Comments on: ‘Sexting’ craze hits Britain

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:22:11 +0000

Although I am against sex before marriage (it has been abused too many times, I think if someone wanted to make videos or take pictures
of themselves regardless of age, it should be allowed. After all, it didn’t break the camera so it must be ok. How dare us be labeled as criminal for doing something totally normal. After all, cc tv’s are everywhere. What happens when the cc tv’s start getting people nude. Can people turn
in the company that has the cc tv and get them taken down or removed or the owners arrested b/c they have nude kids on the camera? The law
should work both ways, not just one way or the other. Its either this is terrible law, or or should be applied across the board.

By: user

user — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:47:35 +0000

This whole thing is absolutely ridiculous. To think that the body naked (everyone gets naked) is “banned or tarnished or evil or whatever”
just because it is not 18 yo. If people viewed kids and whatnot like they are “disgusting” like the law states, (as for their nude body) the
world would be messed up seriously. There would be no kids because they are all in jail because they are not 18 yo to live free. & it is terrible
that to commit a crime all you have to do is take a picture of yourself with your cheap camera and all of a sudden you could be looking at minimal
to maximal prison time (depending on how many photos you take of yourself)

By: Vato

Vato — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:45:24 +0000

Remember those laws are made by really old people who don’t even know what a cell phone is, or how do teenagers behave. Remember the dude that compared the internet to a series of tubes?

By: cqb

cqb — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:10:18 +0000

Quote:
Some 70 young people 11 to 16 surveyed by CEOPâs youth panel found almost all of them had no idea, âholding on to the images or distributing them could be breaking the 2003 Sexual Offences Actâ.

Thats because its a insanely stupid idea that taking a photo of yourself is to commit a crime. Sure distributing should raise some alarm bells to most people, but its youngsters we’re talking about here, who took a picture of themselves and sent it to a boyfriend/girlfriend, most sane people would think that taking a picture of yourself wouldn’t make you a paedo.

Oh and to Readers Write above, spot on, it doesn’t make sense at all to sensible folks :[

And the other thought with this dose of scaremongering… putting 11-18 year olds in the same category, its a crap load different if a 16-18yr old is doing the sexting than a 11-13year old. As most 16-18year olds are probably knocking boots after a few breezers most evening (statistic plucked from my backside) For those that don’t realise the age of consent in the UK is 16.

However I did read that while the age of consent is 16 it isn’t until girls (maybe boys I dunno) are 18 that the child porn laws exclude them. So if an 18year old lad is banging away on his 16 year old girlfriend thats perfectly fine, until he takes a photo? Another idiotic law at work here me thinks, if it is correct.

For the record, I would see paedo’s hang in most cases where it was a genuine child vs adult. But some of the law’s and such are just mental and gone too far.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:13:43 +0000

It’s funny; If the girls went to a nude beach, hundreds of people would see them naked. If they take a photo of themselves naked, it suddenly becomes a major crime…