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At this point, each and every one of us has made stupid, "I-Can't-Believe-I-Put-That-On-The-Internet" mistakes, although not all of them are of the naked variety.
I think cases like this are perfect examples of American puritanism, where we collectively wig out when we discover to our horror that kids have sexual feelings, and interact with each other sexually, and yes, sometimes have sex. We totally have to get over it.
And don't get me wrong, I am not opposed to having a little extra legal protection to prevent people from completely taking advantage of youthful inexperience. But this is just sick. Sick! Prosecuting a person for taking pictures of their own body and sharing them?!! That is inexcusable, both in the sense of repression winning one over freedom, but also in the sense that I cannot imagine a worse message to send to a young person: it's wrong to be proud of your body and want to share it and have it be admired! Showing your body is so bad, we'll mark you as a criminal psycho forever!
I hope the prosecutor and the judge involved in persecuting this poor girl break both their legs. They should just be ashamed at being involved with something so despicable.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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