# child porn and yourself

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-porn-and-yourself/77245>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 20, 2001, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-porn-and-yourself/77245 "2001-08-20T22:31:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Karellen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/779978/32.png) [@Karellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karellen)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-porn-and-yourself/77245/21 "2001-08-24T05:15:58Z")

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So if a person has a stack of JC Penny kids’ clothing catalogs which he finds arousing, that’s a prosecutable crime?

Or, if he sells those catalogs to his pedo friends, that’s ditribution? What about drawings of children? Or photgraphs of non-minors dressed to look like minors? Sounds like one of those vague messy laws that legislators prefer to avoid. Which as we’ve seen, it is.

Not to support child porn in any way, but it seems that in our reluctance to talk about it we’ve let the laws stay unnaturally loose.

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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-porn-and-yourself/77245/22 "2001-08-24T05:22:46Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \*  
> **A few years ago, a couple of high-school kids in Vancouver, Canada, were caught in the carnal act on school property. They were both underage, and were _both_ charged with statutory rape. It wasn’t laughed out of court.**

I would **really** like to see an explanatory cite for this, as the age of consent in Canada is 14.

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**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-porn-and-yourself/77245/24 "2015-07-30T01:41:52Z")

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