Let me get this straight then, you approve of laws that outlaw porn that documents "legal, consensual activity"?
I don't see how adults and minors can legally consent to have sex together when you arbitrarily state that a person must be 18 to "appear" in porn. That is a moral decision.
And for the record in this lengthy thread, you DID defend underage porn produced in Scandavian countries as being a result of their lower age of consent laws.
You now also bring in drug laws. Regulation of use (sale of alcohol on Sunday only after 12pm, sold at stores only until midnight, sold in bars only until 2am, used only by persons over 21...) still carrys a slew of laws.
If you want to legalize drugs better be willing to legalize all substances for use by everyone regardless of age.
After all, the "war on drugs" targets underage users too and we know that child and teen drugging, smoking, tripping, and drinking will never be eliminated.
It is indeed a strange thing, especially when you take into account the 15 year old busted for disseminating child porn on the net -- they were her own pictures of herself.
But the government establishes ages of consent for things. 16 may be able to legally consent to have sex with an older person, but not legally able to consent to appearing in a sexually explicit production. They could probably get around it by parents granting permission, but then we could nail the parents. We have to set the ages somewhere.
If you want to legalize drugs better be willing to legalize all substances for use by everyone regardless of age.
It's all about age of majority, which is when a person supposedly obtains full rights as a citizen. I think age of majority should be where the drinking age and all other cutoffs for consensual acts are set. Either you're a full citizen with all the freedoms, or you aren't, period.
After all, the "war on drugs" targets underage users too and we know that child and teen drugging, smoking, tripping, and drinking will never be eliminated.
Easier, and more constitutional, to go after that use than all use by citizens past the age of majority.