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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: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday July 05 2018, @08:52PM (2 children)
That task is usually outsourced to the enemy. It's much cheaper that way. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 06 2018, @09:00AM (1 child)
What? We need duties on that! At least Stalin was fighting that problem,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrier_troops [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday July 06 2018, @02:26PM
No, those were shooting people who went away from war.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.