Originally posted by madame_zora@Jun 27 2005, 05:54 PM
Yeah, I've been reading the versions of the news from India and China along with the London Times, they are significantly different from what passes for "news" here. Still, on a level as high as the presidency this is crippling to anyone who actually cares about the truth. Many want to know what's really going on and try to stay abreast of the news, but when all we're being fed are lies and bullshit it's no wonder so many of us end up believing it. The adult entertainment industry does not have enough of a wide range appeal to garner much support and we have ceased understanding that protecting the rights of the few protects us all. I fear the worst here, sadly enough. We can remove the gallery, but I hate the concept of bowing down before the gods of stupidity.
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Exactly what should make a picture of a penis illegal? Sure we can disagree about what is appropriate, vulgar etc. But illegal?
And that is what is happening here: Making the showing of a penis illegal. I am all for standards that are reliable that different groups voluntarily do to let the people know in advance whether they want to see something. I like those movie clips that I read on the internet that help me decide which movie out of some 12 I want to see. But that is voluntary. I have no problem with a parent group rating everything and those who subscribe to that group can use it as a guide. These are wonderful tools to help us sift through the tremendous amount of media that is available to make our choices.
But that is not what we are talking about here. We are talking about making the picture of a penis illegal without documentation such as birth cirtificate, driver's licencse, credit card and all, to prove the age of the person. We still can't prove the age of the penis, only the age of the person providing the picture of the penis. We obviously can't even prove that the penis belongs to the guy with documentation of age. Well we just can't prove a lot of things.
If someone lies and puts his picture of his penis on the web site and the penis is only 16 years old, exactly how is that gonig to promote child molestation?
Let's remember we are trying to protect children. Actually children are considered age 12 and under or children who have not entered puberty. I think that we would all suspect a picture of a 12 year old boy on any site as being under 18, especially if he has not started puberty.
There seems to be no problem with many people with guys dating girls and having sex with them when the guy is in his twenties and the girl is only 14. So really what is the legal difference between a man in his twenties and a 14 year old guy?
I personally have a problem with a 14 year old girl dating a guy in his twenties, but do the cops ever get involved? Rarely. Once in a while the parents will call child services, but the guy usually isn't arrested. Let the guy though date the girl's fraternal twin, a boy, and see what happens.
I am not advocating adult and child sex at all. I am just pointing our our societies contridictions. If it were my 14 year old daughter, yeah, I would be doing something about it. The same as if it were her fraternal twin brother.
The real truth: This government wants to get involved in the personal lives of adults. And the government needs to stay out of adults personal lives unless it involves children illegally or involves forced behavior from other adults.
Eventually the government wants to completely control the internet and I am sure it will come at a monetary cost as well as a compelte censoring cost.
This is a sad day.