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At the extreme end of Jewish Porn, the terror of the concentration camps is re-enacted for sexual gratification. In Holocaust Porn, Jewish women are shown squatting and defecating in packed trains. They are shown having their heads shaved. They are emaciated, with their ribs poking out. They are incinerated in open ovens. They are gassed. They are sodomized with severed limbs, sometimes their own limbs.

One can find staged photographs of a naked and shivering woman under a showerhead in a tiled hygienic facility. I have seen photos of a man dressed as a stormtrooper emptying a tank labeled “Gasoline” into a woman’s mouth. The woman holds the funnel and masturbates the Nazi with her right hand. These photos are grainy black-and-whites, yet are clearly contemporary.

And here things get dirty: The Holocaust Porn industry is based in Israel. The films are mostly made by Israelis, and they are also mostly purchased by Israelis. The actresses are overwhelmingly Israeli-Russian immigrants.

Is Israeli involvement in Holocaust Porn a sick manifestation of an addiction to persecution? Is it a reaction to assimilation—or a product of it? Is it the blackest form of satire? How different are these re-enactments from those rare bits of genuine Holocaust footage passed around for erotic consumption?

The HITCHIKERS GUIDE TO MIDDLE EARTH is a wholly remarkable book. It has this to say about the disappearance of the elves: “Scholars have long disagreed on the exact reason why the elves eventually disappeared from Middle Earth altogether. The official reason, of course, is that the Elves were called away, sailing over the ocean in grey ships and now living in a magical land of peace, harmony and rest. Scholars reject this notion, and speculate instead that they must have died for some reason. Various theories have been put forward concerning what might have killed them — a plague, some have suggested, or food poisioning, other’s reasoned, or perhaps a dirty lute. No theory, however, has been as successful as the one forwarded by Ooquag Benderbroont. “The Elves, Benderbroont claimed, were magical, mysterious, poetic, lyrical, monogamous, and immortal. The first four qualities were annoying, he continued, and were the main reasons why they were never invited to any of the big parties. But it is the last two qualities, he contends, that really did them in. “Monogamy and immortality, he continues, is a deadly combination. He writes:

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Men are also monogamous, but their lifespan is short — most remain married for sixty years and die happily. Elves, as it turns out, can also remain happily for about sixty years, but that’s about the extent of it.
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“Benderbroont didn’t stop there. He further contended that much of the strife in Middle Earth can be traced directly to the result of elven marital strife. The quest for the Silmaril, for example, was the result of a particularly nasty mid-life crisis suffered by Feanor. Even the war of the One Ring, he claimed, was a result of the elves just trying to get out of the house…”

The Academy of Art University here in San Francisco – the biggest art school in the country – recently expelled a student for writing a violent short story, and then fired his instructor for teaching a story by David Foster Wallace the administration also found offensive.

As this story broke in the press the school has responded by announcing stringent policies regarding the content of students’ artwork (writing, visual art, film, video game design, etc.), what can be taught in the classroom, and who is allowed to speak on campus.