Soldiers: Magazine ban could hurt morale

[unhappycamper]

Adult reading materials sit in a marked display at the AAFES east-side shoppette on Yokota Air Base, Japan. The Department of Defense is putting together a response to a Christian group protesting a Pentagon decision that allows Penthouse and other adult magazines to be sold at military exchanges.


Soldiers: Magazine ban could hurt morale
By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Sunday, May 4, 2008

GRAFENWÖHR, Germany – Legislation that would restrict the sale of certain men’s magazines on U.S. military bases around the world would be bad for morale, according to soldiers at Grafenwöhr.

U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., has introduced legislation that would close a loophole in the current law that allows the sale of some sexually explicit material on military bases by lowering the threshold required to deem material “sexually explicit.”

A Department of Defense committee that reviews materials sold on bases ruled last year that magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse are not pornographic. But Broun’s Military Honor and Decency Act includes language that could make those magazines eligible for the ban.

The prospect of missing out on men’s magazines was not welcomed by soldiers at Grafenwöhr.

“We all read ’em,” said Pfc. Paul Rubio, 31, of Bakersfield, Calif. “There are times we just read ’em for the technological parts like the new gadgets that come out. They have good stories sometimes too.”


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=54541

[Lerkfish]

1. I gotta say, if you make someone a target of IEDs, you should at least let them

mastorbate.

I mean, holy crap.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

2. Now we just need to ban alcohol and cigarettes on military bases

and then we'll have an army of good little Christian soldiers!


:sarcasm:

[Lobster Martini]

3. Great. At least we'll win the war against nipples...(n/t)

[Benhurst]

4. I remember during Gulf I the propaganda line was that "our boys"

wanted Kool-Aid and cookies. Millions of cookies were baked and sent, which I later read had to be buried in the desert -- there was no telling whether or not some had been poisoned.

Why the military was so unprepared for the cookie crisis has always puzzled me. Anyone who has been to American military bases in the states is struck by the cookie and Kool-Aid stands which have grown up around them to cater to the troops.

I'm heartened to see there are still members of congress looking out for the best interests of our troops, most of whom would be offended by dirty pictures and would prefer to spend their off-duty hours sipping on Kool-Aid and munching contentedly on cookies.