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18-year-olds are too young to be in porn
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Mar 13, 2013 08:04pm |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Author | Charles Lane |
| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "Melissa King’s trial-by-Internet seems to be ending. Last week the media were all over the story of the former Miss Delaware Teen USA, said to be “disgraced” by the revelation of an adult video she allegedly made in 2012, shortly after her 18th birthday. A hard-core Web site reportedly paid her $1,500.
King forfeited her title — and endured worldwide ogling, ridicule and moralizing. “[M]any wonder if the girl next door was someone else entirely behind closed doors,” ABC News intoned.
Yet no one has asked: Why is it even legal to cast an 18-year-old in a sexually explicit movie?
Eighteen is, for most purposes, the age of majority. You can vote, serve in the military and so on. When Congress set 18 as the minimum age for porn “actors” in 1984 and, four years later, required producers to document performers’ ages and identities, lawmakers’ goal was to fight child pornography — by defining it precisely.
Still, I would think that having sex with a stranger for money and on camera belongs on the short list of risky behaviors that one can’t legally engage in before age 21. That list includes: buying a handgun from a federally licensed dealer; gambling in most casinos; working as a stripper in a bar; and smoking pot in Colorado. Porn-acting’s first cousin, prostitution, is legal in 11 Nevada counties, but nine don’t license anyone under 21." |
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