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There's a simple solution, they do it in the UK. You cannot be charge for possession of child pornography if you have under a certain number of photographs due
by electromagnetic 18y ago
There's a simple solution, they do it in the UK. You cannot be charge for possession of child pornography if you have under a certain number of photographs due to the fact it's impossible to tell the age of someone without doing a background check on them.
The age of consent in the UK for sex is 16, but for porn it's 18. This means you can legally have sex with, but not photograph, your partner. The LibDem's in the UK are trying to fight this, saying either bring the legal age up or the consent age down, specifically to protect against the hypocrisy as they foresaw this coming.
IIRC there was a case in the UK where a 15 year old was charged with producing child pornography after taking a surprise photo of his friends in bed together (guy was 17 girl was 16) and posting it on myspace or something. I believe it got dismissed by the judge on preliminaries, as the defense lawyer pointed out that they were having consensual sex and that it's not a crime to watch but a photograph is a crime.
The stupidity is akin to charging someone for making a snuff movie and not for first degree murder.