Night Light: rise of the sexcons: "Several years ago I left a screening of ‘Black Hawk Down’ with two male friends. One of them look around him as the other patrons left the theater. ‘All men,’ he said. ‘It’s like a porn theater.’ It’s true, and it’s significant. Whether it’s Jeff Gannon on hotmilitarystuds.com, Rush Limbaugh calling the Abu Ghraib photos  ‘good old American pornography,’ or right-wingers joking about LynndieEngland, the pornogrification of war is endemic. Glorifying violence is no longer enough – now it’s being sexualized.  It’s conservatism as sexual deviance. Welcome to the world of the sexcons."

(Via Salon.)