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| Stupid people with kiddie porn, and stupid people who would ruin kids over error by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 12/16/2013, 8:49pm PST | ||||
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| I've never really understood the interest in child pornography. In fact, I've looked at regular adult porn and it wasn't all that interesting, to the extent I was able to find women, I preferred the real thing, but even if you're not using it for getting excited some of it might be useful for discovering how some things are done, far too much of porn is for what is visually exciting, not sex that feels very good. I saw a couple of videos that were strange; one was where a woman was trying to do a guy by riding him while he's in a chair, facing the camera, since she's at the wrong angle, he kept falling out. The other had a guy who flipped a girl over and was having sex with her while she was literally upside down.
It reminded me of the comment by Arthur Hill in the 1971 version of the film Andromeda Strain in which a guy commits suicide by holding his own head underwater in a bathtub. "I wouldn't believe you could commit suicide that way," and if I hadn't seen a guy doing it with a woman that way, I might not have believed it either. But the point remains, clearly, anyone who has child pornography knows or should know that it's illegal to have it. And I just heard over the news how they busted some local guy in this area who apparently, ironically enough was supposed to help try and stop the stuff and had lots of it on the hard drives of his computer and was buying DVDs of kiddie porn of kids as young as 5. He's looking at 10 years for having it and 20 for attempted distribution. And what do these people do? Do they have their kiddie porn stored on shadowed partitions so if you boot the machine with the wrong password you get a different virtual drive than the one that has the incriminating stuff, or at least, being sure the files are protected by encryption when they're not looking at them? No, they have it openly accessible on the hard drives of their computer and easily read by anyone, and so, they get caught with stuff that can get them years in prison. The news reports indicated a guy tried to hide his hard drive on a windowsill outside his home. I got no sympathy for these kind of people if for no other reason they're exploiting kids. The only thing is, were they too stupid to know that you don't just have stuff around openly that can get you decades in Club Fed or in the state equivalent, and you should encrypt it when you're not looking at it, or didn't they realize that if someone else they got the stuff from got busted, they were very likely to narc on them in order to save themselves? And ordering anything shipped to your home address that is illegal to have has to be some of the most stupid behavior possible. ("Yeah, Mr. Heisenberg, you can just ship me ten pounds of crystal meth to my home, my name and credit card number are...") But there's probably something even stupider. Some kids don't realize that it's in the same class to make or have pictures of their boyfriend or girlfriend naked or of them having sex with them if either of them is under 18. Because in many areas the age of consent is 16 (it is here in Maryland and 29 other states), it is often perfectly legal for two kids to have sex. Or in some cases there is a "Romeo and Juliette" exception to the law. For example, the age of consent in Colorado is 17, but it's legal in Colorado to have consensual sex with someone 15 or 16 as long as you're no more than ten years older than them. So it can be legal for someone under 18 to be having sex with someone at or near their own age. But it's illegal for them to take nude pictures of themselves or the other person if they're under 18 or film themselves having sex Even if they're not going to let someone else see any of the pictures and/or video. Some kids have gotten busted because one of them sent pictures of themselves naked to the other. Two kids who filmed themselves having sex were found guilty of the crime of producing child pornography; an appeals court upheld their conviction since the law is supposed to protect children. Yeah, the law should protect children from exploitation. By others. But it shouldn't make kids who do something stupid into criminals. At least one judge threw out an attempt to charge some underaged kid who filmed themselves engaged in sex with someone else with producing child pornography. We should protect kids from sexual exploitation. But we shouldn't turn kids who make stupid mistakes and commit youthful indiscretions into felons facing jail time and potential registration as a sex offender for life. |
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Stupid people with kiddie porn, and stupid people who would ruin kids over error by 12/16/2013, 8:49pm PST  Tell it to the judge, pervert NT by 12/17/2013, 3:14pm PST |
