Curious about the prevailing attitude in this community.
I feel like it’s ok so long as everyone consented to it.
Agreed. I would say that about all types of pornography, though.
I’ll just add that they should compensate the child well and make sure they understand that it will almost certainly end up online at some point. If they’re fine with that, go for it.
My whole thing is: Shrug.
I don’t think minors should be criminalized for taking nudes and/or distributing said nudes consensually.
I also don’t think people should be arrested for watching videos in their private environment.
Coming from a CSA and CSAM survivor myself, I really don’t care? I know every survivor is different, and maybe there should be some protection for those that don’t want their CSAM viewed, but I’m sure I’m not the only one who doesn’t care.
Kinda want to elaborate on this, especially the first part since I know some people will take it out of context but:
Teenagers distribute their own nudes consensually with their peers a lot and that’s very normal behavior. Teenagers will have sex with teenagers, and teenagers will send each other nudes, and that should not be criminalized. The fact that teenagers can end up in jail and on the registry for life for consensually trading nudes is horrifying and wrong. And tbh, people should not get in trouble for keeping their nudes as they grow. Imagine being put on the registry because you took pictures of yourself as a teenager and someone found them. That’s horrible.
As for my bit, that’s my personal experience as a survivor of some pretty horrific shit, and maybe it’s because I’ve grown numb to the idea or I’m programmed that way, I think that everyone should have a say in what happens to images or videos like that, and I wholly understand if people don’t want those materials viewed.
I don’t think I care about it inherently but there are problems with it in the culture I currently inhabit. Children have few rights and get exploited more wholly/readily due to that.
These are great points
It’s an incredibly bad idea to look at it, because it’s not a normal type of illegal. It’s always seemed pretty obvious to me that the idea of desire by itself being enough to impair ones’ judgement is kinda bullshit; pair it with another intense pressure, such as the fear caused by seeing something your society tells people isn’t real and they’ll make sure it’s not if it is, and any sense you have will melt pretty quick. You don’t want to think about the kind of mistakes you’ll be prone to making while doing something that illegal. It is a severe cognitohazard in exactly the way antis talk about porn in general, entirely because of the consequences if you’re caught.
However, suppose you’re living the dream. I actually kind of think you have a responsibility to produce an archive to be posthumously released. The whole reason sexual shame is so entrenched is that if people don’t see a thing, they think it doesn’t exist. Doing it this way also shits on any claims the work was intended to commercially exploit the kid, since you couldn’t possibly have seen a dime and that kid’s only getting paid if they decide to sell it. This makes it harder to undermine anything that is in your work that shows happiness, curiosity, enthusiasm, etc. Making not cp, but rather chronicles of radically sex-positive childcare, and shoving them into the public record once you’re gone, is revolutionary praxis.
