Not content with sanitising tthe language of war with terms such as 'blue on blue' or 'collateral damage', it seems the US military now wants to clean up sex too. The Pentagon has been beating back suggestions that it allows pornography to be sold at military bases despite the Military Honour and Decency Act of 1996 banning bases from selling "sexually explicit material".
The Pentagon's resale activities board of review examined several publications, including Penthouse and Playboy, and deduced: "Based solely on the totality of each magazine's content, they were not sexually explicit." As one news anchor noted this morning, "obviously they just read them for the articles".
