SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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?
(Score: 5, Informative) by tangomargarine on Thursday July 05 2018, @03:17PM (1 child)
Ah, the story older than dirt. Some people might remember the David-Bathsheba-Uriah thing all the way back in the Old Testament. David wants Uriah's wife so he sends him on a suicide mission.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday July 05 2018, @03:35PM
Also the "suicide mission" trivializes the problem when the real Army discipline problem would minor stuff happening a thousand times more often like bad NCOER evals or bad promotion board results or refusal to cooperate with any number of theoretically optional things like signing off on leave or MOS reclass training or applying to cool guy schools.