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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday July 05 2018, @12:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the sex-sells dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

In a 2017 report that went widely unnoticed, a female captain in the Australian Army recommended a novel solution to combat stress: sex. More specifically, she wondered whether making sexual options, potentially including prostitution, available to soldiers in combat would help troops deal with downrange stress. You can read the report yourself here.

My understanding is that the original source of the article was in the Australian Army's official blog, but was pulled after it became, for reasons that are clear if you read the piece, extremely controversial.

Here's the thing: the author is not wrong. Well, not entirely, anyway.

As the article states, science shows that "sex helps satisfy personal, social and physical needs, reduces stress and is inextricably linked to physical and mental wellbeing." The thing is, the military brass doesn't see it that way.

Capitalism, is there anything it can't solve?

Source: http://havokjournal.com/culture/military/female-australian-army-officers-solution-to-downrange-stress-is-prostitution/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 05 2018, @01:29PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 05 2018, @01:29PM (#702962)

    Further on this topic (same AC here), imagine how good sexbots could get with military R&D investment.

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Bot on Thursday July 05 2018, @02:10PM (2 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Thursday July 05 2018, @02:10PM (#702976) Journal

    Sure, but after the R and D comes the deployment...

    - AT-TENTION!
    - UNZIP PAAAANTS!
    *zipzipzipzip*
    - UP COCKS!
    ...
    - I SAID, UP COCKS!!!
    - WHAT'S THE MATTER, PRIVATE RYAN? YOU DON'T LIKE THE ATMOSPHERE MAYBE? I GUESS YOU WILL HAVE TO TRY AT NEXT TURN! TRY THINKING ABOUT YOUR CUTE BOYFRIEND!

    --
    Account abandoned.
    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Thursday July 05 2018, @03:59PM (1 child)

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 05 2018, @03:59PM (#703036)

      You can tell who was in the Army and who wasn't, or at least who's still drunk from yesterday on this nice day off (that being me) and in the real world the Army providing whores would look a lot more like CIF or unit armory.

      CIF is where the Army at the level of the entire base (hence Centralized issuing facility not merely issuing facility) has a complete shit show of handing out what civilians would call camp gear and uniforms. So you go to CIF thinking you're going to get a cool 22 year old hot blonde and some deranged civilian issues you a male sheep instead. CIF is the kind of place that'll issue you two left-boots unless you keep them on their toes.

      Unit Armory is the secured vault you store your rifle in, and they don't accept dirty weapons, and the armorer will field strip your rifle and lay into you if its not clean. So have your fun afternoon with your GI issued whore, but at turn in time some bored sgt with delusions of grandeur tells her to spread em and if she's not cleaned up enough of if he just feels like giving you a hard time, you'll be doing pushups and getting yelled at then you'll be stuck with a literal dirty whore until you can find enough CLP and brass bore brushes to clean her up a bit and put her back in storage.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 05 2018, @06:16PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 05 2018, @06:16PM (#703129)

        was going to mod this Funny until that last paragraph. erg