[Enterprise]

I thought the same. If it's child porn but it's rated by the Motion Picture Association of America, then it's ok. Good grief!

[valkyrieanne]

I thought the same. If it's child porn but it's rated by the Motion Picture Association of America, then it's ok. Good grief! A film with 17 year old actors engaging in simulated, not real sex as part of the story would be considered 'child pornography' under that statute the way it's written, if that exception wasn't there. The statute already says that the filmed depiction does not have to be considered obscene. It does not say the actors have to be nude. The Zeferelli Romeo and Juliet movie would be actionable, as would the film Summer of '42, with a fifteen or sixteen year old boy having an affair with a 30 something woman, and including a sex scene. Clearly there has to be some way to distinguish between legitimate stories about teenagers that involve sex, and pornography with young children.