Comments on: suffer the children, the please make it stop edition http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2010/01/suffer-the-children-the-please-make-it-stop-edition.html Journalist and author Violet Blue's site for sex and tech culture, accurate sex information, erotica and more. Tue, 26 May 2015 17:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bswise http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2010/01/suffer-the-children-the-please-make-it-stop-edition.html/comment-page-1#comment-7691 bswise Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:46:41 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=4046#comment-7691 I couldn't agree more: making felons and life-long registered sex offenders out of teenagers for "sexting" is an outright and irrational abuse of child pornography laws, and, yes, definitely another indication of the need for comprehensive sex education. Well said. I couldn’t agree more: making felons and life-long registered sex offenders out of teenagers for “sexting” is an outright and irrational abuse of child pornography laws, and, yes, definitely another indication of the need for comprehensive sex education. Well said.

]]> By: Tony Comstock http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2010/01/suffer-the-children-the-please-make-it-stop-edition.html/comment-page-1#comment-7687 Tony Comstock Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:07:15 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=4046#comment-7687 As a professional photographer and filmmaker for 25 years, ability of the camera to transform legal, conceptual actives into thought crimes continues to leave me gobsmacked. As it happens, not to long ago I received a call from a former mentor of mine. He had discovered his teenaged daughter had been engaging in camera-play with her boyfriend, and (after dealing with it in an entirely appropriate and loving way) felt like he needed to unburden himself by giving me a call. More recently my older daughter (9) who we had just given a camera phone so we can all exchange video hellos sent me a video clip of her younger sister (4) swimming in the bath tub. My first thought after watching it was "maybe I shouldn't keep this on my phone." and then my next thought was "No I won't take this off my phone. I will not give in to this madness." Satanic Ritual Killing proved to be nothing more than mass hysteria, but before the witchhunt died down people's lives were ruined. How many children are going to become registered sex offenders before we come to our senses about this? As a professional photographer and filmmaker for 25 years, ability of the camera to transform legal, conceptual actives into thought crimes continues to leave me gobsmacked.

As it happens, not to long ago I received a call from a former mentor of mine. He had discovered his teenaged daughter had been engaging in camera-play with her boyfriend, and (after dealing with it in an entirely appropriate and loving way) felt like he needed to unburden himself by giving me a call.

More recently my older daughter (9) who we had just given a camera phone so we can all exchange video hellos sent me a video clip of her younger sister (4) swimming in the bath tub. My first thought after watching it was “maybe I shouldn’t keep this on my phone.” and then my next thought was “No I won’t take this off my phone. I will not give in to this madness.”

Satanic Ritual Killing proved to be nothing more than mass hysteria, but before the witchhunt died down people’s lives were ruined. How many children are going to become registered sex offenders before we come to our senses about this?

]]> By: Frances http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2010/01/suffer-the-children-the-please-make-it-stop-edition.html/comment-page-1#comment-7682 Frances Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:30:06 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=4046#comment-7682 Teens convicted on child pornography charges for sexting happens here in Australia too. It's really problematic that the law takes so long to catch up with technology. Luckily, NSW is looking into whether these convictions can be spent so these kids aren't classed as a sex offender for the rest of their lives. Teens convicted on child pornography charges for sexting happens here in Australia too. It’s really problematic that the law takes so long to catch up with technology. Luckily, NSW is looking into whether these convictions can be spent so these kids aren’t classed as a sex offender for the rest of their lives.

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