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Acting Your Age Continues To be A Felony
I keep posting about this because it keeps happening. From the Chicago Tribune, yet another case of teens being recast as child exploiters and kiddie pornographers. who are they exploiting? Um…themselves. Kristen Schorsch reports:

Last week, two middle school students in Valparaiso, Ind., were caught sending nude pictures of themselves to each other on their cell phones. the students were caught when the 13-year-old girl’s cell phone rang in class, and her teacher confiscated it, according to a police report. the girl cried that she would get in trouble because a 12-year-old boy sent her a “dirty picture.”

The boy sent the girl a picture of his genitals and requested that she do the same, the report said. the girl then texted him a picture of her naked, police said.

The students have been charged with child exploitation and possession of child pornography, both felonies. They were referred to the county’s juvenile probation department, which will determine whether authorities pursue or drop the charges, Gensel said. If convicted, the students could be required to register as sex offenders, he said.

If, increasingly, sex offenders are just teens who got caught goofing off, the label “sex offender” should eventually lose some of its stigma. Uh…don’t think that’s a good thing, and it’s especially not a good thing that a minor violation that should be dealt with with a stern talking-to by parents ends up dogging kids for the rest of their lives.

We’re really funny about nudity in this country. as I wrote the other day, a sturdy blonde lady felt me up at the Vegas airport to make sure that it was just boob material in my bra; that I wasn’t going to go all exploding breastesses for Allah.

Well, I don’t like being touched by people I don’t want to be touched by, so I offered to just lift up my sweater and show her my boobs. Declined. Firmly declined. and I got the distinct impression that there might be an arrest in my future if my sweater and I lifted and separated.

Meanwhile, in France, there are exposed nipples on the subway (Relax! They’re in posters!), and their society isn’t collapsing. well, not from the exposed nipples, anyway.

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