Money Shot
You will have noticed that ErosBlog doesn’t dwell on the war. You want warnography, there’s plenty better places to find it. But this is on topic.
A Fox News clip that’s been aired frequently over the last few days shows the firing of some large artillery pieces, of the old-fashioned (meaning not self-propelled) variety. The camera briefly zooms in on the barrel, where (if you look sharp) you can see white writing: “$ SHOT”.
Money Shot. Noun: In pornography, the moment when the male performer pulls out so that his ejaculation may be captured on film. Allegedly so called because of a perceived need to convince the buying public that the sex was “real”.
So it would appear that we aren’t just killing Iraqis — we are subjecting them to a gigantic involuntary bukkake with long range flying globs of supersonic red hot metallic high explosive fragmenting semen.
Yippee.
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[…] I tried then and I try now to stay away from war and politics, but it’s impossible to talk about sex at any great length without war and politics creeping into the discussion. Early in the Iraq war, I had this to say on the sexualization of artillery: Money Shot. […]
Spent a few years in the (peacetime) Army, specifically the Artillery. It’s traditional in most units to name the individual artillery pieces, albeit, often with names derived from the unit’s designation. (A-names for Alpha Battery, B-names for Bravo Battery, etc.)
Double entendre’s were common, when they could be gotten away with. The fact that Artillery is (was?) one of the last bastions of all-male military units was probably a factor.
Additionally, tanks in Armor units often are given names as well.
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