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analog · 09-03-2007, 05:23 PM

So I'm browsing through a porn site today, and I was rather enjoying the variety of women laid out (sometimes quite literally) before me. I say women, because these were legitimate, very definitely "legal" females. But they are not what this thread is about.

As I browsed further, I started to get into a "webcam" area, and an area featuring the user-submitted pornography of a certain other site. I won't mention either, and don't PM me because I won't tell you by PM, either.

The idea behind these pictures is that they're "self-taken", either by steady webcamera, or by holding a camera/setting a camera timer to take pictures. Although I can't prove they're underage, and they come from a fairly well-known site, I would swear that some of them were very questionably legal. In fact, there were a handful that I only glanced at the thumbnail of, looked at one picture, and felt gross and closed it... they looked to be 14, or MAYBE 15. Now, it is possible that they weren't- after all, i've dated a woman who was 24 (and by my opinion, looked it) and most often assumed to be 18, tops. It stands to reason, then, that there are surely enough nude-picture-taking females that some who ARE 18 would look 13 or 14.

But we all know that there are many mid-teenagers, 13, 14, 15, who have their own digital cameras and/or webcams, and take provocative, somewhat revealing, or fully nude pictures- either for boyfriends, or certain sites where they think it will make them popular, or whatever.

My question for discussion is this: at what point did people stop paying attention to their kids so thoroughly and completely that it's now fairly standard to see self-taken underage porn? This is not like when some pedophile scumbag would coerce a young teen into something lurid... this is young teens shedding their clothing to fit in, be popular, or give something to their (hopefully) equally-young boyfriends.

Second to that, is how do you regulate self-taken pornography? Can you fine or jail a girl who takes a picture of herself and posts it on the internet? Better yet, can we hold the parents responsible in some way? What kind of ramifications can there be? Certainly there will be many cases where some kind of coercion is obvious... but I don't believe it's very many, let alone the majority.

Where were these kids failed, that they are putting themselves out there like this?

09-03-2007, 05:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
analog Banned	Underage children: "self-pic" amateur pornographers So I'm browsing through a porn site today, and I was rather enjoying the variety of women laid out (sometimes quite literally) before me. I say women, because these were legitimate, very definitely "legal" females. But they are not what this thread is about. As I browsed further, I started to get into a "webcam" area, and an area featuring the user-submitted pornography of a certain other site. I won't mention either, and don't PM me because I won't tell you by PM, either. The idea behind these pictures is that they're "self-taken", either by steady webcamera, or by holding a camera/setting a camera timer to take pictures. Although I can't prove they're underage, and they come from a fairly well-known site, I would swear that some of them were very questionably legal. In fact, there were a handful that I only glanced at the thumbnail of, looked at one picture, and felt gross and closed it... they looked to be 14, or MAYBE 15. Now, it is possible that they weren't- after all, i've dated a woman who was 24 (and by my opinion, looked it) and most often assumed to be 18, tops. It stands to reason, then, that there are surely enough nude-picture-taking females that some who ARE 18 would look 13 or 14. But we all know that there are many mid-teenagers, 13, 14, 15, who have their own digital cameras and/or webcams, and take provocative, somewhat revealing, or fully nude pictures- either for boyfriends, or certain sites where they think it will make them popular, or whatever. My question for discussion is this: at what point did people stop paying attention to their kids so thoroughly and completely that it's now fairly standard to see self-taken underage porn? This is not like when some pedophile scumbag would coerce a young teen into something lurid... this is young teens shedding their clothing to fit in, be popular, or give something to their (hopefully) equally-young boyfriends. Second to that, is how do you regulate self-taken pornography? Can you fine or jail a girl who takes a picture of herself and posts it on the internet? Better yet, can we hold the parents responsible in some way? What kind of ramifications can there be? Certainly there will be many cases where some kind of coercion is obvious... but I don't believe it's very many, let alone the majority. Where were these kids failed, that they are putting themselves out there like this? Last edited by analog; 09-03-2007 at 05:25 PM..