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deadman wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 8:49 pm

Sully23 wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 7:44 pm

deadman wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 7:14 pm Underage nudity is not illegal in the United States.

I hope what you say is true but the problem is not the public's reaction but a visit from the FBI and a stint in a federal prison, no matter if he is artistic he is still labeled as a cp.

There are plenty of (usually older) American movies with underage nudity, which are still available on cable/streaming. Sex acts are illegal. Nudity is not. The way they basically shadow ban that is through local obscenity laws involving vaguely defined "community standards" (the vagueness is intentional). In practice this means conservative towns won't let you show your film in a public forum. The effect is like demonetizing videos on someone's YouTube channel. If you can't make money without self-censoring, you self-censor, and the industry largely does. Indie films are the big exception. Non-studio productions have limited theatrical distribution anyway, and they can stick to welcoming venues.

You're talking about material that one can face criminal charges simply for possessing. And with minors that means sex. For example: if you've seen those nudist pseudo-documentary movies showing families doing various activities sans clothing, there's a lot of naked people (of all ages) but absolutely no sex. Those are not illegal under US law. If you show them at a drive-in theater in some deep red state you could get in trouble for breaking local indecency ordinances though.

I have a magazine article about the 1938 film Child Bride, featuring 12 year old Shirley Mills. The laws really haven't changed much in all this time. The tricks they used to get around industry self-censorship are instructive regarding what's legal and what isn't. Conservatives tried to block showings of the movie because they couldn't go after the director or anyone else attached to the production for simply making it - they would have, if the law allowed them to. In fact this movie can still be viewed on Amazon Prime right now. Reposting the widely distributed Scorpions album cover certainly won't land you in trouble. Did you ever hear about the Scorpions or RCA Records (the label they were signed with) being prosecuted over it? No. And you won't find any court cases online either. RCA re-issued the album with a different cover in the US and some other countries because of negative public feedback, but no law required that, it was a business decision.

Davros6 wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2024 6:14 pm There's a few films that i think would have turned out different if they'd been filmed in Europe.

Davros6 wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2024 6:14 pm Hounddog Would have had nudity in it.