Ed Brayton is a journalist, commentator and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of 
ADF attorney Patrick Trueman has his panties in a bunch over this "report" from Agape Press on porn "addiction" in the American military.
The Military Honor and Decency Act, passed by Congress in 1996, was never properly enforced by the U.S. Department of Defense. It was supposed to cause the removal of pornography from PXs throughout the world on the notion that our government should not be in the porn business. Also, sponsors wanted to make sure that children were not exposed to porn in government facilities. President Bush could fix this problem.
You've gotta love the ridiculous name of that legislation, as if no one with "honor and decency" actually masturbates. I'd be willing to bet that Patrick Trueman has "roughed up the suspect" a time or two in his life, probably while imagining himself with the ability to control the lives of others. That this "report" on the "growing problem" of porn addiction in the military is based solely on a single anecdotal statement from religious right nutter Elaine Donnelly seems not to have gotten in the way of the mental masturbation he engages in with this blog post. It's all part of the religious right's ongoing War on Orgasms.
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Stuff like this could really give good porn a bad name.
If only they could devote this much attention to the badly fitting and sagging pants prevalent in our world today.
Posted by: Ted | January 11, 2007 9:25 AM
Can someone explain to me what is wrong with masturbating? And no using the Bible or Quran, as they don't apply to me.
Posted by: Will | January 11, 2007 9:36 AM
What idiots. Soldiers can't visit whore houses and they can't jerk off. No wonder there are so many cases of civilians getting raped in wartime.
Posted by: Matthew | January 11, 2007 10:38 AM
I am not sure that Reilly has a good grasp of the situation.
His very good friend Ted Haggard insists that he has had too many meals from KFC, and choked on the chicken.
Posted by: J-Dog | January 11, 2007 10:45 AM
So now they're kinda sorta trying to maybe blame porn for the Abu Ghraib abuses? That gives "new low" a new meaning.
I'd find all this funny if only it weren't happening to a country that's not (a) mine, and (b) a world power.
Posted by: Raging Bee | January 11, 2007 11:05 AM
Oops, too many negatives -- that last sentence should have read: "I'd find all this funny if only it weren't happening to a country that's (a) mine, and (b) a world power."
Posted by: Raging Bee | January 11, 2007 11:07 AM
Raging Bee -
The neocons have been testing the waters with that meme for a while. I think Chris Shays was the first to try it; he said (paraphrasing from memory here) that Abu Ghraib was a "pornography ring" and had nothing to do with torture at all.
It reaffirms my often shaky faith in the American people that it doesn't seem like anyone is buying it.
Posted by: Erechtheides | January 11, 2007 11:45 AM
I'd be willing to bet that Patrick Trueman has "roughed up the suspect" a time or two in his life,
I almost hurt myself laughing.
Posted by: ThomasHobbes | January 11, 2007 12:02 PM
Will -
It will make you go blind, sap your inherent strength, turn you into a sociopath and it could make you impotent. Some even speculate that it can make your penis wither and fall right off, in extreme cases.
Posted by: DuWayne | January 11, 2007 12:28 PM
Or maybe it was right the first time. Freudian slip?
Posted by: Ted | January 11, 2007 12:34 PM
Using the Bible or Quran for masturbating is very bad indeed. There are just some places where you don't want to get paper cuts.
Posted by: Alex | January 11, 2007 12:37 PM
Those are the consequences of espousing neocon dogma, right?
Posted by: cserpent | January 11, 2007 12:39 PM
How could it not be a "growing problem?" For the men involved, I mean.
I'm also curious about exactly what porn led to Abu Ghraib. Specific details, please.
Posted by: kehrsam | January 11, 2007 12:54 PM
Behold!
Also, every time you do it, God kills a kitten.
Posted by: Skemono | January 11, 2007 12:55 PM
I suspect the porn they are refering to is more akin to a silly chick-draped-over-a-harley calendar or Maxim magazine.
