A Few Words Every Few Days

Ok, I was just reading though on Digg.com and saw another headline about a teen-aged girl getting charged with child porn for sending pictures of herself. Now child porn is not something I support or anything like that, but I also think that even teenagers should have the right to their self image. If she took the pictures, or had some one take them at her request and she sent them out, then to me it is freedom of expression, not promoting child porn. Now for the people who sent them out after she sent them to them, may have issues with the law, but as the “owner” of her own image, she should have every right to do what she wants with it and not run into the child porn laws. Now if a twenty year old man pictures himself and sends it to teenagers and they did want them, charge him with exposing himself to a minor. Holding children responsible for their own actions needs to be done, but sending them to jail for doing something that is not harmful to others or themself is going way to far. Things like this should be handled by the parents involved and not the national media. By blowing it out this way, at some point it is just going to make other teenagers do it, so they can get attention also. Or maybe I am just getting to old…