If I was a smart man I’d be able to construct a discharge joke, but I’m finding it rather hard.
British soldiers still paying for sex in Kenya despite ban
Submitted 1 day ago by Pro@reddthat.com to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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hellothere@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Banning prostitution and/or paying for sex has never worked in human history, and it’s likely it never will.
Regardless of how you feel about the morals of sex work, surely any rational person will see the truth in that above statement, and thus seek to ensure that the sex work that inevitably does happen should be done in the safest way that we can.
That is not achievable under blanket ban situations like this, IMO. It’s just creating a dodgy black market.
Cypher@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Banning soldiers from rooting whores has never worked a single time in history but guys, it might work this time
zeezee@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
ITT: Guys making jokes under an article about British soldiers murdering and mutilating Agnes Wanjiru and dumping her body in a septic tank 13 years ago without facing any consequences.
Stay classy Lemmy…
greyfox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well the title and most of the article seems to be more about stopping prostitution instead of preventing murder… The article talks a lot about these women being vulnerable but doesn’t really give those women any solutions other than taking away their source of income (which I would think makes them even more vulnerable). It seems like they are using the murder to push a different agenda.
The article even talks about a good number of non-transactional relationships which aren’t against the rules and still sometimes results in women getting assaulted.
Maybe instead of making it against the rules they should make sure it happens somewhere where the soldiers are better monitored. Hopefully then they less likely to assault the women, and it would at the very least be easier to get justice than when a tragedy like that happens. Proving who did it is much more difficult when the victim/perpetrator have to hide their activity in the first place.
Denjin@feddit.uk 1 day ago
A Captain in the foreign legion was transferred to a desert outpost. On his orientation tour he noticed a very old, seedy looking camel tied out back of the enlisted men’s barracks. He asked the Sergeant leading the tour, “What’s the camel for?”
The Sergeant replied, “Well sir it’s a long way from anywhere, and the men have natural sexual urges, so when they do, uh, we have the camel.”
The captain said, “Well if it’s good for morale, then I guess it’s all right with me.”
After he had been at the fort for about 6 months the captain could not stand it any more so he told his Sergeant, “BRING IN THE CAMEL!!!”
The sarge shrugged his shoulders and led the camel into the captain’s quarters. The captain got a footstool and proceeded to have vigorous sex with the camel. As he stepped, satisfied, down from the stool, and was buttoning his pants he asked the Sergeant, “Is that how the enlisted men do it?”
The Sergeant replied, “Well sir, they usually just use it to ride to town and go to the brothel…”