Ugh. It’s the Jailbait subreddit again. If you’ve been following any of the discussions that have recently been swirling around Reddit’s popular subreddit dedicated to the posting of technically-not-child-porn pics of underage girls, you probably ran across the standard Jailbait apologia: The pics there aren’t nude pics, and besides, most of them were originally posted on the internet by the girls themselves. So it’s all good clean fun, I guess.
It’s going to be a little bit harder for the Jailbaiters to use this bullshit argument in the future. A day or so ago, you see, a Jailbaiter calling himself TheContortionist posted a pic of his (alleged) 14-year-old ex-girlfriend’s ass in a thong. Naturally, the regulars demanded more. The OP noted that the only other pics he had of her were nudes.
So literally dozens of the regulars – I counted around 70 in all — begged him to PM the nudes to them. And … apparently he did send some of them the pics, at least according to a r/jailbait moderator with the charming handle I_RAPE_PEOPLE.
I can only hope that some of the requesters were FBI agents.
Here’s a screenshot of the whole disgusting thread (SFW; in an earlier NSFW screenshot posted to Reddit virtually all of the comments you see downvoted here still had net upvotes).
TheContortionist’s post (and the Jailbaiters’ reaction to it) was first brought to the attention of non-pedo Redditors by Me_bender in ShitRedditSays, then brought to the attention of the rest of Reddit by SRS regular HPLovecraft.
Naturally, this being Reddit, the r/jailbait apologists are still insisting that, hey, even though something like 70 people in r/jailbait publicly requested PMs of child porn, this sort of thing is officially frowned upon by the subreddit’s mods, so, you know, not to worry. As CapNRoddy put it:
The existence of r/jailbait does not mean nudes of children. Those are against the rules. Those posters broke the rules.
And then of course there were various iterations of this non-argument, set forth here by im_only_a_dolphin:
You know what I do about /r/jailbait?
I don’t visit it. Bam. Problem solved.
If by “solved” you mean “ignored, because I don’t give a shit about crimes that harm people other than me,” then I guess, yeah, that is “problem solved.”
I’ve been taking these quotes from the sometimes surreal discussion of the issue on the WTF subreddit. That discussion also produced this rather surreal exchange with I_RAPE_PEOPLE, the r/jailbait moderator I mentioned earlier:
Meanwhile, in another discussion of the topic elsewhere on Reddit, voidsong managed to get more than a dozen net upvotes for a comment that attempted to place the blame for the pics in r/jailbait on “daddy’s little angels slutting themselves up and taking pictures in the mirror” (and, of course, their parents).
I can only hope that the authorities are investigating these creeps, and that the Reddit admins are cooperating fully with them.
God, the more I see this kind of foulness the more I would seriously consider never letting my children outdoors or near a computer. Seriously.
I need a shower.
Also, young women need to see this before they take or agree to let their boyfriends take nude photos of them, because as strongly as they may feel about their boyfriends, they never know if he’s an asshole who will post or give away those photos online until it’s too late.
I didn’t know there was a Jailbait subreddit.
I think I could have lived a long and happy life without ever having known that.
Tabby – Young men need to see thus before posting pictures of their girlfriends online. It’s not a mistake to trust someone, it’s a mistake to violate someone’s trust.
I’m so glad I got through high school before all of this shit. Kids experiment — always have, always will. That does NOT justify adults preying on them like this. It’s hard because you can explain to a 14, 15 year old that boyfriends/girlfriends are not forever but they won’t believe you.
Well, this kind of thing is becoming part of basic educate-kids-about-danger material, I guess. Don’t accept candy, don’t get in the van, don’t give out your real name or address to the internet, don’t let someone post photos of you online… Too bad that pedophiles can so easily find girls’ photos now; at least before the internet they had to hang around middle schools and bedroom windows like proper perverts.
Not that this in any way excuses the actual pedos in question — I’ve run across various pictures people wouldn’t want (or shouldn’t have had) posted online but then you freaking click away you don’t beg for nudes. Disgusting. I really hope this is being pursued as an actual child porn case, ’cause these guys knew she was 14 and requested nude pics anyways; I see no difference between that and any other type of child porn trading.
Dear mods of the jailbait subreddit,
if even 4chan has stricter rules than you regarding pics of underage girls, it’s really, really, REALLY time to reconsider.
(Also, did some of these people asking for the nudes seriously use their main accounts?
I mean, at least the ones using socks seem to be aware that what they are doing it wrong enough to require using a sock account.)
Bagelsan:
I’m going to side with Holly on this one: don’t post someone’s photos online, just like “don’t take advantage of someone who’s drunk at a party” is better protection if followed than “don’t get drunk at a party”
Unless you meant “let” in the volition sense, in which case I side with the people who look forward to the time it’s unusual to not have something embarrassing somewhere on the Internet.
eeeeeewwwwwww… If you need me, I’ll be at the front desk, trying to figure out how to opt out of the human race.
Seriously. Just fucking ick.
Hey, maybe we should arrest all those creepy fucking women who were obsessed with 16 year old Taylor Lautner in Twilight. But wait, we can’t, because they’re women.
My reaction in pictorial format:
wtf? image fail. again.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68431029@N06/6230952751/
Sadly, in our brave new feminist world, the sexualization of young females is entrenched in the modern psyche through endless bombardment of scantily clad, barely legal females like Britney Spears, strutting their stuff for rutting bulls, in a state of permanent randiness. Feminism in the form of slut empowerment is the rampaging frankenstein’s monster that is destroying western civilisation. No wonder the Muslims hate us!
It’s disturbing that you read /r/jailbait David. I guess the cover of being a feminist helps.
….Or he heard about it from shitredditsays?
So it’s feminists who are sexualizing young girls? Since when?
Dracula, haven’t you heard? Supporting women participating freely in their own sexuality on their own terms without judgement or descrimination = sexually objectifying young girls!
Since female sexuality/feminism devolved into an empowering act with their bodies, where they get all in touch with their inner vaginalogue.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Right. And that has what to do with teenagers being exploited by creepy misogynist pedophiles?
Yes, feminists caused the sexualization of children that has been present for centuries prior to feminism’s creation and that persists despite our attempts to eradicate. You found us out. Our Time Machines are in the Secret Compound, but you’ll never get its location from me!
You are as misinformed as the imaginary Muslims in your story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Contra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Reza_Pahlavi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_%E2%80%93_United_States_relations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%93present%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_drone
Ugh… I actually try to take a “live and let live” attitude to pedophilia. As long as you’re not actually hurting anyone, you can be turned on by whatever the hell you want, whether it’s children, walruses, walrus children, children riding walruses, children being ridden by walruses, whatever. (Feel free to crucify me) That ends once you actually hurt someone. Such as by, for instance, dating a 14-year-old, then distributing sexual or even outright pornographic pics of her… or trying to acquire said pics. They totally deserve whatever consequences come of this.
On that note, the Jailbait subreddit seems questionable and icky since, from the description, it seems to be about actual photos of actual underage girls. Which… has the potential to be harmful to real people.
For some reason many of you don’t seem to be aware of the common practice of creepy, older lesbian feminists luring underage girls into their twisted lifestyle. This is one of the biggest M.O.s of the feminist lesbian movement. Sadly, in sexualization underage children, which most homosexuals of both genders actively promote, it has also opened the doors for equally as sick hetero male various schoolgirl fantasia.
I find magdelyn’s comment offensive because zie clearly just wants to dismantle Manboobz.
Just kidding, that’s just amusing. I think magdelyn is qualified for the Olympic Straw Clutching events. Go turn straw into some gold medals!