[lbo-talk] War Pornography

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Wed Dec 7 17:29:43 PST 2005


B wrote:


> Anthony,
>
> This atheist student club is asking folks to bring them their
> Bibles -- in exchange,t hey will give consenting adults porn.
> Bibles-for-porn. - B.
>
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>
> http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?
> content_id=FAE63160-8C71-4C02-803A-E9BE25160B5D
>
> Group Collects Bibles, Passes Out Porn
> LAST UPDATE: 12/1/2005 5:11:58 PM
> Posted By: Walker Robinson

At the end of the article, though, it says that "[s]o far, only five students have exchanged their bibles for porn."

In contrast, the pictures-of-dead-Iraqis-for-porn deal appears to be popular:

"If you want to see the true face of war, go to the amateur porn Web site NowThatsFuckedUp.com. For almost a year, American soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan have been taking photographs of dead bodies, many of them horribly mutilated or blown to pieces, and sending them to Web site administrator Chris Wilson. In return for permission to post these images, Wilson gives the soldiers free access to his site. American soldiers have been using the pictures of disfigured Iraqi corpses as currency to buy pornography. . . . One of the pictures on Wilson's site depicts a woman whose right leg has been torn off by a land mine, and a medical worker is holding the mangled stump up to the camera. The woman’s vagina is visible under the hem of her skirt. The caption for this picture reads: 'Nice puss -- bad foot'" (Chris Thompson, "War Pornography," East Bay Express, 21 September 2005).

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