I (21m) have an upcoming polygraph and have started filling out the questionnaire. There are some questions that I am concerned about and I am wondering if it’s even worth it to go through the process. First the questions about child pornography and sex, When I was 17 I started dating this girl who was also 17. We were both sexually active and would send each other explicit photos. The problem is that I turned 18 before she did and we still continued dating and staying sexually active. Will this be something that would dq me and furthermore would this be something that could get me into trouble for telling them? Second thing is a question about viewing, or doing beastiality. I am not some sort of freak and didn’t have any sexual encounters with animals, however, there was a video that got sent around my high school of a girl who had sex with a dog. Ofc as a high school guy when my friend wanted to show me the video I was like yeah that’s crazy. Well, now I must answer that I have viewed something like that. How should I go about filling that out on the paper. And same thing will this be something that would dq me and be a waste of time doing?
Edit: this is for Texas
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Not knowing what state your in changes it a little bit but my state has a 4 year age gap rule. If it were me I’d just tell them about it and they’ll most likely appreciate the honesty. I told my department that I tried delta 8 thc one time and they made jokes about it more than they cared about it.
I just had and passed the polygraph, be honest about the photos usually that’s more on the normal side. I wouldn’t mention the video of the dog. Try to be honest but remember, it is an evaluation. It’s not like you were actively looking and searching for sexual videos of animals.
On my polygraph I told the examiner that yes I had sent and been sent nudes in high school, they didn’t care. You were both 17, the chances of both of you turning 18 at the exact same time are nill. Now if you still have those photos is another problem.
The second question is awkward, but polygraph examiners understand teenagers are weird and gross. You didn’t actively search for it, you were shown.
When I did my polygraph I very uncomfortably had to admit at the age of 25 I had seen pictures of CP. This was because while I was on a trip to Moldova I was on the Russian internet and Russian tiktok had an exploit where people were posting CP in the comments as a “joke”. I expected that to cause a long awkward conversation, he understood and just asked to confirm this wasn’t something I downloaded or looked up. No problems whatsoever.