Pentagon Gives OK to Softcore Publications on U.S. Bases
 

WASHINGTON, DC -- When the United States Armed Forces take a break from killing and being killed they can do so safe in the knowledge that their favorite issue of Playboy, Penthouse, Nude Playmates, and Celebrity Skin will continue to be available for purchase at their nearest U.S. military base.

In addition to a number of other weighty topics, a Pentagon panel this week cast its vote to allow magazines that are not “sexually explicit” to be sold on bases, something an assortment of conservative social groups were hoping would not happen.

The sale of “sexually-explicit material” has not been allowed on military bases since the 1996 Military Honour and Decency Act was passed by Congress. The Act forbids any film or publication “which depicts or describes nudity – including sexual or excretory activities or organs – in a lascivious way.”

Naturally, groups opposed to all forms or erotic expression insisted that the available publications violated this law and penned a May 4th letter of complaint, emphasizing View the full story