Soldiers Looking For Hookups On Craigslist Are Being Warned of a Military Sting 335
Daniel_Stuckey writes with this excerpt from Motherboard: "Word has it there's a military sting operation to bust soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan who are using Craigslist to find casual hookups, and now troopers are being warned to keep their sexual exploits on the down-low. It all started when news article published last week in the Army Times suggested undercover military cops were trolling the Craigslist Baghdad personals to catch officers posting lewd photos looking for casual sex. (The Baghdad site is presumably a product of the war in Iraq, though most of the posters now are deployed in Afghanistan.) The story was picked up by the Daily Mail and a subsequent wave of media outlets, exposing the X-rated subculture."
In other news (Score:2, Offtopic)
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Appears so . . .
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There's a Craigslist Baghdad?
Well, I certainly find that far more revealing that the concept that anyone was "exposing" the x-rated subculture of our military here. We act like that particular subset of society is any different sexually than the rest of society. What utter bullshit. Military members may be perceived as polite and professional, but they're still just as fucking horny as the rest of us.
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From a current W4M ad:
I need your help to find a soldier whose pictures I received thru possible hackers who stole them. I am a female from Texas and would really like to find this soldier and get to know him. Want to be his friend and possibly more.
Indeed... creeps manage to... well, creep into every walk of society.
Re:In other news (Score:4, Insightful)
When you join the military, youre agreeing to follow a different set of standards than the rest of society and voluntarily surrendering some of your autonomy.
If your higher ups say "dont do X", you dont do X. If you have a problem with that, you probably shouldnt be in the military.
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Members saluting/standing at attention :)
Hookers (Score:5, Insightful)
Hookers supposedly got their name from General Hooker in the Civil War, who maintained a brothel for his troops. This is the right way to do it. Men have needs, and they need to be taken care of when deployed. We should be paying women(and men) to deploy with our troops and take care of those needs. It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it. Make them official government employees, pay them well, give them excellent benefits, screen them constantly for STDs, and our troops will have better morale with fewer sexual assaults, fewer STDs, and fewer war babies. This is a win for everyone.
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Re:Hookers (Score:5, Funny)
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Hookers supposedly got their name from General Hooker in the Civil War
Accent on "supposedly". Here it is five years before that war:
http://books.google.com/books?id=6EfnQ2HMU9QC&pg=PA201&dq=intitle:americanisms+hooker&output=html [google.com]
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This is a win for everyone
Except the government paid prostitutes.
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Do you know how many whores get pensions?
Sure, they make more than most of us do in their prime, but 25... 30... 35?... 40??? years old, and please pick up your complimentary shopping cart from the nearest grocery store.
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Re:Hookers (Score:4, Insightful)
No, actually, not a joke.
As long as humans have existed, and as long as they continue to exist, we will have some form of "sex workers". As the single best thing we can do to increase their quality of life (particularly post-career, which as my not-quite-a-joke pointed out, fades with their youth), we can legitimize them. Give them a medical, a 401k or pension, profit sharing, the works.
Now, as for TFA - Sorry, but whether you accept them as "needs" or not, any military consists of a huge number of guys at the peak of their... "virility"... All sent far away from their wives/girlfriends/other for six months to a year at a time. And these asshole MPs want to bust them for finding consensual outlets? Wow. Just... Wow. Really makes you need to ask if "the good guys" deliberately use rape as a weapon of war.
Normal job (Score:3)
This is a win for everyone
Except the government paid prostitutes.
If they don't like this job, it's up to them to quit it and seek another position. They are NOT sex slaves, they are just person doing one specific type of job. Don't like the job? Move to another job. Use that fact that by paying taxes and so one during this about-to-be-left job, you paid money to be granted access to services for unemployed/job-seeking (and be also happy that some money where also funnelled into your retirement plan).
Hint: It's already the case in several European countries. Only not in A
Re:Hookers (Score:5, Insightful)
One minor flaw with your theory... in the country they are deployed in they stone women to death for this sort of behavior. Add to that the political ramifications and it's just not something that should be going on. I have a better idea, LEAVE IRAQ. I kinda thought this president promised us that?
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We left Iraq years ago. We still have a few embassies/consulates, and they have guards (as do all such locations), but we're not occupying the country any more.
