A report from England:
Young couples who send explicit, e.g naked, pictures of each other are being threatened with prosecution under child sex laws. Anyone under 18 “sexting” (texting sexually explicit pictures) could be committing an offence, despite 16 and 17-year-olds being legally old enough to have sex, police said.
Det Sgt Jan Rusdale, from Nottinghamshire Police’s sexual exploitation investigation unit, said: “We try not to criminalize children. Nonetheless, if they are under 18 it is illegal, and over the age of 10 they can face prosecution. If convicted that person is eligible to register on the sex offenders register for at least two years.”
In a ChildLine survey of 13-18 year olds, 60% said they had been asked for a sexual image or video of themselves. Some 40% said they had created a sexual image or video of themselves, with about a quarter of all those questioned saying they had sent the image or video to someone else. (BBC website)
This is truly ridiculous. The internet is sexualizing children at such a rapid rate that they will soon equate love and sexual attraction with porn, if they don’t already do so. Having all that (boring) porn on the web (which I take to be the main cause of all this?) has nothing to do with freedom of speech and expression. It is an obscenity and should be banned. A lot of dirty old men, in the name of “liberty”, are making loads of money at it – and they are a danger to society.
I have one, and only one, point of view in common with Al Queda: one of their complaints about the West is it’s coarse, crude, vulgar, sexualized culture. Right on there, Osama! Ban sex on-line whether it is corporate porn or kiddies sending their mates inappropriate photos. Let’s grow up!
Anti-Epicurean to the core–the culture, if one can even use the word to describe the dreck, is more than just crude, vapid, and vulgar. It’s a dehumanizing money-making racket which leeches judgment and perspective from the young.
Parents and communities must now have to devote time and close attention to minimizing their children’s exposure to the pervasive rot. Gone are the days when Mummy could simply say: “Go outside and play, children.”