I don’t much like Christopher Hitchens. I do like the study of torture.

Those interests are joined in this video, wherein he subjects himself to waterboarding to highlight the agonies of our detainees:

If that does not put you off your appetite for human discomfort, another fine bit of journalism on torture is below.

This is an article by Naomi Wolf about the sexualization of torture. Its thesis, in a nutshell, is that since sexual torture was not explicitly forbidden prior to the Bush administration, officials saw it as a loophole to exploit.

The result, Abu Ghraib and the gruesome stories of nude, male bondage coming out of Gitmo.