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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: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Sunday September 06 2015, @02:33AM
You're wrong! 99.9% of the world is cis! (Depending who you listen to, could be 99.99%!)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 06 2015, @03:39AM
We agree that the vast majority of males are happy to be male, and seek relations with females. Likewise, the vast majority of females are happy to be female, and seek relations with males. This being the "norm", there are all manner of ways to deviate from the norm.
There are those men and women who simply don't desire or pursue relations with members of the opposite sex. I've known a small handful of people (usually guys) who have never displayed an interest in sex of any type. Percentage? I've never heard or seen an estimate.
There are gays, who prefer relations with members of their own sex. Depending on who you listen to, they range from 2% to 3% of the population.
"Gender confused", for my purposes, would include all manner of people who want to be the opposite sex. Their percentage is obviously lower than gays - I could look it up, but simply not that interested.
What else do we have? I suppose that we could consider predators of various kinds as "non-cis". I mean, seriously, a guy who stalks women for purposes that include rape, torture, murder, mutilation, cannibalism, or whatever else isn't "cis". He's some kind of outlier, just as the other groups are outliers.
"Cis" may be a convenient term (if we chose to adopt that particular term) to quantify all people who deviate from the norm. And, the numbers are higher than you suggest, at least. The most credible estimates of the gay population seem to be 2%, whereas gays make claim to as much as 6%. Other deviant groups are smaller, I believe - but when taken all together, I'm fairly sure that it comes up to at least 3%, possibly as much as 8% of the population.
And, of course, pedophiles and pedarists have to be included in any such accounting.
Seriously, every non-normative group in existence would have to be included in any estimate of "non-cis".
But, no matter how we look at it, today, the tail wags the dog. A small percentage of the population today dictates to the vast majority how things are going to be. And, that majority falls into line, obeying the very small minority. Crazy world we live in, huh?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Sunday September 06 2015, @04:13AM
Thank you for your candor.