JESUS said that "whomever looks at a women with lust, has commited adultery in his heart" now top that!! Thous shalt not commit adultery is one of the Ten Commandments, if not familiar its time to learn them.

Kelly, Malvern, Arkansas

The guys need something to keep them going!
Will they be able to say its againt their human rights not to ogle?
I don't know what the fuss is about Playboy is very soft considering what else it out there.
As long as they know the score about being discreet around female collegues. It should be O.K

Eloise, san francisco, ca

A) Only porn made by large companies who donate to political parties will be allowed on US armed forces bases.
B) Risk your life for your country and kill but don't you dare look at ladies without their clothes on!
C) If the soldiers can't have porn why not give them the actual models? Would increase recruitment into the services!

will, whitstable, kent

If magazines are banned, what is next? Television maybe! Take a look at some of the Prime Time Broadcasts.

L. Bolling, Bristol, Tennessee/USA

It is quite funny, as if soldiers away from their partners are not going to have porn with them now.

Charlie, Salisbury, England

So its fine to shoot at people but porn is evil..?!?!?!

God bless America...

Nick, London, UK

Porno on bases is especially wrong because there are so many women in today's military and many are already being raped and brutalized, and I am sure that on-site porn isn't helping the military men to see their female colleagues as equals-- quite the contrary. Pornography is bad for women and should not be on US bases.

Trilby, New York, New York

I agree with the ban. I am a female veteran, and unless you're on this side of the fence you don't know what it's like to feel sexualized b/c of this type of magazine.
It's a power trip. A very uncomfortable power trip
The whole porn thing is another way of putting women "in their place" by displaying them in subservient positions in a magazine, and then translating that attitude into real life.
Why do men feel it's their right to ogle naked women, and then tell us to relax, stop being so uptight? Well, I AM uptight! I HATE being disrespected like this, as if we're there for their pleasure in any way shape or form, even in the military. It is demoralizing to say the least, and highly insulting, to view women as just another aspect of a day in the life of some oversexed, overstimulated man who sees all women as attainable sexually because they have the "power" of seeing us in simpering sexual positions for their enjoyment, day in, day out.
As usual we women have no say in the matter.

rita, Peyton, CO, U.S.

Life is already tough at the frontline for all male troopers. They are at war, and most of them will go into combat in near future.

Surely, a little bit of pleasure shouldn't be denied for them? Besides, its all simple: if you don't like porn, don't buy it. But don't deprieve other people of that choice.

After all, do we expect all of the men to be like monks when they are in the army? C'mon.

Tim, Singapore, Singapore

I agree with Andrew Milner. All we really need to do is to drop a few 30,000lb Mother-of-all-Porn-Bombs on Al Qaeda and all resistence would immediately cease. They'd all be in such a disfunctional tizzy, they wouldn't have any idea of what to do. We'd have every single one of them renouncing Islam and lining up to apply for US citizenship immediately (with a complementary subscription of course).

Of course this is only the lightweight Playboy version. The nuclear option would be a bit, er, hotter - maybe Hustler spiked with some biker rags.

Scott, Durham, NC, USA

I read it for the news and holiday decorating tips.

Doug, Phoenix, AZ, USA

I'm so sick of the religious right pushing their so-called morals on everybody. Time to ignore these idiots!!!!!!

Jeff, Whitefish, SA

Why is it that these things get reported in foreign newspapers which only go on to show how absurd America can be? Good friends in the UK, I trust you know that our religious right does *not* represent the majority of America, despite their desire to paint themselves as centrist and normal.

GF, Topeka, Kansas, USA

Of course the most recognized source of pornography is the "Christian" Bible. Therefore wherever the Bible is sold anything else
also must have shelf space to be sold as well.

Tucano Fulano, Big Bear, California USA

As a former soldier of 8 years and a veteran of Bush War 1, I am outraged at the ridiculousness of this! Once again, the nutters in the Religious Right know what best for all of us! When I was in Iraq in 1990/91, porn was one of the very few things we could enjoy that would take our minds off of what we were doing and where we were! I was married at the time (to the same woman that I am still married to today!!) and my wife would send me Penthouse and Hustler magazines in my care package.

Once again, the small minority trying to decide whats best for the majority.

Good grief, when will they ever see?

Chris, Manchester, TN

Anyone who knows somebody in the armed forces will know that soldiers like porn. FACT.

If these time wasting nutters had any idea of the true standard of "sexually explicit material" being swapped around their nation's global military bases, they'd swallow their teeth.

No wonder the US can't run it's mortgage market properly, they're too busy trifling over utterly pointless moral quibbles like this.

Matt, Bristol, Bristol

There you go. The religious right strikes again. Where would we be without them? No Al Queda, no taliban, no killings over religious differences and hatred. Women would be treated as equals, rather than being reduced to creatures who exist merely to seduce and corrupt men. Science and its burden of proof would rule, rather than ancient fears, superstitions, and faslehoods. But then there might be no one to complain about magazines that show women's breasts. How absolutely horrible that would be.

Joe, Carlstadt, New Jersey

With each passing issue the religous right takes a stand on, I find it harder and harder to share a democracy with their mindset. They force their beliefs upon others, in defense of freedom for all. They demand life for all american fetus, yet insist on the death of others thru wars they will never participate in. They support sending others to fight for them, and now they want to decide what the soldiers can and cannot do with their free time while serving in Iraq. It's beyond obsurd, we've lapped ourselves in obsurdity.
drew, philly

drew, philly,

First of all, the military bases are not the only place for families to shop. Every Base has a Superwalmart nearby, that sells the same things. Its amazing how people are so quick to trample sexual material, but allow movies like The Terminator, Scarface, Star Wars, Transformers, and other movies with a tremendous amount of graphic deaths and violence to remain. The real problem is that some of these these so called religious people are the very ones who are morally weak and likely to committ sexual misconducts.

David, Beaumont, Texas

I can't believe they'd even mention that children and wives shop at the base shops and therefore such magazines should be banned. Children and wives also shop at convenience stores and book shops here in the States where the magazines are sold. They are always wrapped in plastic, ensuring that all potentially naughty bits are covered and they are usually put out of reach of little hands. What's the big deal? Just the religious nuts getting up in arms about something seriously trivial. It's ridiculous.

Alicia, Powhatan, VA, USA

ironically, troops on bases in the states and overseas can buy playboy, and the book "hello my big big honey!" and other *romantic* media simply by going online to amazon.

internet has made many of these efforts to censor the media counterproductive for those who complain, and great ad campaigns for playboy and others when they do.

sheila carfenders, bangkok, thailand

I take it for the Gardening Page. Now if only the US had dropped copies of Playboy, Penthouse and bottles of Jack Daniels on al Qaeda and the Taliban, opposition would have crumbled years ago. I advocated this at the time, but nobody listens to me.

Andrew Milner, Yokohama, Japan