Friday, May 18, 2007

What I'm Wondering Today

Mama,

The other night, Tyra had a show about wives whose husbands look at a lot of porn online and make them insecure. She had the girl who do the porn on the show too.

Tyra said it's illegal. I didn't think porn is illegal, is it? I thought just prostitution is illegal. I mean, I guess they're having sex for money so that's prostitution. But couldn't they just say they're acting? I mean, I don't know.

So okay. If it IS illegal, then how can the porn girls go on tv like that? Are the police waiting backstage to arrest them? How do people go on tv, admit to doing things against the law, and not get arrested right away? I don't understand.

Love,
Sam

1 comment:

Missy said...

In some places it's legal in other places it's illegal. If the person in the picture is under 18 it's always illegal.

I suppose there could be a lot of reasons people on those shows don't get arrested. Maybe they had already been charged. Pornography is the type of crime where the victim is the person in the picture (even if they don't consider themselves a victim). The real perpetrators are the people taking the pictures, selling them, and the people buying them.