Love is a battlefield

I can think of all kinds of settings that could stir people to have, er, amorous feelings—a romantic beach, say, or the parking lot of a bar at closing time—but a war memorial?

A French couple were given a four-month suspended sentence and made to pay one euro in damages to the Canadian state for making a porn video at a World War I memorial, officials said Wednesday.

The verdict came just six months after another couple were fined for taking nude photographs of themselves at the same memorial at Vimy in northern France, which pays tribute to the 60,000 Canadians who died in the Great War.

In the latest ruling Tuesday by a court in the town of Arras, the married couple in their thirties, who put the video on a paying website, were also fined 500 euros each after they were found guilty of exhibitionism.

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"The memorial has been known for a long time as a place where exhibitionism and voyeurism is common," prosecutor Elise Bozzolo told AFP.

I guess I'll take Elise's word for it, although I'm not exactly sure what these people find so erotic about a monument to thousands of dead Canadians. Not really my idea of sexy.