Get in trouble for taking pictures of your own child breastfeeding?

[pne]

That just seems over the top to me.

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[bride.livejournal.com]

That traditional bath pic of children (mostly boys, in Chinese families to "prove it's a boy") can be considered child pornography. Parents can be slapped with a felony for those too.

[bluewingedcat.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, I really really hate the country I live in.

[robnorth.livejournal.com]

For all its glory, America is still a very screwed-up country.

For another example of how prudishness leads to stupidity, here's a lovely true story from the '96 Olympics in Atlanta. (Don't have a cite for it, I'm afraid.) Georgia still has laws on the books prohibiting even married couples from engaging in certain types of intimate relations. Some prudes were concerned that all these "furriners" coming to Atlanta for the Olympics might not know better, and engage in some of these acts illegally in the "land of the free". So serious discussion ensued re: posting the list of prohibitions in hotel rooms and in the athletes' village.

Then someone realised that many of these people wouldn't speak English. So someone else came up with the idea of helping these poor benighted foreigners know what not to do, by using pictographs. You know, like a stick drawing of two people doing, well, "something naughty", with a red circle and slash through it?

Thankfully, when the discussion hit that nadir, someone finally got a clue and realised the appalling stupidity of the whole thing, and just decided to drop it.

Welcome to America.

Not just Georgia...

[marikochan.livejournal.com]

A lot of States have similar laws on the books. I believe I've been told that in Virginia (my state) the only legal way to have sex is with a spouse, with the lights off, wearing no socks, and in the missionary position.

[timwi.livejournal.com]

Holy shit!

(I don't say that very often, do I?)