Children caught kissing face jail [in Germany]

The Scotsman ^ | Dec 12 2007 | ALLAN HALL

[ECM]

Parents who put a picture of their naked youngster in a bath or a paddling pool on the internet, for example, will leave themselves open to charges of disseminating child pornography.

The fact alone that there are people out there that would get off on this sort of thing is reason enough for me to not post such pictures.

[sourcery]

Insanity.

[Incorrigible]

effectively outlaw kissing and cuddling between children under 17 in public places.

Good! I'm sick of all the PDA (Public Display of Affection).

Lock 'em up!

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[Thud]

The European Human Rights Commission will hear of this.

And I can’t wait for the Krauts to start busting the hosts of art shows.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Professional artists and writers would face up to three months in jail if they make "realistic descriptions of sex among young people" in magazines, films, books, newspapers or on the internet."

So much for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

While experts acknowledge that the bill has good intentions, they fear it will deprive teens of a sexual rite of passage, through flirting and experimentation.

Apparently, said 'experts' missed the two words, "public places".

[TrueKnightGalahad]

While experts acknowledge that the bill has good intentions....

There's the problem right there...so-called "experts" and so-called "good intentions." More mischief, and downright evil, has been created by the "good intentions" of the "There oughta be a law!" crowd than ever was done by individual tyrants (who often simply piggy-back on the emotions stirred by the self-described do-gooders). Save us all from "good intentions," as they almost invariably lead to bad results.

[rednesss]

Can we start hanging people who come up with this idiotic stuff yet?????? I have a rope. Somebody just needs to find a good tree.

[truemiester]

I was staioned in Germany in the lat 1970’s. Kissing was one of the more respectable things they did in public.

[Duck Fan]

They can still drink beer.

[rogue yam]

I simply do not believe that the Germans would be so impractical as to pass a law outlawing public kissing between 15-year-olds. Young people that age like to kiss each other and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.

[Sarajevo]

I have to doubt the veracity of the article. The writer should go to the Englischer Garten in Munich or any public Schwimmbad on a sunny summer day. There is public nudity all over the place.

[Rummenigge]

This law has not the chance of a snow ball in a deep frying pan...

It’s allready been toppled.

[tlj18]

I must say I am astonished by this article. I haven’t seen it myself yet, but I do understand that public nudity is acceptable here in Germany are certain types of locations, such as beaches and parks. Pornograghy is much more acceptable here than the U.S. Heck, you’re allowed to urinate in public, as long as you are facing away from everyone else. This is something I wold expect to see in an Islamic country. I would sooner expect to see it in the U.S. than Europe. Europe is probably the world leader in public sexual/sensual expression.

[rednesss]

"Heck, you’re allowed to urinate in public, as long as you are facing away from everyone else."

When you gotta go, you gotta go. No reason to criminalize it.

[tlj18]

It’s illegal in the UK...

[<1/1,000,000th%]

...might release a "wave of useless procedures for an already overstretched police force to deal with, while the really relevant crimes in society go unsolved".

Isn't this the goal of the EU in general?

[Wiz]

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