Monday, April 13, 2009

Consensual teen sex-texting

First gay marriage, now this:
The Vermont Legislature is considering a bill that would legalize so-called "sexting" between teenagers.
Sexting refers to the exchange of explicit photos and videos via mobile phone. Under current laws, participants can be charged with child pornography, but lawmakers are considering a bill to legalize the consensual exchange of graphic images between two people 13 to 18 years old. Passing along such images to others would remain a crime.
Supporters told The Burlington Free Press they don't want to condone the behavior but they don't think teenagers should be prosecuted as sex offenders for consensual conduct.
(Via Hot Air Headlines.) You never know what you'll encounter on your slow slide down the slippery slope, do you? From the Kinsey Report to the Pill to "no-fault" divorce to abortion to "don't ask, don't tell," to pro-pedophile academia to women in combat to the 16-year-old sex-change -- the general direction of the slide is clear, but the next milestone is always a surprise.

UPDATE: I linked this in my first post over at Hot Air's Green Room, an interesting new group blog concept. BTW, while I was compiling the list of links below -- recent milestones on the slippery slope -- I was reminded of a preacher's famous observation that maybe God owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

UPDATE II: Linked at Creative Minority Report. Obviously, the key to the Vermont legislature's thinking involves the magic word "consensual," which vanquishes all opposition.

UPDATE III: Two commenters at the Green Room are dug in like bulldogs, tenaciously defending Vermont's what's-a-little-porn-between-teens loophole. It's weird. They're on their side, I'm on my side, and nobody's going to persuade anyone. So why do they persist? I've ceased trying to persuade them, and now they're just attacking me. Sigh.

PREVIOUSLY:
4/3: Iowa gay ruling: Power to the elites!
3/31: Because insane is the new normal
3/16: 11-year-old girl self-porn
3/15: Ross Douthat, porn expert?
3/13: 'Mamas, Don't Let Your Daughters Grow Up to Be Downloads'
2/28: Hobo teen rape menace
2/11: The Hasidic pornography defense
2/10: Pre-teen transsexuals?
2/10: Sixteen-year-old sex change
1/20: Obama's gay agenda
1/15: The 'culture' defense
1/13: Diversity is our strength!
1/11: 'Science' and teen sex
12/26: Perversity and popular culture
12/5: Planned Parenthood exposed
11/28: Her right to jailbait
11/14: Tolerance, social justice, kiddie porn
10/30: Planned Infanticide
10/14: Obama's 'sex rebel' mentor
6/19: Incredible. Just incredible.
5/15: Jodie Foster's gay divorce
5/14: Pre-teen pole dancers?
5/1: Pomocon does Miley Cyrus
4/19: 'Underage sex cult'
3/20: Imported perverts

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