Soldiers Looking For Hookups On Craigslist Are Being Warned of a Military Sting

Daniel_Stuckey writes with this excerpt from Motherboard: "Word has it there's a military sting operation to bust soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan who are using Craigslist to find casual hookups, and now troopers are being warned to keep their sexual exploits on the down-low. It all started when news article published last week in the Army Times suggested undercover military cops were trolling the Craigslist Baghdad personals to catch officers posting lewd photos looking for casual sex. (The Baghdad site is presumably a product of the war in Iraq, though most of the posters now are deployed in Afghanistan.) The story was picked up by the Daily Mail and a subsequent wave of media outlets, exposing the X-rated subculture."

Comments

Discrimination

[Anonymous Coward]

Would have been nice if TFS pointed out it's targeting men seeking men, almost exclusively.

I'm not surprised there's a Craigslist for Bagdag

[Punto]

I'm more surprised by the fact that having sex is illegal? And the military police has jurisdiction over this crime? wtf

Soldiers looking to hook up in the field?

[Anonymous Coward]

I guess it's cheaper (and less likely to give you a dangerous disease) than visiting a prostitute. Gender equal also. Um, why do we care this is happening?

Re:I'm not surprised there's a Craigslist for Bagd

[Anonymous Coward]

conduct unbecoming an officer.

Ten years ago, I knew an MP in counterintel who was basically a trained as a professional hooker/seductress.

Her sole job was to seduce married officers and slap them in handcuffs, supposedly directions often came down from above for people that were already undesirable...

Real feisty woman... very fun. But I would not have wanted to be on her bad side.

Re:Hookers

[Anonymous Coward]

I hate when asexuals try to impose their world view on those of us who aren't.

I did not try to impose any world view upon you. You will not die without sex. Sex is not an absolute necessity.

If you don't have sex, and don't reproduce your genes will be lost from history. No funeral, no nothing, just never happens.

If you have sex and reproduce, you'll still die; big deal. I suppose I am thankful that people reproduce (it's why I can live in society), but my problem is that calling it a "need" without using any sort of qualifier is just silly; that implies that it would be impossible for an individual to live without it, or at least that's what that says to me.

No hair off anyone's back.

Exactly. It does not matter. You are simply acting on instinct, which is probably why you've been deluded into thinking it does matter. Personal desires are fine, and again, I don't think that sex is wrong, but it's not a need in the truest sense.

Re:unsurprising result

[TheSeatOfMyPants]

No, the women you're thinking of are conservatives. The vast majority of modern feminists just want to wipe out the stupid old stereotype of women having weaker sex drives. Both sexes have roughly the same range of strong, average, weak, and zero sex drives -- the main difference is that our society hasn't quite gotten rid of the old double-standard where guys are praised for getting laid while girls/women are condemned.