Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-14 (Friday)

On Feb 15, 2025 at 9:21:32 AM PST, "Arthur Lipscomb"
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Law & Order: SVU - "Calculated" - Team SVU springs into action when a
teen at a prep school is caught with naked pictures of a girl from a
different prep school on his phone. So let me get this straight, the
school calls the police on this kid and the head of SVU herself shows up
to the school.  OK.  And it seemed pretty clear that this was not a
picture that the boy himself took, it was a picture that someone (the
girl) took of herself and sent to him.  And now that I think about it,
at no point did they ever consider prosecuting the girl for making the
picture, just the boy for having it sent to him.

In real life, there have been many instances of teens who were charged with
manufacturing child porn for taking pics of themselves. But the victim in a
child porn case is the child depicted, so it's a bizarre legal theory indeed
that says you are both the victim and the perpetrator of the crime at the same
time.

Under that approach, they could also charge teenagers with felony sexual
assault on a minor if they're caught masturbating.