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Sending nudes under 18. Don't you realize this is illegal production of child pornography?

I see all this talk about teens sending nudes. In the USA, this is considered producing and distributing child pornography. This is a federal offense, and teens have been prosecuted. Yes, if you are under 18, you can be charged. If a teen receives any type of nude picture, then the person sending the pictures is guilty of "pandering obscenity to a minor". It is possible, then, to be guilty of both producing and distributing child porn AND pandering obscenity to a minor.

Many other nations have similar laws, so it is not necessarily a USA only issue.


Also, age of consent laws don't apply here. Under 18 you are guilty under federal law, regardless of the age of consent in states.

Wake up kiddos.

Sending nudes under 18. Don't you realize this is illegal production of child pornography?

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  • Yeah had a 15 year old relative exchanging crotch shots with his HS girlfriend. Fortunately his mom found out before the feds and he was phoneless for a time.

    • I bet nothing would have happened anyway

    • @lord_chilled I'm sure it's not a big priority, but technically it does violate the law.

    • Even if they found out they wouldn't give a damn. Especially since they are both underage

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  • yeah that's right

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  • This is what flabbergasts me all the time about the U. S. There is no 'flexibility' in the law and they are applied to the letter even if that would create live-long trouble. Imagine two 17y olds exchanging crotch shots for their respective pleasure. Why for f-sake would you treat that from a legal p. o. v. with the same type of punishment as you would for full blown child porn? That does not make any sense at all.

    • Because modifying the laws like that would require lawmakers to actually think. And they're more concerned with trying to get as many earmarks as possible to impress their (illegal) foreign corporate donors. Pork reigns. So punishing kiddie offenders means using whatever is on the books. Even if that means intellectual laziness. Mandatory counseling, some juvie, etc. But full-blown Jared Fogle prosecution is going overboard.

    • Also, they don't really care about the porn itself. What they care about, is an excuse to create more slave labor. And young boys can take more punishment for longer than what the old beards in prison can. It's about money. Same reason Pedogate thugs have infiltrated CPS, and taken kids from loving-but-poor parents and placed them in sexually-abusive foster homes, often without court approval, have perjured and falsified evidence, and so few ever face any penalty for it all.

  • Meanwhile, in the make believe world of Hollywood ImaginationLand values, sexting gets you a slap on the wrist, and then you can become a superhero and gain instant atonement for it, no matter how much damage you've caused.

    That reminds me... I can now write another episode of "How Screwed Are They, Really?"

    Sending nudes under 18. Don't you realize this is illegal production of child pornography?

  • Who gives a fuck? Even if caught, federal prison = a hotel with bars. At least Leavenworth is. Or than that if everyone does it it's practically impossible to effectively enforce and the odds of getting caught plummet. As an example you can supposedly get 5 years in prison and a $250k fine for copyright infringement (according that FBI warning at the beginning of almost every VHS, DVD and Blu-Ray , yet when hundreds of millions do it on the internet almost no one is caught (a few of the biggest fish like Kim Dotcom but every one arrested just creates a vacuum others are eager to fill). Same goes for the drug trade and prostitution in real life, put away one or even an entire ring and 2 more take their place. If they actually [prosecuted and jailed everyone that sexted or sent nudes schools would be mostly empty while prisons would be full of them and there'd be little room for the real criminals (mostly rapists and murderers). Fuck the gov't and it's stupid outdated laws, and people wonder why I'm rooting for the terrorists.

  • Whats your point?
    You think because its illegal teens are gonna automatically gonna stop doing it?
    No. its also illegal for teens to drink and smoke but a lot of them do that too

    • The law is still needed, to let them know such behavior cannot and should not ever be condoned. If they are not brought back to a proper moral core at home, however, and are not taught to put virtue before popularity, then they will ignore the law or rationalize their behavior. Not putting a cork in such things as that is why we're in this screwed-up position to begin with, wherein which teens now think sexting is a great thing. 25 years ago, a teen sexting his junk to a girl would be incessantly shamed by the whole school, until he had to transfer out - and hope to God nobody recognized him and spread rumors. Today, teens have threesomes, and refuse to see anything wrong with it. Even if the wrong would bite them were it a bear!

  • It's unlikely that federal authorities will pursue teens sexting.

    Here in Texas we have a separate law for sexting where it is only a class c misdemeanor for teens within a small age gap to sext.

  • Oh quiet.

  • You can't stop teens from having sex. Technology has simply created another tool for teens to get sex. The laws against it are stupid.
    I never sent nudes and if I was underage again I would have never sent nudes. But it is unrealistic and unscientific to think that these laws against teens sending nudes will ever work.

    • Teens need to learn humility as a virtue. And need to know how to feel shame. Adults need to set the example. As long as they see narcissists who take pride in their shame, these kids are going to learn that example, and act accordingly. Philippians 3:19 is not joking about the curses passing on for sexual hubris.

    • @ObscuredBeyond okay Mr. religious morals, go shove your holy book down somebody else's throat.

    • It's coming true right in front of us, but you still don't believe it. Therefore, you are of no use to these kids, because you won't set a better example yourself nor tackle the root causes of their permissive attitudes. You have no solutions, only evasive maneuvers to suppress having to address your own guilt. You may as well be a creepy clown pressuring kids at a park to drop everything and have sex in front of you, for all the help you are.

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  • If little girls want to be illegal little sluts then so be it

    • 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • That reminds me of the bunch of teens somewhere in Scandinavia who got mass sued

  • Thanks for this take! I'm 17 so next year onwards i can share nudes *Legally* :P

    • Within confines of the law does not equal wise.

  • Unfortunately is Law VS hormones. At that stage of life you don´t think with your brain. The best way to avoid underage teens sending nudes is telling about the risks of doing so, beside the one you mention.

    • That's a crock of BS. At that age, I would never have dreamed of sexting to anyone. And even when the girls were so lewdly dressed that they were basically begging to be penetrated, I kept my pants on. I believed in this little thing called self-control, and that it served a good purpose. If the pressure got too great, there was always a restroom with toilets. Letting off a little steam is not worth ruining someone else's life.

    • @ObscuredBeyond full self control when you're a teenage doesn't exist, we become very impulsive but with proper sexual education a teen tend to be more aware.

    • Sex doesn't happen on impulse alone. It happens when you tell yourself: "It'll be okay this one time." Which, when you're a teen, usually means you are knowingly lying to yourself. And every thought and action you take next is in defense of the lie, because your pride cannot tolerate seeing your self delusion collapse. If it were impulse alone, then the presence of her parents would be insufficient deterrent. We are not dogs.

  • We are not dumbasses you know

    • Some people are.

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