Opinions please

[Faulksonline]

I seem to be on the wrong end of this conversation - a 17 year old girl makes a sex tape with her 24 year old boyfriend. They break up. Her mum finds out about the sex tape & reports it to the police. AIBU to think she's very young to be making sex tape decisions that may have repercussions & he should have considered this?

The young woman is over the age of consent. That in itself does not make a sex tape a crime, assuming it was consensual. What happens afterwards, and the nature of the relationship, is another matter.

YANBU to think that it was a poor decision by both of them, imho.

She consented to the sex tape and was over the age of consent.
I’d only be contacting the boyfriend and police if I had revenge porn concerns. If for example, she had not consented to the video being uploaded to pornhub or shared by any digital means and was concerned her now exbf might be tempted to do that. The police can give the bf a caution to not share the sex tape or sell it.

Bid both consented, then they are both stupid.

Bid = If

Actually the advice given is incorrectly. It is not about the age of consent for having sex but about the filming of it. She is legally still a child as she is under the age of 18. It is illegal to make an sexual indecent image or video of someone that age.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/indecent-images-of-children-guidance-for-young-people/indecent-images-of-children-guidance-for-young-people

A close family member thinks the boy is being treated poorly & DP thinks I'm being a prude. Dsis also thinks the girl must the 'kind of girl' who does things like that & is old enough to make her own decisions. In fact, she thinks I'm being unfair to the girl by not crediting her with being able to make her own decisions

I’m with you OP.
And as for your dsis’s view; ‘that kind of girl’? What a dick comment. That alone would piss me off. As for being able to make her own decisions, we don’t know if the girl was coerced or not. And we’ve probably all made questionable decisions at 17 that we regret. Maybe remind your oh so perfect DSis of hers.

She was under 18 so it’s an offence -

But making sex tapes generally is just a very silly thing to do