Confirmed.
“Profit making”? I figured the Whore Corps would be there for soldiers to use gratis, like the mess tent.
Nice back-to-back posts there.
Qin: Why? (to understand the sense of my question, replace “whoredom” with something that you condone that someone else’s religion does not, like, say, “non-vegetarian meals”)
It is a bit of a shame with the prudential attitude in the U.S. that sometimes practical solutions stay out of reach, but there are social implications at stake here, too. How many wives Stateside would approve of their deployed husbands taking advantage of that “benefit?” There might even be rules put in place that spouses were unable to access the “Whore Corps.”
Regardless, I could see that this might would be a useful addition in the right circumstances. Maybe offer young women the chance to acquire an on-line college degree during their “down-time?”
Ostensibly, the Lebensborn program was not unlike a brothel program for the SS. Basically, the best breeders were brought together and they let nature run its course. Hitler was a pimp.
Well, in the case of the SS Lebensborn program, it’s amazing how easily one can legitimize and rationalize prostitution, if you indoctrinate a great sense of cause and patriotic duty into the young women, let the prostitution run its course to logical end, provide social suport for the children and mothers and give it a proper Owellian title like “Lebensborn”. From “prostitution” to “breeding program”, as we, the victors, have labeled it.
Actually I was thinking about it more being run as a NAAFI (U.S. PX) sort of thing.
Still cheaper than a civilian supermarket, I suppose . . .
My blog on the subject:
Unfortunately, I lost a few of the better sources on the rates at which prostitution grew in different countries, but I never went back to find them.
Here’s a link about the growth of sex trafficking in Germany since legalization.
http://news.change.org/stories/70-rise-in-german-sex-trafficking-due-to-legal-prostitution
A good look at research in the Netherlands:
An overview:
http://www.justiceacts.org/uploads/files/File/downloads_research_trafficking_prostitution.pdf
And another:
FWIW, the French (who else ?) had something like this going on up until the Indochina War. We called it BMC, Military Campaign Brothels. The idea was, when troops were stationed in areas where women were hard to come by or when the local hookers were too poxy and affecting troop readiness, the Army shipped in a truck full of whores to army camps for a night of R&R. Very romantique, no ? In fact, Jacques Brel himself sung about them in dismal terms (the song’s is called Au Suivant, “Next !”).
The practice’s been discontinued since, what with prostitution itself having been made illegal, but old habits die hard: to this day there’s still a contingent of hookers in France who operate out of a fleet of white, unmarked vans, going where there’s business or moving away from the cops.
ETA: heh, I see that once again clairobscur was more on the ball than I am.
Yeah, how did that happen? In France, I mean.
Apparently I misspoke and it didn’t, per se. Brothels were officially outlawed and closed in the late 40s along with pimping, and over time the law has forbidden many things prostitution-related but always stopping short of outlawing the act itself.
Prostitutes are however forbidden to advertise, form unions/collectives, share locales, use a fixed location, soliciting both actively and passively (don’t ask me what passive solicitation involves cause I’m curious myself)… pretty much everything besides, y’know, socializing.
They’ve found numerous ways to work around the law though (I’m learning a lot trying to edumacate y’all. Did you know sex as a form of rent was a thing ? Besides marriage I mean ? I didn’t. The world is weird.)
“Brothel arm.” So, we’re talking hand jobs here?
“Army Whores Do It Til The Moment of Victory!”
Actually, I was looking for the cites for your statistics about the women in prostitution. (Melissa Farley statistics don’t count, by the way, unless you want me to show why she’s about as reliable a source as Andrew Wakefield.) Statistics about trafficking rates are inherently suspect, first because the definitions of “trafficking” (and the methodology used to detect it) vary from country to country, and second because trafficking can only be measured *if *it’s detected. The generally open nature of the sex industry in countries where it is legalised may well make it easier to pick out the involuntary aspects of it, while in countries where it is all criminalised the traffickers may need to operate even further underground. I’m sure you’d make a similar argument if I was to point out that, for example, Swedish rape and sexual assault rates have skyrocketed (Excel file) since the law criminalising the purchase of sex was brought in in 1999.
I think that its a bit harsh not allowing them to unionise.
British working girls unionised for a while some years ago, but the Inland Revenue said that they would in the future be taking an interest in their earnings, and start subjecting them to taxation.
Shortly after that the union folded.
Unionise is not quite the right word, but I couldn’t find a better one. Essentially they’re forbidden to pool their money for stuff, such as multiple hookers paying the rent for a shared apartment. I presume this is to prevent de facto brothels and Madams from reappearing.
But they’ve formed unions and action groups in the political sense of the word, to air their grievances to the government, discuss their working conditions, get legal help and so forth.