I'll add my 2ยข worth in.
I worked in photofinishing for over 10 years. In that time I saw many
pictures of naked children, none of which I would consider pornographic.
There were, however, many I considered in poor taste. For instance there was
the child on the potty. the next frame was what he left in the potty. I
think during that time there may have been 1 or 2 images I refused to print
due to being in such poor taste. Never was there anything close enough to
pornographic that I even remotely considered alerting the authorities, which
I would have been legally required to do. I worked briefly for an on-line
photofinisher. We had one case where the postal inspector was brought in.
Neither Doyle (the other experienced photofinisher) or I thought anything of
it. It was a low income, blue collar, family and the picture was in poor
taste, but hardly pornographic. The decision was made by management, who had
no photofinishing background. I also remember on customer who's images
always struck me as being in bad taste. His background was Scandinavian and
culturally it is normal for them to let their children run around naked to a
much older age then in the USA. (as brought out in a PDML thread a couple
weeks ago). I also have to remember that I am 50+, never married, no kids,
and an only child, so I'm not accustomed to young children running around
naked.
As a liberal leaning moderate I am concerned about what I perceive to be an
increasing loss of personal freedom, a departure from the concept of
innocent until proven guilty, and an increased "Big Brother" mentality in
government.
Butch
