Soldiers exposure to deadly situations is known to cause a multitude of mental ailments, the one most talked about is the PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Once the soldier is diagnosed he will be brought out of active duty mostly because he constitutes a danger to his comrades. Home again it doesn't mean much in the civil society not even if goes hurting himself or going on a rampage killing people, the poor soul will be deemed mentally fit and judged accordingly even though he initially was diagnosed with PTSD.
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Not much talked about is another kind of stress arising from deadly situations and from being crammed into barracks with other young men, sexual frustration. Sexual frustration needs treatment and it is no understatement that soldiers frequent bars and brothels on their spare-time, some will rape and kill women on duty. Imagine ten thousands of young men coming to places that earlier had a normal civil life, no trafficking worth mentioning and with limited prostitution, Suddenly there is a huge demand from soldiers looking for sexual release and as a consequence there is a market booming, a market that grows so fast that it requires girls from other places to satisfy the needs. Girls will be sold to traffickers by their families, others will taken by force, kidnapped on the streets. Everybody involved will give after for corruption, even officers and administrative military personnel from the intervening nation.
It seem that the ones planning and undertaking military ventures never contemplated this as a problem not even the UN sending military personnel for peace keeping missions. In the case of the Pentagon, war is its business so it will shun war-crimes committed by their own forces, it will shun the prostitution problem it created but in the case of UN peace-keeping missions it is much more difficult to comprehend why nothing has been thought and less been done as the UN has a department in charge of monitoring human rights violations and to prosecute crimes against humanity. UN soldiers have the same needs as the ones sent out by the Pentagon but it's soul and mission has a conscience.
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| Sex Tourism Thailand |
Let us take a little time thinking about what happens when a military venture is over and soldiers are being brought home or elsewhere, like the examples of Iraq and Afghanistan. We have trafficking and huge supply of prostitutes and a lot of people that is living out of this now but the local demand is quickly falling. What follows next is twofold, the near zone trafficking will turn global, girls are shipped like cattle to other countries, tourism to the former war zone will start to increase and the first ones to arrive is the sex-tourist, There is no easy solution to this situation created by war and by an unscrupulous, medieval thinking and ruthless military that always looked away from the problem with sex-needy troops. If the country before the war had a culture of corruption, it will now be more corrupt and a have a grave situation concerning trafficking and prostitution to deal with.
The solution
The nation USA, the foremost country in the world when it comes to wage wars in contemporary times is known to have a flourishing sex industry, large scale production of pornographic's, sex fairs, brothels and an immense number of domestic prostitutes. A military intervention does not have to devastate another nation by escalating trafficking and prostitution. Well thought and accepting that this is a problem owned by the intervening nation, the problem is easily solved by doing what Alexander the Great and the Roman emperors did on military field missions, they brought the prostitutes with them as part of the supporting troops, the tail. The US military could do the same, even paying for flying them in and out, paying them wages for their services. Girls in the US sex industry are no innocent poor souls, most of them are shrewd business women, they would not get hurt. Would Pentagon loosing face for engaging in prostitution? We do not need to call it prostitution, let us call it therapy for sexual release as all parties engaged are aware and willing to do it, all paid for in advance. Who knows how things like this would be seen by a macho and religious nation. One thing is for sure, it would keep a lot of innocent young women from falling into the hands of ruthless traffickers, saving their lives. Pentagon, the UN and the world would become less corrupt and hypocritical. Another positive effect of this unorthodox thinking would be that people in the intervened nation could see the US as the liberator and not as the violator by keeping its soldiers from tainting local women with their semen and disdain.
It is only to bite the bullet... or to swallow this hypothetical dildo...:)
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