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Sex My Parents Went on Good Morning America and All I Got Was This Lousy Indictment
Posted by Dan Savage on Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:39 AM
Do the moms and dads on this GMA segment about sexting—moms and dads who discuss all the illegal images they found on their kids' computers—realize that they've placed their kids at risk of prosecution for the possession and distribution of child porn?
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um, engaged in sex and "EVEN" in masturbation? how is that worse than sex? fucked up.
sending nude pictures of yourself to a hormonal idiot teenager is a bad idea, full stop. it must be the stupidest 20%.
sending nude pictures of yourself to a hormonal idiot teenager is a bad idea, full stop. it must be the stupidest 20%.
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That last interview with the crying mother is appalling. Get over it lady. Everyone has genitals and everyone knows that. It matters not one bit if the whole world sees them. Sexting is not the problem. The problem is these people's sexual repression.
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This is heart wrenching to watch, I can't ever imagine going myself through that. That poor woman was oblivious to what that child was doing. People just need to take the damn cell phones from their kids. Teens these days do not know how to differentiate right from wrong so why give them something that's the equivalent of car or a motorcycle to them you just don't love em if you do. You know these sort of things will happen when they're handed any unsupervised technology.
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Towards the end, the parent seemed to be implying she'd rather her kid be involved in drugs and having sex then taking "sexy" picture of herself. Ugh.
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Sexting: The shocking Heterosexual lifestyle is raising it's ugly wicked head once again. See, it leads to teen deaths, teen sexual perversions, turning wonderful children into sexual perverts! Heterosexuality is nothing less than a Death Style.
The sooner we stop this unnatural perversion, this kleptomania, this pedophilia (by children for children of children), this threat to the Nation on a level with Al-Quida the better America will be.
Amen and please pass the ammunition.
The sooner we stop this unnatural perversion, this kleptomania, this pedophilia (by children for children of children), this threat to the Nation on a level with Al-Quida the better America will be.
Amen and please pass the ammunition.
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Really Loveschild? Heartwrenching??? The mom is more upset than the girl is and it's her naked tits. It seems like the poor girl is only pretending to be worried about the issue to make her silly bawling mother feel better.
This is so fucking ridiculous. Teenagers have raging hormones. Teenagers wanna fuck. Big fucking deal, get over it.
Teach them how to do it safely, teach them that they're not evil and don't need to be ashamed of themselves and they'll be perfectly fine. Shit, they might even grow up to have healthy, fun, fulfilling sex lives (unlike many of their miserable repressed parents). Imagine that!
This is so fucking ridiculous. Teenagers have raging hormones. Teenagers wanna fuck. Big fucking deal, get over it.
Teach them how to do it safely, teach them that they're not evil and don't need to be ashamed of themselves and they'll be perfectly fine. Shit, they might even grow up to have healthy, fun, fulfilling sex lives (unlike many of their miserable repressed parents). Imagine that!
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I sent naked pics to a boyfriend when I was a teenager and he turned out to be a complete creep. I don't know what he did with them, but I'm pretty sure he still has them even though I asked him to delete them and he said he did. I'll probably see them on the internet someday, yeesh.
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Does anyone wonder why there seems to be an implicit endorsement of the attitude and behavior of the 100 people who teased that girl into suicide? Could Diane not find any of them to interview? Did it occur to her look at it from that angle or does she accept that as the right and natural outcome of seeing a nudie pic of someone?
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That last interview was HILARIOUS.
Thanks for the comic gold.
"You think *sob sob* that your kids at a party. *cry* You worry about them *sob* drink or doing * sob* drugs. *child rolls eyes* *pause for cry* But, never. Did you think a photo."
I rewatched that like 3 times.
Its almost as good as "Even Masturbation."
Thanks for lightening my morning!
Thanks for the comic gold.
"You think *sob sob* that your kids at a party. *cry* You worry about them *sob* drink or doing * sob* drugs. *child rolls eyes* *pause for cry* But, never. Did you think a photo."
I rewatched that like 3 times.
Its almost as good as "Even Masturbation."
Thanks for lightening my morning!
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Sure, and while you're at it Loveschild, take away their computers, digital cameras, PDA's - aw heck, just banish them from access to any form of technology whatsoever, lock them in their rooms until they're 18, and maybe put some sort of sensory deprivation helmet on them, so they can't see, hear, or smell another teenager until they're old enough to leave the house for good. And for your God's sake, make sure to tie their arms firmly to their sides, so they can't touch any of their own evil, nasty parts.
Because, in case you haven't been paying attention, teenagers have been engaging in sexual activities since about, oh, um, forever. I wouldn't be a bit surprised - and you shouldn't be either - to know that, once your kid(s) hits puberty, they're going to be engaging in - get ready for it - sexual activities, if not in point of fact having ACTUAL SEX!
