Army captain calls for prostitutes to visit soldiers on the front line to relieve stress
THE rules on fraternisation should be loosened to allow willing soldiers on the front line to “have sexual relations in a safe, secure and controlled environment”, a female army captain has said, adding that prostitutes should be allowed to help relieve stress
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PROSTITUTES should be sent to the front line to “service’’ Australia’s combat soldiers and help them relieve stress.
That is the opinion of a female Australian Army Captain who is currently on deployment in the Middle East. Captain Sally Williamson made the suggestion on an official Australian Army website.
She also wrote that if the front line was too dangerous for prostitutes, troops could be given sex toys instead.
Her article “Sex And War — A Conversation Army Has To Have” was posted earlier this month on the Army’s official Land Power Forum blog and removed several days later. It said chiefs were too “nervous” to talk about sex in the wake of a string of military sexual scandals.
Captain Williamson wondered “whether the Army could contract Australian male and female sex workers to service troops in forward operating bases and air bases.”
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These would be the same as the official Field Mobile Brothels the French military deployed around the airfields of Dien Bien Phu during the French Indochina War in 1954. However, she found there were “moral, legal, practical, medical and logistical barriers” to putting sex workers in the line of fire.
Instead, she urged Army chiefs to loosen the rules on fraternisation to allow willing soldiers on the front line to “have sexual relations in a safe, secure and controlled environment”.
“Another option the ADF could consider is facilitating safe and regulated sexual satisfaction through other means such as providing masturbation facilities or issuing sex toys,” she said.
She said sex helped relieve the stress of “loneliness or prolonged absence from family, friends, partners and spouses” and the exposure to bombs and killing that came from deployment in a war zone, adding: “Improved intimacy and sexual interaction can help combat veterans with PTSD recovery.”
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Defence spokesperson said: “The article was published on the Land Power Forum blog on 6 November 2017. It was removed on 15 November 2017 as it was not intended for the Land Power Forum and does not reflect Defence policy.
“The Land Power Forum provides a discussion space for appropriately informed analysis, commentary, thoughts, and ideas among military practitioners, interested stakeholders and subject matter experts.
“Defence policy on conduct in the workplace has not changed.”
Originally published as Army captain calls for prostitutes to visit soldiers on the front line to relieve stress
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