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The American Family Association's website offers "Christian news" from something called "AgapePress." They're committed to spreading what they consider "glad tidings." Now, this does not sound like an outfit with which Dawn would ever agree, but e-scribblings in a July 27 story intrigued.

In said story, AgapePress is gushily laudatory about the Swedish military's new ban on quartering personnel in hotels that offer in-room pornographic cable channels. In one of all-too-many examples of the congruence of liberal nanny-state thinking and reactionary religious prudery, ladies in this case, ladies presumably trained to kill-- are to be protected from "harmful and degrading materials" (that is, tittie movies).

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hile the Khristian krowd (and über-politically correct Swedish officials) draw satisfaction that Swedish troops can no longer ogle naked women on television when bivouacked at the Stockholm Hilton, Dawn's pleasure with the new policy derives from imagining what alternatives these randy grunts will devise to relieve the urge that led them to pay-per-view porn in the first place: two guys... alone and away from home... oh so horny... no chicks around... no porn... what ever are they to do?

A sensible policy would be to disallow in-room porn not on the absurd contention that it is degrading to women, but rather that it is dreadfully expensive; the same end can be achieved at no cost with a little spit and patience....