Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I usually avoid jumping in on these "controversial" threads, but I have to do so here. While I have no problems with the image itself, it is quite nice and very tastefully done, everyone seems to have missed one important issue, Clementine is only 17 years old. At 17 she is below the age of concent. Her parent or guardian would have to give permission for the picture to be posted or for that matter taken. The photographer has left himself open for possible civil or even criminal action should the girl or her parents object to the photo. To photograph a minor, nude, without parental permission and supervision leaves the photographer open to a charge of statutory rape even if, as I'm sure is the case here, nothing more happened than the photo session. To take the photo even with parental concent would in my opinion be ill advised, to post it without permission is downright stupid. Believe me I am no prude, but I am a realist you have to cover your butt in this world. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html