Snuff Films Legal, Nude teens Illegal? What's up with that?

[emeraldrafael]

Im rather sure its quite illegal to have a snuff film if it can be proven to be one.

 

[Mcupobob]

In some states the age of consent is 16. I don't think snuff films are legal though. Anyways I like how people analyze ever law in American and try to find how it is a reflection on all of the people there.

 

[DAAANtheMAAAN]

How come in the US it is perfectly legal to have snuff pictures and on your personal computer. Such as films of people getting beheaded, tortured or otherwise murdered in various of gruesome ways yet if a teenager sends another teenager their naked body its time for sex offender registration? Or even a 16 year old sends naked pictures to a 21 year old.

Wouldn't you say nudity is more natural than murder or torture?

Snuff films and images are illegal here. As people have said before, individual pictures are very hard to authenticate. With computer and practical effects being what they are, it's very hard to discern fakes from the real deal.
Child pornography is opposed more simply because of its nature. Child pornography is often a product of exploitation and abuse. Even if some examples (like yours) aren't such products of abuse and exploitation, they still qualify as illegal under the same law.
The exception would be your example of a teen sending another teen a dirty picture. If they're both under 18, its legal. However, saving the picture then qualifies it as illegal, especially if taken off of the teenage recipient's phone or if sent to someone over 18.

 

[Wilson M.]

And what about this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSL9xqblWIs&hd=1

about snuff films with animals.

 

[Sethzard]

Because this is 'Merica! we're a country that's like a preteen boy... we're very violent and desensitized but the second something vaguely arousing comes our way we get scared and hit it with sticks and call it unholy because that's what we we're taught in Sunday School...<.<

Dyslexia makes life really funny sometimes, I read that as "Because this is 'Merica! we're a country that likes a preteen boy".

Personally I agree that if they choose to send the pictures then the law shouldn't stop them. The problem is defining when it's volluntary and when it's not. Snuff should be illegal though I agree.