If you had bothered to even read the summary, you would have seen that this is about Afghanistan, and the name of the Craigslist section is just a holdover.
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We're leaving Iraq. We're leaving through Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. It's the overland route...
(It's a variation on an old George Carlin bit [youtube.com])
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Um, if I may point out something.
We wouldn't have this problem if there was not a dying empire known as the Anglo Banking system, and men could have sex at home in loving and might I add healthy relationships.
We would have to get rid of this war thing though.
Besides, these wars to lock up the markets so to speak by western bankers and prevent the rest of the world from using anything but dollars is going to come to an end anyway.
Why not stop now so men can have sex with women and still have their limbs inta
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Why not stop now so men can have sex with women and still have their limbs intact.
Because we have too many people. War has traditionally been a way for some members of a nation to profit from reduction of excess population. Send them out to help generate some revenues...
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You seem to not accept that US culture is based on Puritanism. Killing good, loving basically wrong. Neck up, good, neck down, bad.
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Hookers supposedly got their name from General Hooker in the Civil War, who maintained a brothel for his troops.
They weren't called that because of his brothel. They acquired that name years earlier, as "Hooker's Ladies", because Hooker always had them around.
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Claire Chennault, OTOH, did indeed run one:
http://books.google.com/books?id=g-NiFRg1khAC&pg=PA324&lpg=PA324&dq=chennault+brothel&source=bl&ots=gGL0BO-ZRH&sig=knCPOPDH-Y0e_lJtvUh0vNAN_ms&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RVcEUqe3B-mkyQHZ0YHgCg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=chennault%20brothel&f=false [google.com]
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Unless you are implying that he serviced his men personally in that brothel, he sounds more like a pimp to me.
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your idea is excellent.
but it makes too much sense and the religious 'right' would have a fit if you tried to implement it.
again, religion holds us all back. sigh ;(
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The Japanese in Korea and China during WW2 thought so too.
Re:Hookers (Score:5, Insightful)
As long as the female soldiers get some choice male & female "partners" to get their rocks off with -- believe it or not, most women *do* have a sex drive that's comparable to what a guy has. (If anything, the women might need the "companionship" more, as we can't masturbate with just our hands remotely as easily as a guy, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to use a noisy vibrator where others could hear it.)
However, having hookers available isn't going to prevent the female soldiers or locals from being raped by our troops (in the classic sense of knowingly forcing oneself onto someone), since rapists of both genders attack because they get off on the power of violent domination, not because they're unable to find a willing partner. Like police, most soldiers have a drive for physical power, try to use it constructively, but in some cases do start misusing it to dominate others; add in the need to turn their empathy off to do their jobs, and it's not a surprise that rape isn't uncommon.
Problematically, I've heard that the presence of hookers can sometimes increase the rate of rapes, not decrease it. When someone's in a situation where 90% of the people in a particular category that they see are there to serve them, then it's very easy for them to fall into the habit of expecting it from the other 10% -- not because they're bad people, but just because human brains work that way -- and, if they've been under a ton of stress for long enough, are angry about various things, etc. a "no" at the wrong moment could make the soldier do something he/she wouldn't normally do.
You guys are doing your gender a real disservice by promoting the "thwarted male=rapist" codswallop. Try to imagine yourself attacking and forcing yourself onto a decent person that trusted you enough to let their guard down a bit (as rapists are almost always people the victim knows well) and ask yourself if you'd totally do that if you could, or if you figure your male friends would do it. It doesn't make sense to spread the idea that you would if it's not true -- or at least, I sure wouldn't encourage negative stereotypes about my gender, let alone a horrific one like that.
FWIW just because some folks below keep using the term wrong, those are the views of a feminist geek -- someone that sees guys as people to fight alongside, not fight against. (Mentioning that because I've seen too many people spreading the 70s-vintage "feminists all hate men and want to cut your balls off and keep you from having sex omg" FUD in this discussion.)
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[sustained applause]
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Fewer suicides
Jurisdiction: you're not in EU (Score:2)
We should be paying women(and men) to deploy with our troops and take care of those needs. {...} Make them official government employees, pay them well, give them excellent benefits, screen them constantly for STDs, and our troops will have better morale with fewer sexual assaults, fewer STDs, and fewer war babies.
