The bottom line is that - YES - 1 millisecond before her 18th birthday she is considered underaged, and it is considered child porn in the US. That's not a philosophical debate. Its LAW. Possessing or sharing such photos results in legal issues and a permanent assignment to a registered sex offender list. You can sit here and argue the morality to your heart's content. It won't fly in a court. You can compare the law to other countries with less stringent rules, it won't change here in the US. Truthfully, in lurking here for some time and knowing that morally I am probably suspect in some ways for checking out the adult pics, it makes me laugh to see so many others trot out one justification after the next for "why this is okay." If you're okay with being here then enjoy. If you feel guilty, then be honest about who you are to yourself and leave us out of it. But understand, when Feds review this site, and I can assure you that they are well aware of it and the other sites (They are tracking distribution of the pics in the hopes of putting a stop to the ringleaders), and they see your name/handle here begging for those underaged pics of different young women, they aren't reading your justifications. They don't care. They simply make note of who you are, and who knows? Maybe put you on a separate list for follow up later. They are/will be enforcing the law. The law protects those young women that are less mature than others at that age and cannot possibly make a rational choice of consent on their own. So while the underaged women in YOUR MIND might be fine to ogle and fap to, a girl of the same age across the country may not be. The law cannot single out individuals, as maturity is not a specific measurement, and therefore covers all girls to a certain age. And that, as they say, is that. If you are begging for the underaged pics, or rationalizing why its okay to look at them, perhaps take the second to realize that maybe the reason you are doing these things is because of the illegal and taboo nature, and worse, the exploitation of youth beyond their consent and at the expense of their innocence. At least then when you go on a sex offender registry some day, you can then be more accepting of why you are on there without all the bullshit excuses and ignorance.