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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 PartTimeZombie on Thursday July 05 2018, @09:31PM (3 children)
After a quick browse on Wikipedia, it looks like I may have been thinking of Old Man's War by John Scalzi, maybe.
(Score: 2) by jcross on Friday July 06 2018, @12:11AM (2 children)
No, I think that might be from Forever War because I remember it as well and haven't read Old Man's War. I think they institute that policy sometime after his first campaign as some kind of morale booster.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Friday July 06 2018, @12:46AM (1 child)
OK, I am quite happy to be corrected. You should read Old Man's war then, it's quite good.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 06 2018, @03:40AM
But you shouldn't read The Forever War and Old Man's War too near each other. Despite being quite different, they are easily confused with each other. I read both series and I nearly always get them mixed up when talking about them. Toss in the Undying Mercenaries (crazy, accidental hero) and the Omega Force (like Farscape) series and you won't have a clue what goes where.