Is “vaginal” a given?
God, what a straight line!
Not around Baylor, but a six pack is pretty good odds around Southern Methodist…
You all seem pretty bombed out.
Overrun by the corporations and stupified about what is done in your name.
There’s gay male prostitution, too.
I like this quote from that link:
“Homosexuality is totally prohibited in Islam as well as in all divine religions.”
As opposed to those secular religions?
They’re not soldiers.
Some truth to what you wrote as concerns me. But I wouldn’t call it “stupified” as much as simply running out of outrage – or rather the energy to bring it forth.
It’s been a loooong eight years.
As opposed to Buddhism, I guess.
And… Uh…
ARE there any others that’d fit in that way?
I simply don’t expect anything better from anything involving America anymore.
Confucianism, if it qualifies as a religion. Communism has also been called a religion even if it doesn’t call itself one.
Not to mention atheism, and secular humanism.
Secular humanism arguably, but not atheism. I don’t think something that is simply disbelief in a single thing qualifies as a religion. A religion is a belief system, not one belief.
Officially they’re not mercenaries either. But alright, how about, “for-hire macho, fighting types”? Little lengthy…
Knowing the government’s fondness for classifying things, may I suggest Joint Operations, Hired, Non-military.
I’d prefer that these women would have a choice in what they do, but if the only way they can get money to live is by offering their bodies to someone who will pay for it, then that person paying is doing far more for her than all the people crying that she is being taken advantage of and not doing a damn bit to help her otherwise. IMHO, of course.
Possibly true. Often when a large military force comes in to an area, local thugs or mafia types roust up women and truck them in. Whether the women were in desperate situations before is a bit questionable.
I will agree though that in places where there is no alternative work available for women, that prostitution is a lesser evil. But this can be easily solved by allowing women into the workplace. You’ll notice that a significant percentage (reports vary) of prostitutes in the US started as minors simply because children aren’t allowed to work legally.
It was UN peacekeeping troops in Bosnia & Kosovo that pioneered the whole modern sex-slave trade of East-European girls. Many of them children. And UN troops in general have been engaging in buying children for sex pretty much everywhere they set shop. So it is not too much of a surprise if private contractors do something of the same on occasion. If on a smaller scale.
Who’d have thought, huh.
In the Gitmo sense, they’re combatants.
In the USA sense, they avoid the need for an electorally suicidal middle class Draft, so perhaps ‘draft dodgers’ would work if it wasn’t already taken.
I notice the NYT is reporting further privatisation of USA foreign policy: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/us/21intel.html?
So Blackwater is contracted to kill suspects in Pakistan on behalf of the US government using military technology, in real time from North Carolina.
Well, that’s just great Mr Obama.
Because a honest heart avoids a restless nights sleep.
They pioneered this?
Seems like I remember reading about it from ancient Roman armies, and Alexander the Great’s Greek armies before that, and Egyptian Pharaoh’s armies before that, several thousand years ago. I think it has probably been going on as long as armies have been invading and occupying territories.
You couls say they pioneered the “modern” version, but I don’t see any significant way this is different from the ancient versions.