Juvenile pornographers????

[Dr Mordrid]

Back to Pretty Baby for a sec -

Kind of hard to justify making a film illegal when at Cannes it was nominated for the Golden Palm and won the Technical Grand Prize.

It also shows the weaknesses in the Federal and State CP laws. Nudity does not necessarily equal CP. Is it kiddie porn in Superman when young Kal El is walking out of his rocket naked with his goods showing? I could list dozens of mainstream films like this, but you get the idea.

[Nowhere]

Well, Life of Brian was for some weird reason banned in many places...

[TransformX]

Sad, yes, but who is really to blame? The girl (who was an adult) herself sent out the pic in the first place.

She sent it to her then-boyfriend. If you're in a relationship with someone and reveal things, that's trust. If after said relationship the other side exposes you to the whole public, that's your fault? In that case, all relationships better be banned.

[Brian Ellis]

Did YOU send a photo of yourself in the altogether to a girl friend or receive one from a girl friend? I doubt it. I would not consider such as normal behaviour. She was old enough to realise that the relationship may not be permanent and that the confidentiality could be broken. As ye sow, so shall ye reap. I agree that the harvest was extremely bad in its final outcome, but she had only herself to blame in the first place.

I was uncomfortable at a photo in a recent National Geographic, showing a good-looking, blond, ~6-y-o boy with his ear glued to his mother's bump, with no apparent clothes on either protagonist. It was asexual but nevertheless had a certain innuendo and I fear that the boy could be ribbed mercilessly at school. I think it would have been better had he had a white T-shirt on; this would have removed any erotic misinterpretation without detracting from the certain high-key artistic value of the photo.

[TransformX]

Did YOU send a photo of yourself in the altogether to a girl friend or receive one from a girl friend? I doubt it. I would not consider such as normal behaviour. She was old enough to realise that the relationship may not be permanent and that the confidentiality could be broken. As ye sow, so shall ye reap. I agree that the harvest was extremely bad in its final outcome, but she had only herself to blame in the first place.

I was uncomfortable at a photo in a recent National Geographic, showing a good-looking, blond, ~6-y-o boy with his ear glued to his mother's bump, with no apparent clothes on either protagonist. It was asexual but nevertheless had a certain innuendo and I fear that the boy could be ribbed mercilessly at school. I think it would have been better had he had a white T-shirt on; this would have removed any erotic misinterpretation without detracting from the certain high-key artistic value of the photo.

For the marked text, the answer is yes.
If you confess something to a trusted someone and a while later the whole town knows about it, ruining your life, it's about the same. If trusting someone is a fault, then society as a whole is a fault.
As for the second paragraph, I'd say the erotic innuendo is something apparent only to those with a mind at a low altitude relative to the gutter.

[NetSnake]

Well, Life of Brian was for some weird reason banned in many places...

I suppose this is mostly because of the reaction by religious kooks...

[Nowhere]

It seems to be, largely, the same case with miss-applied "think of the children!" stuff...

[KRSESQ]

I was uncomfortable at a photo in a recent National Geographic, showing a good-looking, blond, ~6-y-o boy with his ear glued to his mother's bump, with no apparent clothes on either protagonist. It was asexual but nevertheless had a certain innuendo and I fear that the boy could be ribbed mercilessly at school. I think it would have been better had he had a white T-shirt on; this would have removed any erotic misinterpretation without detracting from the certain high-key artistic value of the photo.

What issue was it? What was the context of the image? What was the article about? There is insufficient information to judge the image's prurient content. Link to photo?

Kevin

[Brian Ellis]

What issue was it? What was the context of the image? What was the article about? There is insufficient information to judge the image's prurient content. Link to photo?

Kevin

March 2009: I found it:



I see my memory failed me in that the mother WAS partially clothed. Nevertheless, the kid is sure to stop flak at school. I don't think I would use the word 'prurient' though. What is perhaps equally worrying is that the family name and city/state was published.

[TransformX]

What I see is a pregnant mother and her son putting his ear on her tummy, either to hear or feel the baby inside.
What on god's earth is erotic about it???

[KRSESQ]

I had a little trouble at first telling whether that was a boy or a girl, frankly, so the image may be androgenous enough to pass muster to general sensibilities. As for the kid getting flak in school, he probably already was.

That isn't to say he mightn't attract the unwanted attention of some National Geographic-reading wierdo.

Kevin

[Brian Ellis]

Trying to distort things again? The only time I used the adjective 'erotic' was to qualify the noun 'misinterpretation' that I was afraid some persons may make. I brought this up because I was uncomfortable seeing the photo published because the kid would be mocked at school, especially because he was apparently without clothes. This is akin to the unfortunate case at the start of this thread. I certainly would not have allowed this photo to be published if it were my boy and wife and even more so with my co-ordinates attached. Would you?

[TransformX]

Yes, I would. Boys being boys are without their tee-shirts in the pool etc.
One has to be a very sick individual to find any innuendo in the picture.

[Brian Ellis]

It is you who is sick, the way you take things out of context.

[TransformX]

It is you who is sick, the way you take things out of context.

I was uncomfortable at a photo in a recent National Geographic, showing a good-looking, blond, ~6-y-o boy with his ear glued to his mother's bump, with no apparent clothes on either protagonist. It was asexual but nevertheless had a certain innuendo and I fear that the boy could be ribbed mercilessly at school. I think it would have been better had he had a white T-shirt on; this would have removed any erotic misinterpretation without detracting from the certain high-key artistic value of the photo.

Excuse me?