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Later this month, a North Carolina high school student will appear in a state court and face five child pornography-related charges for engaging in consensual sexting with his girlfriend.
What's strange is that of the five charges he faces, four of them are for taking and possessing nude photos of himself on his own phone—the final charge is for possessing one nude photo his girlfriend took for him. There is no evidence of coercion or further distribution of the images anywhere beyond the two teenagers' phones.
Similarly, the young woman was originally charged with two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor—but was listed on her warrant for arrest as both perpetrator and victim. The case illustrates a bizarre legal quandry that has resulted in state law being far behind technology and unable to distinguish between predatory child pornography and innocent (if ill-advised) behavior of teenagers.
The boy is being charged with child pornography for taking pictures of himself.
[These teens were of the age of consent in North Carolina and could legally have had sex with each other. Juvenile court jurisdiction ends at age 16 in North Carolina, however, so they are being tried as adults on felony charges of possessing child porn... of themselves. -Ed.]
(Score: 4, Interesting) by throwaway28 on Saturday September 05 2015, @03:17PM
Adult physical violence was accurately predicted in 36 of 49 cultures (73 percent) from the infant physical affection variable. The probability that a 73 percent rate of accuracy could occur by chance is only four times out of a thousand.
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When the six societies characterized by both high infant affection and high violence are compared in terms of their premarital sexual behavior, it is surprising to find that five of them exhibit premarital sexual repression, where virginity is a high value of these cultures. It appears that the beneficial effects of infant physical affection can be negated by the repression of physical pleasure (premarital sex) later in life.
The seven societies characterized by both low infant physical affection and low adult physical violence were all found to be characterized by permissive premarital sexual behaviors. Thus, the detrimental effects of infant physical affectional deprivation seem to be compensated for later in life by sexual body pleasure experiences during adolescence. These findings have led to a revision of the somatosensory pleasure deprivation theory from a one-stage to a two-stage developmental theory where the physical violence in 48 of the 49 cultures could be accurately classified.
http://www.violence.de/prescott/bulletin/article.html [violence.de]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2015, @04:56PM
Ah, the slimy statistical use of the word prediction, to go along with significance, confidence, and probably others. That data looks like its from the 1970s. So can we take their same statistical model (using same parameters), plug in new data and watch it work?
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday September 05 2015, @06:38PM
Certainly we can. I'd be interested to see the results.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2015, @03:27AM
Dogs are peaceful and fuck anything that moves. They are also retarded wolves.
I believe I'm seeing a pattern here.
We shouldn't repress our children. If they can't control their urges themselves they should be sent where they belong.
With the monkeys in the zoo.