AFA follies

[herveus]

Today's scare, cut and pasted without edits:

Department of Defense ignoring law, selling p'orn

Urge your representative to co-sponsor Military Honor and Decency Act

May 29, 2008

Dear ,

According to some at the Department of Defense, porn is harmless entertainment. To them, porn should be made readily available to military personnel.

A decade-old law officially bars military exchanges from selling or renting videos or printed material with "the dominant theme of which depicts or describes nudity" or se-ual activities "in a lascivious way." But the Defense Department, despite the law, has deemed it appropriate to sell many se-ually-explicit publications to soldiers stationed throughout the country and around the world.

It is hardly comforting to know that publications such as Celebrity Skin, Pl-yb-y's College Girls, and Playmates In Bed are approved by the Defense Department.

The por-ogr-phic industry has become a societal threat of monumental proportions. Its primary targets are men and boys, but families and society as a whole cannot escape its destructive impact. It leads men to adopt unrealistic expectations of their wives and demeaning views of women in general. It rips apart marriages and destroys families.

Rep. Paul Broun, a former jet engine mechanic in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves and later a medical officer in the U.S. Navy, has introduced the Military Honor and Decency Act (H.R.5821), which would close a loophole that permits access to se-ually explicit material at military exchange stores.

Our soldiers are already encountering the unfortunate but necessary images of war as they honorably fight to preserve our liberty and extend its reach abroad. It's time for Congress to revisit the law and clean out por-ogr-phic material on all military premises.

I confess that I am not familiar with p'orn or the por-ogr-phic industry. Point and laugh! The alternative is to cry.

Comments

[luscious-purple.livejournal.com]

Geez, if they don't even have the guts to use the perfectly acceptable adjective "sexual," it's really hard to take them remotely seriously.

Unless they figure that IF you subscribe to AFA alerts, then you MUST already have your "family filters" set to maximum stun, no?

*shakes head*

[wulfsdottir.livejournal.com]

But...it's impolite to point and laugh!

...

Okay, okay...I'll point. You laugh.

[danabren.livejournal.com]

How lovely that our service men and women are expected to watch people killing each other in new and exciting ways, but aren't allows to watch some nice, healthy, heterosexual (or girl-girl, cuz that's HAWT) redblooded American Male porn.

Disgusting.

Y'know, when I was an E-5, I had a subscription to Playboy...

[3fgburner.livejournal.com]

... For the articles. The pictures weren't anywhere near as hardcore as the stuff I had in my footlocker, courtesy of the multi-rating bookstore downtown.

[baron-rorik.livejournal.com]

They tried banning dirty pictures and magazines that had dirty pictures in Viet Nam. Resourceful as always the common GI quickly ordered the Sears or Wards catalog for the lingerie sections.

Stupidity

[weatherman2111.livejournal.com]

Hunh, apparently they still think the intenets are tubes filled with data and that we're in 1988, I'm half surprised they didn't go for "pr0n", but that would mean they know something of internet culture.

[skippyclese.livejournal.com]

"p'orn" -- Maybe thats the Klingon pronunciation?

"por-ogr-phic" -- Now this is obviously bastardization of the industry that provides stories to underprivileged demi-humans, the Poor-Ogre-FanFic industry. I'm not surprised that the AFA objects to that.

[technomage.livejournal.com]

Bad idea, to say the least. Troops should be able to buy porn. Anyone who disagrees should show me the DD214 first, then they're eligible to enter the debate.

[snolan.livejournal.com]

One wonders if anyone in the AFA actually understands where the children in families come from... they must have a deal with the storks or something. Wow... just wow.

How about we send every active duty person a copy of the complete Sex is Fun podcast collection instead. At least then they'll be armed with some useful health information about sex.

[vesilehti.livejournal.com]

As long as they don't restrict sexually explicit or pornographic material, I don't care.