For readers of Peggy Orenstein and Rebecca Traister , an authoritative, big think look at pornography in all its facets - historical, religious, and cultural. Any Worthington, Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (London: Pluto Press, 2007).

Douthat has noted that porn is "a product," which he helpfully defines as "something made and distributed and sold, and therefore subject to regulation and restriction if we so desire." The government has caved to the vested interests of the porn industry,” Collective Shout director Melinda Tankard Reist said. Towards the end of the war in late 1944 and early 1945, the Germans became more desperate. The leaflets became more pornographic in a last-ditch attempt to somehow slow the Allied forces. Messages focus on what the troops are missing at home: Child victims of rape are not like adult victims of rape,” says Sarnat. “They think it must be a punishment for what they have done.”Accused collaborators photographed after being punished by the French resistance. Funnily enough, the resistance punished collaborators in the same manner that only years early the Nazi party had used on perpetrators who had been perpetrators of “race crimes” (i.e., having sex with the wrong people) in Germany and Austria. The best sex and respectful relationship and consent education programs can’t compete,” he said. “Trying to undo the damaging indoctrination of pornography is very challenging.” We’re the most bad-ass private army in the world. We’re hiring in all regions of Russia,” a woman’s voice can be heard saying. “Don’t j--k off, go to work for PMC Wagner.” Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, (Edition Galilee, 1981); http://fields.ace.ed.ac.uk/disruptivetechnologies/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Baudrillard-Jean-Simulacra-And-Simulation2.pdf Clive Stafford Smith, Bad Men: Guantánamo Bay and the Secret Prison (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007).

there is no way to really know how extensive this phenomenon was for the simple reason that the victims…never spoke about what had happened to them The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectics of Desire’: in: Écrits (New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006a).Jason Ralph, ‘The Laws of War and the State of the American Exception’, Review of International Studies 35 (3): 631 – 649.

A number of other forces or influences were at work. Sexual freedom had been a subject for lively debate within Communist party circles during the 1920s, but during the following decade, Stalin ensured that Soviet society depicted itself as virtually asexual. This had nothing to do with genuine puritanism: it was because love and sex did not fit in with dogma designed to "deindividualise" the individual. Human urges and emotions had to be suppressed. Freud's work was banned, divorce and adultery were matters for strong party disapproval. Criminal sanctions against homosexuality were reintroduced. The new doctrine extended even to the complete suppression of sex education. In graphic art, the clothed outline of a woman's breasts was regarded as dangerously erotic. They had to be disguised under boiler suits. The regime clearly wanted any form of desire to be converted into love for the party and above all for Comrade Stalin. The Conspiracy of Art’, in: The Conspiracy of Art: Manifestos, Interviews, Essays (New York: Semiotext(e), 2005c): 25 – 29.

The war is no less atrocious for being a simulacrum – the flesh suffers just the same, and the dead and former combatants are worth the same as in other wars. […] What no longer exists is the adversity of the adversaries, the reality of antagonistic causes, the ideological seriousness of war. And also the reality of victory or defeat, war being a process that triumphs well beyond these appearances.

Due to their omnipresence, due to the prevailing rule of the world of making everything visible, the images, our present-day images have become substantially pornographic. […] they embrace the pornographic face of the war. (Baudrillard, 2005a: 205 – 206)Nor is the Great War celebration over. There are still four years of fighting to go, from the Marne to the Somme to Passchendaele to Amiens. We can have “Oh! What a Lovely War” each evening. Someone at the BBC will perhaps try to replay the Anglo-German football match in no man’s land – and try not to win. And what of Armistice Day? We know where that will lead, to the classic British 20th century Boche-bashing.