blah, what are you going to do? Making it illegal won't stop it, it will just label a bunch of kids texting eachother as pedophiles for the rest of their life. Is a 14 year old who gets a picture of his 14 year old girlfriend's boobies in a message a child pornographer? Should they have to divulge that they are a "sexual predator" to every potential employer and never get a job? Should flyers be handed out in every neighborhood they ever live in saying "this guy (insert their picture) is a convicted sex offender"? Should they be victims of hate crimes against them by people who don't know why they were labeled a sex offender for the rest of their lives? All because they had an effing girlfriend when they were 14? Of course not. It would be dumb. Unfortunately the field of lower education attracts dumb people a lot of the time, and this is what some school administrators are turning it into.
89 days ago | Tagged As: No that would be stupid!
I honestly don't know why we're making sex and nudity so forbidden in the first place. It's natural =\ Oh, wait. That's right. We try to avoid that.
21 days ago | Tagged As: No that would be stupid!
Wait why are we hostiles then? We agree on this The minimum length for an argument is 50 characters. The purpose of this restriction is to cut down on the amount of dumb jokes, so we can keep the quality of debate and discourse as high as possible.
15 days ago | Tagged As: No leave them alone
I actually removed you as an enemy after I saw a couple of arguments you made awhile back.
15 days ago | Tagged As: No leave them alone
You crack me up I gave you an upvote for this comment. So I have to type some more to get the 50 required.
15 days ago | Tagged As: No leave them alone
This is silly. The purpose of outlawing child pornography was to keep children safe from those who would take advantage of them. When two tweens are sexting, are they taking advantage of each other? I think not. Besides, I think that minors (at a certain age) should be given more control over their bodies. For example, as an aspiring artist/photographer, I take a lot of nude/semi-nude self-portraits that I'm not allowed to show anyone because of my age. Bullshit.
85 days ago | Tagged As: No that would be stupid!
Exactly the adults think they are "protecting" them by making it illegal for them to work in porn. But what we need protection from is those religious assholes who want to put everybody in prison for their sexual views.
83 days ago | Tagged As: No that would be stupid!
Do you really think swearing proves your point? They ARE protecting them. A minor must live under different rules that an adult. They have a different maturity level and as someone already pointed out, they are still growing until 21. I would be very curious to see the age of most people arguing this is OK.
18 days ago | Tagged As: Yes arrest them!
I know we disagree with the religion thing. I disagree with those religious assholes too even though I may be one myself I don't believe in making any laws against it only because it takes away from personal freedom and gives the man that much more control over you. Also glad to finally see that USA waking up and realizes pot is not all that bad and decriminalizing that. Not all believers are hardcore and want to clamp down. It's actually more the Mormons like Orrin Hatch Senator from Utah that guy says if he catches you with one roach he wants to lock you up and throw away the key. i mean that's not religion that's Stalin.
15 days ago | Tagged As: No leave them alone
It IS child pornography and it IS to protect them. How many people who are dating at 14, are dating a year later? So who is going to stop them from spreading those pics? What do you do when it ends up in the wrong hands?
14 days ago | Tagged As: Yes arrest those shitheads!
Yeah good work! good job protecting the children by putting them in prison for the rest of their lives & having them labeled as sex offenders. there are alot of teens who date for years.
13 days ago | Tagged As: No leave them alone
Sexting is actually just written phonesex. The sending of photos does not have to occur concurrently. So, no, sexting itself should not be illegal. But child pornography is illegal.
89 days ago | Tagged As: No that would be stupid!
Teens will be teens, and will be stupid. Sexual texting shouldn't be illegal, though perhaps showing around picture should be. Like, it would be okay to get a naked picture of your girlfriend, but not okay to forward it to your whole phonebook. Also, I think that someone over twenty-one shouldn't have a photo of someone under eighteen- like they aren't allowed to have sex with someone under eighteen. I think this would prevent it from becoming true child pornography.
89 days ago | Tagged As: No that would be stupid!
I agree. Why can we not use common sence? If a 40 year old man has pictures of a naked 16 year old then yes its illegal. If a 16 year old boy has pictures of a 16year old girl who he is dating then this does NOT even fall into the same catagory. I am not saying its right for a 16 year old to send naked pictures of herself to anyone. I am a mother of a 13 year old and I will make her life a living @#$& if I find out she did this. Children need guidance from their parents about responsible behavior. They need to know what is exspected of them and how bad choices can bring big problems. And if they dont want to listen then we need to let them fail to help them learn to make better ones as they grow older. Its called consiquesnces. Some people in our society wants to make a law for everything now. Our children wont have to think for themselves by the time they are adults because the governement will have it all layed out for them. We wont need morals or self choice because there will be only one way. There are places the governement does not belong. Rainsing children is the biggest one. They are more and more involved and our children grow more and more disrespectful and defiant.
