The porn before the fact

People are beginning to comment on the hypocrisy of accepting cruelty and sexual perversion in our popular culture while being shocked that it shows up in real life. Wouldn't it be interesting to see Charles Graner's video rental/purchase history?

Richard Goldstein of the Village Voice acknowledges the phenomenon: "[Lynndie England is] not just the face of Torturegate; she's the dominatrix of the American dream."

It's now out that the night shift at Abu Ghraib were making their own porn, with England having sex with multiple partners, involving both themselves and prisoners. Sadly, this kind of stuff is also a face of one level of current American culture. Now that the Supreme Court has declared that pornography and sodomy are protected by the constitution, how can we not expect people in situtation like this, with little supervision, or even presidents and interns, for that matter, to do things that embarrass us all.

Update: Look at the photo accompanying this article . The guy grinning over Lynndie's shoulder Chuck Graner, her baby's father, maybe. He's her Svengali, her Rasputin, her codependent. He's 15 years her senior. She needs badly to get away from him. The good news is that she'll be helped by the military justice system. The bad news is that it'll take her a good number of years.