Except that there's a minor problem:
- YOU ARE NOT in Switzerland, Germany, Holland, etc. (Where being a prostitue is just another type of job. Where that includes prostitutes being entitled every single advantage and benefit that any other job has. You pay your taxes like everyone else. You get access to health care, social insurrance, etc. and other state-paid advantage like any other tax payer. You get professionnal-health checks and counselling (prostitutes get STD check just like a factory workers must
Re:Hookers (Score:4, Insightful)
There's nothing wrong with having or paying for sex, but men aren't mindless animals who need sex to survive, so I wouldn't say it's a "need." It might be beneficial in some way, but I'm not sure about using the word "needs."
Men and women both have this need. And yes, it is a need. It's why every one of us are here. It's THE need. We may neglect it and brush it off. We may turn some of its energy into doing great things, but every gene in us needs it to happen. Evolution and all of life is dependant upon reproduction. In homo sapiens, reproduction is done through sex.
;)
Don't underestimate the need for sex. If you are able to brush it off so easily, it's very possible that your genes are not going to make it. It's more likely that if you don't need it, you're not doing it right.
Yes, yes. Technically we can reproduce without sex. But currently it's trivial to our gene pool. I'll concede that may change. And yes, reproduction doesn't require much sex generally. However, evolution doesn't fuck around with reproducing. Unless your a social animal on the level of ants that can use non-reproducing members. In other words, in an animal like humans, where each member is pressured to reproduce, sex very much becomes a need. Even more so in a tense situation.
Regardless of opinion, history shows that human populations often rebound quickly after war. Baby booms are common. As are, unfortunately, war crimes. Sex most certainly is a need. One that is ingrained in our DNA. If it weren't? Well, that DNA wouldn't be around anymore.
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Men and women both have this need. And yes, it is a need.
You haven't met my Wife.
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Sex is a definite drive ("need" is semantic), but reproduction as a drive is questionable for humans. A *lot* of people have great sex drives, but spend their lives either not caring either way whether they have kids, preferring not to, or actively repelled by the idea -- social pressure is what leads them to reproduce, not an innate drive. (By "social pressure" I'm referring to the mix of casual "when are you having kids" or "all women loooove kids" type comments, the nagging "when will you give me grand
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Presumably soldiers stationed in crisis areas are adults. Assuming soldiers still are mammals there's bound to be sex. And the need for casual sex will always be there. You shouldn't need to fill in a form(in triplicate) requisitioning a one-night-stand.
There is no need for regulation. The usual rules apply.
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(save for asexuals, and don't act like they don't exist, because I'm one)
I hate when asexuals try to impose their world view on those of us who aren't.
My ex-gf was asexual, that is why she is an ex.
Also nobody cares if you have sex or not. If you don't have sex, and don't reproduce your genes will be lost from history. No funeral, no nothing, just never happens.
100% of your direct ancestors, since the autotrophs began to drool, successfully reproduced; but that line can end with you. No hair off anyone's back.
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You will not die without sex.
Yes, you will. It might take longer, but you will die without sex, even with. The biological "need" for sex is no different than food. You may die sooner without food than sex, but the "desire" for the two is similar in strength, and both are "need". that you are asexual doesn't mean you have a better gauge than others, it means you have a worse one.
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I don't know what life without sex is, because my firmware compels me to seek it out. Sexu
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jarhead Puritan pride (Score:3)
Why do you even bother to post? Oh I get it, you're anonymous. Because ya know, by the time this exchange of fish tails ends, the universe itself will be considered optional. Space time? Who needs it? I mean, really needs it.
I think this is a right the troops need to sign away during the recruitment process. Explicitly, not as part of an omnibus bill. Okay, just one last form: sign here to consent to being court marshalled f
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How is it that you know whether or not his genes are "subpar" (whatever it is that that means)?
At least you will play your given role in evolution by dying
He'll die like everyone else whether or not he engages in meaningless reproduction. Biology isn't everything.
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What about the sex part?
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Some actually might. For some people cheating is less about the physical exchange than the emotional - they might appreciate it if their men can get their physical needs attended to without the risk of the emotional attachment, baby making or STDs for that matter. If however the man gets his needs attended to by some random hookup, that woman may want to have that emotional connection or create a family bond through an unintended (for him) pregnancy or bring home some microscopic invaders.
