Peter's Viewpoint

The preoccupation of adults with child pornography committed by children these days is as ridiculous as looking at a copy of Playboy during the days of my own childhood.

Studies are being done wasting countless amounts of money to determine if children are future perverts or pedophiles, children are being arrested because they happen to have a “semi-naked” or naked picture of a classmate on their cell phone.
How American it is to immediately create criminals from the sex industry while America happens to be a world leader in the sales of pornographic materials.

I remember going to Cape Cod and lying on a beach while another couple with their children nearby enjoying the sea.  One of their children was a toddler and the couple allowed it to play without clothes.  While the child played on the beach, an elderly couple walking above on the board walk peered over the rail and began shouting to the parents to put clothing on their child because it was revolting to them.

We are now living in the year 2011 and Americans are wasting the time and money with ridiculous accusations that are reminiscent of living in the dark ages with regards to sex.

Isn’t it time that Americans grow up and accept that what children do today is nothing more than an extension of what many of us did when we were young with the technology that we had.  I’m sure that there are many who used their parents Polaroid camera that produced instant pictures to do something similar and many of them are parents of the same children that are being scared for life by ridiculous sexting scandals.

Stop living in a retarded world people.  Children are not perverts or pedophiles!


An article from the NYT

Sending of Sexual Images by Minors Isn’t as Prevalent as Expected, Study Finds

"Amanda Lenhart, a senior research specialist at the Pew Research Center in Washington, noted that the report’s findings dovetailed with Pew research released last month. In that study, which involved 800 minors between 12 and 17, only 2 percent said they had sent nude or almost nude pictures to someone they knew. In contrast, the center found that 17 percent of adults between 18 and 29 had sent sexually suggestive pictures, and that 5 percent of 30- to 49-year-olds admitted sending them."