Sex as a Weapon

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I came across the most interesting website today and thought I would share.

This site shows examples of sexual propaganda used to demoralize, outrage and seduce soldiers throughout various military conflicts.

Some highlights:


The Germans also produced see-through pornographic leaflets for use in Poland to reinforce anti-Bolshevik feelings.

http://www.psywarrior.com/Polishwedding3.jpghttp://www.psywarrior.com/Polishwedding4.jpg

"Carefree youth – or cruel fate?"

Two leaflets are known. The first shows a beautiful smiling polish girl, lying on her stomach in an open field with a flower in her mouth. Text at the top of the leaflet is, "Carefree youth – or cruel fate?" When held to the light a beast-like Russian soldier is shown ravishing the nearly naked girl.

http://www.psywarrior.com/Polishwedding1.jpghttp://www.psywarrior.com/Polishwedding2.jpg

Beginning of success - or forbidden future?"

The second leaflet depicts a wedding scene with a bride and groom kneeling at the altar in church before a priest. Text at the top of the leaflet is, "Beginning of success - or forbidden future?" When held to the light, an ape-like Russian soldier is seen tearing the young bride's clothes off.



These leaflets told the story of the mythical Sam Levy; a Jew who was growing rich and enjoying the favors of a Christian girl while her boyfriend was fighting on the front lines.

http://www.psywarrior.com/leftbehind04.jpg

The first leaflet shows Sam helping a young girl put on a pair of precious nylon stockings and the text:

Today she is getting sixty dollars…

The back is all text:

Sam knows what he wants. Two years ago, comely Joan Hopkins was still a salesgirl behind the ribbon counter in a New York 5 & 10 cents store getting 12 dollars a week. Today she is getting $60 as the private secretary of Sam Levy. Business is excellent and Sam is making a pile of dough on war contracts. FOR HIM THE SLAUGHTER CAN'T LAST LONG ENOUGH. Sam has no scruples about getting a bit intimate with Joan. And why should he have any? Tall and handsome Bob Harrison, Joan's fiancé is at the front, thousands of miles away, fighting for guys like Sam Levy. Joan loves Bob, but she doesn't know WHEN HE WILL COME BACK. Have you seen the other pictures of "The Girl You Left Behind?" AI-161-11-44

http://www.psywarrior.com/leftbehind03.jpg

The second leaflet shows Sam with his hand on the leg of young Joan while a sleazy butler peeks at the activities. Text on the front is:

Joan is feeling so lonely anyway…

Text on the back is:

SAM AT WORK. After his arrival in New York City, cigar-chewing Sam Levy, a steerage passenger from eastern Europe, used to live on the lower East Side not far from the Bowery. Soon he was able to move to upper Broadway. When President Roosevelt took those steps "short of war", Sam had already leased a ten-room apartment on Riverside Drive. Slick-haired home-front warrior Abe Cohen, boss of a government department in Washington, saw to it that his chum Sam would be on the earning end of the war. Rich profits on war contracts let Sam climb up the social ladder, taking two steps at one time. He is now residing in a duplex deluxe apartment on swanky Park Avenue. Why shouldn't Sam invite beautiful Joan Hopkins, his private secretary, former 5 & 10 cents salesgirl, up to his place to have dinner with him and cocktails. Joan is feeling so lonely anyway. More than two years ago, Bob Harrison, the man she wanted to marry, had to leave her for the battlefields of Europe, thousands of miles away. He is fighting there for Sam Levy and his kind. Joan is hoping that Bob will return to her safe and sound. But she knows that many of her girl friends have waited in vain for men who did not return. Sam knows her predicament and he is trying his darndest to cheer her up.

Why, Bob wouldn't know it anyway! And what's a little kiss among friends?" Have you seen the other pictures of "The Girl You Left Behind"? AI-162-11-44

http://www.psywarrior.com/leftbehind02.jpg

In the third leaflet, Sam has seduced Joan. He is on a bed reading the Stock Exchange page of his local newspaper. Joan seems very unhappy, one breast exposed from her negligee. The text on the front is:

Poor little Joan! She is still thinking of Bob…

Text on the back is:

The way of all flesh. When pretty Joan Hopkins was still standing behind the ribbon counter of a 5 & 10 cents store on 3rd Avenue in New York City, she never dreamed of ever seeing the interior of a duplex Park Avenue apartment. Neither did young Bob Harrison, the man she loves. Bob was drafted and sent to the battlefields in Europe thousands of miles away from her. Through Lazare's Employment Agency Joan got a job as private secretary with wily Sam Levy. Sam is piling up big money on war contracts. Should the slaughter end very soon, he would have an apoplectic fit. NOW JOAN KNOWS WHAT BOB AND HIS PALS ARE FIGHTING FOR. Joan always used to look up to Bob as the guiding star of her life, and she was still a good girl when she started working for Sam Levy. But she often got the blues thinking of Bob, whom she hadn't seen for over two years. Her boss had an understanding heart and was always very kind to her, so kind indeed, that he often invited her up to his place. He had always wanted to show her his "etchings". Besides, Sam wasn't stingy and each time Joan came to see him, he gave her the nicest presents. Now, all women like beautiful and expensive things. But Sam wasn't the man you could play for a sucker. He wanted something, wanted it very definitely... Poor little Joan ! She is still thinking of Bob, yet she is almost hoping that he'll never return. Have you seen the other pictures of "The Girl You Left Behind" ? AI-163-11-44




