15 year old running pornography ring

[tatt]

Maybe because I've had a drink tonight - but I feel total despair at what the world is doing to children. How have we got to the stage where children can do this sort of thing?

www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/boy+15+ran+computer+porn+ring/3047452

Good grief thats awful

link not working - less awful!!

here

I'm not that shocked.

The story says:

"A boy of 15 has been arrested in Greece for running an internet pornography ring.

He and friends had taken nude pictures of girlfriends and classmates in Thessaloniki and posted them online.

He had also contacted other boys asking them to send nude pictures of girls they knew. Several thousands of pictures had been stored."

Why do young girls get their kit off so easily these days?

Have you ever taken a look at Bebo?

Sexting seems to be the new 'thing'

My DS2 is on bebo, I don't play on any of the networking sites.

Surely it's not about kids doing this kind of thing younger, it's just the means available to them to brag/talk/share their early sexual esperiences?

Agree with Hobbgoblin, Me and DH were taking rude pics at 15,

he just wasn't a prick enough to put them online.

There wasn't an "online" when I was 15 lol, and I was certainly too shy to strip off!

Well it might have been shocking if it were a 5-year-old, but 15-year-old boys are basically all willy.
It's not on to post pictures of people all over the net without their consent, obviously. But neither is this desperately eeeevil behaviour, it just happened that some horny teenage boys had access to mass communication technology.

I admit I thought this was proper porn iyswim - not swapping pictures of girls which is what this is really

Its not as if he had a photographic studio is it!!

Still not acceptable but Im the actual detail of the case isnt as shocking as the headline!

girls get there kit off because they are persuaded the boy "loves" them and the photos are just for them. Then they get plastered over the internet and sometimes sold.

When I was a kid access to pornography was restricted, you had to buy a magazine and the vendor quite possibly knew when you were underage and refused to sell it. It was also not socially acceptable so parents finding pornography probably destroyed it. Now it is freely available on youtube or elsewhere and kids discuss in lessons what pornography sites they use.

tatt you don't know why they took their clothes off.

The girls may have been entirely consensual to the whole thing - but if they thought the photos were just for their boyfriend then more fool them. It is very wrong to plaster intimate photos of someone all over the internet (or even just show them to your mates) without their consent though.

I was sleeping with my boyfriend at 15 and if he'd tried to take photos I would have gone apeshit.

no I don't know those particular girls - but I do know plenty of teenage girls. Very unlikely that all the girls agreed to this - but if they did I would despair of a world where teenage girls wanted to do this.

I've looked at bebo and at other teenage sites, I know what my children get up to online.

Ah, but do you know what they get up to in their heads?

I think a lot of teenage girls are growing up in a world where taking a very sexualised view of themselves is considered completely normal and desirable - just look at all the girls sending in photos of themselves to Nuts and Zoo and the like. They think it is the way to be popular and cool. It is very sad that they hold themselves so cheaply.

Just as well they're not in the States.

it's illegal in this country (Protection of Children Act of 1978) if the person in the photo is under 16. The police might not prosecute as not in the public interest but any child taking such a photo or passing it on is acting illegally. I wish more of them knew it.

Maybe it's time we had a couple of high-profile prosecutions, then?