scott3x said:
The idea that recording someone who willingly posed naked before a camera and sent it to someone should be a crime for the sender or sendee is absurd.
Each case has to be judged on its merits but the issue here is slightly more complicated. What if, the girl was forced to expose herself for the picture
That's why I stipulated that the picture had to be made with a willing participant. Otherwise, I definitely believe it should be punished.
what if the picture is forwarded to more people than the intended viewer?
Try to find out how it occurred and punish anyone who knowingly spread it beyond its intended recipients.
If by some roundabout method you unwittingly ended up with a picture of a naked 12 year old on your phone, wouldn't you be in possession of child porn?
Yep. Even if I were 12 myself. The whole thing is just silly. We're just talking about pictures of bodies here, not even of sexual acts, particularly sexual intercourse. Sexual intercourse is by far the most dangerous, whether or not it is recorded; the reason should be obvious- it can result in pregnancy or stds. I believe this is the root reason why society tries to censure 'child pornography'. The idea is that we don't want to encourage kids into getting into problems that are beyond them. That is certainly a noble goal, but what a lot of people don't realize is that by criminalizing even pictures of their bodies alone, we're sending, in my view, rather absurd messages. What's next, banning all nude beaches? It seems to me that some nude places are now suggesting that only adults go. This type of reasoning is, in my view, rather horrifying.
I grew up relatively sexually repressed myself. It wasn't so much that people would -tell- me that I should be sexually repressed. It was rather in all these unspoken actions that took place around me. I woudn't wish it on anyone.
The one time that I had a pretty good time was when I went to camp when I was about 11. A bunch of boys, myself included, went to a remote island with 2 female councillors. There, the councillors decided we should all skinny dip (councillors included, which I'm sure enticed the boys
). My character is strong and you must remember that I was somewhat sexually repressed, so I declined from taking off my swim suit, as did one other boy. Then the councillors went to hide the swim suits of all the boys who had taken them off. The boys in question were too embarassed to get out of the water, so they'd swim in the direction that the councillors were going; it was rather funny I thought ;-).
Anyway, when the swim suits were well hidden somewhere and the councillors came back, it was time to work on the holdouts; the other boy was easy work; he was rather thin and really didn't put up much resistance. I, however, went deep out into the water. No one was interested in chasing me out. After a minute or 2 of that, however, I was bored. I figured, what the heck, everyone else is naked, can't be so bad. So I willingly gave up my swimsuit
.
The only other thing I really remember is how beautiful I thought the concillors were, especially the blond one. The boys had a silly idea of putting a frog on one of their tushes (they were sunbathing stomach down) and the councillors (obviously) weren't impressed. Personally I thought the joke was in bad taste; what -I- wanted to do was touch them but I didn't dare.
Anyway, after a day or so, everyone got dressed again and we went back to the mainland. The councillors went topless right until we were approaching the canoe of the man who ran the camp, whereupon they put their shirts back on.
To this day, I don't know if the owner of the camp noticed they were topless from a distance, or if any of the boys told their story. I don't remember the camp councillors getting in trouble, but maybe they did. I imagine the boys -eventually- told someone though; it was certainly a pretty good story for me ;-).