Hell, the troo
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I am going to go ahead and call bullshit on this. The Japanese comfort house was one of the most horrific creations in known history. Hatta did not suggest anything like what the Japanese did. Please educate yourself on the subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women
"Estimates vary as to how many women were involved, with numbers ranging from as low as 20,000 from some Japanese scholars [4] to as high as 410,000 from some Chinese scholars..."
"Approximately three quarters of comfort women died, and
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So, new to the human race? Here, read this handbook, and try not to accidentally kill or rape anyone until you fully understand the ground-rules.
This planet would do better without us. "Comfort women" count as one of the least of our sins.
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ok... so when you take young men, put them in a testosterone fueled environment and take away their access to sexual partners, is this really a surprising outcome?
perhaps you should at the very least, keep them for shorter periods of time.
Re:unsurprising result (Score:5, Insightful)
It's basically feminists wanting to control men's sex lives.
If it was primarily females undertaking this activity we'd be celebrating their sexual liberation.
Feminists have a love/hate relationship with testicles & testosterone.
On the one hand, testicles give society aggressive young men who are willing to be pawns in someone else's war. They give society a large pool of strong, manual labourers. And testosterone has also been shown to enhance risky behavior, giving us men who are willing to be firemen, skyscraper window cleaners, deep sea divers, etc.
On the other hand, feminists resent testosterone's very same effects when it works to men's favor:
aggression: even amongst young school children, boys will fight and snatch what they want or need
strength: most men are physically bigger and stronger than women
risky behavior: there are more male CEO's and entrepreneurs because males are more likely to take risks. So while many men will fall flat on their faces, others will succeed and become wealthy
So which is it:
1) Do we embrace these soldiers for what they are? Or,
2) Do we replace them with more politically correct individuals?
Of course feminists will select option 3: ... but let's also micro-manage their private sex lives. Try to do the same to young women in society (abortion, birth control, etc) and we'll band together, kick-up a storm and have laws introduced securing the rights of our sisters.
3) Let's use horny young men to fight our wars and die
Re:unsurprising result (Score:5, Interesting)
No, the women you're thinking of are conservatives. The vast majority of modern feminists just want to wipe out the stupid old stereotype of women having weaker sex drives. Both sexes have roughly the same range of strong, average, weak, and zero sex drives -- the main difference is that our society hasn't quite gotten rid of the old double-standard where guys are praised for getting laid while girls/women are condemned.
Discrimination (Score:5, Interesting)
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Take a quick browse of the W4M hookups section of craigslist/Iraq. 1 post/day average, mostly obvious hookers.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say they are targeting the M4M forums because that is where the traffic is.
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Swf seeking swm (Score:5, Funny)
Must have 300 on pt test
Shoot expert
Combat infantryman's badge preferred
Re:Swf seeking swm (Score:4, Informative)
That will limit you to only men. If you are looking for women, i recommend substituting the CAB for the CIB : )
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'seeking swm' kind of implies she's looking for men not women
They're risking their lives in a hell hole (Score:5, Insightful)
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A person putting their life on-the-line should be rewarded not punshed.
When off duty, free and unlimited booze, sex, drugs, ad free tv and movies, free food, free detox, they have to unwind so they don't come home crazy.
Support our troops, hire a hooker today !
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Mod up, please.
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Let them hook up with whomever they want
Seriously? What business is it of the government who a soldier is fucking, when, how and why? "Let them"? To hell with anyone who tries to tell another person what their sexual antics should be.
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Fighting for their country
Please tell me more. Did Afghanistan invade US?
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Nah - they are fighting for some commercial interests. Their country is paying their salary, though.
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They're risking their lives in a hell hole Always felt weird calling somebody's home a "hell hole" ... but then again...
the GP is talking about base :p
I'm not surprised there's a Craigslist for Bagdag (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm more surprised by the fact that having sex is illegal? And the military police has jurisdiction over this crime? wtf
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And the military police has jurisdiction over this crime? wtf
For military personnel of course the military police have jurisdiction.
Re:I'm not surprised there's a Craigslist for Bagd (Score:5, Interesting)
conduct unbecoming an officer.
Ten years ago, I knew an MP in counterintel who was basically a trained as a professional hooker/seductress.
Her sole job was to seduce married officers and slap them in handcuffs, supposedly directions often came down from above for people that were already undesirable...
Real feisty woman... very fun. But I would not have wanted to be on her bad side.
