Providing pornographic material to a minor is a crime.

It does not matter if that person is an "affiliate" or if he is a "good guy" who sends a lot of joins.

Ask yourself 2 questions:

1. Is this person I sent images to younger than 18 years old?

2. Are the images I sent to this person sexually explicit or pornographic?

If you answer "yes" to both of those questions, you are guilty of a crime. Whether you are charged, convicted, or are punished at all is up to the prosecutor in your jurisdiction and/or the jurisdiction where the minor is located, and this is one law where "It doesn't apply to me, I don't live in the US" is NOT going to work. I don't think the scenario of giving images to an affiliate would be so heinous that the mechanism for taking you into custody in your own country and extraditing to the US for trial would be put into place, but a bench warrant would issue and if your passport was scanned for entry into the US, even if you are on a flight that is diverted, you will go to jail. If you live in the US, then a warrant would be issued for your arrest and if you are ever stopped for a traffic violation, you will go to jail. If one weekend some ambitious duty sergeant decides to go through outstanding warrants of people in his beat area and comes up with your name, then the police come to your door and take you to jail. At least if you are a US citizen with a US charge you can post bail.

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I don't like lawyers that tell you that the sky is falling and you are going to go to jail, but if you give pornographic material to a minor you will probably go to jail and not get any sympathy. There will be a few people that will stick up for you, but none that will send you money for legal bills. Most will say "The dufus should have made sure the affiliate was 18" and then they will go back and check the ages of their own affiliates, because they never checked but now that you are charged they want to cover their asses.