Comments on Teenage Porn Stars Busted

Dude, you live in Puritan US. Deal with it.

Since it's Florida, they'll probably get life.

Did you hear about the kid in Georgia who got ten years for a blow job?

He was 17, she was 15. Fatal error.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-russell/ten-years-for-a-bj_b_39682.html

I'm now a big fan of the term "sex husband." Thanks!

Preach on, Dan!

It makes me so sad that everyone is freaking out over this when there is so many more problems happening in this country.

It doesn't stop there. Cameras are now ubiquitous features of modern life. Very soon streaming video communication will become as commonplace as text messaging is right now. Security cameras are already located every twenty feet in many urban environments. If everybody whose camera captures a moment of nudity by anyone under eighteen is automatically a sex criminal then it would seem the potential number of such cases could multiply by orders of magnitude overnight. Once a high portion of phone calls contain a streaming video component it would seem to necessitate some kind of monitoring program to catch all those thirteen-year-olds out there sending video of their genitals to each other (or answering the phone before they're fully dressed)-- or should I say trafficking in child pornography? And then, like the War on Drugs, it will come down to highly selective enforcement.

It's a giant can of worms based on an understanding of video that predates the digital age. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a host of cases as absurd as this one, where these teenagers might go to jail and be registered as sex offenders for the rest of their lives for taking pictures of themselves.

I could also see it coming to resemble the War on Drugs in that many people will be afraid to stand up and point out how wrong-headed it is for fear of being viewed as sympathetic to the Scum of Society. Yet another of example of a well-intentioned but poorly-thought-out attempt to Protect the Children prompting bad public policy.

I have no problem with teenage sex. But kids, don't take photographs. Your teenage years--these kooky, madcap times--are wonderful, but please understand: teenagers are ugly. It's true. You will never look more hideous your entire life than you do right now, and you absolutely do not want documentation of this time to look back on later.

We arrest and prosecute minors for consuming alcohol, even though our culture glorifies getting drunk. Despite all the rock 'n' roll songs and Superbowl ads, it is still illegal for kids to consume alcohol. Why can't we make the same distinction for minors making porn.

Laws are meant to protect people not only from predators but from their own bad judgment. And if kids take pictures of themselves, would it be okay for them to sell said pictures on the internet? If the child porn was made by the children, should it be legal? And then guys with child pornography on their computers can say hey, it was consensual between the kids. No harm to any minors, so it shouldn't be a crime for me to look at it.

I think this will be a bumpy road for a while until the legal system works out the kinks, and some kids will get burned. But I think the underlying reasons for it aren't pretty reasonable.

Hear hear to Original Andrew; if it doesn't make any sense, it's probably from Florida.

So if two 16 year-olds fuck in front of a mall security camera in Florida, is the mall then liable for prosecution for creating child pornography?

uhhh, boomer. i was fucking hot as shit as a teenager. i was a rower, and was in killer shape. i WISH i had photos of me when i was that age.

Here's what the appelate judge who wrote the opinion upholding the conviction said:

"Mere production of these videos or pictures may also result in psychological trauma to the teenagers involved."

See taking pictures of themselves is going to be more traumatic than having a criminal record as a CHILD PORNOGRAPHER! And have to register as a sex offender.

Shit what's next?

Is there a reason all these extra psychotic perscutions of the young for being sexual beings happen in the South?

I wished I could gasp and say "I'm shocked..."

Face it: the Xtian Taliban is in power right now, and despite their Persian Armageddon Plans (the Iraq War) not going well, Mc Cain is STILL cow-towing to them, so clearly they still have enormous sway in the GOP.

I'm glad that Dan is pointing out the absurd examples of how these Theocrats, as it helps Joe and Joan Sixpack in Muddle America realize that if they keep voting for these idiots, they may soon find dwindling access to their JUGGS magazines and Ladies Night Out bachelorette parties.

The U.S.S. Purtainia sails on...

Insane, but it's Florida so no surprise there.

Speaking of porn, I'm planning my vacation but I can't miss the Stranger's Hump showing, so when is it going to be this year? Yes, I'm planning my vacation around a porn contest.

He was 17, she was 15. Fatal error.

Actually the fatal error was that he was black and she was white. Racism is a huge component that keeps getting left out of the reporting of that story...

Oh my god. Can Florida PLEASE just drop into the ocean already?

That shite doesn't even make sense.

How can the defenders of such arbitrary laws claim that they "protect young people from themselves" when having your names plastered all over the internet/media/world etc. as sex-offenders ultimately brings on a bigger firestorm of attention than any wannabe amateur porn-star of legal age could hope to get?

Also: I think that if it's legal for them, and it's on the internet, it should be legal for other people to look. The answer to all these problems is to make the ages of consent/being abled to get vicariously oggled by millions, lower, as they should realistically be.

well when I made my sex video at 14 it got out and I didn't get in shit.. I live in Canada, eh?

Wake the fuck up people! If you think your 16 year old has`nt had sex yet in any form you are not living in reality. 16 year old are adults if you choose not to treat them as such they will be happy to thank you for ruining there lives.They learn all about sex in school and not from a sex ed class that tells you some morally religous bullshit;or is afraid to teach little gay children about sex. go ahaed people cuddle your kids until they`re 25.Make little cryin ass titty babies out of our youth.they don`t need to grow up until we have a war.Oh I quess its time then.Sex is not evil and is way less offensive than nightly war reports and multitudes of grissly horror films.Which is socially more acceptable doing something you saw in a porn or something from SAW?

I want to see Dan's full kink-o-meter.

wow, it's these moments that render me speechless for quite a while. I find the reasoning of the majority decision just loaded with invalid assumptions and ideological and value-based bias. One statement is pretty interesting (see link in story): "Appellant was simply too young to make an intelligent decision about engaging in sexual conduct and memorializing it." This basicly means that the teenagers were 'simply' too young to have a right to privacy. Heck, maybe next time some other kids will be deemed 'simply' too young to have the right of freedom of speech - in their own home.
It seems that the reasoning for the decision is based on assumptions of possibilities and values, not on law. And while this seems like an oddity crazy case, I find that these kind of cases strongly relate civil rights deteriorating. And even worse, as far as I can see these kind of cases are indications for a fundamentally flawed judicial branch.
And also I wonder - how did the police find out? Did it involve some infringement of privacy? Or did somebody else do that with some specific motive in mind? - in which case the judicial system basicly became instrument to somebody else than, well, the law.
It's so breath taking that people are loosing any sense of democracy - or common sense in general - en mass...

What a waste of tax payers money. First there was the time and energy that the police have to spend doing the investigation. Then there is the court costs. Did these parents turn in the kids? Then are they having to pay for lawyers? Wow, that is an expensive punishment. As a parent of a 15 year old boy, I have to say that taking away computer/cell/xbox privilages cost nothing and is probably more effective. Obviously it would be less damaging to the poor kids psyche.

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