different direction by creating statutes that move sexting into a different category and allow for teens to be rehabilitated or educated in a way that could prevent this from happening. this is an important point. so there are states that have created sexting laws as a way of not using child pornography laws so that a teen who s guilty of sending an image of themselves can t be prosecuted under child pornography laws but would be prosecuted under presumably much less harsh sexting laws? absolutely. i think they recognize this is a real problem. you can be labeled as a sex offender for potentially the rest of your life but also maybe up to 15 years. for kids who are 16, 17 years old, that s a long time. i think people recognize that that punishment may not fit the crime. and so they re looking at other avenues to find ways to teach kids about what they re not supposed to do. and the severity of passing along images that are sexually explicit in nature to people under the age of 18.
states who ve gone in a slightly different direction by creating statutes that move sexting into a different category and allow for teens to be rehabilitated or educated in a way that could prevent this from happening. this is an important point. so there are states that have created sexting laws as a way of not using child pornography laws so that a teen who s guilty of sending an image of themselves can t be prosecuted under child pornography laws but would be prosecuted under presumably much less harsh sexting laws? absolutely. i think they recognize this is a real problem. you can be labeled as a sex offender for potentially the rest of your life but also maybe up to 15 years. for kids who are 16, 17 years old, that s a long time. i think people recognize that that punishment may not fit the crime. and so they re looking at other avenues to find ways to teach kids about what they re not supposed to do. and the severity of passing along images that are sexually explicit in natur
we talk about it, like, you know, teenagers are sitting around doing nothing, then the cell phone, smartphone came along and they started sexting. yeah, i mean, i think that s true. teenagers have been dating and going steady for years. it s just a little easier for them to communicate with each other via instagram or snap chat or tindr or what have you. it just makes it more of a public demonstration of some of these things that might have been going on before in private. i guess i still fail to see the legal logic of why it should be illegal. yeah, and i think a lot of states actually don t necessarily think that the remedy is to criminalize this behavior. i mean, child pornography laws are intended to protect children. so when you use them to prosecute children, it seems like a bit of a misapplication of the law. so there have been a handful of states who ve gone in a slightly different direction by creating statutes that move sexting into a different category and allow for te