17 year old porn - is it the sites or your responsibility?

[Metric1]

sites. i've looked like i was 18+ since i was 15.

[Special]

well known porn websites such as ******* & pornhub will monitor what type of porn gets uploaded & chosen for their website, they're establish companies basically so they'll be the ones who get done

if you go on a website that isn't known or something obvious such as 16andunder you're going to be at a bigger risk of watching under age porn

[Richie]

child porn is illegal?

[peteyt]

pyroka that's only if you go on SEXY TEEN GIRLS.COM or whatever

if you went on something like youpom (i didn't actually say name so cant warn me) and you viewed a video with the same title it would be fine, as you're ASSUMING that they're of age & because it says they are

The problem with teen sites is 18/19 are still teens and are legal. A teen site can say its only 18+ but it might not be 100 percent true.

[Stephen]

all the most known porn sites are full of crap cheesy porn *plays my guitar in the background of a milkman and policewoman having sex*

does anyone actually watch that

[FlyingJesus]

That's only if you don't know how to use search features

[GommeInc]

Basic principles of a crime: actus reus and mens rea.

Watching under aged porn (e.g. 17) (the guilty act) without intent (mens rea) means you are not guilty of the crime because you cannot commit an offence on an action alone. However, if you watching child pornography without intent and the actors/actresses are obviously under aged you could be considered knowingly or recklessly guilty. Ultimately, it is the Studio who hired the actors/actresses who are guilty or the uploader if it's one of these YouTube like file sharing sites.

If you are watching under aged pornography by searching "17 y/o gives guy hand shandy" then you're intently looking for under aged pornography and, if you watch the video, you have committed an offence. However, if you search for it, but do not watch it, you are not guilty of an offence because a guilty act has not happened. It's a bit like thinking "I want Simon Cowell to die. I wonder if axing him down will be fine?" That's not a crime, however saying it out loud and in front of him would be if I whole heartedly went into the details of it as it comes under a whole range of "threat related" laws. It also has to fulfil a list of criteria but that's not the point of this thread

EDIT: One case I recall is the case of Brent Corrigan who appeared in adult films when he was under aged. He faked his I.D. and deceived the Studio but the porn company were completely at fault and were fined millions and eventually closed down. It's probably on Wikipedia somewhere, but that's usually a case that sums up what happens with pornography cases like the ones you're debating. If he was a lot younger then there would be harsher penalties.