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further OT: also mind that many soldiers "deployed" arent seeing any combat. a
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"In the U.S. Military, adultery is a potential court-martial offense.[15] The enforceability of adultery laws in the United States is unclear following Supreme Court decisions since 1965 relating to privacy and sexual intimacy of consenting adults.[74] However, occasional prosecutions do occur"
I appreciate your comment and im not trying to refute it, just
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I understand we are talking UCMJ, but the laws you refer to are highly unconstitutional and would be tossed the first time they saw a modern judge.
Ah, the US Constitution, that old thing. ;-)
Re:I'm not surprised there's a Craigslist for Bagd (Score:5, Funny)
I'm more surprised by the fact that having sex is illegal? And the military police has jurisdiction over this crime? wtf
I hear it's considered "Unauthorized Use of US Government Property".
Oversexed, overpaid and over here (Score:3)
I'm more surprised by the fact that having sex is illegal? And the military police has jurisdiction over this crime? wtf
The US military has never liked incidents that cause trouble with its foreign hosts.
Conditions were harsh in Britain in the early 1940s and there was also an undercurrent of unease that was conveyed by the phrase, especially amongst British men, who resented the attraction of GIs, with their ready supply of nylons and cigarettes, amongst British women. The artist Beryl Cook, who was a young woman at the time confirmed this in an interview to the BBC in the late 1970s. I can't find the transcript of the interview, but from memory it was words to the effect of, ''food was scarce, but we supplemented our income by a little impromptu whoring with the GIs - we all did it''. Many of these liaisons were love matches rather than merely commercial transactions though, as the thousands of marriages between US servicemen and British women (the GI brides) is evidence of.
Oversexed, overpaid and over here [phrases.org.uk]
Fueling the fires while stationed in as volatile and deeply conservative a country as Afghanistan is of no help to anyone.
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It's a breakdown in discipline, and runs contrary to the conservative christian foundation that our military is based on (unofficially, of course).
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Your penis is a weapon. The military needs to what ever it takes to ensure its fighting readiness.
The military is on the record about the actual purpose of one's penis. To insure new recruits properly call their firearm a weapon, they're required to memorize (and point to the appropriate place) while shouting in unison with the rest of the troops in the platoon or company the following:
This is brought to everyone's attention after the drill instructor entraps a "volunteer" into answering a question about what he's
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Yeah, I saw "Full Metal Jacket," [imdb.com] too.
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I'm sure it was on the tip of his tongue.
So what? (Score:5, Insightful)
I mean really, these people didn't sign up to join the priesthood. They're soldiers.
Why is having sex a problem?
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They're 1) Americans, in 2) a Muslim country. Double repression.
Probably safer to ship their partners over for conjugal visits, than go native.
Re:So what? (Score:5, Funny)
They're 1) Americans, in 2) a Muslim country. Double repression.
Probably safer to ship their partners over for conjugal visits, than go native.
Especially with this camel virus going around.
Re:So what? (Score:5, Insightful)
The issue is that - fair or not - these people made a commitment to the U.S. government and its people. Part of that commitment entails keeping themselves in the best possible shape to act at a moment's notice to protect the constitution and yada yada yada. (The so-called "military owns your body" argument.) So it's not a problem with sex, it's a problem with soliciting prostitutes - not exactly nature's perfect specimens of health. That these are people in high positions of authority makes it worse.
Look at it this way - Imagine you're playing chess. If one of your pawns suddenly gets AIDS, you can lose him, even though it affects the overall battle worthiness of your troops. Now imagine you lose a knight. Significantly greater impact. And it's not like they're bringing prostitutes back to the safety of the barracks; they're going into seedy areas and putting themselves at risk of kidnap or attack.
I'm not condoning what the military is doing in this situation, nor am I saying it's wrong. After reading the linked articles, I don't have enough information to form even a knowledgeable opinion on the matter. I'm just addressing why it would be bad to let soldiers fuck any filthy thing they want in their downtime.
Re:So what? (Score:5, Insightful)
"So it's not a problem with sex, it's a problem with soliciting prostitutes - not exactly nature's perfect specimens of health."
The solution is obvious then: make the army pay for hookers and have their health controlled.
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Prostitution is illegal in most of the places where the army operates.
