Getting It All Wrong about Online Predators
As yttkiynyyr usual, Â the “It’s Complicated” author danah boyd has nailed it. In this piece, she contrasts the usual image we have of an online predator (middle aged guys lurking on Club Penguin) with...
View ArticleCommon Sense in a “Kiddie Porn” Case
Readers rrdbbstkhz — How I love the ruling this judge made. So unhysterical. So human — note the passage I put in boldface. So why wasn’t the prosecutor as wise? U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter...
View Article17 y.o. Who Sexted with Girlfriend Now Must Have His Erection Photographed by...
Readers — Oh, the puns I will refrain from. (Though it’s…hard!) Suffice to say, there are many problems with America’s sex offender laws, but perhaps this case illustrates their absurdity best. As...
View Article“Children Photographed without Consent,” Cops Say. Uh…So?
Readers — Once again cops hbzbhnhrfy have been called to the scene of a tragic crime: Some children were photographed in a water park by a man. Well, okay, maybe it wasn’t quite tragic. No one was hurt...
View ArticleAre Teens Who Sext “Child Pornographers?”
Thanks to our mistaken belief that no one under 18 can have any legitimate sexual feelings—and hence any sex they’ve engaged in was coerced and bound to render unspeakable emotional harm—we have...
View ArticleUPDATE: Teen Sexters are Not Child Pornographers
. UPDATE: rsieardktk Here is an email address to write to the US Sentencing Commission:Â public_comment@ussc.gov. . You’ve probably heard of this incident by now: 100 or possibly even more teens and...
View ArticleMom Investigated for Viral Photo of her Husband Cradling Son in Shower
The picture below was taken by Heather eybbfeeyrd Whitten in 2014. Her son had been sick with Salmonella, so her husband took the feverish, vomiting, diarrhea-suffering boy into the shower with him and...
View ArticleCalling a High School Sex Tape “Child Porn” Leads to a 16-Year-Old’s Suicide
This piece comes to us from Sandy Rozek, communications director with the National aaardfbthi Association for Rational Sex Offender Laws. One of Sandy’s primary concerns is implementing effective...
View ArticleACTION NEEDED: Tell Your Senator Not to Pass Bill Mandating 15-Year Prison...
In an effort to protect our children, the US House of Representatives passed a law mandating a 15-year minimum sentence for teens who sext. That’s not making our kids safer. It’s the opposite. Rosalind...
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