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.
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.