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Violence or Porn: Is There Really Any Difference When It Comes to Abu Ghraib?

A post from Double X writer Vanessa M. Gezari:

If the Daily Telegraph is right that the unreleased detainee-abuse photos include graphic images of rape, Obama must have been lying when he said the photos are “not particularly sensational, especially when compared to the painful images that we remember from Abu Ghraib.” For all the pain of those earlier images, what they depicted were not generally criminal acts in the same way that rape is. They showed violation, humiliation, the horrific power differential between prisoners and their jailors—war crimes, to be sure—but they tended to document the effects and aftermath of violence more than its... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)