I love that one: Soldiers Say Porn Ban May Hurt Morale
GRAFENWOHR, 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 main argument about this is that allowing the sale of pornography on military bases has harmed military men and women by escalating the number of violent and sexual crimes.
Are we really having a debate about allowing pornography or not in the military bases? Don’t we have more important problems to solve? I think banning pornography in military bases will just make the situation go worst. I mean, porn is so accessible nowadays, if there’s a link between pornography and sexual crimes we have to solve the core of that problem and banning pornography won’t help.
I just feel we try to solve a serious and complex problem (sexual crimes in military bases) with a simple and ineffective solution that can possibly bring negative consequences. The problem is much more complex than that…
These people go to war, have a dangerous job and are away from their family sometimes for long period, can’t they have a little treat sometimes?
Anyway, another example of a complex problem “solved” with restrictive measures that will have absolutely not effect.
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