I’m not going to add to all the partially-informed verbiage prompted by the unedifying story apparently involving the BBC, The Sun, £35,000 and some unedifying pictures, except to stroke my chin over one legal oddity the case has highlighted. Someone 16 years old or more has the capacity, the law says, to choose to display his or her or their naked body to someone older, provided said viewer isn’t in a position of responsibility. However, said 16+-year-old is allowed to distribute an image of said body. The image, one might infer, is more powerful than the original. Baudrillard vindicated again.
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