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Edited by Recon Number 54: 12/22/2013 4:46:45 PM
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SnapChat puts a mom in hot water.

[url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/18/us-usa-toplessmom-missouri-idUSBRE9BH1ID20131218]Missouri mom charged for topless hot tub photo with teen daughter[/url]. Mom and her 14 year old daughter are enjoying some "girl time" in the hot tub, topless. The mom's 13 year old daughter snaps a pic and puts it on Snapchat. Her mother claims as soon as she saw the younger daughter take the pic, she told her daughter to delete it. Instead, it was posted and made its way around the Internet, especially local schools. So, mom has been charged with misdemeanor child endangerment and could face a year in jail. What was the endangerment? That she and her daughter weren't wearing bikini tops when in a private hot tub within their own home? Or that she didn't leap from the tub, snatch the phone from her 13 year old's hands and delete the photo herself? This is embarrassing, probably for the whole family, especially for the 14 year old, and I am guessing that the 13 year old thought it would be lulzy. But a crime? What say you? Should the mom be prosecuted? Do you think that she committed a criminal act?

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  • Edited by Recon Number 54: 12/22/2013 6:48:41 PM
    I am honestly amazed just how many members are finding the idea of a family using their personal and private hot tub partially clothed to be so out of the ordinary (or to repeat a term that has been frequently used, "weird"). I guess that puritanical standards are more deeply embedded in our culture than I imagined. I would have thought, that as the resident "old man" that I would be more likely to have so-called "old-fashioned" standards or be somewhat prudish on the matter. Especially when I see the ease of which people in this community casually toss around phrases like "let's bang" or "send me nudes" which are both sexual in nature, but a family soaking in a spa is non-sexual. I can say that in Europe, where topless beaches are the standard (yes, even for teens!) or in parts of Asia, where communal bathing is a part of the culture, nudity and sexuality are sometimes intertwined, but there are clear situations where nudity is NOT sexual in any way. Maybe it's the time zone. I'm not telling anyone that they are "wrong" for thinking the way that they do, I am saying that I didn't expect to see so many who held that particular view. I've learned something today.

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