Question for cops or attorney types

[lisarea]

At the risk of being charged with impersonating an officer, it's not illegal to have naked pictures of kids (even yourself). Unfortunately, it's a subjective thing, and depends on whether the photos are 'lewd' and 'lascivious,' which also means that even pictures of CLOTHED children can be classified as child pornography because, as I recall, there was some kind of ruling about the 'lascivious display of genitals' or something that concluded that you could display genitals lasciviously even if they were covered. I can't locate this right now, but I'm pretty sure there was some kind of coffee table book recently that had a photo of a clothed young girl standing next to a dead deer in the back of a pickup truck that someone claimed was kiddie porn for some reason.

So there's not really a single clear, objective standard at all, but I suppose that you're more likely to be accused of kiddie porn if you have naked pictures of kids.

I have several naked pictures of my nephew, and somewhere, a picture of the Little Muffin running around with no pants on chewing a Milk Bone, but they're just so entirely unlascivious I've never really worried about it.