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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."
http://baghdad.craigslist.org/
Appears so . . .
Since when does being a Socialist mean 'someone who has a different opinion than me'?
Hookers supposedly got their name from General Hooker in the Civil War, who maintained a brothel for his troops. This is the right way to do it. Men have needs, and they need to be taken care of when deployed. We should be paying women(and men) to deploy with our troops and take care of those needs. It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it. Make them official government employees, pay them well, give them excellent benefits, screen them constantly for STDs, and our troops will have better morale with fewer sexual assaults, fewer STDs, and fewer war babies. This is a win for everyone.
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ok... so when you take young men, put them in a testosterone fueled environment and take away their access to sexual partners, is this really a surprising outcome?
perhaps you should at the very least, keep them for shorter periods of time.
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Have gnu, will travel.
Would have been nice if TFS pointed out it's targeting men seeking men, almost exclusively.
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There's a Craigslist Baghdad?
Well, I certainly find that far more revealing that the concept that anyone was "exposing" the x-rated subculture of our military here. We act like that particular subset of society is any different sexually than the rest of society. What utter bullshit. Military members may be perceived as polite and professional, but they're still just as fucking horny as the rest of us.
Fighting for their country. Let them hook up with whomever they want.
I'm more surprised by the fact that having sex is illegal? And the military police has jurisdiction over this crime? wtf
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I mean really, these people didn't sign up to join the priesthood. They're soldiers.
Why is having sex a problem?
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Wait wait... are you telling me Americans are still in Baghdad?
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?
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.
What about Sting, formerly of The Police? After all, isn't the motto "Every step you take, I'll be watching you"?
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I'm more surprised by the fact that having sex is illegal? And the military police has jurisdiction over this crime? wtf
I hear it's considered "Unauthorized Use of US Government Property".
I'm more surprised by the fact that having sex is illegal? And the military police has jurisdiction over this crime? wtf
The US military has never liked incidents that cause trouble with its foreign hosts.
Conditions were harsh in Britain in the early 1940s and there was also an undercurrent of unease that was conveyed by the phrase, especially amongst British men, who resented the attraction of GIs, with their ready supply of nylons and cigarettes, amongst British women. The artist Beryl Cook, who was a young woman at the time confirmed this in an interview to the BBC in the late 1970s. I can't find the transcript of the interview, but from memory it was words to the effect of, ''food was scarce, but we supplemented our income by a little impromptu whoring with the GIs - we all did it''. Many of these liaisons were love matches rather than merely commercial transactions though, as the thousands of marriages between US servicemen and British women (the GI brides) is evidence of.
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Fueling the fires while stationed in as volatile and deeply conservative a country as Afghanistan is of no help to anyone.
I'm sure it was on the tip of his tongue.
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adultry under any circumstance is punishable under UCMJ. that, and many other regs are absolutely fucking ridiculous, but remember that all of these stupid rules are public record (www.apd.army.mil). no one is drafted, people sign up for it. if youre going to sign your life away to live in that insane asylum for 3+ years (or whatever the minimum is), you had better do a bit of research first. if you dont like the game, dont play.
further OT: also mind that many soldiers "deployed" arent seeing any combat. a soldier i worked with a few years back is deployed to afghanistan right now -spends all day on the internet and dealing with idiot NCOs (fixing their printer, patching windows vulnerabilities, etc). his whole unit doesnt see action. some people do "fight for their country", but most dont. they simply do work tasks and battle buearucracy for a paycheck like the rest of us. then they retire after 20 years and collect a pension, perhaps also VA benefits regardless of whether of not they received a real combat injury. i know two people battling the VA for benefits they earned from heavy physical trauma, and dozens bragging about collecting for bullshit.
Why do you even bother to post? Oh I get it, you're anonymous. Because ya know, by the time this exchange of fish tails ends, the universe itself will be considered optional. Space time? Who needs it? I mean, really needs it.
I think this is a right the troops need to sign away during the recruitment process. Explicitly, not as part of an omnibus bill. Okay, just one last form: sign here to consent to being court marshalled for engaging in sexual activities with a consenting adult.
Prospective recruit: Whoa, run that one by me again. No shit? You know what, I'm going to sleep on this. See ya tomorrow ... or the next day ... or the second Tuesday after not in this lifetime ...
Whatever my morality about sex, I don't this should kept under the covers in the fine print on the application form. Shout it loud, shout it proud if you've got jarhead Puritan pride. Informed decisions before the first lock is shorn, that's the only democratic system there's any reason to protect.
How about the military focus less on solicitations for consensual sex and more on actually taking rape seriously?
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where sleazy Internet hookups are tolerated, then join Congress.
Loose lips sink ships.
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This is a win for everyone
Except the government paid prostitutes.
If they don't like this job, it's up to them to quit it and seek another position. They are NOT sex slaves, they are just person doing one specific type of job. Don't like the job? Move to another job. Use that fact that by paying taxes and so one during this about-to-be-left job, you paid money to be granted access to services for unemployed/job-seeking (and be also happy that some money where also funnelled into your retirement plan).
Hint: It's already the case in several European countries. Only not in Afghanistan where TFA is taking place, nor in the USA.
The whole purpose of the parent's post (and the actual situation in Europe) is that if prostitution becomes "just another job", lots of the problems associated with prostitution go away.
It's not only about making prostitution legal, it's about making sure that prostitute are entitled every single advantage and benefit that any other job has.
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When you join the military, youre agreeing to follow a different set of standards than the rest of society and voluntarily surrendering some of your autonomy.
If your higher ups say "dont do X", you dont do X. If you have a problem with that, you probably shouldnt be in the military.