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 and compassionate 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.

Again, there's no use pretending we can just ban it and expect no sex to occur. That's just not a realistic expectation.

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..."

If I was a smart man I'd be able to construct a discharge joke, but I'm finding it rather hard.

Banning soldiers from rooting whores has never worked a single time in history but guys, it might work this time

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....