Of course, I would need to review the materials before I pass judgment on them ;)
Posted by: rpsms | January 11, 2007 1:44 PM
If that were true, cats would've been extinct by the time I was 14.
Posted by: Jason I. | January 11, 2007 1:47 PM
The neocons and religious right obviously think that "real patriots" can substitute wargasms for orgasms.
Posted by: chezjake | January 11, 2007 2:25 PM
At first I thought the title was 'The War of Military Masturbation', which would sum up the Iraq Occupation quite well.
I almost burst out laughing about Pat 'Truly True True Manly Man Man Man' Trueman and his 'roughing up the suspect', as well.
Posted by: stogoe | January 11, 2007 2:26 PM
okay, I'm gonna tell this story at the risk of embarrassing DuWayne (who is my younger brother, for those who don't know that). This happened when DuWayne was about 16. I have no idea how it came up, but somehow the subject of masturbation came up in a conversation between me, our brother Kevin, and Helga (DuWayne's mother, my stepmother). And Helga proudly says, "DuWayne doesn't masturbate; he's a Christian." Kevin and I just started laughing. And here's how the conversation went from that point on:
Ed: Helga, does DuWayne have allergies?
Helga: No, why?
Ed: How many boxes of kleenex does he go through in a month?
Helga: *getting horrified look on her face*
Kevin: Oh hell, at 16 he's scratching off a couple loads a day.
I remember after I went off to college, she found a couple adult magazines hidden in my room and just flipped out. She made my dad burn them and was just outraged over it. Dad's response was, "I think I'd be more concerned if there weren't a couple of them hidden in his room. Welcome to reality."
Posted by: Ed Brayton | January 11, 2007 2:42 PM
I suspect DuWayne might be posting under different name from now on...
As for you, Ed, and your collection of magazines... do you deny your involvement in the Abu Ghraib scandal? ...the magazines make you a prime suspect!
Posted by: doctorgoo | January 11, 2007 2:54 PM
How true. And Christians don't have premarital sex, smoke, swear or fall asleep in church either. How can anyone doubt teh Truth?
Posted by: doctorgoo | January 11, 2007 2:58 PM
Since Ed has chosen to mention it, I should add that I lost my virginity, almost two years before I "dicovered" masturbation. I am not sure exactly when this conversation happened, but I was, in fact sixteen when I masturbated for the first time, thanks to my mother - or lack of guidance from my myriad of older brothers. I didn't even know what exactly what it was, I just knew that it was evil.
Thankfully, dad never mentioned the porn of mine, that he accidentaly discovered, or the condoms that were hidden with them. I think he figured she would really freak out.
Ok, done providing more information than anyone wanted to know.
Posted by: DuWayne | January 11, 2007 3:05 PM
doctorgoo -
Being an insomniac, I have never fallen asleep in church. But I did smoke tobacco, smoke pot, swear and engage in premarital sex, when I was younger. The key was that I felt very guilty about all of it, whenever I thought about it - sometimes, even when I was doing any or all of those things.
Posted by: DuWayne | January 11, 2007 3:12 PM
DuWayne-
Funny and alot of info. Your outed. I didn't know you where Ed's brother.
Posted by: GH | January 11, 2007 3:17 PM
I knew DuWayne wouldn't actually be embarrassed about that story. He's pretty much unembarrassable.
Posted by: Ed Brayton | January 11, 2007 3:24 PM
I really don't embarrass easily. With no less than five older brothers, it is a naturaly developed, self defense mechanism. Especialy, with the aforementioned Kevin, being one of those brothers.
Posted by: DuWayne | January 11, 2007 3:38 PM
So, what you're telling me is that as an american soldier,6000 miles from home,getting shot at and blown up, unable to have a beer in the muslim combat zone, that Im not suppose to "whack the master". I'd like to see them stop me! HA!
Posted by: Darren | May 7, 2007 9:43 PM