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Sexting: combatting the exploitation of young women
August 15, 2016 - 12:29am
These boys should be prosecuted for sharing of images but I'd like to note the lack of responsibility educating young women how they will be exploited. They seem highly vulnerable. Are we doing enough?
Why are young women sending pictures? Why haven't we educated them properly? It seems no one gives a fuck.
Why is there no onus, or education, for young women to not create porn they can be exploited for. Before I get berated, I'm very much a feminist and I am abhorred at the use of private messages by testosterone fuelled boys. But why do the ladies do it? Don't we have a responsibility to prevent it? And are we really even trying? The world still revolves around smut, much as we try to think otherwise.
In fact, I see it getting worse.
I had thought this section was about sharing photos without permission. The actual legislation seems to be more about secret recording (though sharing is implied). And it seems that looking at shared images, even if one does not know that they are shared without permission, is technically a crime.
http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/section-162.html
And that section 7. Not sure whether that means the law is being questioned, or whether it has a technical meaning.
I think criminalizing sharing photos without permission is a good thing, so long as the law is applied properly. Observing them if you don't know what they are? That's more problematic.
I know when new child porn laws were brought in the 90s some people freaked out that they were going to ban naked cherub fountains, and raid art galleries and people's baby pictures.
That didn't happen, of course. And one would hope it doesn't happen here, because (getting back to that section 7) in practical terms motive is very important, especially if someone doesn't know how an image was obtained.
Have you ever been a teenager? They do it because they want to get or keep their boyfriend and they believe the boy when he swears he won't show it to anyone else. They think that they are in love. The boy they love would never do that.
They are also subjected to a culture full of nudity in which "free the nipple" is the rallying cry of stars like Miley whatever.
Wasn't the nipple emancipated in Canada about 20 years ago?
When did it go back on the taboo list?
Gwen Jacobs, a top-free hero.
If her story were made into a Hollywood movie then the (male) voiceover for the trailer would say "In a world of male chests everywhere, she fought for a basic human right that nobody wanted..."
But to the best of my knowledge, a pic of my 14 year old nephew shirtless on a dirtbike isn't "child pornography" even if both of his nipples are visible. I assumed everyone's nipples were equally harmless now. Or else what was that all about, back in the 90's?
I don't think I was in right mind to explain.
Sisters, nieces, mothers and the fairer identity friends. Sorry to victim blame.
Trying to think about solutions.
You must remember the Great Janet Jackson Nipple Disaster. a quarter second of nipple you hardly had any time to see PLUS,as it would turn up,she was wearing a pasty.
I always found it very odd that a nipple (and we all have them) is this horrible shameful blemish for a woman,but guys walk around shirtless and no one looks twice. As a woman,you can walk the streets shirtless. Providing you are wearing pasties or black electrical tape because once that nipple gets exposed,the sky falls and the world implodes.
It's like these tools that get offended when a mother dares do something completely natural in breastfeeding her child in public.
We live in a very childish society. Europe is for adults,North America is for petulant children smug in the woolly cotton brains of infancy.
To me it's embarrassingly sexist and an ancient prejudice that has no place in the world in 2016.
We are definitely infantile. You're right, a world gone shite.
It was deemed legal in Ontario. As far as I know the other provinces haven't followed suit but the legal situation isn't the issue. Legal or not teenage girls are bullied to the point of suicide for being tricked into trusting a boy. The boy doesn't get bullied for what he did. For him it's an achievement.