# Pentagon: Nothing will be done about gruesome photos-of-dead for porn scandal. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 29, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-nothing-will-be-done-about-gruesome-photos-of-dead-for-porn-scandal/323943 "2005-09-29T00:21:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![The\_Hook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@The\_Hook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hook)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-nothing-will-be-done-about-gruesome-photos-of-dead-for-porn-scandal/323943/41 "2005-10-01T00:32:08Z")
> [@Weirddave](#): > > I might suggest you do a little bit more research then, because photos of grinning soldiers posing over enemy dead exist from both wars. I didn’t say “photos of grinning soldiers posing over enemy dead” didn’t exist. I said I never saw photos were the prisoners where being abused of or pictures of the war being traded for porn. This Abu Ghraib business is different in that for the first time the general public is introduced to the subhuman behavior of U.S. soldiers and knowing the “regular” kind of pictures posed with the dead are being traded for porn is only adding fuel to the fire, a fire that is probably violating laws that didn’t exist back then. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-nothing-will-be-done-about-gruesome-photos-of-dead-for-porn-scandal/323943/42 "2005-10-01T03:25:09Z")
**Weirddave** : No, you misunderstood me. I said that your post is _dismissive_, not _condoning_. And your post damned well is dismissive, even in the snipped form you quoted at me. It’s a bad idea to misinterpret posts to claim that people are misinterpreting you. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-nothing-will-be-done-about-gruesome-photos-of-dead-for-porn-scandal/323943/43 "2005-10-08T22:55:51Z")
Update: [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051008/wr\_nm/iraq\_usa\_photos\_dc](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051008/wr_nm/iraq_usa_photos_dc) > [@](#): > > MIAMI (Reuters) - The American operator of a Web site which posted grisly pictures of people killed in the Iraq and Afghan conflicts was arrested on obscenity charges unrelated to the war photos, police officials in Florida said. > > The Polk County sheriff’s office said Christopher Michael Wilson was arrested on Friday and faces one count of wholesale distribution of obscene material and 300 misdemeanor charges relating to the Web site and pornographic photos. > > The charges were unrelated to the photos of corpses from Iraq and Afghanistan, which the site states were provided by U.S. troops in exchange for free access to pornographic material. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-nothing-will-be-done-about-gruesome-photos-of-dead-for-porn-scandal/323943/44 "2005-10-09T02:16:35Z")
Did I interpret this wrong? I read it as the soldiers giving the pictures to some necrophiliac porn site to be used as part of the content. I wouldn’t say the fact that it’s used for porn is irrelevant, releasing pictures of dead people to the general public to show what’s going on and giving them to a website for people to jerk off to them are totally different. I’m surprised that people aren’t as creeped out as I am about that. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-nothing-will-be-done-about-gruesome-photos-of-dead-for-porn-scandal/323943/45 "2005-10-10T13:17:40Z")
I don’t think it was being used necessarily for “necrophiliac porn”. Certainly morbid curiosity. I’m fairly pessimistic about humanity, but I still think probably very few people find that type of pic sexually arousing. My guess is the web site visitors went to the regular porn for jacking, and the gore pics for morbid curiosity. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-nothing-will-be-done-about-gruesome-photos-of-dead-for-porn-scandal/323943.md?page=2)