Pseudo-Paedophile?

[sp1814]

AB'ers

I didn't know this was against the law, and I don't even know what to think about it.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,29389- 2306067,00.html

I'd welcome your views because like I said, it's a new one on me.

[Catso]

It does seem superficially daft, but I can see the logic in it. It's the thought that counts, so to speak.

Some pseudo-pics could be so good you couldn't tell them from the real and/or someone accused could claim 'I thought they were fakes'.

[Xanthippe]

I saw an episode of 'Law and Order' that dealt with this very phenomenon. The porn film producer had used legal aged, but young looking 'actresses' and then digitally manipulated the images to make them appear even younger. He was prosecuted in the episode which would indicate the American legal system is on the ball with regards to such pseudo images.

Leading actors and actresses in Hollywood are also concerned that their images are being manipulated in such a manner for porn films. It is quite a worrying development and with the speed of technological progress, I wonder how long it will be before malicious individuals are able to manipulate images of ex partners on their home computers and release false, but embarrassing images and films onto the internet.

[sp1814]

Wow...I'm really shocked.

On one hand I think - no-one's being harmed because no child has actually been exploited, but on the other hand I think, if someone is getting sexual gratification from these images, then how long before it escalates.

Thank you for your answers.

[naz_nomad]

Should Anne Geddes be swinging from the gallows then?

[Xanthippe]

I think most people are able to distinguish between the artistic photography of children by Anne Geddes and the somewhat perverse manipulations of the chap in sp1814's article, naz.

http://images.google.com/images?q=anne+geddes& hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2006-12,GGLG:en&sa=X&o i=images&ct=title

[kempie]

I believe the broadcaster in the situation mentioned by W-M was not R & J but Julia Somerville...

http://www.forcers.org.uk/nuffoto/kids.htm

[Loosehead]

Tricky one, on balance I would say that the intent was clear, ie to create images that where ostensibly of children. It's either a technical exercise or it's for gratification. Obviously not as serious as having real images so hopefully the punishment will be correspondingly less severe. Tough one for the judge!

Wardy it was Julia Somerville and her boyfriend who got into trouble with the bath pictures.

[Loosehead]

Yeah and not just any old shoplifting, Champagne, class!

[sp1814]

Julia Somerville????

She didn't get charged did she????

[Loosehead]

No, they dropped it in the end. They had a lot of pictures of her daughter in the bath.

[jenstar]

Surely reducing breasts and ading clothes would make an image less pornographic, not more, even if it did make the subject look younger?

[lady_p_gold]

But at what point could you call something 'art' i.e. if you drew pictures of underage nude children would that be an offence ??? If so then what about all the millions of 'cherubs' and things.

[LeMarchand]

Should Anne Geddes be swinging from the gallows then?

Yes.