USMC nude photo sharing scandal spreads to all branches

It’s not just the Marines anymore.

The practice of sharing such photos goes beyond the Marine Corps and one Facebook group. Hundreds of nude photos of female service members from every military branch have been posted to an image-sharing message board that dates back to at least May. A source informed Business Insider of the site’s existence on Tuesday.

The site, called AnonIB, has a dedicated board for military personnel that features dozens of threaded conversations among men, many of whom ask for “wins” — naked photographs — of specific female service members, often identifying the women by name or where they are stationed.

The revelation comes on the heels of an explosive story published on Saturday by the journalist Thomas Brennan. He reported on a Facebook group called Marines United, which was home to approximately 30,000 members who were sharing nude photos of colleagues along with personal information and even encouragement of sexual assault.

So let me get this straight. This report seems to suggest that large groups of young men and women in their teens and twenties, when placed in close proximity, have a tendency to become hormone charged, sexually libertine and prone to engage in wanton jackassery.

Why, this is shocking. Who would have ever seen this coming?