Those laws generally punish the older person, not the younger person they're supposedly there to protect. Prosecuting underage sexting as child pornography unde

Those laws generally punish the older person, not the younger person they're supposedly there to protect. Prosecuting underage sexting as child pornography under laws supposedly meant to protect children from exploitation further harms the supposed victim. Laws where the victim is the offender are problematic in a way that enforcing the law when the victim doesn't always want the offender punished is not.