Make love, not war?

**CathyBogart** · 10-31-2006, 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by BC_MoM

But is it right?

I don't honestly see why not. If someone has a moral problem with it, nobody's going to make them use the women's services.

**Pembroke_Corgi** · 10-31-2006, 01:51 PM

Well, I'm not sure how I feel. Having adult women who practice safe sex is much better than most alternatives.

Sadly, many centers of child prostitution are centered around US army bases.

Having women willingly engage in the behavior is much preferrable to children having to be subject to such treatment.

**Lady's Human** · 10-31-2006, 03:26 PM

Sadly, many centers of child prostitution are centered around US army bases.

Excuse me?

**dukedogsmom** · 10-31-2006, 04:28 PM

There is a way for them to let off steam without a hooker. I'm not getting into details............

**Pembroke_Corgi** · 10-31-2006, 06:47 PM

Originally Posted by Lady's Human

Excuse me?

http://www.wm.edu/so/monitor/spring2000/paper6.htm
http://www.zmag.org/Sustainers/Conte...29hartmann.cfm
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/philippi.htm
http://www.catwinternational.org/fac...hilippines.php
http://www.peacenews.info/issues/2442/244224.html

**Lady's Human** · 10-31-2006, 07:15 PM

The only parts of those links that pertain to US military bases are old data from the Vietnam and Korean wars. If a soldier in the modern US military is engaged in any way, shape or form with child prostitution they are in a world of hurt. We're not choirboys by any stretch of the imagination, but there are things you CANNOT engage in, and that is one of them.

**Pembroke_Corgi** · 10-31-2006, 07:46 PM

Originally Posted by Lady's Human

The only parts of those links that pertain to US military bases are old data from the Vietnam and Korean wars. If a soldier in the modern US military is engaged in any way, shape or form with child prostitution they are in a world of hurt. We're not choirboys by any stretch of the imagination, but there are things you CANNOT engage in, and that is one of them.

I'm not suggesting that the military condones prostitution, and I'm sure it certainly doesn't condone child prostitution. However, the fact remains that US army bases ARE centers for prostitution, and women and child trafficking. It still happens today...but the military is not the only source of these problems, certainly. This article even states that occupation of the PEACE CORPS is correlated with an increase in prostitution:
http://www.humanrightsadvocates.org/images/NGO%2095.pdf

Judgments about prostitution in general aside, I think most people would consider child prostitution "wrong"- I certainly do. However, what constitutes a child? In our society, it's legally anyone under the age of 18. Do you think that that's going to stop people in the sex trade, who are buying a selling girls? No. And I also think that someone who is buying sex is most likely not going to ask- maybe they are 15, or 19, where do you draw the line and consider it "more" of a crime?

The fact is, whether people are allowed to or not, military occupation is linked to higher rates of prostitution and human trafficking. I don't think it went away in the last 40 years. Here are some more sources that highlight more recent times:

http://www.yapi.org/csec/

http://sisyphe.org/article.php3?id_article=965

http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/ar...01/052501a.htm

**Lady's Human** · 10-31-2006, 07:53 PM

I still don't see what the US military has to do with this. Most of those articles cited NYC, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles in the US. Those are urban hubs, and have little if anything to do with the military.