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Is That "Sexting" Pic Illegal? A Scientific Test

Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes "Summary: Amid the latest "sexting" controversy, here is a proposal for a scientifically objective method to determine whether a picture constitutes child pornography. This is a harder problem than it... ...full story at slashdot

from slashdot on Mon, Mar 30 2009

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