One of the more common German sex leaflets is known as “Sagacity Sam.”

http://www.psywarrior.com/SagacitySamF.jpg

It was dropped on Allied troops in Western Europe in December 1944 and depicts a civilian (The Germans gave him a hooked nose so are probably implying that he is a Jewish war profiteer) drinking champagne while three girls sit on his lap in various stages of nudity. Behind him a line of British soldiers marches off to war. The text is:

Poor Jerry!

You don’t have this: the slacker for whom we fight and leave our girls.

Look here: This is the man who stands between you and me.
 
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Some more examples:

http://www.psywarrior.com/whileaway01.jpg


http://www.psywarrior.com/Blondes01.jpghttp://www.psywarrior.com/Blondes02.jpg




But the Germans were not the only ones producing this kind of material! These were produced by Americans for use on the Germans:


http://www.psywarrior.com/bilder01.jpg

The first shows two naked women, one sucking on the breast of the other. The Gothic title reads "New games in the home (The husband is at the front)." A loose interpretation of the script verse is:

"This picture shows your Annette,
in a game with another woman.
Your Plea for her love is in vain,
she now loves only degenerate acts!"

http://www.psywarrior.com/bilder03.jpg

The second leaflet bears the same title in Gothic, but shows a naked woman standing before a mirror with a dog licking her pubic area. The text reads:

"The woman alone without a man
tries to get her pleasure any way she can.
Her clitoris itches and burns like fire,
and the dog's tongue performs miracles!"

http://www.psywarrior.com/bilder02a.jpg

The third has the same heading as the first two. This card shows two women having oral sex on a bed. The text reads:

"Her husband isn't here, what should she do?
Her pussy cannot always be idle.
For this reason and to defy you
she now eats another pussy!"

http://www.psywarrior.com/bilder05a.jpg

The fourth leaflet has a different title in Gothic: "The Party takes action (and your wife too?)." The caricature shows a naked SS man with an enormous erection saluting a photo of Hitler. On the bed is an unclothed weeping woman. By the bedside is a photo of her husband, a soldier at the front. The 'text reads:

"He threatened her so she would be nice to him
and follow him into the warm bed.
The Nazi has no conscience
and that is how he gets his sex."

http://www.psywarrior.com/bilder06a.jpg

The fifth leaflet has the title "HJ = Helpless Boys (Will your boy also be perverted?)." The illustration is of an adult Nazi party member holding a young boy wearing only shirt and shoes. The initials "HJ" are for "Hitler Jugend" (Hitler Youth). This was a semi-military youth organization formed by the Nazi Party. The OSS changed this to "Helpless youth" in an attempt to convince fathers at the front that their children were being perverted and seduced by members of the Nazi Party. The text reads:

"The boy and his leader
are united in love play.
Thus the leader also takes your child.
There are altogether too many games!"

The sixth and final leaflet has the same heading as the fifth. "HJ= Helpless boys (Will your boy also be perverted?)" The illustration is of an adult Nazi Party member about to have anal sex with a young boy.

http://www.psywarrior.com/bilder04a.jpg

"The Hitler Youth, always sharp,
also has a love life.
His leader also has seduced him:
The asshole is already stretched."




Anyone find this as fascinating as I do?
 
Fascinating.

I wonder what, if any, impact they had. All I can think is that if I were some grunt stuck in the trenches I'd be thankful to anybody who was going to drop porn on me from out of the blue.

And of course I found the first two hot.
 
Fascinating.

I wonder what, if any, impact they had. All I can think is that if I were some grunt stuck in the trenches I'd be thankful to anybody who was going to drop porn on me from out of the blue.

And of course I found the first two hot.

Supposedly the effect was minimal, but who is really to say.

I'm sure the material certainly played upon the fears of troops going off to war and while the stomach may be the way to a man's heart, the penis is usually a good avenue to his passions.
 
threatening them with the idea that their wives and girlfriends may take pleasure with other women wouldn't bother most guys.... as long as they could watch/join in when they got home
 
threatening them with the idea that their wives and girlfriends may take pleasure with other women wouldn't bother most guys.... as long as they could watch/join in when they got home

If you're going to cook up some nightmares for Nazis, these are a pretty good idea actually, even if the soldier doesn't follow the ideology wholeheartedly, it exposes some of the stupidity of it because yes, most guys will get a boner from that.
 
threatening them with the idea that their wives and girlfriends may take pleasure with other women wouldn't bother most guys.... as long as they could watch/join in when they got home

Now, probably. Back then...? Not so much.