85 days ago | Tagged As: No that would be stupid!
If you allow the distribution amongst friends, how do you stop it from getting into a 40 year old's hands? Stop it from the roots. No pictures taken or sent, no predators getting their hands on them.
19 days ago | Tagged As: Yes arrest them!
Well they shouldnt show it to all their friends. Im talking about it just being between the couple. Do you really want them to go to prison & be labeled as sex offenders?
19 days ago | Tagged As: No leave them alone
Why do you think the only way to enforce a law is prison? How do you stop them from forwarding it? Thats the whole problem, it needs to be prevented at the roots.
19 days ago | Tagged As: Yes arrest them!
Because thats how laws are enforced. If you break a law you go to prison. How do you get it from the roots? kill every curious teen? Man you sound just like hitler. Why dont you put hitler or the swastika as your icon?
19 days ago | Tagged As: No leave them alone
NO. Once again, just because you break a law, does NOT mean you will go to prison! I do agree that they should not be labeled as sex offenders. Which they wouldn't be.
18 days ago | Tagged As: Yes arrest them!
Teen sexting is in fact a felony. They will be labeled as sex offenders & will go to prison. You need to live & let live
15 days ago | Tagged As: No leave them alone
That will teach those kids to stop doing it then. You can't make a law against it 1st amendment rights. The fear is once you allow the man to take that away then they get the green light to lets say not let you take any pictures. But I see your point I think it's sick. it boils down to personal responsibility and there shouldn't be a law to help teenagers learn that they need to learn it for themselves without government telling them too.
15 days ago | Tagged As: No leave them alone
i think it's sick. But as sick as it may be it's still 1st ammendment rights. Last thing you want is government to make a law against it telling you can't take pictures of yourself naked it's your own right if you want to. Once they do that then what else you don't want to give big brother anymore control than you have to.
15 days ago | Tagged As: No leave them alone
Taking the pic is not the illegal part. It is passing it on to someone else that is illegal underage.
14 days ago | Tagged As: Yes arrest those shitheads!
If both are teens and are close in age there is no crime. Yes if it somehow gets passed on to an adult that would be a problem and how and why an adult has it would be investigated to pursue criminal charges i agree but just for the argument sake the debate it purely only relating to teens so to the debate issue no laws should be made for sexting.
14 days ago | Tagged As: Yes arrest those shitheads!
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It technically is child pornography. If they need to see each other naked that badly, why the hell can't they just do it in person? It's a lot more fun that way anyway, or so I've heard. (still a virgin. :D)
89 days ago | Tagged As: Yes that is child pornography!
Really! I mean, is it really all that difficult to be erotic in person?
Well if they were erotic in person that is still illegal because they are under the age of consent. So either way they will go to prison & be labeled as sex offenders.
19 days ago | Tagged As: No leave them alone
In my state, you can have sex at sixteen, as long as you don't film it. You have to wait until you're eighteen for that.
They will not go to prison! Stop implying that is the only method of punishment in our law system.
18 days ago | Tagged As: Yes arrest them!
Who cares if it is still child pornography?! but why should it be illegal? its their phones What if they can't meet each other in person?
89 days ago | Tagged As: No that would be stupid!
I wish it could just be on their phones, but teenagers are stupid- I would know. I just graduated from high school. It becomes child porn as soon as anybody else looks at it, especially above 18. I had a friend who was sent a naked pic and he took out his phone in the lab and showed me! I mean, it was a nice picture and all, but I could see even better online. And if they can't meet each other in person then they should just wait. I know teenagers are horny as hell, but that's why God invented masturbation- and then the silly Christians (I'm a non-silly Christian) decided it was "wrong". ;)
89 days ago | Tagged As: Yes that is child pornography!
But why do they deserve to get arrested for it? They did nothing to deserve prison! Do you have any idea what prison is like?
89 days ago | Tagged As: No that would be stupid!
I will admit that my only knowledge of the prison system is from popular culture, but since they're minors, they would go to juvenile detention centers, not prisons. And also, how do you know that they would automatically get sent to jail? Do you know the punishment for that offense? I would've thought it were a fine or something for the first offense.
89 days ago | Tagged As: Yes that is child pornography!
juvenile is terrible too! Do they really deserve to be sent to kid prison for looking at each other naked? Also you cant control every aspect of everyones lives. Then that would be fascism.
89 days ago | Tagged As: No that would be stupid!
