bakefuldoll.

basically this is whats up for discussion as well as should it just be human children.

on a personal level i happily accept naked human kids shouldn't be allowed. for many the trouble lies in the diffirentiation between human, anime, toon, faery, pixie and what ever else is deemed by rendo to be a child. in photographic media the line is much more simple to define...has anyone got photos of young faeries........would the feds tanner scale allow or disallow faeries for instance. would the tanner scale work just for human kids.........how can it be for faeries when to many, faeries are ageless.

 

the tanner scale arguement

PEDIATRICS Vol. 102 No. 6  December 1998, pp. 1494
Misuse of Tanner Puberty Stages to Estimate Chronological Age

To the Editor;
One of us has been involved as an expert in several US federal cases of possession of alleged child pornography, in which seized materials (videos, photographs, computer downloads) were used as evidence against individuals identified in "sting" operations, wherein government agents take over pornographic businesses.  In these cases the staging of sexual maturation (Tanner stage) has been used not to stage maturation, but to estimate probable chronological age.  This is a wholly illegitimate use of Tanner staging: no equations exist estimating age from stage, and even if they did, the degree of unreliability in the staging the independent variable would introduce large errors into the estimation of age, the dependent variable.  Furthermore, the unreliability of the stage rating is increased to an unknown degree by improperly performed staging, that is, not at a clinical examination but through nonstadardized and, thus, unsuitable photographs.
Therefore, we wish to caution pediatricians and other physicians to refrain from providing "expert" testimony as to chronological age based on Tanner staging, which was designed for estimating development or physiologic age for medical, educational, and sports purposes, in other words, identifying early and late maturers.  The method is appropriate for this, provided chronologic age is known.  It is not designed for estimating chronologic age and, therefore, not properly used for this purpose.

Arlan L. Rosenbloom, MD
Department of Pediatrics
University of Florida College of Medicine
Gainsville, FL 32610-0296

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