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Porn offers window into Iraq?s chaotic politics

By Alliance Alert

Findlaw (AP): "The nude women on the DVD cover in a Baghdad street stall say it all: Change, whether you like it or not, is afoot in Iraq . . . The porn, in an odd way, has told the story of Iraq's security and political situation since Saddam Hussein's ouster in 2003. It emerged in the anything-goes atmosphere that erupted in the vacuum immediately following the U.S. invasion - then went back into hiding amid the anarchy when armed militias roamed the capital through 2008, targeting those they saw as immoral . . . The openness with which porn is sold in some of Baghdad's streets is almost unheard of in the Arab world."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 23, 2010 (boomark / email).