Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wasn't it in the UK where the age of consent is 16? I liked the picture and thought it tasteful, but heh, I'm from Colorado and we are all cowboys or worse! John Nebel On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Neal Friedenthal wrote: > 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 > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html