One could say the Japanese and Germans also used sex as an actual weapon in their use of "comfort women" or "joy divisions".
 
If you're going to cook up some nightmares for Nazis, these are a pretty good idea actually, even if the soldier doesn't follow the ideology wholeheartedly, it exposes some of the stupidity of it because yes, most guys will get a boner from that.

I think that was all part of the game.

Eliciting a mixture between arousal and repulsion. Lust and anger.
 
Now, probably. Back then...? Not so much.

One could say the Japanese and Germans also used sex as an actual weapon in their use of "comfort women" or "joy divisions".

Neither of those involved use against the enemy, but to serve soldiers of the respective countries...
 
Looking at these images again, I find it interesting how many of the messages play on the distrust that the men of both countries have of their own women. Perhaps even resentment.
 
Another thing that was done in the same vein as these. Condoms were often used to cover the barrel of a rifle during a water landing so it would stay dry inside. For the D-day landing they were all giver overly large condoms to put on their weapons, that way if the enemy found them and assumed they were normal sized they might feel innadequate.
 
Looking at these images again, I find it interesting how many of the messages play on the distrust that the men of both countries have of their own women. Perhaps even resentment.

And notice how many of the women meet the other man while working? A little anti-females in the workforce, eh?
 
I came across the most interesting website today and thought I would share.

This site shows examples of sexual propaganda used to demoralize, outrage and seduce soldiers throughout various military conflicts.

Some highlights:


The Germans also produced see-through pornographic leaflets for use in Poland to reinforce anti-Bolshevik feelings.

http://www.psywarrior.com/Polishwedding3.jpghttp://www.psywarrior.com/Polishwedding4.jpg

"Carefree youth – or cruel fate?"

Two leaflets are known. The first shows a beautiful smiling polish girl, lying on her stomach in an open field with a flower in her mouth. Text at the top of the leaflet is, "Carefree youth – or cruel fate?" When held to the light a beast-like Russian soldier is shown ravishing the nearly naked girl.

http://www.psywarrior.com/Polishwedding1.jpghttp://www.psywarrior.com/Polishwedding2.jpg

Beginning of success - or forbidden future?"

The second leaflet depicts a wedding scene with a bride and groom kneeling at the altar in church before a priest. Text at the top of the leaflet is, "Beginning of success - or forbidden future?" When held to the light, an ape-like Russian soldier is seen tearing the young bride's clothes off.
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Thanks for the link, Marquis. I'm a bit pressed for time at the moment, but plan to read the whole thing when I've got the chance.

All of this is fascinating, but these first two images are also ridiculously hot.
 
I'd wager that most of those pamphlets served for entirely non-arousing purposes, fulfilling a fairly essential need for guys living in the field without adequate supplies of toiletries.

That seems to be the most common theme in reading accounts about leaflet drops and so on.

Also, they often had tobacco and had to scrounge the paper they rolled it in.

Like a lot of things, there is a place for psy-ops, but I'd wager that there was precious little bang for the buck expenditure-wise on that sort of material. The one that I'd say was most likely to have a worthwhile effect was the first two, because that does play up a lot of historical animosity between the Russians and the Poles.
 
Looks like the morale boost actually happened for the side producing the leaflets ---handling porn made soldiers happy regardless of what effect it did or didn't have on the enemy.


And it served as toilet paper as ZRT mentions.
 
But we all agree that this is hot stuff, yes?

I'm not sure we agree on why or which ones. My favorites are "while you are away" and "gentlemen prefer blondes" as horridly un-pc as that might be. The Sam series is also pretty awesome. Outright rape stuff inherently interests me less than "seduced and reduced to this!" kinds of things. Bait and switch defilement is more my thing.
 
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The Sam series is also pretty awesome. Outright rape stuff inherently interests me less than "seduced and reduced to this!" kinds of things. Bait and switch defilement is more my thing.

Actually, I'm quite with you on that.

And I definitely understand the appeal of the "Gentleman Prefer Blondes" comic.
 
But we all agree that this is hot stuff, yes?
The first two you posted here, as well as the first two in the Korean War section at your link, are extremely hot, yes. The rest are historically fascinating, but don't do much else for me.

I find it amusing that the most depraved images were made by the Americans (depicting bestiality and Hitler Youth butt sex).

The Italian images of Hitler and Mussolini are hilarious.
 
Looks like the morale boost actually happened for the side producing the leaflets ---handling porn made soldiers happy regardless of what effect it did or didn't have on the enemy.


And it served as toilet paper as ZRT mentions.
Apparently the American recipients, at least, got a morale boost as well.

Per Marquis' link, the troops "greedily collected and swapped them," and "chuckled and hoped the Germans would send more over the lines" and "started trading the leaflets like baseball cards."

In other words: you called it, in post 3 above!
 
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