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Pornography fuels the trafficking trade. As many as four million girls and women a year are sold into prostitution. The soldiers are complicit in the international trafficking of women for sex.

Soldiers - including UN peace keepers - have been exposed for sexually abusing women and young girls, treating them like a fringe benefit of the job, one of the spoils of war.

The behaviour of male porn “stars” has been paralleled with the conquering soldier.

An article in Adult Video News profiled the male porn actors who abuse the girls in the videos. It says: “They run their all-out, semen-strafing missions on enemy p---y until it admits defeat, surrenders and comes over to their side. Call it Stockholm Syndrome [where kidnap victims come to “love” their kidnappers], call it undiluted maleness, call it animal talent, call it whatever. All we know is, it works on the fairer sex, who never fail to bow down …”

An attitude of “boys will be boys” - so often the excuse for predatory male sexual behaviour - is no consolation to the millions of women and girls around the world whose bodies have been used to fuel the international porn and prostitution industries.

Condemn the misbehaviour with guns. Condemn the culturally insensitive images. But don’t gloss over the offence committed by these soldiers against women.