[JohnMaltczevitch]

I recently read that parents are no longer allowed to photograph there children at sports events because it is classified as pedophilia.....[thumbdown]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/new...-1111116699096

I have also heard that is is now illegal to take photos of your infant children naked...as this to is classified as child pornography..I was wondering if anyone eles had heard this law because my parents have photos of me in the nutty as a little kid running around the pool...I mean for Christ sakes my grandparents have photos with me and my cousins in the bath...so if this is a rule then what the hell...

Is this an actual law or just speculation at this point...because if its a law then by god every parent in the world is gunna go to jail....

[uC4F0NVL]

*pffffttt* [rolleyes]

We take pictures of naked babies all the time. I guess our firm is full of pedos...

[beloveds]

It's a universal re-action by idiots to the very small risk that paedophiles will be taking pictures of other peoples babies and young children.
Unfortunately, as with most of these things, the people making have no concept of parents who do this in complete innocence - makes you wonder exactly what is in the dirty little minds of some of these people making the laws.
Of course, those zealots who have to 'enforce' these poorly conceived rules and laws refuse to use any common sense in case they get into trouble for not enforcing them.

My personal viewpoint is to let people take the pictures, etc, as they will but prosecute those who use them for distasteful purposes.

[Kiariitf]

Only in,..

*crosses fingers*

[AndrewBoss]

That's retarded. If people want to get their rocks off to pics of little kids naked they'll just go on the internet and download it. Anyone who REALLY wants to see it will eventually find it on the internet.

People need to get over their fear of nudity. I mean hell.. so what if people have pics of naked kids doing normal kid stuff. I mean holy ****.. that's just so evil right? A carefree kid doing normal kid stuff in the buff.. that's like.. the work of the devil or something. IMO it's not porn unless someone's doing something with their, or someone else's, genitals. Until then it's just naked people being normal.

Slightly off-topic, but I ran into a tripcode that begins with "pedobear". I thought that was pretty awesome.

[lopezsokero]

This isnt true. Some schools may be under the false impression that parents are not allowed to take pictures at events, but many other sources came out saying this view is incorrect. I believe the Department for Education (or Department for Schools, Children & Families..whatever its called these days) released guidance to schools saying that it is completely legal and fine to allow parents to film/photograph.

[Smalmslobby]

Where children?

[Daruhuw]

It's cucumbertime.

[buchmausar]

This isnt true. Some schools may be under the false impression that parents are not allowed to take pictures at events, but many other sources came out saying this view is incorrect. I believe the Department for Education (or Department for Schools, Children & Families..whatever its called these days) released guidance to schools saying that it is completely legal and fine to allow parents to film/photograph.

It's not just schools, here in Australia it's most public areas you are banned from taking photo's of pretty much anything. Because there have been so many perverts who take pictures up girls skirts, or girls topless on the beach when they are unaware restrictions have been put in place preventing people from taking photo's in public areas.

It's complete bs imo. Most of my time as a kid was on the beach and I have quite afew photo's taken of fun times I had. Banning or restricting people from taking photo's in public areas is absurd. What about tourists? They come to Australia and come home with nothing to show their friends or families cause they aren't allowed to take photo's. Or maybe they can show their friends or family a fine they had to pay for taking a photo?

I don't care what the law states though. When I have kids I will be taking photo's of them, it's a fammily tradition to take photo's so we can look back and see/remember what we did in the past.

[AndrewBoss]

It's complete bs imo. Most of my time as a kid was on the beach and I have quite afew photo's taken of fun times I had. Banning or restricting people from taking photo's in public areas is absurd. What about tourists? They come to Australia and come home with nothing to show their friends or families cause they aren't allowed to take photo's. Or maybe they can show their friends or family a fine they had to pay for taking a photo?

Agreed.

It's PUBLIC. Everyone around you, and I assume there's people since it's a public area, can SEE what you're doing. Should people have to pay a fine for remembering what happened? Banning photography in public places is retarded.

[Immampdah]

People need to get over their fear of nudity. I mean hell.. so what if people have pics of naked kids doing normal kid stuff. I mean holy ****.. that's just so evil right? A carefree kid doing normal kid stuff in the buff.. that's like.. the work of the devil or something. IMO it's not porn unless someone's doing something with their, or someone else's, genitals. Until then it's just naked people being normal.

I'm not sure I want to know what kind of children's sporting events you go to but believe me that ain't normal!

[Metrujectiktus]

Only in,..

*crosses fingers*

Too late, already happens in the UK at certain schools and events.

[MAKEMONEY]

Too late, already happens in the UK at certain schools and events.

Pretty soon everyone is just going to have to wear blindfolds out in public.

[thakitt]

I'm not sure I want to know what kind of children's sporting events you go to but believe me that ain't normal!

if your a nudist it's normal. [rofl]
I remember being 3 or 4 and running thru the waterhose in the front yard and i could care less that i was nude... It is strange how quickly we go from being carefree about nudity to being freaked out by it. I am pretty sure it is not something innate, since many tribal people have no problems being nude.


