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I think the assessment that they constitute CP under law and case law is correct. No, this would not pass legal muster and neither would the Penthouse images. Look at it another way: If young, underage teen girls could pose nude in Penthouse / Playboy type poses with legal impunity, where are such publications? The demand would seem to be huge. While those might not have resulted in convictions, I think an underage person posed as they do in Penthouse probably would. In one case a prosecutor threatened a girl who was photographed from the waste up wearing a bra and therefore no more exposed than she would be at the beach. Let us not forget that the Supremes upheld the Knox conviction which, as I recall, involved video of fully clothed little children, not doing anything particularly erotic but the camera was zoomed into their (fully covered) "naughty" areas.Īnd recent issues where young people were threatened with CP prosecution for "sexting" which I think mostly involves just standing in front of a mirror. I have no idea of the delay between photos being taken and the magazine being released, but at the most, Lords was 16 yrs & 2 months at the photo shoot.I am aware of the definition and as I have not seen the images in question, I think it can be presumed that someone posing for Penthouse would be posed in some suggestive / erotic way. Vanessa Williams resigned her Miss America crown in July of 1984, so the magazine had to have hit the newsstands in July or earlier. Since she made adult films for roughly 20 months, she couldn’t have been 17 in those photos. Remember, with the exception of Traci, I Love You, she was under 18 in every single adult film she made, and her adult film career started after being the centerflod in the best-selling issue of Penthouse ever. Her pictorial in Velvet apparently ran while she was still 15, as wikipedia says she dropped out of school because fellow students recognized her from it.
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So I can’t be more exact than “15 or 16” for how old she was. Thing is, I don’t know when the “September 1984” issue of Penthouse actually came out (I often get magazines dated “February” before Christmas, but sometimes get “August” near the end of September), and I don’t know how far in advance those pictures were taken. She started nude modeling in February, turned 16 in May, and made her first adult film in October. Well, wikipedia says she was born May 7 1968, and appeared in the September 1984 Penthouse. But yes, they were fooled by the same fake ID she used to first do porn (and fooled the US Govt with to get a passport)… I’m pretty sure Lords was 17 when the Penthouse pictorial was shot. These have been attacked at various times and places but I don’t recall any notable cases in recent years. For that matter, nudist publications abound and many have family pictures, almost the definition of non-sexualized nudes. Yet historic examples of mere nudes do exist without prosecution. Even without prosecution, distribution will be difficult. In most times and places, prosecution for nude images of under-18 models will be automatic and successful because sexualization is assumed. Check the laws in your area and, if in doubt, consult a legal expert. Remember that 18 is not always the minimum. But for the type of images that you see on this web site, it is best to play it safe. Think of images you have seen of babies, medical images, family photos, and the like. There is actually nothing automatically illegal about nude photographs of minors. Every site I do find has a disclaimer like this one:Ībove, I mentioned photographing and publishing nudes of someone who is 18 and the age of majority. I’ve been trying to find that tightened law of 1967 (if it exists) with no luck. This suggests that there are legal restrictions against using under-eighteen nude models.
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There’s obviously a market for people that would like to look at nude sixteen and seventeen year olds but nobody is trying to sell to it. If this is the case, then why do porn magazines go to such lengths to ensure their models are eighteen? If what you’re saying is correct, a magazine could openly sell pictures of women under eighteen as long as they’re not engaged in actual sex.