More fear and denial of nature, humanity, sexuality, reality and life.

And also, nudity is evil. EVIIIIIIL! God spare me from religion.

The Agitator » Blog Archive » Morning Links:

"...So if I understand this correctly, they’re protecting these kids from harm . . . by charging them with child pornography for exploiting themselves. Yes. Makes perfect sense."

Hit & Run > The Educational Value of Getting Arrested on Child Porn Charges - Reason Magazine:

"Half a dozen teenagers in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, face child pornography charges, three for taking nude or semi-nude photos of themselves and sending them to boys by cell phone, three for receiving them. The arrests follow similar cases involving a 16-year-old Florida girl and her 17-year-old boyfriend, whose child pornography convictions were upheld by a state appeals court in 2007, and a 15-year-old Ohio girl who was arrested last fall. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article about the Pennsylvania case mentions a 13-year-old boy in Texas who "was arrested on child pornography charges in October after he received a nude photo of a student on his cell phone." So I guess we have a trend.

...treating teenagers who have violated no one's rights like criminals who sexually exploit children is undeniably absurd, especially since the ostensible aim is to help these poor, misguided youths..."

But the best commentary comes from the reader posted comments at the article...

"I have a modest proposal. Why stop at punishing girls for taking revealing pictures of themselves? Some perverts like to look at pictures of women walking around in public and masturbate to them, so why not pass a law requiring teenage girls to wear some kind of garment that obscures their faces and phsyical appearance? We could put a fine vail over the eyes so that they could see out.

And, of course, since many clueless teenage girls might object to wearing these garments, they must face serious punishments for refusing to wear them, perhaps a caning for the first offence and jail for subsequent ones.

That way, we can prevent these girls from being victimized by having people derive sexual pleasure from looking at their picture."

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These are just normal kids, doing what normal kids have done since time immemorial. The insanity and cheap sentiment fostered by the rape and molestation hysteria is part and parcel of the slow infantilization of the public in general and just another example of our "enlightened" and "progressive" masters trying to micro-manage the lives of the citizenry through nanny-state legislation."