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[Moontanman]

All of this has it's roots in the fact that adults are very uncomfortable with admitting to and allowing teens to be the sexual beings they are. No amount of prosecution will stop teens from having sex or from doing things we as adults see as a bad idea. Prosecuting them for these things as sex crimes is totally wrong. Do we all forget what it was like to be teens? The sexual tension among teens to so thick it's a wonder you can drive a car through it. Is sexting a good idea? Of course not neither was Polaroids or skinny dipping or the back seat of daddy's car or any of the hundreds of other things teens do to explore their sexuality. Teens will not stop being sexual no matter what you do, ignoring it will not stop it and neither will taking the most draconian measures possible. Sexuality and teens is enough to drive adults crazy but if you'll just calm down and think back most of us did the same things and we survived without a "fate worse than death" over coming us, so will the current generation. Oh and BTW the current idea that nudity is automatically pornography is getting out of hand as well. Millions of naturist world wide would differ most strongly on this idea of nudity=pornography. Are we becoming a society of prudes? Is the religious right guiding us down the path of Victorian values as well as creationism? On the other hand sexually charged images of teens are being used to sell almost everything in TV and print as well as online. Somewhere we must find a median between these extremes but I don't think that labeling children as sexual criminals is going to help.