Iraq's Porn Boom
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One of the many unexpected consequence of the American invasion of Iraqi is the proliferation of pornography in that Islamic nation.
Children touted it in the Green Zone, the fortified Baghdad district where the Iraqi government and the U.S. Embassy are housed. Vendors sold it outside hotels where international media were based. “Girls of the Interior Ministry” was the title one jokester put on a collection.
Unsurprisingly conservative Muslims were annoyed:
… Shiite militias launched a campaign of intimidation and violence targeting those selling alcohol, racy videos and any other items they considered forbidden by Islam.
“It was bad,” said Ammar Jamal, owner of another DVD stall near Hanoun.
Street stalls selling porn reopened. But it is hardly safe for the sellers.
In porn, a story of Iraq’s politics
I suspect Iraq’s pornographic renaissance will prove short-lived.
Fundamentalists - of all religions - don’t accept human sexual needs outside of the narrowest possible path.
