From f9ef874dbb305ec5fae0d7d8459e168a731ed215ef899772e27390f91a668ca9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Johnson Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Subject: Hyphenate adjectival compounds --- .../entry/stupid-laws-regarding-teen-sexting-and-child-pornography.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'content/entry/stupid-laws-regarding-teen-sexting-and-child-pornography.md') diff --git a/content/entry/stupid-laws-regarding-teen-sexting-and-child-pornography.md b/content/entry/stupid-laws-regarding-teen-sexting-and-child-pornography.md index 750dbd5..3dcea1f 100644 --- a/content/entry/stupid-laws-regarding-teen-sexting-and-child-pornography.md +++ b/content/entry/stupid-laws-regarding-teen-sexting-and-child-pornography.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ draft: false --- ## Teen Sexting -The majority of teen sexting goes unpunished even if police end up finding out somehow. That's because police are usually reasonable enough to see, for example, in places where the age of consent is 18, that a 17-year-old and 19-year old sexting consensually harms nobody and neither deserve to be charged with a crime or suffer the stigma of being labelled a sex offender forever. +The majority of teen sexting goes unpunished even if police end up finding out somehow. That's because police are usually reasonable enough to see, for example, in places where the age of consent is 18, that a 17-year-old and 19-year-old sexting consensually harms nobody and neither deserve to be charged with a crime or suffer the stigma of being labelled a sex offender forever. However, some teen sexting cases are prosecuted as possession of child pornography, leaving teens with a criminal record. This is a completely over-zealous and senseless application of criminal law. If the images are being coerced in some way, that's different. But I'm talking about cases where police are punishing completely victimless and consensual behavior. @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Furthermore, teens have been prosecuted for child pornography for merely possess "But what if the nude pictures end up in the hands of pedophiles?" -If a 51 year-old-man man solicits nude pictures from a 13-year-old girl, that's obviously a problem because consent becomes very questionable with that big of an age gap. In other words, it's likely that the girl is being manipulated. But suppose the 51-year-old man just goes online and downloads nudes of a 13-year-old girl that were leaked by somebody else. Is that harmful? +If a 51-year-old man man solicits nude pictures from a 13-year-old girl, that's obviously a problem because consent becomes very questionable with that big of an age gap. In other words, it's likely that the girl is being manipulated. But suppose the 51-year-old man just goes online and downloads nudes of a 13-year-old girl that were leaked by somebody else. Is that harmful? ## Child Pornography -- cgit v1.2.3