[BritExPatInFla]

What with all that our soldiers see on a daily basis in Iraq, I'd think the nude female body would be the least harmful to their emotional health. They're seeing people in their units blown up, seeing lost limbs, kids blown up by terrorists....

And the fact that they choose to give themselves a 'release' through a magazine is none of our damn business. Whatever one's religious beliefs are, shouldn't be forced upon another. If a practicing Catholic, for example, believes that even maturbation is a sin, then fine, let them abide by that, but not everyone subscribes to the same views, nor should they be forced to.

[JasonC]

There isn't a problem, and the article makes too much of it. But it is possible for it to be a problem, and the dismissiveness is not warranted without definite knowledge of the facts on the ground. The reason to be concerned is not our men's emotional health or moral purity. It is what men with wild fantasies, guns in their hands, and a populace at their mercy are sometimes capable of. As long as that isn't happening, no problem. But imagining it can't, is denying too much ugly human history.