18 is a legal age, that's why

Here in Europe everything goes when you are 18, you are allowed to drink, drive and become an adult.
Besides in Africa they get children at the age of 13 and many many many many many, so many of these teens are doing it at the age of 15 or even younger. 18 seems a normal age, don't see a problem, some of them get married or already have a child at that age so why shouldn't they be able to pose or become a sologirl etc...?

I think nude modeling is fine at 18 but maybe 21 would be better for hardcore... however I know that it is not feasible to change the law so it'll never happen.

Everyone's doing the "at 18 it's legal to..." angle but no one seems to be considering that most nude content is visible by potentially thousands or millions of people, and once it's up you'll never be completely rid of it. How many people watch you drink yourself silly in a bar? :)

this is a good suggestion. unfortunately only govt intervention can make it a reality.

Drinking, driving, smoking, voting, military service, signing contracts, getting married, having children, nude modeling.... All those should be done only by ADULTS. But being an adult is more about maturity, responsibility and accountability than AGE. Hell, I'm 40 and I'm not an adult at times.

There should be a test to pass, not a birthday to reach. Rights, responsibilities, and privileges of adulthood should be earned, not given. :2 cents:

Steve Lightspeed

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No, let;s raise the minimum age to 51. That will solve many issues facing the porn industry.

Geez.

Old enough to vote.

Old enough to die in a stupid war thought up by a poor president.

Old enough to fuck on camera.

How hard is it to figure out?

My answear is no! 18 is ok. It's legal

Exactly.

ull get a resounding no here...

very good post Steve

My thoughts exactly! :thumbsup

18 is plenty...probably too much. I actually joined the Marine Corps (signed the papers) at 16, went to bootcamp at 17 (after my parents signed the consent papers and I graduated high school) and had a gun, badge, handcuffs and a patrol car when I was 18. Besides being a police officer representing the USA in a foreign country at that age, I was also supposed to be ready at any time to fight for the country in a war.

In Okinawa, I could drink. Hell, we had beer vending machines in the barracks. One year later, I'm 19 and rotate to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and all of a sudden, I can't drink again, can't get into some clubs and somehow I'm less of an adult because I'm back in the overly letigious US of "I'll fucking sue you" A.

What I think is, raise the driving age to 18, lower the drinking age to 18 and make weed legal. Everybody gets lower car insurance, the increased tax income from alcohol and weed pay for national health care and restore social security and everybody wins.

Until that happens, I'll fight with every ounce in me to keep the goddamned government away from our business in every way, including this one. Fucking mother*&*w2...don't even get me started....

Nope, it shouldn't be lowered. Like everybody said if they are old enough to drive, get married and vote, they should be allowed to decide if they want to stand in front of a camera.

my thoughts exactally

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.

:2 cents:

>> 18 is enough, you're considered an adult, and about the whole 21 drinking thing, i was the same way "you can die for your country at 18, why can't i drink at 18?" because its been proven alcohol affects your brain, duh, and your frontal lobe in your brain isn't fully developed until you're 21 or older, thus they would rather you have a fully developed brain before you decide to start killing it ;)

explain that to me again (because Is tarted drinking at 17) how is dying for your country at 18 better for your brain than drinking beer?

For me it should be 18-25, I'm so sure girls between this limit is much more hot, rather than younger or older.

18 to play the lottery which is gambling, I think the casinos do 21 because of the free booze

The only way it goes to 21 for getting naked is if they raise the rules for everyone to 21 from 18... no military service until 21... no drivers license... no voting... no contracts or home ownership... live with your parents until you are 21.

That ain't gonna happen, so bring on the 18 year old pussy.

precisely

Agree with most everybody,18 is ok

If they can send you to war and hold you accountable for legal contracts then you should be able to fuck on film.

Oh, and the drinking age should be 18 too!

Brad

They need to federally mandate the age, I'm tired of it being one age to do one thing in one state, another age in another... so if you go one state over you may be breaking the law but in your own your not. It's fucking retarded.

Should be lowered to 16. Old enough to drive, old enough to fuck.

AMEN brother :thumbsup

Noooooo! For one it would mean that nearly all the content on my sites would then become illegal as I only have a few girls who are 21 and over as my sites are teen niche.

Also how would you police the millions of site ran from outside the US to ensure all the models are over 18 as you would need all governements worldwide to change their law to over 21's.
Would probably mean an increase in your taxes as the governments would need to employ 1000s of more people to check every website, magazine, DVD and video to ensure they used 21+ models.

On another topic Holland raised the age for hardcore for 16 to 18 in 2002. Poland, Australia, Denmark still allow 16 year old to do porn though. And several other european countries allow under 18s to do artisitic nudity. You can model nude at 14 in Germany as long as its not porn.