For the last eight years I’ve been taping myself naked and jacking off solo with a camcorder. Nothing too far-out, I just thought it would be fun. Here’s the problem: I’m 21 now and don’t know what to do with these old vids of myself. The person on the tape is clearly me, and I’ve racked up quite a huge archive over the years. I’ve been called really cute by many people, and since the wallet is low, can I sell them? Do they check the age? I’m old enough now, but could I just say I was over 18 the whole time they were being made? How do they check the age? So what would you recommend a guy in my shoes do? –Porn Star
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OK, the tapes you made of yourself before you turned 18 are technically child pornography. While it is illegal to possess, produce, or distribute child pornography, the fact that you made these tapes of yourself masturbating sent me scurrying for a guest expert. It’s illegal for a 21-year-old to own a videotape of a 13-year-old masturbating, but I wasn’t sure it would be illegal for a 21-year-old to own a videotape of himself masturbating at 13. I mean, could a kid who took a nude Polaroid of himself wind up in jail?
Could you lie about your age? Maybe, but if you have a run-in with the law, Helen and her friends won’t just take your word about how old you were when the tape was made. “Pediatric social workers and physicians review this kind of material, and by looking at bone development and secondary sexual characteristics, they can pretty closely determine the age of a person.”
–Traumatized
–Boob Boy
