude pics of themselves and having them saved to communication devices. being a nudist has nothing to do with producing child pornography. you have a problem kid. seek some help. do you even know any kids who got prison time for something like this? kids go to juvenile detention centers and i have yet to see one get sent there for sexting. also, child pornography doesn’t mean prepubescent, it means minors.
In my state, I think they do get put on the sex offenders list, registered and everything if they are caught.
Usually its not a very big deal unless you’re different ages, then it can become serious. (i.e. If a 15 year old girl sexts an 18 year old boy).
I sort-of agree. You are very vehement about the topic – if this was an essay, I would tell you to tone it down, remove some of the negative imagery (ie, nazis). Although, I did think your comment about how you’d be more worried about a picture falling into the hands of cops was a good one.
My biggest problem with arresting teens for sexting is this: they had to be kids to commit the crime in the first place, so they should be tried as kids. If they were adults, then no crime had occurred.
However, there are some instances where it should remain illegal. For instance, if a girl takes a picture of herself and sends it to her boyfriend, and then the boyfriend sends it to his friends to brag about it, the boyfriend should be charged with a crime. He should not be put on the sex offender registry, but he should be punished (possibly by just a few days in the county jail).
The problem is not that some draconian congressman passed laws against sexting, but rather that the laws were already in place when the sexting phenomenon began and no one has had the cajones to fix them. If you relax laws about minors and pornography, you’re immediately labeled as someone who doesn’t care about the safety of children. It makes it much, much harder to get reelected.
I think it’s ridiculous to charge minors with a crime and/or have them register as sex offenders by willingly sending nude pictures of themselves to someone else with their cell phone or other device. It’s their choice and they certainly aren’t unaware of the risk of how easily that picture can spread like wildfire through their school to create humiliation for themselves. If someone somehow coerced the individual to send pictures of themselves (ie. the douche ex boyfriend who blackmails his ex girlfriend), that person should be charged with a crime, not the kid who unwillingly did it. However, when it’s two friends or two lovers who want to share those pictures with each other, there’s nothing wrong with that. If it backfires and everybody finds out, their public embarrassment doesn’t need to be compounded by idiotic legislation and prosecution. Also, if a pedophile gets a copy of the picture, his jerking off over it isn’t going to harm the person in the picture; if he becomes a stalker going after the person in the picture, there again that would be the person to charge with a crime.
Like Terry said, the laws predate sexting and have been misapplied. I think it simply did not cross anybody’s mind when they were making the laws that “children” might make pornography of themselves willingly. However, the laws ARE really broken, they make no distinction between a picture of a 17-year-old masturbating and a picture a toddler being anally raped. I know that sounds like hyperbole, but it’s true, the laws literally do not make any distinction.