Hm (RL)

[thistlechaser]

I wonder if this is child porn or not. (Work safe? Naked children, but no bits or bobs show.) While pictures #1 and #2 have naked kids, I would have thought they could have been taken for innocent reasons. Pictures #3 and #4 make me question that. #4 looks rather posed, with the kid's necklace pushed to one side. Plus his expression/hair kind of make my eyebrows raise. Pictures #5-#8 tilt things more heavily into porn end of things.

Maybe I should run that through Babelfish and see what that Russian means...

Markers of this record: archive, the photo

Children's
Children's #e
Braty - acrobats.

I guess it's innocent and I've still not lost my "alert for child porn" spidey-sense. (That was part of my duties at an old job, long ago. I had a contact name at the FBI to report stuff to.)

Comments

[gconnor.livejournal.com]

It was not blocked by our fascist-work-proxy-thing so it must not be real kidporn. :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Heh! :P

I do hope it's not. I was trying to recall the contact name (assuming he even still works there) in case the majority of people thought it really was porn. (Though I suppose the better route would be to report it to the LJ folks. They must have contacts of their own. I hope.)

[jakflak.livejournal.com]

There's sometimes a fine line between child porn and just cute pics of the kids. Without actually understanding Russian, I'd have to guess this is the latter.

[kalin-nestar.livejournal.com]

YOu are so funny. "Hey lookit this. Is this child porn?"...
That's the same as "Hey gross, lookit what I pulled out my ear, see?"
Or, "Here, taste this milk to see if its gone bad."

To answer your question, I don't think its child porn. I think its a cultural difference. In other cultures, naked doesn't equal sex, and children don't equal sex, so naked children is more of an innocence thing. America just isn't like that. (Hooray for our side?)

For example, in my old salon there was this really nice gal who had just given birth to a baby. When the baby was around 3-6 months old, she took lots of pictures of the baby sitting, taking a bath, laying in some seat thingie. The thing was, the baby was a naked boy, and a rather prominent naked boy at that. She had a whole roll of shots in a small photo album that she showed each and every client, men, children, didn't matter. You could tell that people were taken aback, especially the men. But see, she was Vietnamese, and would probably have been upset and insulted if anyone told her that her beloved pictures of her innocent baby were considered nasty by lots of people. No one wanted to see a strange penis that day...the difference was cultural.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it could get tricky (and not even mentioning international laws and all that). Hopefully it is the latter! :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

YOu are so funny. "Hey lookit this. Is this child porn?"...
That's the same as "Hey gross, lookit what I pulled out my ear, see?"
Or, "Here, taste this milk to see if its gone bad."

Hee! Hadn't thought about it like that. :P

And yeah, the rest of that makes sense. I guess I'm just still suspicious for some reason. I'm not sure if I hope that eventually goes away or not...