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Portions of this article on wartime sexual propaganda first appeared in Oui, Sir, and Soldier of Fortune magazines in the early 1980s. Some of the author’s information was later used in the television documentaries Secret History – Sex Bomb, and Sex and the Swastika. This article is a work in progress. The author will add more leaflets as translations become available.

To the average person, the connotations of the word "Pornography" have always brought forth a mental picture of a depraved person leering at filthy pictures. To the scholar, the word meant simply "The description of prostitutes and their trade". Later other definitions were added, attempting to encompass the term "obscene". We now consider Webster's "Writing and pictures intended to arouse sexual desire" as an appropriate statement of meaning. Would it surprise you to know that all the major combatants involved in World War II used pornography as part of their psychological operations (PSYOP) strategy?