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Teenage Sex and Stupidity

By Corey Rayburnyung

Rick Hills posts two recent cases which illustrate how American law often addresses teenage (or adolescent) sexuality in unusual ways:Item #1: Two teenagers -- a sixteen-year-old girl and a seventeen-year-old boy -- took racy pictures of themselves with their cell 'phones. They did not distribute the photos to anyone else. Under state law, these photos constituted child pornography -- and the teenagers were prosecuted under state law either for producing, directing or promoting a photograph featuring the sexual conduct of a child or possessing child porn. (see news item) The underlying behavior, incidentally, was not illegal under Florida law, which permits teenagers of this age to have sexual intercourse with each other (although not with an adult)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on April 24, 2008 (boomark / email).