I agree. I think the laws need to be adjusted to reflect the fact that nude pictures are being taken and distributed by the underage subjects themselves.
The age of consent in many areas is under 18 (I think Hawaii is as low as 14). That means it is legal for them to consent to activity with an adult (over 18). Should they too be permitted to “trade snapshots”?
Here it isn’t the taking the picture that is the crime. It is the distribution.
And that will happen one of two ways, either the legislatures that passed those laws will need to quickly rewrite them, or some judge is going to toss the whole law out as being "vague", since the legislators had no right to delve into one's privacy in this way to deprive the errant teenagers' of liberty.
I'm hoping the prosecutors involved will see the wisdom of not letting this stuff go before judges who will gut the kiddie porn laws in such a way. The embarassment factor has already been plenty of punishment in these cases.
Perhaps when legislatures rewrite these laws, they can address the situation of underage girls sending nude pictures of themselves to boys, and simply make it a violation (not a full crime) to do so, where part of the sentence is to put the "evidence" on a website. That might discourage this activity!