I always find it ironic how stupid some of these laws are. Pretty soon museums will have to start destroying all of the maiden paintings and statues and such...since they represent underaged nude children...not to mention all the cherubs

[beloveds]

Agreed.

It's PUBLIC. Everyone around you, and I assume there's people since it's a public area, can SEE what you're doing. Should people have to pay a fine for remembering what happened? Banning photography in public places is retarded.

Precisely, in public one should act as if one were being watched/don't do anything you don't want others to take notice of.
If someone was climbing a tree to take pictures of someone in their back yard - that would certainly be an invasion of privacy and the culprit should be fined, named and shamed!
However, should one be walking around naked in one's home with the curtains open, one can't exactly complain if a passerby stops and has a look.

[rozalinasi]

It is strange how quickly we go from being carefree about nudity to being freaked out by it. I am pretty sure it is not something innate, since many tribal people have no problems being nude.

It's all about brainwashing. Take for example the US: real graphic violence is shown without a second thought and barely gets a mention, but help us all should there be a butt or female nipple and the whole US grinds down to a halt and religious people scream bloody murder, and there will be lawsuits up to millions USD [rofl]

In, for example, Finland and Sweden, where saunas are very common, nudity is no big deal for anyone. There are often fully nude people in some tv shows any time of the day and the program will at most be K-15 (if the pubic areas are shown explicitly), but more often K-13 (must be 13 or over). However, real graphic violence is rarely shown during the day. That's at least how I think it should be: nudity is absolutely normal, while getting brains blown out certainly isn't.

Someone should make a study about that:

Is the amount of violence tolerated in direct relation to the amount of religious people in a given country?
Is the amount of nudity tolerated in inverse relation to the amount of religious people in a given country?

Somehow I've always felt those two hypothesises are not far from the truth... almost every religion seems to be extremely violent, and also very conservative about sexual matters.

Finland, Sweden, Russia, etc = mostly atheists or indifferent about religion, nudity is just normal life
US, Islamic countries, Arab countries = highly religious and nudity is a huge no-no

However, South American countries seem to make a curious exception for this. They are very religious, but at the same time they have nude beaches and girls wearing very skimpy bikinis

[beloveds]

But I believe they are still very strict regarding sexual conduct - socially rather than legally, due to Catholism being the primary religion.

[jgztw2es]

It's all about brainwashing. Take for example the US: real graphic violence is shown without a second thought and barely gets a mention, but help us all should there be a butt or female nipple and the whole US grinds down to a halt and religious people scream bloody murder, and there will be lawsuits up to millions USD [rofl]

In, for example, Finland and Sweden, where saunas are very common, nudity is no big deal for anyone. There are often fully nude people in some tv shows any time of the day and the program will at most be K-15 (if the pubic areas are shown explicitly), but more often K-13 (must be 13 or over). However, real graphic violence is rarely shown during the day. That's at least how I think it should be: nudity is absolutely normal, while getting brains blown out certainly isn't.

Someone should make a study about that:

Is the amount of violence tolerated in direct relation to the amount of religious people in a given country?
Is the amount of nudity tolerated in inverse relation to the amount of religious people in a given country?

Somehow I've always felt those two hypothesises are not far from the truth... almost every religion seems to be extremely violent, and also very conservative about sexual matters.

Finland, Sweden, Russia, etc = mostly atheists or indifferent about religion, nudity is just normal life
US, Islamic countries, Arab countries = highly religious and nudity is a huge no-no

However, South American countries seem to make a curious exception for this. They are very religious, but at the same time they have nude beaches and girls wearing very skimpy bikinis

I don't think you're theory works that well. After all, Finland has pretty much religious people but they are neither that concerned about nudity. Atleast concerning the sauna culturem family photos etc. And our nation has in the past been a lot more religious without it having much of an effect on this kind of things. At least not as much as it would be the only factor or even the biggest factor.

[DextExexy]

I don't think you're theory works that well. After all, Finland has pretty much religious people but they are neither that concerned about nudity. Atleast concerning the sauna culturem family photos etc. And our nation has in the past been a lot more religious without it having much of an effect on this kind of things. At least not as much as it would be the only factor or even the biggest factor.

You could see that difference in the days, when germany was parted into 2:
In the last years of the GDR, there were about 70% of the people with no religion (christian/protestants), there were a LOT of "FKK"-beaches, where everyone was totally naked...and it was no problem running around naked, and taking pictures of naked people...
in Western Germany, where most of the people were christians, there were roughly NO nude beaches or whatever, and it was a real "scandal", when they showed "Tutti Frutti" in TV, a show where some girls showed some nipples...^^

So, I think it has a lot to do with that case!

[uC4F0NVL]

I don't think you're theory works that well. After all, Finland has pretty much religious people but they are neither that concerned about nudity. Atleast concerning the sauna culturem family photos etc. And our nation has in the past been a lot more religious without it having much of an effect on this kind of things. At least not as much as it would be the only factor or even the biggest factor.

Well to be fair 98% of finnish people who belong to church haven't read Bible nor beleive in God. (My own estimation from personal experience)