I came up with a similar idea. I have a few naked pictures of myself floating around my Mom’s photo albums. They aren’t sexual in any way, so could I make a pay website that allowed people to look at pictures of myself? No victim, right?
The argument I am seeing made against these kinds of gray-area child pornography is that even victimless pictures of that sort can be used as a tool by pedophiles to convince children that it’s OK to let him take pictures of them naked. I am still undecided on whether or not that is reason enough to make it illegal.
Make no mistake I would just as soon not make it any easier for pediphiles either…I just think there’s a whole generation of kids who for whatever reason have sexually explicit photos and videos taken of them and by them with NO adult involvement at all
Are they automatically criminals if those images turn up online someday?
I also don’t find the Traci Lord situation comparable in this discussion…she might of been under age when making the bulk of her porno therefore you can make the claim that she was “tricked” or something into this line of work(I personally think she knew exactly what she was doing but I can go with the legal fiction she was abused for the sake of this argument)
How does that have anything to do with kids nowadays who with NO adults anywhere around to blame…video themselves with their boyfriends(underage as well)…who do you go after and who exactly is it that is sexually abused?
This is going to get more muddled before it even begins to get sorted out IMO