Sexual Activity in the Armed Forces

In My Humble Opinion
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How many peole in here have served in the U.S Military? For those of you that have, how many sex partners can you remember being with while on active duty?

This is something that I was just sitting here thinking about. I’ve had the honors of serving six years in the US Army, (1982-1988) ,and throughout my time served, I belive that I must have had sex with at least one woman from almost every race on earth. :eek:

Now I want you to understand right up front that I am not posting this in an attempt to brag about it like this was something great or anything (it really was a deplorable thing to do), and with so many sex partners back then, the fact that I didn’t end up with AIDS or with 10,000 babies screaming all over the place is nothing short of a miracle. The reason I posted this topic is because I am very sure that I was far from being alone in there, and it also bothers me to think that I was so careless back then

There were times when I would be out partying like crazy doing any and everything that came to mind, then the next thing I knew I was waking up the next morning in some strange bed with some woman listening to her babble on about how much fun she had last night and so on and so on…while at the same time I would lay there looking at her smiling while thinking to myself …* (who are you)* ?

Now that I look back over my life…I honestly can’t understand how I managed to get out of there alive. Now that I’m older, the pace of my life has slowed down to a wild party ( with just ONE partner now), and believe me things are a lot more organized now than they were back then.

As for the rest of you, How many of you who served had the “privelige” of experiencing these things, and after looking back on it all, how do you deal with it today?

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I have not personally served (I’m waiting for an easy war, like with Canada), but I have had many friends who have. Most of their stories sound a bit like your own.

Hmmm, I’m thinking this might be a secret government plan to “breed out” our opposition (prima noctes like). Maybe they never rented Braveheart

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I’ve been in the Army and I’ve been to college. There are just about the same behaviors in both places. If I had to guess it would be because you have a bunch of young people grouped together, away from home for the first time, with large ammounts of alcohol readily available. Just a guess. :smiley:

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I second Loach’s observation. But I would like to add one of my own: Over the years, I have had numerous friends who were members of various “swingers” groups. Invariably, these groups contained a large percentage of military couples. Way over the average for a random segment of the community. So there must be something to the military life that encourages/promotes/causes that kind of behavior. Fear of emminent death, perhaps?

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Hmm…

While I was in the Navy (5 years - 1989-1994) I saw a lot of hard partiers, and a lot of people who’s marriages fell apart. For what it’s worth, what they say about sailors in port on liberty is true, as a group. No one’s going to do it every time, and some never do it, but as a whole about 70-80% of those ashore are looking for booze, sex, or both. (I lost all respect for one of our chaplains when we had to help drag him back to the ship while he was shit-faced drunk. Nothing wrong with getting drunk, but when you got so you can’t walk straight, don’t tell me how to live MY life.)

IMNSHO, the reasons for both stem from one thing: The deployments make a hash of normal social interactions. You can’t casually date someone for three months, then disappear for another three months, and expect to get back to the same situation, so a lot of people of all ranks just go for the shallow end of the relationship pool.

Personally, I avoided that, but I don’t want to sound priggish about it - I never really had the chance to be as social as I might like. And after a year on the ship, I looked at the stress that even the successful marriages were going through with our schedule being written in warm Jello (We went on a 45 day cruise once with a week’s notice.) and decided that I wasn’t going to look for any relationship as long as I was still active duty.

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I served in the Navy for five years also, from age 23 to age 28.

During that time, I formed only one close romantic ralationship, an engagement that ended disastrously.

I didn’t party as hard as others, but I was no cloistered monk, believe me.

I spent more than three years overseas or underway, out of a five year enlistment. This schedule wasn’t conducive to healthy stable relationships.

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I party much, much less than I did before I joined up. BMT changed my life to the extent that I am unwilling to go back to what I was before, back when I went to the bar every night and had to be helped out the door every other night.

I’d say that for me, the military has actually been a controlling and tempering experience on my excesses.

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For CONUS & NATO people, I guess it was more or less like your standard college-style promiscuity. But when you take young guys with so much jism pressure it’s ready to shoot out their assholes, stick them in the engine room of a ship and brutalize them for months on end, then turn them loose in a third-world country, things get a little more, uh, picturesque.

There were “peso shows,” with the dances plucking money out of guys’ teeth with their vaginas.

There was a game called “smiles,” with a group of players at a table being fellated. the first one to smile had to buy the drinks.

Before they put up the fence on the bridge, there were the “shit river queens,” who used to flash body parts from boats. The sailors would toss coins into the open sewer, and the shit river princes would dive in to retieve them. (in a non-sex version, the sailors would throw handfuls of coins into the heavy traffic on Macsaysay Blvd, to watch the kids scramble between the speeding jitneys to pick them up).

Snipes more than any other rate especially enjoyed renting a single room, instead of one room for each couple. Generally, they put the lights down, but still thought it was funny to listen to their buddies fuck.

One guy in my division went out into Olongopo and was set up with a girl who started crying when he entered her. He lost his interest due to that and the blood on the sheets, but the mama-san came in with a damp cloth and wiped down the sheets and insisted he continue. The commotion attracted the attention of a group of Marines in the waiting area, who, unlike my shipmate, found the prospect of fucking a terrified virgin quite appealing.

In general, the Marines could be pretty nasty. Both sailors and Marines went pigging (unlike the movie Dogfight the winner had to actually fuck the ugliest girl to win the pot, but it usually turned into a gangbang so nobody got all the money anyway), but the Marines were into sadistic shit, like fucking the girls in the ass then forcing them to suck their dicks.

If you didn’t go to the Philippines, the trolley to Tiujanna was almost as good. Corona instead of San Miguel, dogmeat tacos instead of monkey meat on a stick, but the same pervasive third-world smell of shit and charcoal. You’d pay a small amount for the bar girl to take you into the stockroom to suck your dick, but then you’d have to pay several times that amount for the shot of tequilla for her to rinse her mouth afterwards.

There was a civillian on my ship who helped guys study for their GED’s on their off-duty time. He later wrote a book called “One of the Guys” about a lot of this stuff, but he really didn’t give a realistic portrayal of it at all.

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I’ve observed the same as dinoboy. 2 people that I’ve known that’s been in the service has had the “me love you long time, $5 dollars”, literally in Okinawa.

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One partner while I was in the Army. My husband.