I'll See Your Barbaric Decapitation Videos..

[demon]

A story from
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=P2315

quote:
I'll See Your Barbaric Decapitation Videos...

And raise you a death and dismemberment porn site. A reader alerts me to this post...
http://justworldnews.org/archives/001398.html#more

... by journalist Helena Cobban about a porn site that allows free entry to U.S. soldiers in exchange for their "gory" photos from Iraq and Afghanistan. WARNING: CONTENT IS EXTREMELY VILE AND NOT REMOTELY WORK-SAFE.

An announcement... http://www.nowthats****edup.com/bbs/ftopic4805.html

...at the top of the forum
http://www.nowthats****edup.com/bbs/forum23.html

...reads

If you are a U.S. Soldier stationed in Iraq, Afghanistan, or any other combat area and would like free SUPPORTER access for the site, you can post real pictures you or your buddies have taken while you have been deployed.

This section is for the gory ones so that people who do not wish to see that kind of stuff can just not go in here. I also do not want already published pictures that were taken by news people. This is supposed to be an area where we can see pictures posted by the solders themselves.

Just post your pics like you normally would and when I see them I will approve you for free access to the wife and g/f area. There have only been a few people cheat from this but I do now know what kind of pics to expect from the guys over there. So please do not waste my time if you are not a military person by just posting iraq pics you found on CNN or something.

Keep up the good work over there guys, we love seeing your pics.

Posted by: Matthew Barganier on Aug 25, 05 | 12:08 pm | Comments? | link
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What do people make of this?
If you get around to checking out the forum in question, be warned that the pictures are very graphic.

 

[geni]

Ogrish.com has been around for years

 

[Manny]

The site's owned by a domain squatter and typo squatter. I'm not going to click on the link but I'd guess that it has the site as advertised but without any actual verified footate and links to affiliates, no?

Just some idiot trying to get attention any way he can. Scum, but sadly unsurprising scum.

 

[Seismosaurus]

What do people make of this?

The pictures are pretty gross, I only checked out half a dozen or so before I'd seen more than enough. Two things occur;

Soldiers actually stop to take photos of this stuff? Either somebody gets told to take the photos, maybe for wound analysis or some other research or documentation purposes... or (as seems more likely) there are soldiers who actively enjoy this kind of thing. Having known one or two soldiers I don't find the latter prospect especially surprising. And as long as they are dong what they are supposed to do rather than using unnecessary force for fun, I don't really have a problem with the idea that a soldier might enjoy his work.

The second thing is, it's interesting that the trade offered is violence for porn (I wonder how well a 'violence for fine art' deal would fare!). I'm hopeful that the implication isn't that people who like porn are more likely to be violent as such. Rather, soldiers are generally young males and I guess that demographic is also the one most interested in porn. So it's overlapping interests, rather than a direct relationship. I hope.