British troops banned from paying for prostitutes while overseas
MoD launches new plan to crack down on unacceptable sexual behaviour in the Armed Forces
Oh Brave New World. Camp followers have been a thing for how long? Genesis? Gilgamesh?
British troops banned from paying for prostitutes while overseas
MoD launches new plan to crack down on unacceptable sexual behaviour in the Armed Forces
Oh Brave New World. Camp followers have been a thing for how long? Genesis? Gilgamesh?
I heard many time from people who’d served in Belize that the MO used to regularly check the girls in one of the brothels.
A ship’s doctor I knew said at the start of deployment he used to ring a date on the calendar and tell the crew if they caught anything before that date he’d have it cleared up before they got back to port, anything after and they’d have to do some awkward explaining to wives and girlfriends.
This policy will lead to more harassment of local girls, which will be far worse politically.
BiND, perhaps the local girls may not object too much.
A story from a Highland town with a barracks, in the 1960s.
A young lass kept being knocked up. When her third was on its way, the girl was tackled by a senior lady, either her headmistress or the Matron of the hospital.
The wench responded “It’s thae Cameronians, Ma’am. Ah canna resist them.”
As Spike Milligan recounted in his war memoirs, a squaddie was up before the beak for licentious behaviour. When asked if he had anything to say, he replied: ” Aye, you’ll never stop fookin’ in Bradford…”
“British troops banned from paying for prostitutes while overseas”
They have to move with the times. Everything’s subscription only these days.
A mate was a merchant seaman, going round the world on the QE2 and Canberra. He was hauled up in front of the captain after a women complained he’d had ‘relations’ with her. It only became a problem when she found he’d had ‘relations’ with her two friends as well. The Captain said he’d been “tampering with the cargo”.
When Maj Gen Ironside’s force occupied Archangel in 1918/19, there were over 300 reported cases of VD in the British forces
Two thirds could be traced back to the same woman.
Next up: declaring gravity is illusionary and that tides flow on command.
It’s all indicative of how unnecessary most of the military is now, and how useless they’d be if we had a proper war. We’re not going to be storming the beaches of Caen, or even going into Afghanistan again. So the place can prioritise the preferences of Sunday School teachers.
If we ever needed to have a proper military again, you’d soon find all the trannies unemployed, the women kicked out and a bunch of hard-drinking, whoring killers back in the jobs.
Seems a bit unfair. At least the squaddies used to pay for sex with real over the age of consent (Thai lady boys excepted, obviously) rather than the underage boys and girls preyed on by UNHCR and Save the Children, who literally had kids prostituting themselves for food and then tried like buggery to cover it up.
Agencies hid scandal of aid workers who bought child sex with food
This seems to contradict the current theme that “sex workers” are really just fine people, not really any different from any other occupation. Or am I missing something?
British troops banned from paying for prostitutes while overseas
Presumably still can in the UK then?
Feminist logic: sex work is real work that must be respected, and paying for whores is also oppressive Patriarchal abuse that must be punished.
Idk what we’d expect from our “brave” (lol) armed forces after they decided the traditional naval toast to wives and sweethearts wasn’t PC. I’m just surprised they haven’t yet officially started recruiting Thai ladyboys to twerk on the flight deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth in order to confound and arouse* the dastardly Chinese.
*I don’t find them attractive, it’s just confusing
“We’re not going to be storming the beaches of Caen”: indeed, nor disporting ourselves in the sea air at Harrogate.
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7017020.clarke-packs-trunks-visit-harrogate-by-sea/
Of course they’re banned from paying.
The ladies (etc) will be available free at the point of use, paid by the NHS.
That way, they can come with a guarantee of fitness for taste and general good health.
Found the reference now. in Archangel under Maj Gen Ironside there were
6293 British soldiers.
The MO reported at the end of the deployment
324 cases of VD
214 of which attributable to the same woman
Eh. The US military did this 20 years ago. I don’t know about you guys but even us in the Navy didn’t frequent prostitutes often enough for this to matter. And it was ignored anyway.
Like many things, they are two things at once – simultaneously just people in a job who deserve the same respect and safety as anyone else providing a service and poor, exploited victims of sex trafficking.
It all just depends on what constituency the politician is talking to at the moment.
Simple solution:
“This is my pocket pussy. There are many like it, but this one is mine…”
Men pay prostitutes for them to shut up and go away afterwards. Assuming that some portion of the sex-seeking troops are male heteros, a lot of local girls are going to come knocking on the MoD’s door, babies in arms.