Girls Gone Mild

I've never watched a Girls Gone Wild video, but I'm surprised it's news that their ridiculous voyeurism isn't pornography.

A videotape of an underage girl exposing her breasts is not child pornography, a judge decided Tuesday in a criminal case against the producer of the "Girls Gone Wild" video series. ...

Prosecutors contend Francis and his video crew enticed girls they knew were underage to expose themselves. The defendants deny the allegation and say the girls had lied about their ages.

As I've written before with regards to child pornography and nudist camps, our laws are incredibly inconsistent when it comes to children, sex, and photography.

For instance, a 14-year-old can get married in Hawaii, but if he or she decides to take pictures of the wedding night they'll go to jail. Similarly, it would be basically impossible to ban nudist camps on private property, but the government wants to punish anyone who takes pictures of their kids in the bathtub.

Society wants to have it both ways. We want sexual permissiveness for everyone, all the time, under any and every circumstance... oh, except kids. They must be completely isolated from all sexuality. Oh, except for sex ed, starting in middle school. Children can't consent to be photographed, but can get married in many states. And it's unconstitutional for a state to require parental permission or even notification before allowing a minor to have an abortion.

It's all hand-waving. There's no cohesive policy because no policy could satisfy all these conflicting objectives. As I wrote before,

I don't see how a consistent policy can be created that permits child nudity on private property -- and thus nudist camps -- but prohibits "virtual" child pornography (or, arguably, some real child pornography).