# Police force teenager to have an erection so they can photograph it. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 9, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720 "2014-07-09T17:41:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720/121 "2014-07-10T19:15:54Z")
You’re sure? How did you come to be so certain? You deev. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720/122 "2014-07-10T19:30:23Z")
failed to work for me, I still have … oh, you meant the story, nm ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720/123 "2014-07-10T20:33:56Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > [Sounds like the police have changed their minds and won’t take the photo.](http://www.pressherald.com/2014/07/10/virginia-police-wont-take-explicit-photo-in-sexting-case/) The VA Police Dept today released a statement saying that “After days of careful deliberation in this case involving arresting young teenagers for taking naked pictures of themselves, we have come to the conclusion that taking naked pictures of young teenagers is wrong, so we won’t be doing it at this time.” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720/124 "2014-07-10T21:12:47Z")
Clearly police are wasting time hassling the boy when they should be interrogating the REAL perp. What does the cock say? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720/125 "2014-07-10T21:17:45Z")
> [@drew870mitchell](#): > > I see your taint is swollen with rage. Do you need some soothing balm to calm your taint? Why so taintmad? (etc.) Taint misbehavin’? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720/126 "2014-07-10T21:18:10Z")
Taint that a kick in the head. ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720/127 "2014-07-10T22:10:54Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > [Sounds like the police have changed their minds and won’t take the photo.](http://www.pressherald.com/2014/07/10/virginia-police-wont-take-explicit-photo-in-sexting-case/) The article says that they had already obtained a warrant for the photos. Some som judge in VA actually approved of this plan? ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720/128 "2014-07-10T22:46:16Z")
“Ma’am, are you aware of the penal codes in this state?!” Sorry, y’all. We just watched ‘Kentucky Fried Movie’ the other night. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720/129 "2014-07-10T23:09:06Z")
> [@Bozuit](#): > > It seems to me that the ratio of jokes to outrage would be entirely different if police decided they needed photos of a 17-year-old girl’s vulva. Wieners are inherently more comical than vageens. That’s why there’s like 100x more silly nicknames for them. Like pocket rocket, belly banana, or womb broom. Rolls right off the tongue, ya know? Plus the vag is put on a pedestal. No one puts a tally whacker on a pedestal. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720/130 "2014-07-11T00:00:36Z")
Well, and most people who receive images of vulvas generally do not raise objections. (_there has to be a pun in there, I just cannot think of one_) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720/131 "2014-07-11T00:29:58Z")
> [@Bozuit](#): > > It seems to me that the ratio of jokes to outrage would be entirely different if police decided they needed photos of a 17-year-old girl’s vulva. Well, if vulva puns were as as easy to make as penis puns, I’d be happy to do so in deferens to your sensibilities. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720/132 "2014-07-11T00:51:25Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > womb broom That would be a mustache, not a dick. Although it certainly may be attached to one. . ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720/133 "2014-07-11T02:09:57Z")
> [@Skara\_Brae](#): > > Some judge in VA actually approved of this plan? VA is for lovers. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720/134 "2014-07-11T02:24:46Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Whatever happened to getting a bunch of kids with forced erections into a police lineup? now everyone turn to the right. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720/135 "2014-07-11T04:05:48Z")
> [@Bozuit](#): > > It seems to me that the ratio of jokes to outrage would be entirely different if police decided they needed photos of a 17-year-old girl’s vulva. You do realise that that’s actually a standard part of a rape exam, regardless of the victim’s age. So is taking photo’s of the suspect’s genitalia. What’s unheard of is forcing the suspect/victim into a state of sexual arousal prior to taking those pictures. There’s no rational reason do that (unless trying to coerce the suspect into pleading guilty counts). :dubious: That would be like requiring men suspected of sex crimes to provide semen samples instead of blood samples. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720/136 "2014-07-11T04:27:12Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > That would be like requiring men suspected of sex crimes to provide semen samples instead of blood samples. “I gave at the office.” ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720/137 "2014-07-11T04:32:46Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > That would be like requiring men suspected of sex crimes to provide semen samples instead of blood samples. As I understand it, it is possible to obtain semen from a man without his consent or co-operation, though it is a rather invasive, if not humiliating, process. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720/138 "2014-07-11T04:53:44Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > “Ma’am, are you aware of the penal codes in this state?!”. wouldn’t that be the penile code? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720/139 "2014-07-11T05:15:28Z")
The is no code, the penile does whatever it pleases. The rest of the body is just a support system to maneuver it into position. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720/140 "2014-07-11T13:40:41Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > I wouldn’t be surprised. I’ve read articles in the past about incidents where to police produced child porn so they could use it in “sting” operations. Rather similar in nature to how they’ll sell teens drugs, get them addicted, and use the addiction, threat of prosecution for drug use or both to get the teen to cooperate in potentially fatal undercover work. You may not lie, but you do hallucinate. You know how you’re always ranting about Christians who believe in things that aren’t real, and use those beliefs to attack others? That’s what you are doing here. [QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] Oh my God, the injection actually goes into one’s penis? Eww. [/QUOTE] _:shudders:_ When I was a teen ager (back during the late Cretaceous) I could get aroused eating Girl Scout cookies, but if I saw a person in a white coat approaching Mr. Happy with a hypodermic, I think everythig from waist to knees would try to take refuge behind my kidneys. “I’ve got a warrant” is _not at all_ a good safe word. Regards, Shodan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-force-teenager-to-have-an-erection-so-they-can-photograph-it/692720.md?page=8)