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New York Daily News - May 4, 2010

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New York Daily News



Thousands of gruesome videos of Iraqi soldiers and civilians being killed — a phenomenon some are calling "war porn" — are proliferating on the Web, where they're watched millions of times over. "The repeated watching of it can desensitize us to violence," says Temple psychologist Frank Farley. "And it may make some people seek out more examples, which could encourage the production and distribution of such videos."