people have been arrested/charged/acquitted with their lives ruined for taking pictures of their children in the bathtub, running around naked, etc.
Yes, this has happened here, too, under the previous legislation. I think one of the cases was mentioned in one of the links in my previous journal entry.
North American culture has never been comfortable with the idea of sex, let alone children's sexuality, but when and how did we get to the point where any nudity by or around children is considered proof positive of pedophilia? You know, I can be in the company of a naked child (like many people, I have real live small children in my family) and not want to sexually assault him/her - is there something wrong with me? Is this hysteria the outgrowth of a belief that deep down inside we all really want to diddle our daughters?
I don't get it, and I don't really know how it happened. It wasn't like this when I was young. Everyone had pictures of their kids naked on the living rool rug, and showed them around proudly. And while it's very hard to gork out reasonable estimates, I'm pretty sure the rate of child sexual abuse has not declined in the last 45-odd years since it was my bare hide on the carpet.
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Date: 2005-07-21 11:26 pm (UTC)Yes, this has happened here, too, under the previous legislation. I think one of the cases was mentioned in one of the links in my previous journal entry.
North American culture has never been comfortable with the idea of sex, let alone children's sexuality, but when and how did we get to the point where any nudity by or around children is considered proof positive of pedophilia? You know, I can be in the company of a naked child (like many people, I have real live small children in my family) and not want to sexually assault him/her - is there something wrong with me? Is this hysteria the outgrowth of a belief that deep down inside we all really want to diddle our daughters?
I don't get it, and I don't really know how it happened. It wasn't like this when I was young. Everyone had pictures of their kids naked on the living rool rug, and showed them around proudly. And while it's very hard to gork out reasonable estimates, I'm pretty sure the rate of child sexual abuse has not declined in the last 45-odd years since it was my bare hide on the carpet.
But I rave...