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hollywood woody
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Posted - Jul 23 2008 : 3:08PM
heroin is legal in denmark, pot is legal in denmark, everything is legal in denmark.
If you are an addict this is clearly not the place for you, or it is clearly the place for you.
How do they get any work done there?
I don't think a 14 year old having sex or being involved in the porn business is right.
Not here, not there, not anywhere.
You are not fully mature until your twenties, and that is iffy.
18 is just fine, until your daughter turns 18 like mine did, then 21 sounds much better.
caroline-NL
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543 Posts
3/07
Posted - Jul 23 2008 : 3:25PM

hollywood woody wrote:
Dont know, where youve read that. Almost all drugs are illegal in Denmark. Maybe it was different in the 60s.
Back to porn:
Just look at the US law of 1978, government had no problems with a 16 years minimum age.
Edited by - Caroline-NL on 7/23/2008 3:25:54 PM
Flash All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Jul 23 2008 : 4:31PM
Apparently you are right the original act, "The Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation Act of 1977," was for minors and in "The Child Protection Act of 1984" the definition of minor was changed from 16 to 18. I couldn't find the actual text of these laws online just summaries so this statement is based on that. I also suspect that state laws might have invalidated this in many areas but I can't find anything at all regarding that in my various searches.
caroline-NL
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Posted - Jul 24 2008 : 8:21AM
@Flash:
I have quite a lot of US / European law texts on microfilm. Its very difficult to find the original § or the commentaries in the internet.
"The Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation Act of 1977," - was the first try for a national law. Some states were able to lever it out, but these were only half a dozen, when this was passed.
I dont know, if commercial porn was produced in the US with 16/17 year olds, but I heavily doubt it, because more single states were passing stricter laws as early as 1978.
Ive only seen some CCC Denmark Catalogues aimed directly at the US market, with prices in $. They had no problems selling porn with 15-17 year olds until the early 80s in the US. I think almost nobody in the USA knew at this time, that some models were 15, not 16.

The 84 law that raised the age from 16 to 18 was only "pro forma", because almost all states had laws that invalidated the common national law. But this law was made especially for the US Custom Service.
Starting late 84, US Custom Service seizured teen porn with models between 15-17 as "childporn".
If you look at this strange case Ive linked, nobody is mentioning before court, that this material was legal under US law, or at least allowed for several years.
It passed through almost 50 feds and nobody did anything. I bet that dealers and customers had a lot of trouble selling and buying this danish stuff. But the feds who made this "mistake" (?) - it had no consequences for the authorities.
Or is this the longest running sting operation ever made.... ?
But a sexshop store owner or a customer can be imprisoned for years - for selling "childporn". These movies were even registered at the US Copyright and Patent Office !
Edited by - Caroline-NL on 7/24/2008 8:22:44 AM
 
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Posted - Jul 24 2008 : 4:05PM
You never know, there was a store in the city I grew up that ran prostitution out of it. The newspapers found out that the police had been working a sting operation there for something like 3 years and hadn't done anything. After the paper reported it amazingly enough the place was busted. The big question was how long would the sting have gone on for if the paper hadn't found out.
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