On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Bruce M. wrote:
On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Black Unicorn wrote:
Hearings on the hill over the child pornographer horseman:
"Morphing" seems to be the latest buzzword for putting childrens faces on the bodies of adult models in sexually explicit poses and seems to have attracted enough attention to warrant congressional attention.
I'd like to see exactly how they word the proposed prohibitons. What constitutes "child" when the face painted on is pure artistry? Will we see a simple and strict prohibition over modifiying sexually explicit pictures to make them appear to be of younger models (whatever their apparent age may be)? Will we see a subjective test as to what is "child looking" enough?
As far as I was aware, the manner of currently judging the age of people in nude photographs consisted of a usually doctor administered examination (of the picture) where the genitals and other age characteristics of the BODY were taken into account. I don't think a person's face ever was, or ever should be, a factor.
Silliness. All silliness.
Very true. Next there will be laws banning provocative pictures of adults dressed in child-like garb or acting out child-like sexual fantasies (the infamous "spank me Daddy!).
Bruce M. * brucem@feist.com ~---------------------------------------------------~ "Knowledge enormous makes a god of me." -- John Keats