Military personnel stationed in Iraq aren't allowed to have porn.

No Porn For Troops

Posted by: Simcha Whitehill Filed in: news
12:30PM, Friday June 27th 2008

You can serve the entire country in the military, but the military won’t let you serve yourself. Did you know that our troops in Iraq aren’t allowed porn? (If only The Frisky’s cookies could talk, we’d never get drafted!) Our poor overseas personnel who are risking their lives aren’t even allowed to have dirty magazines. All they get are visits from Jessica Simpson. While the no porno rule supposedly isn’t strictly enforced for combat troops, it just got a contractor sent home. ITT small-arms repairman Brian Sayler was given a free lap dance and some DVDs while on leave visiting his hometown. A Stoughton, Massachusetts stripper named Cassidey gave him some of her films for free, which he brought back to Iraq with him. When his bunk was searched, the poor patriot was promptly fired. Isn’t this the wrong battle to be fighting? [Boston Magazine]

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Kiki T
wrote on June 27 2008 @ 12:41 pm: [report]

That is so wrong and so disturbing to know. Do they think they’ll be better soldiers if they put them in the most sexually repressed environment they can be? What kind of freedom is that? Yes, they are fighting the wrong battle!!!!!

Elle
wrote on June 27 2008 @ 08:24 pm: [report]

More of the soldiers should be caught with porn, at least then they will come home faster.

LovesIt
wrote on June 30 2008 @ 08:48 am: [report]

I have several friends who have served in Iraq… and I mailed them all sorts of FHM and Maxims (nothing hardcore—I’m betting it’s illegal to redistribute porn via the mail). Apparently there’s a whole trading network of this stuff within the camps and few and far between are getting in trouble. Those boys deserve all the dirty mags they desire!

Amelia
wrote on June 30 2008 @ 08:54 am: [report]

@LovesIt When I worked at Maxim we used to get soooo many letters from prisoners (a big chunk of the Maxim readership, frankly) complaining that their issues were being confiscated as well.

LovesIt
wrote on June 30 2008 @ 08:57 am: [report]

@Amelia. That’s too bad… but hopefully our soldiers aren’t being treated just like prisoners! Eek.