Just reading the logline for this article on the main page made my blood boil. There is ZERO justification for this. Any damn fool knows that there are literally millions of photo albums in homes across this country that are filled with pictures of infants and toddlers naked in the bathtub, or swimming pool, or running through the backyard sprinkler. I suppose all those parents are perverts, right??

Not to lessen his family's ordeal, but Mr. Jenkins is VERY lucky. I have read of several instances of people not only losing their children but being tried, convicted and sent to prison for exactly the kinds of photos I describe above, and that Mr. Jenkins took of his kids. His local authorities actually used their heads and dropped the charges. Things could have been much, much worse.

It is high time for some serious reform of these God-foresaken laws. Under no circumstances should retail employees be drafted into acting as shills for law enforcement, especially when so many of them are too fucking stupid to recognize that a picture of Jr. in the bathtub with suds on his head is NOT FUCKING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. Part of the training problem with the retailers is that only way they can teach their photo lab assistants and managers what is and is not child pornography is by showing them the real thing. But of course that's illegal, and in some grave in Prague Kafka spins like a turbine.

DAMN does this sort of thing piss me the hell off!

You know what? We did tons of camping as a family during my childhood as well. In my wildest

dreams I can't imagine my parents photographing me naked drying my underwear over a fire - in fact they'd have had me put on some clean dry clothes in the first place rather than running

around naked at the age of 8 - which let's face it is not 18 months.

Similarly I can't imagine any appeal in a family including young children "pissing" out the fire naked. Sounds VERY weird to me and I can imagine someone indeed would call the police if they saw it.

Salon even publishes this kind of crap is what let's the right paint lefties as a bunch of freaks.

When I was a teenager in the 1980s in the Bay Area, I had an acquaintance who had a part-time job working in a photography store at the counter and processing photos in the lab. Whenever someone brought in photos that showed people naked or engaged in sexual activity, he made copies that he passed on to another friend who collected them.

I worked at a large drug store when I was 16 and 17, and remember one of the photo lab techs would hold up nude photos that had been brought in for processing by customers to other store employees when they walked by the photo counter--"check this out!" Big joke.

Of course, that was before something could be sold or posted on the Internet. I would never take nude photos of responsible adults--whether engaged in consenting sexual activity or just nude--to a photo lab or a drug store.

Photographing your eight year old walking around naked? Who would even want to for heavens sakes? A cozy family nude session pissing out a fire? Eight year olds standing around the campfire naked drying their underwear on a stick? Why would you want a photo of that. It's not fun OR healthy in my book of healthy behavior.

Lots of bad choices (to say the least). There's plenty to criticize with the right, but finding something like this weird and offensive is not among it.

Alan or someone else who knows, could you give more details about the news story with the woman arrested for asking the hotline if it was normal to be aroused by breastfeeding her baby? I couldn't find it on Google and I'd like to read more about it.

Does anyone else have any other good advice on how to best take naked pictures of children without having unwanted people- like the photo lab- see them? Digital camera....good. Online photo labs....check. Come on!!

Let's not forget that there are a LOT of perverts out there and a LOT of children falling prey to sickos. Most of which go unreported and undetected. God forbid the laws are skewed to protect the children. Those law enforcement bastards ruin all the fun.

I find this behavior very questionable, and this is merely HIS side of the story.

The only thing that I can think of that legitimately raises question is the child carrying the beer bottle, but that's easily explained. But heck, my dad used to let me have sips of his beer at dinner-- I guess he should be in jail or something?

Different families have different standards for nudity. Some families are even nudist, and while that might be strange it doesn't mean the kids are being abused or damaged in any way. My sister and I used to run around the house naked all the time, and there are pictures of it, and it never harmed us at all.

Also, it is supremely normal for boys to try to piss out a fire. They are fascinated with what comes out of their penises and that fascination never goes away. They piss on fires, they write their names in the snow, and if there's a dot in the urinal they will aim for it. And there's nothing weird or sick about that.

...you may find it helps to cut down on the old drugstore clerk calls the cops about the naked kids at the campfire thing. Works everytime.

...is why that photo store employee isn't in jail. It should be illegal to make false accusations against people, no matter what crime is being talked about. If it were illegal, you'd see a lot fewer cases like this around, believe me. The possibility of spending time in jail for potentially ruining people's lives - that would make those kinds of paranoid busybodies look twice and think three times before they were around pointing fingers at people they don't know.