Should teens be punished for making/distributing porn?

[Saint Jade IV]

In the majority of cases, the teenager who was dumb enough to send rude pictures or videos to her/his boyfriend/girlfriend, and not expect him/her to show his/her friends needs a good kick up the arse, as does the idiot flashing it around. I do not ever think that for things like this, court, arrest or trial is appropriate. I think they all need a good talking to by parents, and to lose their mobile phone privileges until they are responsible enough to have them.

Where it is done with intent to hurt the person or people involved, or exploit them for money, then we need to look at lawsuits and police involvement. When it's teenagers being teenagers, lets not waste resources or the court's time.

^ Best answer so far.

(Though some before were really really good too.)

Thanks!

[Virgin Incursion]

Its according to the individual intent

[LOL ANARCHY NUBZ]

No, else what would I wank to?

[Little Jim P]

No, else what would I wank to?

I personally use a mirror, then again, I am so hot I even turn myself on.

[LOL ANARCHY NUBZ]

No, else what would I wank to?

I personally use a mirror, then again, I am so hot I even turn myself on.

I tried, but my mirror broke.
Maybe I could try the wikipedia article of Ayn Rand. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be the only one...

[SaintB]

Case by case....

In the case of a teenager creating something of a pornographic nature it should be judge by the intent. Was the intention of the teenager in question to make money? Then yes it is illegal and should be punished accordingly. Was it for personal use? Was it for the enjoyment of a love interest/sexual partner? Then no, I don't believe there is anything wrong with that.

In the case of a second party distributing the pictures that should always be illegal whether for profit or not.

[Tolnedraa]

Being teens is enough of a reason to punish them already, no need to make it personal.

I just read to this post.

YOU WERE A TEEN RETARD. Fucking A.

All of us on here either are a teen, were a teen, or are going to be one. Case set and done.

And this shit happens all the time; I believe that A. The Counseling should go to the one who made it, if, it was indeed the boyfriend and or GF.
B. The predators should have legal action taken against them.
C. The distributors have the same, if not worse, penalty as the predators. IF NOT FOR THE DISTRIBUTOR, THE PREDATOR WOULD NOT HAVE PREDATORIZED THE PERSON.

[L3 Communications]

The child, no. They are not legally responsible.

The adult distributor, yes, if they are breaking the law.

what if the distributor in this case was a child? What happens there?

A swift kick in the ass.

lmao

[Pope Joan]

Child pornography laws were created with the intention to keep older folks who know what they're doing from deliberately abusing underage kids who don't fully understand what they're getting into. It wasn't meant to keep 14 year old Jenny Mc'Dumbass from sending a naked picture of herself to her boyfriend, who shouldn't be punished because he didn't necessarily ask for it to be made.

All of these teen "child pornography" cases boil down to high-schoolers being what they're best at, idiots. Let's focus on prosecuting the -real- menace to society and children, not high school idiots.

Like so many laws, this one has been abused by the system.

It was meant, I agree, to protect kids from predators. Children were being used either against their will or without informed consent, as props for porn.

But lazy law enforcement and prosecution sees easier convictions resulting from going after dumb kids who post naked pics of themselves online than from attacking the serious pornographers. After all, those are real crooks, they might be armed and dangerous! And one conviction looks as good as another in the record books.

[Linux and the X]

No. Child pornography laws are discriminatory anyway.

[Westeroth]

I just read to this post.

YOU WERE A TEEN RETARD. Fucking A.

All of us on here either are a teen, were a teen, or are going to be one. Case set and done.

And this shit happens all the time; I believe that A. The Counseling should go to the one who made it, if, it was indeed the boyfriend and or GF.
B. The predators should have legal action taken against them.
C. The distributors have the same, if not worse, penalty as the predators. IF NOT FOR THE DISTRIBUTOR, THE PREDATOR WOULD NOT HAVE PREDATORIZED THE PERSON.

My CPU is a neural net processor. A learning computer.

[Intangelon]

Ok, this is an offshoot of the legal Child porn thread.

My point is, the majority of child porn in the world was made by the child featured in the film. Most of the time, its some horny 14 year old girl making a dirty video of herself for her boyfriend, or some girl taking some photos of herself for whatever the hell reason.
Now, some others who come across this stuff end up sending it out to everyone, or showing it to everyone. This really ends up badly for the people involved, and can get really messy.

Now, there are several rules being broken along the way. #1 is the creation of child pornography, #2 is the distribution of child pornography.

Who should be punished? What should the punishent be?

I'm gonna have to disagree there. I'd like to see where you got that idea.