Should you have to be 18 to feature in porn?

At what age should one be allowed to feature in porn?

  • 18 (the current age)
  • The same as the age of consent for sex
  • 21 or over
0 voters

The age at which one can legally feature in a pornographic film or images, hardcore or softcore, is 18. This age was set by the ‘Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography’ in 2002. Despite this the age of consent for sex is usually lower than 18 in most nations/states.

Why is it acceptable for individuals below the age of 18 to have sex but unacceptable for them to feature in pornography? Why is it justifiable to make sexual images/video of a teenager aged 18 but not 16? If lawmakers are concerned about potential exploitation why isn’t the age at which one can be in porn 21 or above?

It should be noted that in the UK the ‘Sun’ and other British tabloids frequently featured topless 16 year old’s until 2003, this had no adverse effects on child welfare in that country.

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No, none at all…

:laughing:

in Holland with consent from your parents you can appear in pornography at an age much lower than the age of consent, and have sex at a far younger age than the age of consent. Perhaps it would be better to ask a better question.

The issue isn’t about performance. It’s about contractual understanding.

That said, they should be set at the same age because intercourse assumes the risk of reproduction which contracts with newborns.

On the other hand, pornography should be illegal. Sex is not a spectator sport, and making a living off it depreciates the value of intimacy which elevates people above animals.

Keep it up, I’m enjoying the moronic absurdity of your posts.

Ok that’s a pretty bold claim why should pornography be illegal? It’s sex between two consulting adults who are paid for there time. And sex not a spectator sport? Ever heard of dogging?

And why should we be elevated above animals, we are animals? Surely we should just accept that this high and mighty attitude that somehow we have mastered ourselves is just an illusion pasted over by societal values and hypocrisy…?

“You and me baby ain’t nothin’ but mammals so let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel”

BHG.

Let’s cut the pretension already and just admit we are what we are, no?

More a prudish 19th century set of values and sexual mores that probably belong in a museum, but I tend to agree.

I’ve not only heard of dogging, I was for a long time a participant on dogging discussion forums. There’s a whole etiquette and everything, it’s a very odd subculture.

Well good for you, and I think we are on the same page then.

@ al: stop dressing up human sexuality as some Shakesperean melodrama, we are as as sexually sophisticated as any life on Earth despite Byron and despite your wish to think we have sex as some sort of art form, not because we need and want to and as we are instinctively driven to by evolution. Honestly there would be a lot less problems on Earth if people were actually honest with themselves for 5 minutes. You like fucking, you like love, you like all the biological conditions of an animal that you are, but it isn’t some crappy miracle, no matter how many poets claim it is.

You should not have to be 18 to feature in porn.

You should have to be 35 to feature in porn.

i voted 21 because teenagers are unattrractive

I don’t think you should be in Porn until after you’ve been in a divorce and are used to being sexually exploited.

Honestly… women are essentially prostitutes. This has been pointed out often enough… just that, in the case of pornography, it’s not nearly as accepted by employers for a woman to be in porn as a woman to be a little loose in her relations, in other words a slut, or the petite version, a relationship (which is still slutting/whoring, just on a smaller scale, usually one man on a consistent basis). Even then, a google search revealing either extreme slutdom or pornographic background is going to hurt alot of employment opprotunities.

I really don’t think a teenage girl (and I hope you drawl the line there, one having hit puberty) is able to make long term decisions about her sexual identity. She shouldn’t have a man twice her age or over shoving a disgusting looking, discolored cock into her, grunting and jizzing before tossing his hairy ass aside to rest as she’s left bleeding and gaping.

The feminist culture that encourages this sort of thing has done much to dehumanize women. I don’t support it. I can tolerate older women doing this, even watch it. But not someone who knows so little, and who’s body is still growing.

In general, I don’t think women should be allowed to do anything, or have opinions taken seriously, until their mid to late twenties at the earliest. Jack the voting age to 30, fuck it, it’s a useless age group opinion wise. They get tricked into all sorts of stupid shit. No college, no vote- you just work and study if you CARE to go to college someday. If you want to pursue something complex like a medical career, join a part-time fraternity that deals in dissection and terminology, but you still gotta work.

A young woman has even less to say about society, or undertake work, than a man of that age, for the simple fact most everything in a woman’s universe at that age is twisted up and torn around looking attractive and attracting men. A man at least has a option of blundering obliviously in his youth on the real world oblivious of the opposite sex, women usually don’t, there is some guy hovering over them like it or not. Not to say this doesn’t shift later one. And if there is a young woman offended by this… fine, just don’t bitch about it now. Wait until your 30+. have some experience, from yourself and friends, then bring up a lucid argument. I simply don’t care to hear your point of view at your age, as it’s mostly gibberish and pointless babble ‘Oh, look at me, my skin is so soft, I have opinions’. Let’s hear it once you’ve experienced the world, once your able to be societies equal.

No Double Penetration of teens- anal/vag or double vag or double anal… shit, they are too young to get into that sort of stuff. Wait till your like, 50 to do that stuff, once childbirth killed off half the nerves and your too loose to feel anything smaller than a watermellon.

Let’s try to keep women physically together in their youth. No need to make a giant, flappy labia larger than dumbo’s ears before they enter highschool.

It’s just… not good.

I voted 7 because I am a Paedophile. :wink: