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Porn Sites by Minors, Featuring Themselves
By: Kendra Hurley
Published: December 19, 2005
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For an audience of over 1,500 people who paid him over hundreds of thousands of dollars, one teenager sold images of his body on the Internet. His story is part of a larger trend, the New York Times contends. “Minors, often under the online tutelage of adults, are opening for-pay pornography sites featuring their own images sent onto the Internet by inexpensive Webcams,” reports the Times. “And they perform from the privacy of home, while parents are nearby, beyond their children's closed bedroom doors.”

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