Johnny Rockets wrote:Laws against suicide are there primarily to allow the authorities to hold you after an attempt, for a period of time to help you stay safe. 99% of the time any charge like this gets dropped.
Small titty laws in Aussie porn were put in place to combat underage and child porn.
I'm not sure of how well thats working but if it helps combat child pornography I'm all for it.
It's not working nor helping at all to my knowledge. It just introduces yet another victimless crime in order to make some people look like they do something and improve their chances at getting elected. The criminalization of porn featuring adult women with small breasts has no impact on porn featuring underage persons and children, instead it creates unnecessary work for the police and prosecutors, draining resources that they could otherwise put to use in order to investigate crimes where there actually is a victim. Like encouraging people to report sexual abuse of children by a family member or acquaintance, who are reponsible for roughly 90% of all victims according to Wikipedia.
There seems to be a rise of sites that portray the youngest looking women possible. Not the barely 18 stuff, but the "I can't believe she's 18" crap. If you're getting your rocks off viewing a pre-pubecent looking girl who's shaved, with non existent breasts, wearing sailor moon skirts and pig tails, then you should be gut shot and left to die on an anthill.
I can't say I've investigated that matter, but you seem to know something about it and will assume you've done some research and that your claims are correct. I'm not sure I see what the problem is, though, so long as actual children and adolescents aren't portrayed.
Regarding your proposed punishment for people who deviate from your sexual preferences... I'm opposed to the death penalty on principle, and torturing someone to death for a thought-crime seems particularly excessive. Seriously, so what if a 19 year-old, of sound mind and body, who looks younger than she is dresses up as Sailor Moon and acts in a porn movie? She's an adult and capable of entering such business agreements. Would you seriously forbid adults from working as porn actresses or strippers because they look "too young" (however that is determined, that's a further gaping hole) or have "too small" (Sorry, no B-cups allowed, go have a medically unnecessary surgery that is likely to cause problems later) breasts? Would you furthermore really mortally wound and leave to die an agonizing death the people who would watch their movies or visit the locales where they work? Not the people who rape children, but law-abiding citizens who have other turn-ons than you do.
Now, before you go off on a rant accusing me of being a pedophile and having ulterior motives, I think that rape, whether of an adult, an adolescent or a child, whether of a man or of a woman, whether by a man or by a woman, should carry the harshest of penalties. Child abuse should be right up there with it. The documentation of such acts and the subsequent distribution of the material should carry a penalty as well, particularly if done for profit. The possession of such documents should also be illegal.
What I object to are laws that infringe on the rights of adults while causing more problems than they solve. That law from Natchez, Missouri in the OP may sound funny, but it adresses loophole that can cause some pretty big, though rare, problems (like a rampaging elephant). The Australian law banning small tits from porn doesn't even do that, instead it effectively achieves the opposite of what its proponents claimed they introduced it for by creating more work for an understaffed police force that now has to spend its time investigating people who haven't harmed anyone else, who haven't even actively offended anyone else.
Sure, you are offended by Sailor Moon getting her brains banged out, but as long as those who like to see that kind of thing don't walk up to you with their tablet PC going "Hey, dude, look at this!" or masturbate to it in public they are not actively offending anyone.
So, I hope I've made a case for why that law from Australia is particularly stupid.
