@hawkeye10,
hawkeye10 wrote:
Quote:I don 't know, but I suspect that it is instinctive.
Yes, I think so as well, it is the acting out of what evolution has written into the genetic code.
The Criminalizing of desire is something else, it is the head trying
to overrule and overwrite the genetic code. It is the head trying
to deny what we are, it is at its base anti-human.
This prudish, ignorant, mean spirited American Puritanism refuses to die.
It has some kind of a basis in the emotions.
I have no idea what, nor how that works.
I got used to the idea, the definition, that pornografy
was the portrayal of
erotica in human life, or minimally the depiction of
NUDITY.
Most of that is legal now in America, not including representations of children.
Accordingly, I believed that taking or just possessing
a picture of a child or youthful adult
(the burden of proof as to age is on the defendant,
as I remember -- I have not read the statute for a few years,
what we call an "affirmative defense") was First Amendment protected and safe,
if the child or young adult was fully clothed and was not involved in mating with anyone.
On reading the most recent federal statute, I saw that there are
also penalties of very major prison time for taking pictures
or just possessing pictures of children
who are
fully clothed and
not involved in any sex,
depending on whether the picture is deemed porn by someone else.
That criminal law also applies to possessing pictures of young adults,
unless
the defendant can
PROVE that thay are of voting age.
That even applies to young men, not just girls.
Maybe the look on her face or his face is what is criminal to possess a picture of.
The basic philosophy that underlies such criminal legislation
shoud be anathema in any free country.
I m no photografer, but as an American citizen, I wonder
what my country has come to; scary. What 's next?