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The US Army tests every soldier for HIV every year. I'm also very sure that STD metrics are closely watched. There are more ways to become infected than sex. Like people bleeding all over each other and so on. I'm sure sex is a big part of it though.
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Until they earn contractor/mercenary wages they are at risk of a foreign power discovering their needs and helping.
You also have the extramarital affairs side too with discredit and risk of been caught.
For every secured location their is a foreign power waiting to have a chat at a later time.
As for other issues the US mil can think up?
The soldier falls in love and wants to bring the back their new p
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I mean really, these people didn't sign up to join the priesthood. They're soldiers.
Why is having sex a problem?
What, the army of a nation that thinks movies full of violence, gore, and flying body parts is OK, but not if the body parts are procreative?
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What, the army of a nation that thinks movies full of violence, gore, and flying body parts is OK,
I'm fascinated. When someone objects to the violence and gore in the popular media they are branded as nutcases and looneys and of course violence in media has no effect on anyone. And now you seem to be implying that violence and gore in movies is a bad thing and that nobody has ever objected to such.
The issue is not movies of body parts that are "procreative", but the actual use of such parts. There's a couple of very good reasons for this to be against the regulations.
Sting? Whose sting? (Score:2)
You mean US military Sting or Al-Qaeda sting?
Re:Sting? Whose sting? (Score:4, Funny)
What about Sting, formerly of The Police? After all, isn't the motto "Every step you take, I'll be watching you"?
Time to move on guys... (Score:2)
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Yeah, thats the part that surprised me - I thought we had got out of there.
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You were supposed to. That was the entire point of telling you that we had.
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See (Office of Security Cooperation—Iraq) OSC-I funding, institutional level staff helpers, past Foreign Military Sales staff numbers (some nice Abrams/F-16/Stryker sales numbers?).
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RS21968.pdf [fas.org] hints at numbers on page 35 onwards.
From 'At the time of the withdrawal, there were about 16,000 total U.S. personnel in Iraq, about half of which were contractors."
"However,
Soldiers looking to hook up in the field? (Score:2, Interesting)
I guess it's cheaper (and less likely to give you a dangerous disease) than visiting a prostitute. Gender equal also. Um, why do we care this is happening?
Re:Soldiers looking to hook up in the field? (Score:4, Informative)
Um, why do we care this is happening?
Because the locals don't appreciate it when it happens with locals. And when it is "consenting" co-members of the military it can often be less than consenting and it creates unnecessary conflict in a unit. When that E2 the E7 is banging depends on the good evaluations from the E7 to be promoted and/or get good assignments, it is a good assumption that there is not a lot of consent. And the other members of the unit may just have a bit of jealousy or disrespect for that E7 for what he's doing.
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Because the locals don't appreciate it when it happens with locals. And when it is "consenting" co-members of the military it can often be less than consenting and it creates unnecessary conflict in a unit.
Too many of these posts have cut right to the edge of what has been said by the mayor of Osaka.
''When soldiers are risking their lives by running through storms of bullets, and you want to give these emotionally charged soldiers a rest somewhere, it's clear that you need a comfort-women system.'' he told reporters. ''Anyone can understand that.'' Japan's obligation, he said, is 'to politely offer kind words to the comfort women'' ---- as if they are to be pitied, prostitutes for whom politeness would be a prize; as if they had been lowered, rather than the Japanese military debased.
Hashimoto compounded that built-in controversy by suggesting that other countries might not only understand but emulate the Japanese experience --- that the United States might do so immediately at its bases in Japan: ''We can't control the sexual energy of these brave Marines ... They must make more use of adult entertainers.''
....what needs to be challenged is a basic complacency about linking soldiers and sexual violence. This is an issue that afflicts many war zones and militaries, including ours, where there is an unresolved crisis of sexual assault. There is also something telling in Hashimoto's muddling of wartime sexual servitude, prostitution, peacetime assaults on the streets of Okinawa, and ''adult entertainment.''
The Mayor and the Comfort Women [newyorker.com]
Rapes (Score:5, Insightful)
How about the military focus less on solicitations for consensual sex and more on actually taking rape seriously?
If you want to serve your country in campaigns (Score:3)
where sleazy Internet hookups are tolerated, then join Congress. [wikipedia.org]
Loose lips sink ships (Score:3)
Loose lips sink ships.
All over again.