Great subject Baba:
Your question was of "legal age", but there are many varieties of legal age for different issues.
There is the age of consent which laws vary widely, and while most jurisdictions set the age of consent in the range 15 to 18, outliers with ages of consent as low as 13 and as high as 20 exist.
There are legal definitions of child pornography, where (according to wiki) most possessors of child pornography who are arrested are found to possess images of prepubescent children; possessors of pornographic images of post-pubescent minors are less likely to be prosecuted, even though those images also fall within the statutes.
Historically speaking, traditions across the globe, the age of consent for a sexual union was a matter for the family to decide, or a tribal custom. In most cases, this coincided with signs of puberty, menstruation for a woman and pubic hair for a man.
The "morality" difference between age of consent and the age at which an individual can appear in pornographic images and films is hotly disputed.
In my opinion they should be one and the same.
In this woman's case ... she passed age of consent on all levels long before these photos where taken. The problem here is the "knowing and willing" factor. People should be knowing and willing at all times and all ages.
Another Mark Twain quote:
"It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"--that's my motto."
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