Are you now downvoting me because you disagree with me and calling me a fascist? I am in no way fascist. I have no desire to control every aspect of people's lives. But guess what! Child pornography is ILLEGAL. There are no exceptions to the fucking rule!!!!!!!! I don't care if it's on the internet or on your fucking phone it's illegal wherever the fuck it is.
89 days ago | Tagged As: Yes that is child pornography!
I know its illegal! but the debate is do you think it should be illegal? whoever made it illegal is a religious asshole!
89 days ago | Tagged As: No that would be stupid!
Yes it should be illegal! If you're not an adult, your brain is not developed enough to think straight. Our brains continue to develop until we are 21 and a 15-year-old doesn't think as logically as an 18-year-old most of the time. They'd rather think about the immediate gratification of taking naked pictures and sending them out to their boy/girlfriends than about the future when that picture will most likely circulate to the rest of the school or town. The teens who "sext" put their hormones in front of their future and it truly is a shame. Look at a famous example: Vanessa Hudgens. She thinks "Oh, I'll take some pics and send them to Zac Efron and he'll think I'm so hot!" She put her hormones ahead of her logic and future. Now look at her. She's getting mocked by Dane Cook at the Teen Choice Awards! And I genuinely think that keeping things illegal helps to curb that crime. Legalizing something would not make people aware of it and use that thing responsibly, but would cause a lot of people to start doing that once-illegal thing. Let's mention alcohol, for example. I'm 18, so we'll pretend that the law is changed and suddenly, I can drink. Do you really think I'm going to go to a bar that night and say "I'd like just one beer." No, I know for a fact that I would go out that night and get wasted out of my mind, and so would most people my age. And most people consider me on the responsible side of my age group! Judging from this scenario, legalizing "sexting" would all of a sudden cause teens to do this. It would not be as big as legalizing alcohol, but there would still be a lot more sexting.
89 days ago | Tagged As: Yes that is child pornography!
You're quite the ass about these sorts of debates, in case you were wondering. I'm sure you weren't but, just in case, you could try keeping it respectful!
89 days ago | Tagged As: Yes that is child pornography!
This has nothing to do with religion. It is about the distribution of child pornography. Which is and should be illegal. Even amongst minors because it can end up in the wrong hands.
18 days ago | Tagged As: Yes arrest them!
You think only religious assholes are against child pornography? Right....
14 days ago | Tagged As: Yes arrest those shitheads!
Depending on the age it would be considered child pornograpy but I would hope that they would keep it right there instead of meeting. If they meet then we have the issue of child molestation on one end, if not both. I also know teens are horny but that doesn't make it right that they distribute photos of themselves to anyone. God only knows where those pictures might end up and in whose mailbox!
88 days ago | Tagged As: Yes that is child pornography!
What if they are 14 or 16 & they can't meet each other in person? Do they really deserve to be put in kid prison just for that? They didn't intentionally do anything wrong.
88 days ago | Tagged As: No that would be stupid!
If a 14 and 16 year old don't know it's wrong to send nude photographs to each other I'd really hate to meet their parents. They should have been taught that it's wrong because it is child pornography, even if it is two underaged people who think they're "in love." Do you think the excuse that they're innocent of any intentional wrong doing is going to fly when and if they're parents find out what they've done?
85 days ago | Tagged As: Yes that is child pornography!
They did intentionally do something wrong. They sent a nude pic underage! Also, nobody here wants to put them in prison.
14 days ago | Tagged As: Yes arrest those shitheads!
If they are sending pictures, it IS child pornography. Besides, how can you control those pictures from ending up in some freaks hands?
21 days ago | Tagged As: Yes that is child pornography!
Who cares if it is technically child pornography? It's their phone. Just leave them alone! If it ends up in some freaks hands well anything can end up in their hands. Just go after those freaks. Not the innocent children. You are the same fascist so I'm not surprised you want every sinner to get arrested.
19 days ago | Tagged As: No leave them alone
"Just go after those freaks. Not the innocent children." HAHAHA. So innocent people should have no accountability for their own actions? If THEY take the picture, and it ends up in some pedo's hands, this is in no way their fault? No wonder the youth today are so useless. Secondly, if their just 'innocent children' as you call them, what business do they have taking such photos?
19 days ago | Tagged As: Yes arrest them!
They shouldnt go to prison & be labeled as sex offenders. That makes you no better then those pedos. You are actually worse than those pedos. Totalitarians & fascists have killed alot more people than pedos have.
19 days ago | Tagged As: No leave them alone
Hmmmm where have I heard the argument of prison before??? Once again, prison is not the only means of punishment. There are things like community service, tickets, suspended licenses the list goes on
18 days ago | Tagged As: Yes arrest them!
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