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Originally Posted by SteveLightspeed
All those should be done only by ADULTS. But being an adult is more about maturity, responsibility and accountability than AGE.
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This is very true. But generally a 21 year old is going to be SOMEWHAT more mature than an 18 year old. Certainly that isn't always the case.
I'd be all for raising the age to 21 for pretty much one reason only...the models themselves. It would give them that extra 3 years of life experience to be somewhat more certain that they understand the repurcussions of their actions.
"I don't want my dad to know I'm doing this," a potential model will say. (How many times have we heard that as an industry proving that the models don't even understand the technology that IS the internet.)
"No problem, we'll block out his ip range."
WE ALL know that's bullshit, but if the model's requesting that, she doesn't. Sure, you CAN keep them out to a point, but if ANYONE that knows the family stumbles across them on a tgp or something, they're GONNA see those picture and eventually daddy will see them.
20 years ago a woman could pose in Playboy or any other adult magazine and go on living a normal life. Once the new issue was out, the other one got tossed in the garbage, or out in the garage, never to be seen again. Nowadays, with the internet, these women (and men) will be naked online FOREVER. I'm not sure how many 18 year olds can fathom that.
Regardless of the legal age of performers, the people that don't like porn will try to find underage models, so upping the age is never going to change anything on that front.
As for removing those images of women under 21 after they've upped the age? I imagine they could throw in a grandfather clause, just like they've done when they raised the drinking age in places.
