swamp thing wrote:
Are you seriously saying that a girl can have sex legally for years before she can pose topless or naked?
Not really..... The US is a weird country. We have all kinds of hang ups. Theoretically two 17 years olds who have sex can be each charged with statatory rape, although it pretty much never happens....... One thing that has changed in recent years is females being charged. It was pretty much unheard of 5-6 years ago, but now there are frequent stories about a 35 year old female teacher being charged for banging her 16 year old students..... Previously it was "nod, nod, wink, wink, way to go kid" but now the law has started to look after underage males as well.
Whether on not someone is charged with statatory rape seems to me to depend mainly on the age difference. Even a girl as young as 11 or 12, the male is seemingly never charged if he's 12-13.... on the other hand if he's 17, he's probably in trouble.
joker wrote:
Thora Birtch was naked in American beauty and she was like 15 or 16 and that was allowed. Im not justifying anything, but there are exceptions to the rule.
How old was Kiera Knightly for her nude scene in The Hole?????
Like 16 or something like that.
Underage nudity is allowed in US films and art if it's "artistic and non sexual", but how and where you draw the line is subjective.
Say what you like about US hangups with sex and nudity, and yes compared to Europe we have plenty..... but compared to much of the rest of the world, The Middle East, Asia, Africa.... we're pretty swinging!
and for all those hangups, it's still the porn capital of the world.