Posted: Sep 11, 2012 1:11 pm
I'm With Stupid wrote:AndreD wrote:A rather silly thing to say in regard to political popularity. As for his actual proposal I could see there being a good reason to perhaps make the pornography laws equal to the age of consent (it's slightly bizarre that you can have sex with someone at 16 but not take sexual photos of them), but it's probably not really a good idea to legalise images depicting what is legally rape.
Not really. I think the idea of being able to watch porn when you're 16 is sensible, but starring in porn is a bit different. It creates a permanent record for others to watch, and I'd question whether a 16 year old is mature enough to make that decision. Hell, you can't even star in the TV show at 16 without your parents signing the release form. If we were to change the age of what we consider an adult to 16, then fair enough.
Is there really much of a difference in maturity between 16 and 18 for most people? There's also just a practical argument in that teenagers are already filming and taking stills of themselves and sending it to their boyfriend/girlfriend/whatever, the problem is that they're being criminalised for it when they clearly haven't exploited anyone in the real sense of the word.