The only way you're going to stop that is to completely isolate them from the rest of humanity, which no doubt will result in them having the same terribly terrific social interaction skills you've clearly developed.
Because, in case you haven't been paying attention, teenagers have been engaging in sexual activities since about, oh, um, forever. I wouldn't be a bit surprised - and you shouldn't be either - to know that, once your kid(s) hits puberty, they're going to be engaging in - get ready for it - sexual activities, if not in point of fact having ACTUAL SEX!
The only way you're going to stop that is to completely isolate them from the rest of humanity, which no doubt will result in them having the same terribly terrific social interaction skills you've clearly developed.
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hey loveschild @ 5
weren't romeo and juliet teenagers. teenagers without technology, and look where it landed them.
weren't romeo and juliet teenagers. teenagers without technology, and look where it landed them.
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What's saddest is there's really no advocates for these kids. Guaranteed, these fucking people are just the assholes they could get to come on Good Morning America, but they're not just the fringe.
These kids are doing pretty dumb things, but in the scheme of things, this is really low on the scale. I'd rather have my kid posting pictures of himself masturbating somewhere then actually having sex or doing drugs. Boo Hoo.
And while the last thing I'd want to do is debate the mother of the dead girl as to why she was killed, there was a lot of ongoing circumstances involved that were likely just as much a part of her death if not more of it.
A week prior, one of her friends had committed suicide (not related to Sexting). This article goes pretty in depth on why this report is so poor.
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feat…
Just a few days ago, a child took his life because of bullying (being called Gay, or just being treated like shit). Kids kill themselves at this age because their peers are unbelievable cruel, and they don't know that life gets better when they grow up. It's horribly tragic, and to try to say that stopping "Sexting" will stop bullying is naive and honestly, really fucked up.
Should information on the repercussions of sexting be taught in schools? Of course. I think it'd do a lot more good than the STD slides they showed us. (They were the horrible worst-case-scenario images that aren't even slightly realistic.)
But freaking out over this is so vile. God, it's freaking safe sex!
P.S. who's decision was it to show blurred images of the child pornography? Isn't that illegal? And even if the blurred images are legal, who took the time to blur them? Wouldn't they have seen some illegal images and potentially face prosecution? Child-porn charges don't fuck around.
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These kids are doing pretty dumb things, but in the scheme of things, this is really low on the scale. I'd rather have my kid posting pictures of himself masturbating somewhere then actually having sex or doing drugs. Boo Hoo.
And while the last thing I'd want to do is debate the mother of the dead girl as to why she was killed, there was a lot of ongoing circumstances involved that were likely just as much a part of her death if not more of it.
A week prior, one of her friends had committed suicide (not related to Sexting). This article goes pretty in depth on why this report is so poor.
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feat…
Just a few days ago, a child took his life because of bullying (being called Gay, or just being treated like shit). Kids kill themselves at this age because their peers are unbelievable cruel, and they don't know that life gets better when they grow up. It's horribly tragic, and to try to say that stopping "Sexting" will stop bullying is naive and honestly, really fucked up.
Should information on the repercussions of sexting be taught in schools? Of course. I think it'd do a lot more good than the STD slides they showed us. (They were the horrible worst-case-scenario images that aren't even slightly realistic.)
But freaking out over this is so vile. God, it's freaking safe sex!
P.S. who's decision was it to show blurred images of the child pornography? Isn't that illegal? And even if the blurred images are legal, who took the time to blur them? Wouldn't they have seen some illegal images and potentially face prosecution? Child-porn charges don't fuck around.
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The shock for the parents, I suppose, is that routinely now there are actual images of their little innocents in starkly lacivious poses. The minds eye can refute the mere allegation of sexual activity, but with empirical evidence in the form of pictures, the secure theory of a childs 'purity' is smashed suddenly and once and for all.
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Possibly agreed w/ 17 in the PS and def w/ Dan. I don't know that GMA, the affiliate, whoever should be charged w/ . . .(looking back at 17) child-porn, but the teens def shouldn't!
I'm curious: What do you all think about indecency and/or self-exposure charges in general and as related to sexting? Are those two charges considered sex offenses? If they weren't what would you think about them then?
I'm curious: What do you all think about indecency and/or self-exposure charges in general and as related to sexting? Are those two charges considered sex offenses? If they weren't what would you think about them then?
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I love how we love to just invade our children's privacy, and yet anytime its done anywhere else its against the law. Except for when you're trolling the internet to find naked pictures of teens and ... wait ... isn't that looking at child pornography? Thus meaning that the parents are now committing a much bigger crime? I love how kids aren't allowed to be kids anymore and can't examine their sexual identity.
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