Delta4Embassy
Gold Member
In addition to the usual age of consent debate is the issue of not allowing (any more) minors under the age of 18 to make sexually explicit film or videos. Think this came about in 1982 in the US when the Supreme Court declared child pornogarphy legally obscene making movies like "Pretty Baby" technically child pornography.
But if the age of concent in a given state is 16, which is also the age required to get a full-time job, then isn't forbidding two 16 year-olds who consent to sex together, making a video recording of themselves having sex together, then selling the video of the sex some kind of restraint of trade or other anti-business law? Currently, no film, video, or photographic depiction of under-18 minors engaging in sexually explicit behaviours is legal pretty much anywhere in the world. Even in places where the age of consent, and age to work is well below 18.
So basicly the law's saying that while you can have sex like a grownup, work and pay taxes like a grownup, you can't make money making sex tapes like grown ups until you're 18. While I understand the intent behind this, it's also a double-standard prejudicial to people's ability to earn a living like adults.
What if anything should be done? Raise the aoc to 18? Lower the age to produce consensual SEM for sale to whatever the aoc is? Something else?
But if the age of concent in a given state is 16, which is also the age required to get a full-time job, then isn't forbidding two 16 year-olds who consent to sex together, making a video recording of themselves having sex together, then selling the video of the sex some kind of restraint of trade or other anti-business law? Currently, no film, video, or photographic depiction of under-18 minors engaging in sexually explicit behaviours is legal pretty much anywhere in the world. Even in places where the age of consent, and age to work is well below 18.
So basicly the law's saying that while you can have sex like a grownup, work and pay taxes like a grownup, you can't make money making sex tapes like grown ups until you're 18. While I understand the intent behind this, it's also a double-standard prejudicial to people's ability to earn a living like adults.
What if anything should be done? Raise the aoc to 18? Lower the age to produce consensual SEM for sale to whatever the aoc is? Something else?