Reply #16: I didn't mean to suggest that they were consolidated...

[Xithras]

I just wrote that badly

As a longtime amateur photographer, and a person who enjoys people-watching as part of his hobby, I try to keep abreast of what's legal and what's not. It's pretty amazing to find just how fuzzy the line is when you start looking into the case law involved with past kiddy porn prosecutions.

Take a photo of a smiling 5 year old girl in panties for a Sears ad, and it's perfectly legal.

Take that same girl, in the same clothes and the same photo set, and have her "wink" at the camera. Now, any DA who finds that wink suggestive can charge you with a felony. The facial expression, or the viewers interpretation of a facial expression, is all it takes to transform a routine photo into a life-destroying criminal activity.

While the current laws are a bit hard to navigate, I don't really have any better suggestions though. I just have a knee-jerk dislike to laws that predicate an actions legality on someone elses personal opinion.