"This disgusting trade in human misery"

So, you can go to Chris Wilson's website and look at naked women--wives and girlfriends of the men who post them--and dead Iraqis. Apparently, the military is taking the matter seriously, because soldiers using Army equipment to take pictures of dead folks would violate the Uniformed Code of Military Justice. What the fuck ever. Let's get on to the more important fact: the website "offers access to online pornography in exchange for corpse photos." Wrap your head around this, America. On this site, a picture of a corpse will get you a picture of some fucktard's naked woman. You can exchange a photo of a dead person for a photo of a naked woman. Really, there could not be any more apt description of this than a "disgusting trade in human misery." Do all of these women know that their images are being passed around the internet? Is that the fate they intended for those images when they sat before the camera? As you all know, I like porn as much as the next person. Yes, I know all of the feminist reasons against it and I, in theory, agree with them, but you know, at the end of the day, if everyone is consenting and no one's getting hurt, more power to you. But one of the things that scares a lot of feminists, and me, is how violent some pornography is--how closely it links women who look scared and appear to be in pain with men's pleasure.* Well, though this is not the same thing, shit, I don't know how much more closely you can link pornography and violence than having a place where men can both look at pictures of naked women and corpses. Which leads me to my next question. I can understand why you'd want to look at naked bodies. And, honestly, I can see why you'd want to look at photos of bodies in various states of deadness. But looking at them both together? Exchanging one for the other? I'm not a man, so, at the end of the day, I don't know how it works for y'all. But for me, thinking about sex and being turned on by images of people fucking sets off entirely different parts of my brain than looking at images of dead people. One gives me pleasure. One causes me great distress. I would not want to look at both of them at the same time. And I have really grave concerns about exactly what type of people would. Of course, the vast majority of folks are probably not looking at both at the same time. They upload their dead folks and download their porn or visa versa and the two things never quite link up in their minds. But god, the thought of the few of them who look at both, together, who see all of those bodies as bodies made available to them without the owners' consent--without the owners even being able to consent--and they see the sex and violent deaths all as part of one great big fucked up source of pleasure. That makes me sick and really scares me. *Some anti-porn folks claim this is always an undercurrent in pornography, the implicit power the viewer has to see a bunch of women who otherwise would not consent to show him their bodies naked. I'll acknowledge that I suspect there's something to that, but I'm not comfortable completely linking implicit power with inherent violence.