Whilst now I accept that the authenticity of these photographs is seriously in question (I had commented about this in the original post), I was not aware of the phenomenon of 'fantasy war based porn'. The issues arising from this are also relevant, are they not? Or are you suggesting that this kind of 'entertainment' is too trivial or titilating to be of any significance. There is an extremely grave issue here, namely that there is evidently a market for such material which stretches the definition of pornography to new depths.

Frankly, believing them to be authentic, I found the images too shocking to look at and could not bring myself to upload them for immediate viewing, hence the link. As an example of what 'gets people off' I am not sure what I find more shocking, the thought of the occupying forces doing what they have done for thousands of years - and as such an almost 'normalised' behaviour which has somehow become part of our everyday language, i.e. 'raping and pillaging' as an expression does not have the emotive impact of 'rape' - or the thought that people (men I assume) get sexual pleasure from watching it being dramatised.

This is an issue and ought not to be swept aside or even censored becuase of some misguided politically correct policy. Averting ones eyes does not make it go away!

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